On 2/13/07, Dave Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm just curious to see what people are thinking about this. It seems like there hasn't been much buzz and many people I've asked haven't given it much thought. I think it's almost like there will be 3 timezones. EST, EDT and Energy Saving EDT.
That's great info everybody. Thanks. I guess I would have realized that NTP uses UTC if I'd thought about it for a minute. I've watched the logs on different clients. It's all about the clients and making sure they have correct timezone files. The interesting part will be phones, motherboards and other firmware. Think about all the clock radios and wrist watches that adjust for DST. Maybe some of us will be an hour early for work on the first Monday in April when our clocks spring forward for us again after we adjusted them manually in March. I think this thread is a good rundown of what has to be considered. I asked because I was asking friends "Do you have a plan for dealing with this DST change?" and getting answers like "That's this year?" or "No, Why?" Maybe we've raised some awareness and some lurker will avoid being caught unaware. I know I was thinking that if I fixed the Asterisk/NTP server, the phones would follow. Thanks to those who posted that NTP uses UTC. Thanks everybody and feel free to keep posting if you have more thoughts and ideas. Also post if you think of another thing that needs to be patched explicitly. As I said, when we evaluated mail, we were surprised that we had to update Windows, BES, handhelds and Exchange separately. Hopefully everything on an Asterisk server would use the Linux OS functions for time zone calculations and so would benefit from the corrected TZ files. Dave
