[cfgeeks] DST Timezone

[Liston Bias]

Did you patch everything current or not bother?

It looks like we have the USA DST change patch level already installed, 
but do not have the latest which includes Australia & Canada changes... OR 
the one that still have not been released to cover Bahamas jumping on 
board the change.  I don't see any compelling reason to get the latest.

It looks like java is going to be the biggest amount of work.  We have 
some application like Mercury ITG that require and old version of java to 
run, so will have to code the change in rather than just upgrade the java. 
We have other apps that have been running on older java find so never 
bothered upgrading.

Thanks,
Liston



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

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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.
>
> 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.
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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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