CF MX and Daylight Savings Time Change

Question

Next year 2007, the Daylight Saving day (chaning the clocks
for spring and fall) will be changing. The Spring date will be a
month earlier and the fall date a month later then it has been for
years.
How will the Cold Fusion Server for MX 7+ handle this? Will
it use the server time or use the internal CF Server clock?
Thanks.

Answer 1

My problem is that now CFMX 6.1 thinks that it is 8 hours
later in the day
than it really is (it is stuck on GMT now) and I am unable to
get CFMX to
acknowledge the operating systems clock. :-(
"GregK" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:eord35$5mq$[email protected]..
The technote for this issue:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=d2ab4470
has
another
link to a technote which addresses null pointer exceptions
after upgrading
the
JVM on CFMX 6.1 systems:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=kb400232
The hotfix
described in that technote gives a fix for CFLDAP and
CFSERVLET tags after
the
new JVM is installed.
The important thing to note is that Adobe feels that
daylight savings time
will indeed present a problem for ColdFusion applications.
Unfortunately,
the
problems are not explained in any detail. I can guess that
functions like
DateDiff( ) may calculate incorrect values when spanning the
changed weeks
of
daylight savings time. As others have suggested; however,
simply retrieving
the system time, i.e. Now( ) function may not be affected as
long as the
operating system clock is set correctly.
Hope that helps.