A mainframe db can get messed up when switching from daylight savings time. On the
morning of Oct 26 an hour will be ran twice. A transaction could run at 1:15 AM, the
hour be changed from 2 to 1 AM, and then another transaction ran after the first but
be logged as 1:10 AM. That can mess up
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, at 5:20pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A mainframe db can get messed up when switching from daylight savings
time.
Most systems designed in the past thirty years or so use an absolute
counter (the number of seconds since Midnight, 1 Jan 1970 is a popular
choice) for time
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