Data Protection Advisor (DPA): DPA not honoring custom time window for reports

Summary: DPA not honoring custom time window for reports

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Symptoms


When using a Time Period which includes daylight saving time change date will cause the start time of the report to be incorrect.  For example when using a custom Time Period created for the start and the end of the of November 2019 the reports do not start at 00:00 but 1:00.  Note these dates cover the time change for Daylight Saving Time (DST) which occurred in US at 02:00 on November 3rd, 2019.  See below for the configuration of the Time Period used with the Start and End Times:   

Start Time
Day of the month: 1
Month: 1 month ago
Hour: 12 AM
Minutes: 0 minutes past


End Time
Day of the month: 31
Month: 1 month ago
Hour: 11 PM
Minutes: 59 minutes past


Resulted Report Time:
Previous Calendar Month: 11/1/19 01:00 - 11/30/19 23:59

Cause

This is a known Bug/Defect in Data Protection Advisor
This is a code bug DCE-4609 related to Daylight Saving Time (DST)
 

Resolution

To be resolved in a patch above Data Protection Advisor 18.2.0 patch b91.
To be resolved in a patch above Data Protection Advisor 19.1.0 patch b80.
To be resolved in a patch above Data Protection Advisor 19.2.0 patch b14.

The Patch will be available through Dell EMC Technical Support.

Please contact Dell EMC Technical Support for further details or information.
 

Affected Products

App Direct File System Agent
Article Properties
Article Number: 000053704
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 29 ديسمبر 2025
Version:  4
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