DST Patch for Red Hat Servers

Young, Mike Mike.Young at atosorigin.com
Thu Dec 7 00:07:30 UTC 2006


Hello Red Hat List -

I was wondering how Red Hat will be addressing the upcoming DST adjustments happening in 2007.  If you don't know about the time zone changes, here's a snip:

"Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the United States will be extended by four weeks beginning in 2007 in
accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005. From 2007, Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the
United States at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March and ends at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November.
This DST change will cause computer systems to show incorrect times unless the software running on the
system is properly updated."

...will this be addressed with an NTP update, timezone updates, or...???

Thanks,
Mike.





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