Comments on: Are your clocks cleaned?

By: wALser

wALser — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:13:49 +0000

you rock man, i tried following adobe’s tech note but yours was spot on. cheers!

By: Bruno

Bruno — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:10:15 +0000

WHEN UPDATING PATH FOR JAVA JRE IN THE COLDFUSION SERVER, REMEMBER TO USE FORWARD SLASHES (/) AND NOT BACKSLASHES!

EX: C:/JRE/

BACKSLASHES WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS.

By: plumsauce

plumsauce — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:22:37 +0000

A very good reason to run on GMT, aka UTC for the new generation.

My canned speech is that “the internet is a worldwide place”, there is no reason your timezone preference should take precedence over anyone else’s timezone preference.

By: tgoyer

tgoyer — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:41:24 +0000

mrsmiley, at least here in the US, it is decided by the US Congress. This change was passed back in 2005.

Since it is Congress that makes the determination, it is permanently temporary. :)

By: RobC

RobC — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:35:56 +0000

Piece of cake to update. Takes all of 2 minutes. Just do it.

By: mrsmiley

mrsmiley — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:06:39 +0000

If you live in Melbourne, Australia like I do, they altered the DST dates by one week to accomodate the Olympic games, otherwise it would have changed half way through (I think). Sometimes the government decides that for a specified period of time, the DST dates will be different to accomodate various things for that time.

Does anyone know if this change is permananent or temporary?

By: Gamermk

Gamermk — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:24:54 +0000

So what’s the big deal happening here? The US is now changing at the same time as the rest of the world?

By: Ray G

Ray G — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:37:22 +0000

My understanding of how it extends beyond getting the current system time is in time calculations — if you need to know the amount of time elapsed from March 10th 9am to March 11th 9am, I’m guessing the answer will vary depending on whether the system knows when the time changes. In theory, the correct answer will be 23 hours?

By: Travis Roberts

Travis Roberts — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:24:20 +0000

This is pretty trivial, but it’s not ‘Daylight Savings Time’, it’s ‘Daylight Saving Time’. No ’s’ at the end of ’saving’.

By: mrsmiley

mrsmiley — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:41:40 +0000

@LiQ: Not having the correct time in business apps can be a very big deal. Take a CRM for example that collates incidents by time. These applications also need to be aware of the client timezone so the appropriate corrections can be made on screen to any timestamp. It is highly unintuitive when you start seeing times one hour into the future or having them display out of order because of when various people around the world logged their issues and how much correction was applied. This is not an uncommon situation in global software solutions.