upcoming DST change

[Deskin, Bob]

Since you asked...
 
We looked into whether the change in DST affects PowerHouse and the answer is no it doesn't. In other words, none of the PowerHouse functions are affected by the change. We get the time from the system and we don't have any time calculations that work differently depending on daylight savings time.
 
That said, applications will have to be checked to see if they make use of time calculations that may be affected. For example, if an application was calculating the number of hours worked and shifts included an overnight shift, the application would have to take into account the change to daylight savings time. If a person worked from midnight to 8 AM and overnight DST kicked in, the application would have to know that DST started (or ended) and what the policy is on times. In other words, does the person work an extra hour (or one less) and how is that accounted. Since the date/day when DST starts and ends is important, the application may have to change if these are hardcoded. If the dates are parameterized, then it should be a simple matter to change the dates.
 
But as far as Powerhouse itself is concerned, there is no impact.
 
 
Bob Deskin
Senior Product Manager
Application Development Tools
Cognos Incorporated
bob.deskin at cognos.com
http://powerhouse.cognos.com <https://na.mycognos.com/> 
 

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From: powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=cognos.com at lists.sowder.com on behalf of Lorry Litman
Sent: Thu 2007-02-08 5:14 PM
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Subject: upcoming DST change



Hi, 
I guess the following question could be a general question for all versions of powerhouse on all platforms, but, just in case I'm running PH 7.10.G1 and 7.10.E6 on VMS 7.3-1.

Is anyone aware of any issues or gotchas regarding the upcoming Daylight Saving Time date change? 
Am I missing something by assuming that as long as the O/S is patched, that any call my powerhouse apps are doing regarding time will simply pull from the system time and therefore no problem?

Thanx 
       Lorry 

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