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mysql and british summer time

Asked by: andieje

Hi

I don't know if every country has a 'summer time' period like there is in the UK so i will explain it.

Basically we put the clocks forward for an hour in April then put them back for an hour in October. On day in April the clocks are put forward an hour at 2am. The time goes from 2:00:00am GMT to then being 3:00:01AM (least i think it does, i'm asleep). One day in October the clocks are put back an hour at 2:00 BST to 1:00GMT. So In October the time will be 1:00:00am BST then 1:30:00am  BST then when it reaches 2:00:00 BST the time is put back an hour to 1:00:00am GMT.

I have data written to my database every minute and i need to be able to order it by date/time and i don't know how to do it for the 2 hours in the night in October when the clocks are put back. For those 2 hours i will have data that looks a bit like like this

1:00 (BST)
1:10 (BST)
1:20 (BST)
1:30 (BST)
1:40(BST)
1:50 (BST)
1:00 (GMT)
1:00  (GMT)
1:10  (GMT)
1:20  (GMT)
1:30  (GMT)
1:40  (GMT)
1:50  (GMT)
2:00 (GMT)
2:10  (GMT)

Please can you advise how I might sort this data?

Thanks

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by: Geert_GruwezPosted on 2009-05-18 at 07:09:30ID: 24412211

you can't really do much about this. file an appeal to cancel summertime ...

some companies just shutdown applications at that time.

it's like paying the people who did the night shift.
they work from 10pm to 6am: do you pay 9 hours or 8 ? or 7 (in winter) ?

you normally have double data for that time.

 

by: andiejePosted on 2009-05-28 at 07:53:44ID: 24493890

Thank-you for your reply. However that answer does not work for me. The best that I can think of myself is to have another column in my database called TimePeriod with values BST and GMT. Being as BST is before GMT alpabetically and 1am BST is before 1am GMT chronologically I can do something like this

select DateTime from table order by DateTime, TimePeriod asc

This will return the dates in the right order. Any other comments are welcomed.
thanks

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