Ok all I hope I am understanding this to be true: That this bug and patch will only affect systems that are using Austrilian DST and part of Indiana(USA). Therefore if we say use America/Chicago as our timezone then we should be fine. We are using RHEL 3 and 4 here. I am just trying to get a clear understanding of what patches really do or do not need to get done. Thanks everyone Vince > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Bacchi > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:24 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: DST patch for RedHat Linux > > My workstation was RH 8. I googled and did not find any > patches. Just too old a dist. I upgraded to RHAS 4 in about > 2 hrs, that's including all my old data and apps. But that > was just a workstation. > > I thought about just copying tzdata file from another > version, but upgrading was the best answer. > > Here is redhat's link to instructions. > > http://now.eloqua.com/er.asp?s=499&lid=441&elq=3D221A071D1347A > 1AC9903472AA32615 > > Dana Holland wrote: > > Has anyone seen any links to making the modifications to > RedHat 8? We > > aren't going to have time to upgrade the server before this weekend. > > > > Barry Brimer wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> We have RHEL AS3 Update6 and RHEL AS4 Update3 server's in > our lab. > >>> Almost > >>> every server is using IST timezone. > >>> Do we need to apply DST patch for these? Is there a DST patch > >>> available? > >>> I see Sun, HP & IBM are providing DST patches for the new > shift in > >>> DST timings (March 11 to November 4 2007). > >> > >> <http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_7909.shtm> > >> > > > > -- > veritatas simplex oratio est > -Seneca > > Andrew Bacchi > Systems Programmer > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > phone: 518.276.6415 fax: 518.276.2809 > > http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/ > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
