an up to date debian or ubuntu machine will have this taken care of
on freebsd you can either update to 5.5 or 6.2 or you can install the zoneinfo from ports and run tzsetup for the detail oriented the rules now in effect are Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica makes for some interesting reading generally in my world I'm more worried about inconsistent time stamps in log files leading to my being unable to figure out why things are broken than anything customer facing On 3/7/07, silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:01 PM Subject: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time > Is anyone experiencing any problems on any Linux or Unix-based > apps due to the new Daylight Savings Time rules? > > Two (Windows-based, Windows-oriented) meeting scheduling apps > at my employer have melted down. One has lost all recurring > meetings after 3/11; the other has all of them off by an hour > between 3/11 and 4/1. > > Is this going to turn into a mini Y2K? In a large orgainization running Exchange, it is plausible. The current recommend is to include the real meeting date/time as text in email subject lines and comment fields when submitting invitations/appointments and posting calendar events. Here's a link to article with a quote from an tech analyst (exchange admin) and some other tidbits on the sore issue. http://news.com.com/IT+pros+battle+clock+and+code+in+time+change/2100-1011_3-6164152.html And a bunch of reader comments at end of article (I read cnet news.com for the comments, not necessarily the articles). MS Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst About Daylight Saving Time changes in 2007 (resource for MAC users): http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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