Paul Fox wrote: > why would any of this be easier than letting the system track DST > itself? even on my ancient RH7.2-based server, updating the > zoneinfo files took me all of 5 minutes. and for anything more > modern, a semi-automatic upgrade (i.e. "apt-get update; apt-get > upgrade") took care of it quite a long time ago without me even > noticing. > The pain is not doing the patches (which have all been done anyway) the pain is all of the official reporting, perhaps that is not required in your environment. It would be much simpler to say, "all of the servers are configured to use UTC and will not be affected by DST changes." Then in future, it does not matter whatever decisions the politicians make about the observance or non-observance of DST, no correction is necessary. Workstations and servers where users login are a different matter, but for "headless boxes" it would make life simpler. Of course, Windows is a different can of worms--it's possible to set RTC to UTC, but it is not consistently handled by the OS and applications.
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