From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-03-29T00:58:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13275] Re: Time Travel with Ruby

Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:

> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > Ernest Ellingson <erne@powernav.com> writes:
> > > That old nemesis that makes everyone go to work and hour early is rapidly 
> > > approaching.  Just for grins, I tried this. I'm running Windows 2000 and 
> > > have my clock set to automatically adjust for DST.
> > Have you tried any othre applications. There is a known bug with the
> > Windows libraries reporting the wrong time for the first week in
> > April.
> 
> I don't know if that's what you're talking about, but afaik the period
> between the last Sunday of March and first Sunday of April is Daylight
> time in Europe and Standard time in America.

Apparently this is a bug:

   http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2186402,00.html


Dave