Hi,
> Might I ask what TUV is/stands for?
>
> I've got one SL 4.4 system and it has tzdata-2006g-1.EL4.
> All my SL 3.0.4 systems have tzdata-2004e-1.EL.
> My one SL 3.0.5 system has tzdata-2005f-1.EL3
> My RHEL_3 systems have tzdata-2006m-3.el3.
> My RHEL_4 systems have tzdata-2006m-3.el4.
> And my RedHat 7.3 and 9.0 systems have no tzdata rpms. ?
Old RH releases didn't have separate RPM packages, they were contained in
glibc RPMs.
> Other Than the unsupported RH 7.3 and 9.0 systems, all my systems
> are as up to date as I can make them, given yum cron jobs and RHN
> notices from RedHat.
For 7.3 and 9.0 you should (very quickly) update to what was released from the
Fedora Legacy project. Any moment now they will be removing the servers
hosting the packages.
> So, how does one know if times will get changed properly for the
> new DST changes?
Use zdump:
# zdump -v Australia/NSW |grep 2007
Australia/NSW Sat Mar 24 15:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 02:59:59 2007 EST
isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
Australia/NSW Sat Mar 24 16:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 02:00:00 2007 EST
isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/NSW Sat Oct 27 15:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 EST
isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/NSW Sat Oct 27 16:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 03:00:00 2007 EST
isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
> And what does one do for unsupported legacy systems?
Decommission them or upgrade their OS releases. Fedora Legacy is no longer
active and is shutdown, but you may be able to pickup their packages before
they remove them from the ftp servers.
Other than that, use zic to compile your own zone information.
> Don't think I want to look forward to manually changing 50+ systems.
> Also can't say I've heard of this change in start/end time for DST.
> Ah well...
If you have legacy systems in place, you should have started migration of them
to either decommission or upgrade about 12 months ago now. You're long overdue.
Due to their unsupported nature, they can be easily compromised either now (if
you haven't been using fedora legacy RPMs) or in the not to distant future if
you have.
Regards,
Michael.
> Thanks!
> - Larry
>
> Michael Mansour wrote on 1/9/2007 3:28 PM:
> > Hi Brent,
> >
> >> In the U.S.A. and Canada, the starting and ending times for Daylight
> >> Saving Time is changing this year. I've been looking around and can
> >> not figure out how to change this information under Linux,
> >> specifically Scientific Linux. Is there an RPM available or some
> >> file I can edit? I could always set the TZ environmental variable
> >> to something huge, but I was wandering if there was a better way. Thanks.
> >
> > TUV supplies updates in this package:
> >
> > tzdata-2006g-1.EL4
> >
> > Make sure you're using the latest, if changes are needed raise a
> > bugzilla.redhat.com bug and they will release a new tzdata shortly after.
> >
> > Either that or you can modify directly using zic and other tools.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael.
> >
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> >>
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