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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
