Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules

2007-01-10 12:11:51
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
From: jack.l.forester at lmco.com (Jack Forester, Jr.)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:11:51 -0500
This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's 
something we're working on right now.  The new Daylight Saving Time 
rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody 
has investigated the impact to NetBackup.  We've been testing our OS 
patches and they appear to work, but Sun brought something to our 
attention -- Java does its own DST conversion and needs to be updated.  
Veritas has assured us that NetBackup will be fine as long as we have 
the OS patches installed, but I'm curious about the bits done in Java.  
My feeling is that the Java stuff doesn't do any date/time critical 
operations and will probably be fine even if we don't update the JRE.

Any thoughts?

-- 
Jack L. Forester, Jr.
UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf
Lockheed Martin Information Technology
(304) 625-3946