Bug: Changing Time/Date while Synchronizing

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jhowkins

FYI -- The estimated time remaining completely breaks if you change the system time while the Synchronizing task is in progress. (Tested with v6.12 on Windows 7 SP1 x64)
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jonrichco

Why would you want to change the system time while syncing? FFS anyway cannot handle changed system time beyond one hour for daylight saving. A MAJOR failing of the software for those of us who frequently change timezones.
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Zenju

Confirmed. This is due to FFS using the UTC system time for remaining time estimations. However, considering that this is non-trivial to solve portably and it's non-functional and should affect almost no users (UTC time should never change on a system, except for small clock inaccuracies!), this behavior will probably stay that way until further.