Matthew Jarvis wrote: > I got a letter from IBM talking generally about the new DST changes that > are going into effect March 2007. > > They say "In 2007, US Daylight Saving Time is changing and will begin on > the 2nd Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November". > > This is more just FYI for folks, but I'm curious what preparations > people are doing for this. My servers ping a time server - do those time > servers have DST under control I wonder?
Time servers all speak UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, nee Greenwich Mean Time) so they don't care about local variances in daylight saving rules. <trivia> I can't find a reference now, but I recall that in Australia, each state's legislature passes a bill every year defining the dates for DST for the following year *in that state*. They apparently don't do that anymore. Here's a summary from the Bureau of Meteorology. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml </trivia> -- Bob Miller K<bob> [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
