I am just curious as to if i should be worried about the new Daylight Savings act that is going into play in about 2 months from now. I know that it has affected several cisco and windows applications and systems. Please let me know if there will be a patch or if we should be fine.

Thanks,
Ryan

One way to test, is by doing these commands from cli:

date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2006"

EXPECTED RESULT FROM ANOTHER LINUX BOX (CentOS4). Notice the one hour difference in time:

[root@monitor2 ~]# date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
Sun Mar 25 11:00:00 EDT 2007
[root@monitor2 ~]# date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2006"
Sat Mar 25 10:00:00 EST 2006


RESULT FROM ASTARO FIREWALL AND ACC:

FW:

gw:/root # date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
Sun Mar 25 10:00:00 EST 2007
gw:/root # date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2006"
Sat Mar 25 10:00:00 EST 2006

ACC:

loginuser@acc:/home/login > date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
Sun Mar 25 10:00:00 EST 2007
loginuser@acc:/home/login > date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2006"
Sat Mar 25 10:00:00 EST 2006

This is something that Astaro had better set to work on.....

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Hi,

thanks for this posting. It's still not Mar 25, so rest assured that this issue will be addressed in due time

Cheers

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March 11 in the U.S. btw.

Barry

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Even better run this command
zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
Even tried updating the the localtime to point to EST5EDT but no luck still pointing to Apr 1 not march 11 Not good.

Any eta when this patch will be available? It's getting close..

Looks like 7.002 has the updated timezones. Still don't know about V6, though!

Astaro is pushing it close!

I just ran a quick check on my Novell Security Manager (ASG) 6.303 box:

/etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000

:-/

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Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE
Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC
www.2rosenthals.com

I have just manually pushed timezone-2.5-25.i586.rpm onto my production box as an interim measure. I did some experimenting with the timezone package on a number of SuSE-based machines last evening, and what I found was that, in general, if rpm didn't complain about package dependencies, the updated module was pretty much interchangeable across the board (don't ask about SuSE Personal 9.1 - it was a nightmare).

I got mine from http://tinyurl.com/3xxfyl, but there are a number of mirrors listed on http://tinyurl.com/ysy5bq.

As always, this is an unsupported patch, and YMMV. Anyway, I offer it for your consideration.

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Thanks for the workaround Lewis. At least we'll have some solution in case Astaro does not come through for us. But with the way updates have been going recently, I will be afraid to apply any updates to production machines without much testing!

Only a week to go before daylight savings!