[cfgeeks] DST Timezone

[Kevin P. Inscoe]

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Liston Bias wrote:
> Has everyone install new DST Timezone patches?
> 
> Anyone decide not to bother getting done before mid-March?

Yep we are doing them all painfully. We have one Solaris 2.6 which we
used the zone compiler.

The others are a mix of Sol. 8-10. Apply patch, reboot, set clock to 10
mins. before March, reboot set clock to 10 min before November rinse and
repeat. Each and every test system. Production are on a schedule to
receive the patches. I and the patch maven will be on site that fateful
morn for misbeahving apps.

It's like Y2K all over again... only worse because we have a lot more
involvement this time.

I keep hearing NTP will solve this.. it won't because NTP stores time as
GMT and knows nothing of DST or any time zone. It is up the the software
to adapt that time to the local time zone hence the patch.

There is a bucketload of Java patches as well.

For Linux unless you are using managed Redhat EL 4 (like we are) it's
back to the zone compiler there as well.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=T1010301&uid=isg3T1010301&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en

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