On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:25:08 +0200 > From: Thomas Zehetbauer <thomaszat_private> > To: BUGTRAQat_private > Subject: Lotus Notes Locations & DST > > Lotus Notes may under some circumstances silently change the System time. > This happend here with "Location"="Office (Network)", "Local time zone"="Central European Time", and "Daylight savings time"="Not observed here". > Because this could cause severe problems with any software that uses time stamping any application not specifically designed for time maintainance should prompt the user before tampering with the system time. > > Thomas > > Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. > ------------------------------------------------- > T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) > PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 > mail pgp-key-requestat_private > ------------------------------------------------- > as somebody mentioned recently (i think on ntbugtraq?), i think all "mission critical" or "production" or [insert favorite buzzword here] apps, servers and networks should use GMT, and only GMT, to avoid such problems. NT4+SP4 apparently doesn't like daylite savings time in certain situations, so that's all the more reason to stick with GMT. Ken Williams jkwilli2at_private Packet Storm Security http://packetstorm.genocide2600.com/ Trinux: Linux Security Toolkit http://www.trinux.org/ ftp://ftp.trinux.org PGP DH/DSS/RSA Public Keys http://packetstorm.genocide2600.com/pgpkey/ E.H.A.P. VP & Head of Operations http://www.ehap.org/ tattoomanat_private NCSU Computer Science http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ jkwilli2at_private SHANG: Secure Highly Available Networking Group http://shang.csc.ncsu.edu/
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