Re: [pcp] Daylight savings bug

[Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>]

Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:38 +1100, Ken McDonell wrote:
> > I believe the problem is in pmdate -1d when you're within an hour of
> > midnight and there was a DST adjustment in the previous 23-25 hrs ...
> > there is no good answer here, pmdate cannot produce the 100% right
> > answer no matter what.

pmdate should return an error when the date/time it is being asked
to report does not exist in the local timezone. (sounds like SciFi,
but it's a real "temporal discontinuity"). The error would have
to be handled all the way out to pmlogger_daily et al.

Cheers
-- Mark