Hello,
I ooze gratitude, humbly. This was the original:
> We are assuming that our computers (suns, all, mixed solaris 1.1.x and 2.x)
> will set their clocks back as "normal," unaware of the political change. Is
> this correct? How can I prevent this from happening?
These are the respondants, thus far:
Thorsten Greiner <thorsten.greiner@germany.Sun.COM>
Tomas Felner <Tomas.Felner@ubs.ch>
Ira Childress <irac@gate.comdata.com>
Claus Assmann <ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de>
Michael Neef <neef@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Kris Briscoe <hxktb0@svho1ds_1.supervalu.com>
Robert Gillespie <Robert.Gillespie@waii.com>
Thorsten & Tomas made it in the gate first. You are my heros.
Their answers:
Thorsten Greiner <thorsten.greiner@germany.Sun.COM> wrote:
on all Systems which do not already have Solaris 2.5 or 2.5.1, replace
the lines starting with 'Rule M-Eur' with the following
Rule M-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 -
Rule M-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 " DST"
Rule M-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
Rule M-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 -
Rule M-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
Rule M-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 " DST"
Rule M-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/europe. Do a 'zic europe' in this directory -
there you are.
Tomas Felner <Tomas.Felner@ubs.ch> wrote:
For Solaris 2.5 and above this is not a problem, it is already taken care of.
For all others there are patches (updates of zoneinfo files):
Solaris 5.4: 102595-02
Solaris 5.4_x86: 102596-01
Solaris 5.3: 101730-04
SunOS 4.1.4: 102902-01
SunOS 4.1.3_U1: 102901-01
SunOS 4.1.3: 102880-02
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