[PLUG] Daylight Savings Time

[Tony Schlemmer]

On Monday 12 February 2007 14:38, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
> That is really true for shops running Solaris.  Sun's supported patches for
> the DST changes modify libc and require a reboot.  My group has expended
> more than 4000 man hours since July '06 for this change I am pretty sure
> the cost of making this change is a lot higher than any savings.
>
> On 2/12/07, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> > It is going to be a big pain for anyone who has to manage systems that
> > need an accurate time stamp.  Far more money will be spent dealing with
> > the problem than would be saved by the change.
>
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It's making life rough for the group I work in. I'm a developer but we have 
numerous development, QA, and production boxes that all run Solaris and so 
it's been a hassle for some time now. We have an SA group that does all of 
the patches and they've been scheduling DST patches for days now. I think the 
only guarantee we have as to when DST patches are done are on production 
servers is that they're done at night. For the rest of our boxes they're 
scheduled to be patched sometime during the work week.

I think we'll be done patching by the end of February.

Tony

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