Tomorrow is Daylight Savings. Remember 'Spring forward, fall back'? That's right - tomorrow we move it forward, no matter how odd that may seem. It's October, but it's spring.
At least the Australian government hasn't been mucking with and tweaking DST as it did before the 2000 Olympics. The software engineers need time to code in the changes - I think that a lot of the world now has Sydney time right.
Well that would be anybody using the Olsen timezone databases. I know personally about thirty web services which just give you a choice of 'GMT+10' - and these are all going to be wrong tomorrow. On the bright side, I really don't care if they get it wrong. I'm not using any of them for anything globally time sensitive. It always makes my head hurt trying to figure out how many hours I'm going to be away from GMT with all the conversions and tweaks in effect. I suppose it'll probably be GMT+11. One hour forward. But wait, we'll then be one hour closer to Greenwhich, England as the earth spins. Not further from it. So maybe it's GMT+9. Silicon Valley will be... Uh, I give up. It's in negative GMT and the time is going back. So is it forward or backward? I'll have to figure it out on paper to work out the difference between LA (where this server is) and Sydney (close enough to where I am).
But this will also give a good test of my own daylight savings and timezone functions (which use Olsen tables). The U.S. is going one hour back and we're going one hour forward. I might be poring over the code tomorrow if something gets askew.
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In fact the time changed here - I was just a bit premature on when it changes there. They used to try and change the whole world on the same day, but you're right. Last year's energy act messed up that part of it.
No worries. Everything seems to be working. It just means I'll have to go through all of this again when you folks change over. I won't bother calculating the delta right now, since it's in a temporary state. It's nice to know the delta before I make a phone call overseas. Nothing worse than 'Hello? Who is this? It's 3 in the morning!'
Mike
Now that I am properly awake, I see that your comment: "that the time had changed here" was written on Sunday morning - sorry if I implied you were a day ahead.
That's the other problem with Daylight Saving changeover. Body awake, but brain not yet awake.
Denis