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[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 09:21 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 08:09 +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> >> > I just thought that having dovecot die horribly when the clock is adjusted
> >> > (using settimeofday() I assume) wasn't the most desirable behaviour.
> >>
> >> Well, although I agree with you, many unexpected things can happen (esp.
> >> in Unix) when you go into the past :-(
> >
> > From programmer's point of view it can be difficult to try to correctly
> > handle clock going backwards. I've never even bothered trying, since it
> > really shouldn't happen. :)
> 
> My clocks go backwards from time to time.  Most people at least go backwards
> once a year for daylight savings time (though there are a few lucky ones
> who don't observe DST changes).

No, daylight savings changes only the local time, not the UTC time which
time() function returns (and what Dovecot uses).
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