Netscape 2.x reload problem

[Carole Leita]

Those of you who are web page developers and are using Netscape version
2.0 and later may have been noticing a problem with not getting the most
current version of pages you are developing and checking by hitting the
"reload" button in your browsers. At least, I have been having the problem
and went and looked at a couple of pertinent newsgroups and found the
answer that worked for me.  If it helps others of you - here it is.  I am
on the West Coast and added: 

SET TZ=PDT7

to my autoexec.bat file, and rebooted (I'm running win95) and now Netscape 
reloads properly. 

It turns out that The Netscape programmers didn't allow for the 1 hour 
time change with daylight savings time and, as a result, it takes an hour 
for Netscape to recognize that the cache is older than the new page. As a 
result, when you hit the "reload" button, Netscape brings what it thinks 
is the "newer" page up out of the cache until an hour has gone by. 
Interesting little bug.

The pertinent post is:

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows
Subject: Re: NETSCAPE 2.0 - DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME RELOAD PROBLEM!!!!!!
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:33:56 -0600

On Win 3.x and Win95, add to autoexec.bat the line
SET TZ=EDT4
(or CDT5 or MDT6 or PDT7 or ... as appropriate for your time zone).

On NT, make TZ a system environment variable with the same value.

This assumes that you have the system clock properly set to local time, and
automatic correction for DST on in Win95 and NT.

Jim Fuller
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Carole
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