[tz] Epic fail for DST fallback in hospital health records
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Mon Nov 5 05:08:21 UTC 2018
Guy Harris wrote:
> the Windows API offers GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(), which supplies tenths-of-microseconds-since-the-FILETIME-epoch ("January 1, 1601 (UTC)"
As I understand it, it is not so much the API as the operating procedure
underneath. One problem is that when an MS-Windows machine is powered off during
a DST transition, it does not update the time properly when it is powered back
on. In a How-To Geek article published earlier today, Chris Hoffman says the
problem occurred with MS-Windows 10 this weekend, and I recall hearing about
similar issues years ago. See:
Hoffman C. Some Windows 10 Clocks Didn’t “Fall Back,” Here’s How to Fix It.
How-To Geek. 2018-11-04 15:23 EDT.
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/some-windows-10-clocks-didn%e2%80%99t-%e2%80%9cfall-back%e2%80%9d-here%e2%80%99s-how-to-fix-it/
Kuhn M. IBM PC Real Time Clock should run in UT. 2016-10-29.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html
PS. I don't know whether the "EDT" in Hoffman's article's timestamp reflects the
MS-Windows 10 bug or is a subtle joke; it could be both.
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