[asterisk-dev] CDR and daylight savings time

[Russell Bryant]

Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> What happens if users are calling during the time when daylight savings are 
> enabled/disabled, with regard to CDR: Does the user get charged one hour 
> negative or one hour positive, depending on the time-shift?
> 
> From examining the code, this seems to be the case:
> 
>                 gettimeofday(&cdr->start, NULL);
>                 gettimeofday(&cdr->answer, NULL);
>                 gettimeofday(&cdr->end, NULL);

This is an example of why you shouldn't have your system clock set to local 
time.  Your system should be UTC so that you don't have this problem.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.
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