Submission + - Windows and DST
Ropati writes: I don't write code and I have no significant understanding of how libraries interact in Windows, but I did see the Windows KB article — 932590 "FIX: Windows-based applications that use the TZ environment variable may not work as expected because of changes to DST". From what I can read, any code that calls the TZ variable from MSVCRT.dll, will not realize it is Daylight Savings Time.
What I don't know is how much code might make a call to this variable. If there are applications that do a comparison between a local TZ call and a UTC call or to an API that does a UTC call, couldn't this have cause issues?
My question to the coders of Slashdot is how impactful is this issue? Or, is TZ in the MSVCRT.dll so deprecated that this is a teapot tempest similar to Y2K?
What I don't know is how much code might make a call to this variable. If there are applications that do a comparison between a local TZ call and a UTC call or to an API that does a UTC call, couldn't this have cause issues?
My question to the coders of Slashdot is how impactful is this issue? Or, is TZ in the MSVCRT.dll so deprecated that this is a teapot tempest similar to Y2K?