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  • Displayed uptimes jump forward/backward with daylight saving time

    From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Sunday, March 08, 2026 03:08:31
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1093

    The Synchronet server uptimes displayed/reported are based on the system wallclock and thus are susceptible to changes to the wallclock (e.g. forward/backwards jumps for DST).
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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Sunday, March 08, 2026 03:56:28
    close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1093
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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Friday, March 13, 2026 05:57:38
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1093#note_8575

    I thought more about this issue and the return value of `time()` should normally jump forward or backward on DST since it's based on UTC/GMT (where there is no DST). This issue was observed in SBBSCTRL:Win32, so it's possible it was just Borland C++Builder issue and the other changes weren't actually necessary.
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