Friday, November 2, 2012

Incorrect Timezone for the US after DST changed

One can wonder why SAP just doesn't put this information into a support package or something..... But it's ever a problem after The last sunday of October, when most of the world with DST changes time. Because since 2007, the US been changing on the first sunday of November... EST changes on another date than CET, GMT etc.

If you're system is running UTC, the difference drops by one hour (to normal time) whenever DST ends. It's just not the same day everywhere in the world...

When you're logged onto an SAP system, this can then give you some issues, as SAP still thinks that the US changes same as the rest of the world, because transaction STZBC hasn't been updated with the correct information


So for all lazy sysadmins getting stuck with problems about the US being one hour "off key" in november.... Tell your developers to maintan the variable DST settings in SAP... After all, the system is doing exactly what it's supposed to ;)

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