Hi there I am having a strange issue with Solaris 9, and I do not know what is causing it. I have recently patched this system with the latest DST patch (113225-09) and libc patch (112874-40) but I am still getting the same issue.
What is happening, is the system will not automatically revert from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time. I am using a Solaris Netra to test the roll out of Daylight Savings patches for a server located in Tasmania, Australia. It will roll back 1 hour when Daylight Savings begins, however, when we jump the date forward to just before the end of daylight savings, it does not return to standard time. Included are some captures to better explain what I mean... Sun Apr 6 01:59:00 EST 2008 [01:59:00] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:14 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:14 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:14] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo date 040602012008 Sun Apr 6 02:01:00 EST 2008 [02:01:00] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 16:01:03 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 02:01:03 2008 EST isdst=0 You can see here, that either side of the cusp of DST (it changes at 2:00am on Sun Apr 6 2008 in this case) It correctly registers the flag of "isdst" However, when you let it naturally roll over, as shown below, it does not jump forward. [02:01:03] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo date 040601592008 Password: Sun Apr 6 01:59:00 EST 2008 [01:59:00] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:10 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:10 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:10] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:11 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:11 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:11] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:12 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:12 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:12] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:24 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:24 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:30 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:30 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:30] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:38 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:38 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:38] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:44 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:44 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:44] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:48 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:48 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:48] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:52 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:52 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:52] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:56 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:56 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:56] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:58 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:58 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:58] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 14:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:59 2008 EST isdst=1 [01:59:59] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 15:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 02:00:00 2008 EST isdst=1 [02:00:01] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 15:00:02 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 02:00:02 2008 EST isdst=1 [02:00:02] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 15:00:20 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 02:00:20 2008 EST isdst=1 [02:00:20] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zdump -v $TZ | head -1 Australia/Tasmania Sat Apr 5 15:00:22 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 02:00:22 2008 EST isdst=1 Anyone have any idea why this is happening?? Regards - Sean.Drill This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
