[Tfug] Just a tad OT RE DST

[TR]

If you are not doing conversions form one time zone to another you should be
fine.   Things like mail may report a send/recv. time  that is off by an
hour, but nothing will be crashing anything.   Ig you have andy Java it
should be 1.4.2_12 or 1.5_06 or later.


On 3/9/07, Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running an old Solaris 7 Sun box and I'd like to make sure it's not
> going to get the collywobbles come this Sunday when the rest of the
> country
> goes all Daylight Saving on us.  I run on AZ time, which means the system
> should not care, but I'm always concerned about stuff I don't know about
> that might care.
>
> My sysadmin at the Home Office nosed around, and Sun wants $400 for a
> "fix"
> on Solaris 7 boxes.  I suspect that this should just require twiddling
> with
> timezone files - has anyone seen anything on the 'net (or elsewhere) that
> could be used to fix this on Solaris 7?  I've got my Linux boxen all ready
> to go (at the bargain price of $0 each).
>
> Jim
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