Followup to this... http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?messageID=119866
Seems the best approach would be to get the time from the Amazon server, thus bypassing any local time issues. -- Carl Read. PS. And yes, I meant REBOL below, not REBO, and the last sentence should've read "I couldn't /find/ one in the 'Viewtop'."... (Well what'ya expect on the day daylight saving cuts in!) On Sunday, 26-September-2010 at 13:10:55 Carl Read wrote, >Hi yet again Graham... > >Today uploading to Amazon S3 stopped working for me on Windows XP! And after a >while it dawned on me why - daylight saving started here today. Sigh... > >So, if I turn off daylight saving in Windows, (setting Windows' clock back an >hour), I can upload. But I can't if I then manually set the clock forward an >hour. (And no matter what settings I choose, REBOL's time always matches >Windows' time.) > >I noticed Windows says it's still only 12 hours ahead when daylight saving is >ticked as on (as does REBO), so I'm picking that's the source of the problem. >REBOL grabs the time-zone from Windows, when what it needs is 13 hours. Unless >there's a setting for the time-zone in REBOL? I couldn't one in the >'Viewtop'. > >-- Carl Read. > > >On Wednesday, 22-September-2010 at 21:50:42 Graham Chiu wrote, > >>Hi Carl >> >>Yes, about that url-encode, I just added one now :) >> >>The problem with the prot-http is that you do lose the headers returned >>unless you open the url instead. Hence my need to modify the success >>function. >> >>The headers should have given the error information from Amazon that you >>were using the incorrect time. So, not sure why that didn't work .. >> >>On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Carl Read <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Graham, >>> >>> Yes - elsewhere! I hadn't set the timezone on Linux, (it's a newish >>> install), and that was the problem. I noticed the time was four hours out >>in >>> the authorization block, which put me on the right track. >>> >>> BTW, I've just remembered the url-encode function wasn't included with >your >>> script - I had to find it elsewhere. It's not in View 2.7.7, but perhaps >>> it's in other REBOLs? >>> >>> Anyway, many thanks for your patience! And the script - useful. >>> >>> -- Carl Read. > >-- >To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to >lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > > -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
