How is Subversion affected by the 2007 changes in Daylight Savings Time (DST)?
In August 2005 the US Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, which changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time (DST). When this law went into effect in 2007, DST started three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March) and ended one week later (2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November) than what had traditionally occurred. For more information see: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html These changes to DST do not require any special changes or fixes to the Subversion code. Subversion primarily uses dates/times to record when changes have been committed to the repository. This code runs on the server and gets the current date/time from the operating system and converts it to UTC using routines provided by the operating system. The Subversion client receives these dates from the server and converts them to the local time zone for display using routines provided by the client operating system. As such, you should only need to install the patche
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