[cfgeeks] DST Timezone

[Kevin Korb]

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The OpenBSD people just released a patch for 4.0 which I installed
today.  I believe my Gentoo boxes are all patched up but I would have to
check and make sure.  I am not going to bother with my win2k box even
though I have seen that there is a hack available.

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On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Liston Bias wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 20:49:50 -0500 (EST)
> From: Liston Bias <bias at pobox.com>
> To: Central Florida Geeks <cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org>
> Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] DST Timezone
> 
> 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?
>> > 
>> >  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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