Some news about the "dateitems bug"

Wouter wouter.abraham at pi.be
Wed Mar 31 13:14:01 EST 2004


On 31 Mar 2004, at 18:39, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:45:31 +0200
> From: mcdomi at free.fr (Dom)
> Subject: Some news about the "dateitems bug"
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Message-ID: <1gbiufa.19r0wo81n35k84M%mcdomi at free.fr>
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> You may remember that I had a problem with a "calendar" stack.
> During the daylight saving period (which debuted in March, 27th)
> the dateitems function consistenly *adds* ONE hour when you *convert*
> from a date format to dateitems.
> If you use repeatedly that conversion, e.g. to make a month calendar, 
> in
> some countries it provokes a date shift after the day 22 ;-)
>
> Recently I read in MacFixIt that they found a bug in mac OS 10.3:
>
> ===
> Mac OS X 10.3.x: Time being incorrectly set one hour ahead
>
> We've received separate, corroborating reports of a problem that 
> cropped
> up recently where Mac OS X 10.3.x sets the time one hour ahead of the
> setting listed in the Date and Time pane of System Preferences.
>
> MacFixIt reader Shlomit Heymann writes "The time on finder shows one
> hour ahead although on the preferences the time is correct. Selecting
> the option for view in window shows the time correctly, but on the
> finder it shows one hour ahead."
> ===
>
> So, the culprit is appearantly NOT Revolution ;---)
>
>

It is (up to now) kind of a useful bug on the Mac OS platform to 
determine if the system is observing DST or not.

Greetings,
WA

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