From: "Geo." 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:45eaa4f3{at}w3.nls.net...

> A lot of apps need to calculate time / date internally, and when money is
> involved it's critical that the calculations are correct. So, if the rules
> are changed, i.e. if you have programmed your app to calculate time using
> the OS provided functionality, then this would break those apps. And yes,
> I know it's only a very small change, but I was involved in programming a
> delivery control system for a gasoline provider, and they tracked the
> price changes by 15 second intervals! I'm sure there are other industries
> where this would be significant change to make people not very happy -
> although I think mostly the problems seem overstated: if you have a system
> that is that critical, then don't run it on a system that is out of
> support.

Did you use local time or UTC time? The only thing that's screwed up in NT
and W2K is the offset from UTC. I can't imagine anyone would write a
program to check local time as that would make it impossible to interface
with other systems in other time zones, no?

Geo.

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