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
> 
> 

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