[wpkg-users] Do file time checks take daylight savings time into account?

[Stefan Pendl]

> 
> I have no good solution to this yet. An alternative would be 
> to allow WPKG 
> accepting standard and DST times to be correct for date equal 
> comparison on file 
> times. But this might have side-effects if the date on the 
> system is offset by 
> exactly one hour.
> 
> Moreover it leads to additional questions:
> - When an "equal" check is done it's unlikely that the 
> comparison returns true 
> if the file date is not equal to the comparison date as the 
> offset would have to 
> be EXACTLY 1 hour, which is unlikely.
> 
> - For older/newer checks this might be an issue as comparison 
> dates are often 
> entered very close to the expected file date.
> 
> And certainly I won't introduce calls to native libraries 
> just for this "feature".
> 

Rainer,

I can change the check date to work around this problem for now.

I think the whole world should get rid of DST, since it does no good at all.

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Stefan