Re: MS Visual C++ daylight saving time bug

[Alexandre Parenteau]

Jerzy just made me read that :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/headlines/2001.asp

Funny....

alex.

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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 1:27 PM
Subject: RE: MS Visual C++ daylight saving time bug


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> If your cvs working directory is on an NT File System (NTFS)
> partition, the problem may have been caused by the way windows stores
> times for events in the system event log and files in the NTFS. For
> details, see:
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q129/5/74.asp
> 
> - - Tim
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexandre Parenteau [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:04 AM
> > To: David L. Martin; info-cvs
> > Subject: Re: MS Visual C++ daylight saving time bug
> > 
> > 
> > David and All,
> > 
> > For WinCvs, we use Visual C++ 6.0 SP 4 and we called tzset. I 
> > didn't get any
> > problem but I'm not using cvsnt.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > alex.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David L. Martin" <address@hidden>
> > To: "info-cvs" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: "Alexandre Parenteau" <address@hidden>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 8:31 AM
> > Subject: MS Visual C++ daylight saving time bug
> > 
> > 
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I've seen a problem with WinCVS 1.2 since the daylight saving
> > > time switch on 4/1/01 which I believe is due to the so-called
> > > "April Fool's 2001 Bug" in the Visual C++ runtime library.
> > >
> > > This may be old news to some, but I was caught off-guard by it.
> > > Basically, any calls to ctime() or asctime() will result in a
> > > time uncorrected for daylight saving time for the period 4/1-4/8
> > > for the year 2001 for some older versions of msvcrt.dll
> > >
> > > This was apparently fixed in Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 3.
> > >
> > > http://www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=9327
> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/headlines/2001.asp
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > David Martin
> > >
> > >
> > 
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