On 11/02/2010, at 5:10 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
> 
>> I've been debugging a problem we've got where the fetched timestamp is 1 
>> hour out for times that fall after (or close after) the date when day light 
>> savings comes off.
> 
> That seems pretty normal for Java where a day is 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 
> milliseconds, not a day like we usually think of it.  If I don't care about 
> the time, I just set it to 12:00 noon.  So when Java adjusts the time, it is 
> 11AM or 1PM, but at least on the correct day.  Is that what you are seeing?  
> Or am I misunderstanding the problem?

Yes. This is a timestamp / datetime (not a date only value).

The correct value should be 4pm Sydney time. But for this last one it's 5pm.

>> Viewing the data in mysql the times are correct for Sydney (unfortunately 
>> the deployment db is not in UTC but Australia/Sydney time... out of my 
>> hands). When fetching a list of records all of them have the same 
>> endTimestamp value .. but once we have an NSTimestamp the last record which 
>> falls over the boundary is wrong.
> 
> I am having a hard time parsing that last sentence.

I'll try again :)
A list of records in the database with a field called 'endTimestamp' all have a 
value where their time-part == 4pm Sydney time. Once fetched, one of them is 
wrong.

with regards,
--

Lachlan Deck

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