AFAIK time change just shifted a bit. To check if your system is ready to new DST change date simply type as root
# zdump -v Canada/Mountain | grep 2007 and if you get in response things like I've got - you are all set. If not - dates will be April and October respectively. Canada/Mountain Sun Mar 11 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 MST isdst=0 Canada/Mountain Sun Mar 11 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 MDT isdst=1 Canada/Mountain Sun Nov 4 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 MDT isdst=1 Canada/Mountain Sun Nov 4 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 MST isdst=0 I'm sure there is a tons of guides how to fix it, but here is one from Novell: http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=3615274&sliceId=SAL_Public Regards, Alex On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:24 -0500, Dave Donovan wrote: > 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 > >
