Daylight Saving

[EvilGrin369]

I got a email from Microsoft and was just wondering if this could efect the uo server? this is what it say's

In 2005, the United States government passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This act changes the start and end dates for Daylight Saving Time (DST) as of spring 2007. These changes may impact the way applications run. Microsoft is releasing an update for Windows through Microsoft Update that reflects these changes.

Developers who use the .NET Framework may find their applications affected if the application uses the time zone information for historical purposes or if they have derived custom classes from System.TimeZone to provide custom time zone information. The standard System.TimeZone class provides a managed wrapper for the underlying Windows Operating System time zone functions.

In addition, developers who use Visual C++ may find their applications affected if they use the CRT time functions, or the TZ environment variable. Microsoft is currently working on a fix for this issue and will post information about its availability on the Visual Studio Support page.

Most applications that use these affected classes will not need to be modified as this update will ensure that the correct data is provided seamlessly to the application. However, applications that use these classes or the underlying Windows API to perform historical time look-ups will need to be modified.

In most cases, developers who have extended the .NET Framework’s time zone support by creating custom time zone classes derived from System.TimeZone, or by direct access to the Win32 API, will not have to update their applications as long as the available updates to the operating system are applied. However, solutions that rely on private time zone data, or that retrieve system time zone information by accessing the registry directly, may need to be updated. Applications that deal with historical time zone data may also need to be updated.

[InOverMyHead]

I'm glad I don't have to worry about it. I live in a state that doesn't have daylight savings time.

What a headache for everyone else who does. I feel for ya...

[r0fflecakes]

They need to kill DST completely. It was made to accomodate WW1 or WW2 (can't remember) and those wars are long over, they also need to lower sales tax while they're at it, since it was temporarly raised after the war. (or something like that, I don't know the exact history)

Goverment: where temporarly, means forever. and soon, means never.

[mordero]

Actually DST is still used because it is believed it can help lower energy costs (which is why they changed it for this year as well)

[Courageous]

The alternative is to switch over to DST year-round. The reason they don't is both pragmatic and political. With DST year-round, in winter young kids go to school in the dark. Hence the 8/4 month compromise they just came up with.

C//

[InOverMyHead]

I remember going to school in the dark. But this was back in the early 70s. I had to walk a mile to school in the dark and walk a mile home.
A couple of years later we moved and the school was a quarter of a mile. I was still walking to school in the dark but the walk was a whole lot shorter...