[cfgeeks] DST Timezone

[Kevin Korb]

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You are saying that RHEL4 is the only Linux that can update the TZ
files?  That certainly isn't true.

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On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Kevin P. Inscoe wrote:

> Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:27:44 -0500
> From: Kevin P. Inscoe <kevin at inscoe.org>
> To: Central Florida Geeks <cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org>
> Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] DST Timezone
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> Liston Bias wrote:
>> Has everyone install new DST Timezone patches?
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>> Anyone decide not to bother getting done before mid-March?
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> Yep we are doing them all painfully. We have one Solaris 2.6 which we
> used the zone compiler.
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> 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.
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> It's like Y2K all over again... only worse because we have a lot more
> involvement this time.
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> 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.
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> There is a bucketload of Java patches as well.
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> For Linux unless you are using managed Redhat EL 4 (like we are) it's
> back to the zone compiler there as well.
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> 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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