begin  quoting Tracy R Reed as of Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:32:42PM -0800:
> I am auditing all of our servers to see which ones need upgrades to 
> properly handle the new DST time changes coming this weekend. I can't 
> seem to find an authoritative source.

The time system can already handle arbitrary DST ranges, I thought.

This isn't Y2K or Y2038.
 
[snip]
> So which is better? Constantly upgrading and risking things breaking all 
> the time?

Can you snapshot, upgrade, run a regression test suite, and then decide
about rolling back or not?

(VMs help with this.)

> Or holding back and only upgrading when really necessary?

I'm inclined towards the latter, although for my home systems I tend
to upgrade when I have time to handle it going terribly wrong.

-- 
Stability is a key feature of a useful computer.
Stewart Stremler


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