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Re: Backups and Daylight Savings Time

2007-10-30 14:22:31
Subject: Re: Backups and Daylight Savings Time
From: Charles Curley <charlescurley AT charlescurley DOT com>
To: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:15:56 -0600
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:21:32PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:

>
> Daylight Savings time laws changed affective Spring 2007 in the U.S. and 
> Australia. I don't know what the situation is for other countries. There 
> were patches to be applied according to your operating system. I applied 
> Solaris 9 patches. Mac OS X and Windows systems got theirs by automatic 
> updates.

Most Linux distributions should have appropriate updates by
now. tzdata is the name of the package on ubuntu and fedora. I believe
any 2007 version tzdata will have these patches.

Thanks for the writeup.

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