Linux Systems and the New DST 304
An anonymous reader writes "The recent changes in the Daylight Saving Time will affect virtually all computer systems in the US one week from now. Microsoft has been busy preparing Windows users for 'Y2DST,' and all the major Linux distributions have also issued patches. How can you be sure your Linux systems are ready, and what can you do to get them ready if they're not? This how-to article at Linux-Watch answers both questions in simple language and with easy-to-follow instructions."
Simple (Score:5, Interesting)
NTP? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Root Cause (Score:3, Interesting)
Just hire a few brazilians (Score:2, Interesting)
It's pretty funny all this fuss about DST changes. Here in Brazil we had to cope with DST changes almost every year for the last 20 years, and by now we pretty much got used to it, on our daily lives and when developing or maintaining computer systems. Every system administration knows that he'll have to update the tz database year, or update the Windows registry accordingly [microsoft.com].
I guess that's proof that in adversity, we thrive. Thanks to the screwed up economy we had a few decades ago, we know have one of the most advanced banking systems in the world. Thanks to retarded DST policies, we learned how to adapt from that :)
Re:Late in the game? (Score:2, Interesting)
Further, if your running Solaris it's not just a TZ patch. There's libc changes:
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/diff/onnv/onnv-
There's also glibc issues in RHEL 2.1 but they're not quite the same as Solaris.
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_41_9949 [redhat.com]
Cheers,
Rich
Re:Win vs Lin (Score:3, Interesting)
The only problem MS made here is by not using UTC for Exchange calendar entries in the first place. Rather, for using timestamp without time zone, which, frankly, is absurd. Did they not expect email to be a global system?
Re:Simple (Score:4, Interesting)
Tell that to my Outlook calendar. In two weeks when I host my telecon involving people from several states around the US, how many do you think are going to call on time, an hour early, or an hour late? I'm not looking forward to repeating myself over and over. Besides, 4k is chump change when you're talking about the time wasted when dozens of meetings get screwed up (mainly due to PEBKAC errors, but still.)
You can blame reagan for that nightmare (Score:1, Interesting)
Why is this such an issue? (Score:1, Interesting)
Get over it.
In Australia, DST was extended for a month last year for the Commonwealth Games. Microsoft issued an update for Windows, and NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
But, this all happened outside of the United States, so it doesn't really matter now, does it?