Re: Telling if a given datetime is within the DST switchover

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Larry Martell <larry@software-horizons.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > > On 30/03/15 16:20, Larry Martell wrote: > >> The use case is that I have a server uptime reporting script and it > >> uses a database of times that the server was able to be pinged. If > >> there is no entry for a period it indicated the server was down. So on > >> March 29, running in London, it found no entries from 1am to 2am and > >> it reported the server was down for an hour, when in fact the period > >> from 1am to 2am did not exist because of the switch to summer time. > > > > If you are logging ANYTHING other than UTC then your reporting system is > > the problem. You DISPLAY times using the local time, and log everything > > using a clean UTC time. > > I 100% agree with you, but this client does not do that. I have told > them they should, but they did not want to change. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Sounds like your only solution may be to convert to UTC to do the logic of checking for gaps.