[Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

[larry price]

an up to date debian or ubuntu machine will have this taken care of

on freebsd you can either update to 5.5 or 6.2
or you can install the zoneinfo from ports and run tzsetup

for the detail oriented the rules now in effect are

Rule    US      2007    max     -       Mar     Sun>=8  2:00    1:00    D
Rule    US      2007    max     -       Nov     Sun>=1  2:00    0       S

/usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica makes for some interesting reading

generally in my world I'm more worried about inconsistent time stamps
in log files leading to my being unable to figure out why things are
broken than anything customer facing

On 3/7/07, silver <silverlining2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Miller" <kbob at jogger-egg.com>
> To: <euglug at euglug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:01 PM
> Subject: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time
>
>
> > Is anyone experiencing any problems on any Linux or Unix-based
> > apps due to the new Daylight Savings Time rules?
> >
> > Two (Windows-based, Windows-oriented) meeting scheduling apps
> > at my employer have melted down.  One has lost all recurring
> > meetings after 3/11; the other has all of them off by an hour
> > between 3/11 and 4/1.
> >
> > Is this going to turn into a mini Y2K?
>
> In a large orgainization running Exchange, it is plausible.
>
> The current recommend is to include the real meeting date/time as text in
> email subject lines and comment fields when submitting
> invitations/appointments and posting calendar events.
>
> Here's a link to article with a quote from an tech analyst (exchange admin)
> and some other tidbits on the sore issue.
> http://news.com.com/IT+pros+battle+clock+and+code+in+time+change/2100-1011_3-6164152.html
>
> And a bunch of reader comments at end of article (I read cnet news.com for
> the comments, not necessarily the articles).
>
> MS Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center
> http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst
>
> About Daylight Saving Time changes in 2007 (resource for MAC users):
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056
>
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