2007 DST Change

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 05:32:46 UTC 2007


Mike McCarty wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:42:34PM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
>>
>>> For FC2, if you have tzdata-2006a-2.fc2.1 you are OK.
>>
>>
>> Although, as mentioned, you are not okay in a variety of other ways. 
>> If your
>> system is important enough that it needs to have the correct time, it's
>> important enough to not leave running an unmaintained distribution.
> 
> There is a distinction between "unmaintained" and "unsupported".

What's the difference?  The bugs that were always there become known and 
exploitable by easily obtained scripts.  You need updates to keep the 
known bugs fixed.

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   Les Mikesell
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