[Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes

[Nathan C. Smith]

I got a letter from IBM and they seem to be offering services to make it
into a year-2000-like mini mitigation project if you like.

The change may save energy but it isn't going to save any money right away
based on time applying patches and updating or replacing systems.

Embedded systems/appliances/switches etc. are the biggest headache.
Especially if you are anal about timekeeping.  Good time to switch to UTC.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Wilson [mailto:tim_linux at wilson-home.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:31 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes
> 
> 
> Don't feel alone, it seems like a lot of people haven't heard about
> this.  I'm amazed at how little/no press this is getting considering
> it is a little over 2 months away.  It could be a big deal for some
> industries.  I guess they'll find out, Starting March 11th.
> 
> On 1/4/07, Stuart Thiessen <sthiessen at passitonservices.org> wrote:
> > I thought the same.  I googled about it and found this:
> >
> > New Federal Law-Springing Forward in March, Back in November
> >
> > Months after Indiana passed the law that got it in step 
> with the rest
> > of the country, the federal government announced a major change in
> > Daylight Saving Time. In Aug. 2005, Congress passed an 
> energy bill that
> > included extending Daylight Saving Time by about a month. 
> Beginning in
> > 2007, DST will start the second Sunday of March and end on the first
> > Sunday of November.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> > On Jan 4, 2007, at 15:19, Jerry Heiselman wrote:
> >
> > > I must be out of the loop.  What new legislature was 
> recently passed
> > > regarding Daylight Saving Time?
> > >
> > > On 1/4/07, Nathan C. Smith <smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> > >> I was just researching that law over lunch - from the 
> perspective of
> > >> what
> > >> Microsoft will do for older operating systems like NT 
> Server.  There
> > >> is
> > >> probably a registry setting somewhere that only needs to 
> be tweaked.
> > >>
> > >> I wonder if there were consumer electronics lobbyists 
> behind the new
> > >> law.
> > >> "Update?  no, that ${COOL_GADGET} can't be updated, you 
> will have to
> > >> get a
> > >> new one"
> > >>
> > >> -Nate
> > >>
> > >> > -----Original Message-----
> > >> > From: Tim Wilson [mailto:tim_linux at wilson-home.com]
> > >> > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 1:49 PM
> > >> > To: cialug at cialug.org
> > >> > Subject: [Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > With the upcoming changes to Daylight Saving Time, I'm 
> curious what
> > >> > others have done to prepare for this.  At work, we have several
> > >> older
> > >> > Unix/Linux machines, and of course they seem to have 
> different ways
> > >> of
> > >> > handling it.  Some allow setting a long string in the 
> TZ environment
> > >> > variable, while others seem to require downloading new zoneinfo
> > >> files.
> > >> >  For the latter, I think they can be found at
> > >> > http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm.  These are the 
> source files,
> > >> so
> > >> > it appears you need to run zic on them.  Has anyone done this?
> > >> >
> > >> > --
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> Tim
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