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Linux Systems and the New DST

Posted by kdawson on from the spring-forward-fall-flat dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The recent changes in the Daylight Saving Time will affect virtually all computer systems in the US one week from now. Microsoft has been busy preparing Windows users for 'Y2DST,' and all the major Linux distributions have also issued patches. How can you be sure your Linux systems are ready, and what can you do to get them ready if they're not? This how-to article at Linux-Watch answers both questions in simple language and with easy-to-follow instructions."

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  1. Re:Win vs Lin by Andrew+Sterian · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you want to see even more Win madness, take a look at these instructions (in three phases) for dealing with the DST problem on a Novell GroupWise e-mail system.

    What a nightmare! And that's just for one (closed source, painful to use) application.

    Now if my university were running an open-source mail server with proven software (*cough* Slackware *cough*) the upgrade would have gone something like this:

    wget 'ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-1 0.2/patches/packages/glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.5-noarch-7 _slack10.2.tgz' upgradepkg glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.5-noarch-7_slack10.2.tgz