MS Visual C++ daylight saving time bug

[David L. Martin]

All,

I've seen a problem with WinCVS 1.2 since the daylight saving time
switch on 4/1/01 which I believe is due to the so-called "April
Fool's 2001 Bug" in the Visual C++ runtime library.

This may be old news to some, but I was caught off-guard by it.
Basically, any calls to ctime() or asctime() will result in a time
uncorrected for daylight saving time for the period 4/1-4/8 for
the year 2001 for some older versions of msvcrt.dll

This was apparently fixed in Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 3.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=9327
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/headlines/2001.asp

Regards,
David Martin