Bug #1511

Scheduler plugin does not adjust to government clock changes

Added by drbits about 3 years ago. Updated about 2 years ago.

Status:New Start date:03/29/2010
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:- % Done:

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Category:Addon
Target version:JDownloader - FarfarAway Estimated time:0.50 hour
Revision:14145 Resolution:

Description

The scheduler plugin is in local time. However, it does not adjust with "DST". "Summer time", or "War time".

So, if a scheduler is set for 2:00 local time. When automated time zone adjustment occurs, this changes to 3:00.


Related issues

related to Feature #1605: Next Scheduler Features New 04/16/2010

History

Updated by drbits about 2 years ago

  • Revision changed from 9579 to 14145

The scheduler times (and all stored times) should be stored in UTC for proper operation.

The displayed times should use the localtime conversion when displaying the schedule or accepting new times from the GUI.

Updated by raztoki about 2 years ago

How exactly does jd know of Daylight Savings Time (DST) etc, not all operating systems have this information at hand, and or configured correctly! If system time gets adjusted JD+scheduler needs to account for positive and negative time shifts of system clock.

We have off peak times also, and i've configured jd to handle this. It's not hard just a little time consuming creating multiple rules (10 in total weekdays 0000-0700 weekends all offpeak). ISP here don't change free periods because of DST they remain static, they offer these time frames because its when their networks are idle (offpeak).

Wouldn't storing figures in UTC mean these figures are static reguardelss of the change and how would JD know its DST? we would then need to add in dates of change info into scheduler also? Id just leave it how it is. It's not broken in my opinion

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