I was just visiting this issue today. There was a pretty good discussion on this list a couple months ago on the DST changes and testing your linux installs to see if you're patched. Like: ~/$ date --date=3/12/2007 Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 PDT 2007
The "PDT" indicating correct DST usage. Another I saw was: ~/$ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 Where the dates shown are the "spring forward" and "fall back" dates (if you see Apr 1 instead of Mar 11, something's wrong). On one Debian server, running sarge/stable, I was fine. On another, running Debian testing - it was wrong. Turns out I needed to install the "tzdata" package for it to work in deb-testing. Weird - cuz I don't have this package on my stable box. For non-linux stuff, well, no surprise, MS is dragging it's feet. The WinXP patch is currently set to "optional" but will supposedly be made "critical" at some point. A few admins tried to install the Exchange 2003 patch on two servers here on campus, both found that after installing the patch they could no longer mount the information store and had to remove the patch. MS promises to have a fixed patch soon. (Windows Vista and Exchange 2007 are already fixed) Apple has patched OS X 10.4.x, but no plans to patch 10.3.9 or earlier. There is an unoffical fix out there - it's basically a shell script. Fun for me - I haven't upgraded my server to 10.4 yet (because it's just a file server and the upgrade is a couple hundred bucks) or a couple of the Powerbooks that some of my users are using (because the difference between Panther and Tiger is what, some widgets and a new search function?). The lesson? If you want proper patches, buy the latest software off the shelf. Microsoft doesn't have time to debug old code and get it to change a pair of dates somewhere without breaking something else, and Apple doesn't have time to create a patch for their OS version of anything more than 2 years old - even if someone else can do it in 100 lines of bash scripting. Or, well. You know. Use open source. - Jason L. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:34 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: [Eug-lug] Day Light Saving Change for 2007 > > May want to take a look at this: > > http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2142 > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
