[rhn-users] Daylight savings issue on AS 2.1

[Mansour, Michael]

Hi,

I have various Linux machines running AS 2.1, others running RHEL 3 and
4.

With the upcoming daylight savings changes, on the RHEL3/4 machines I
received an updated tzdata RPM (tzdata-2005m-1.EL3) from up2date:

# zdump -v Australia/NSW|grep 2006
Australia/NSW  Sat Apr  1 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Apr  2 02:59:59 2006
EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
Australia/NSW  Sat Apr  1 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Apr  2 02:00:00 2006
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/NSW  Sat Oct 28 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:59:59 2006
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/NSW  Sat Oct 28 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 03:00:00 2006
EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600

which fixes the changes from the originally shipped one
(tzdata-2004b-1.EL):

# zdump -v Australia/NSW|grep 2006
Australia/NSW  Sat Mar 25 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Mar 26 02:59:59 2006
EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
Australia/NSW  Sat Mar 25 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Mar 26 02:00:00 2006
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/NSW  Sat Oct 28 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:59:59 2006
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/NSW  Sat Oct 28 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 03:00:00 2006
EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600

But on the older AS 2.1 machines, fully patched, I still have this:

# zdump -v Australia/NSW|grep 2006
Australia/NSW  Sat Mar 25 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Mar 26 02:59:59 2006
EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
Australia/NSW  Sat Mar 25 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Mar 26 02:00:00 2006
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/NSW  Sat Oct 28 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:59:59 2006
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/NSW  Sat Oct 28 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 03:00:00 2006
EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600

Will RH be releasing an update for AS 2.1 to update these settings?

If not, what is the best way for me to implement this on many machines?

Thanks and regards,

Michael.