My understanding is that in testing of 6.0.1 for the effects of the DST 2007 event, BMC found that during the import/export of deployable applications that date/time fields within the application were affected by the event (in other words, times were off by one hour). The import/export process uses an XML parser which, itself, references a library that performs date/time related calculations - including DST. This library maintains information about when DST happens each year, and an updated version of this library was not made available from the 3rd party vendor for the version used within AR System 6.0.01. This is why import/export is affected. I may be slightly off in the technical wording, but that is the general thrust of the issue. 6.03 and 7.0.01 use later versions of this library and these more recent versions were patched by the vendor - which are in turn being provided to BMC customers within 6.03 patch 020 and 7.0.01 patch 001. Thanks, -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Service Management Business Unit BMC Software, Inc. ________________________________
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sanders Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DST ** Hi Susan I'm confused by this too. Dates are stored in the Remedy database as epoch time (number of seconds since 1/1/1970 12 AM GMT). A change to DST should not affect dates in the DB. The potential problem is with the client and how it displays the date locally - it might be an hour off. Data exported in ARX files contains the epoch time, not a locally formatted date/time representation, so again, should not be affected by DST. If you export to a text/csv format, the timezone of the client may come into effect, and if you import from a text file with formatted dates, again you might have a problem. But if you stick to ARX files, I don't see what the problem is. Regards David Sanders Remedy Solution Architect Enterprise Service Suite @ Work ========================== ARS List Award Winner 2005 Best 3rd party Remedy Application tel +44 1494 468980 mobile +44 7710 377761 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] web http://www.westoverconsulting.co.uk <http://www.westoverconsulting.co.uk/> ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Palmer Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DST ** I just finished perusing that bulletin. To piggy-back on Mary's questions ... I'm curious how DST can affect import/export times. I wouldn't have thought DST would affect anything if your server is set correctly. I understand there are exceptions if other servers are involved and where people are located etc. But for the most part, why should this year be any different for the basic ARS system than last year. Is there some hidden code written in there that gives the DST date for every year? Where is the import/export facilities taking their date/time from if not the server or I guess the client? Thanks, Susan On 2/19/07, Easter, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is that all that is affected? As far as BMC knows, everything that is affected on 6.0.01 is listed in the technical bulletin found at: http://www.bmc.com/supportu/documents/78/29/67829/67829.pdf Thanks, -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Service Management Business Unit BMC Software, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary C. Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 5:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: DST I read, therefore I am confused. I have 2 questions about this document: http://www.bmc.com/USA/Support/attachments/BMC_DST_Summary_2007_02_15.pd f 1. For ARS 6.01 it states that the Operational Impact if not fixed is "Web Services and Import/Export time calculations will be off by 1 hour." Is that all that is affected? So normal ticket updating of resolution time, Change Request Actual Request time, etc., will NOT be affected? Only Web services, Import & Export? 2. We use Crystal Reports integrated with Remedy. I don't know that much about it, but does Crystal "export" the records out of Remedy? Thanks. ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
