On 3/9/07, Keith Lofstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- I will probably be spending the next week busy helping friends with the Y2K7 disaster, so it may be a while before I get a chance to change the site to Mediawiki. Y2K7 is the change of the start and stop dates of Daylight Savings Time in the United States and Canada. While Linux and other user-friendly operating systems have an easy upgrade (replace some files in the timezone directories, or just /etc/localtime as a quick patch), this is very difficult for older (pre-2003) Windows machines. There will be problems in hospitals and with some time-stamping medical equipment, and international flights to and from North America are likely to get messed up. It is worrisome how little attention this has gotten in the US - there will be some big surprises Sunday and next week, and IT people with large installs of legacy operating systems like Windows 2000 or Windows 95/98/ME are going to be very busy. The fact that this change corresponds to the release of Y2K7-ready Vista is entirely coincidental, of course. So, US/Can dirvish users, make sure those backups get done before Sunday, and you sysadmins running mixed shops can plan on a week or two of hell.
I have attempted to take time and update my Series 1 TiVo and my Smoothwall as there will most likely be no updates for these legacy OS's. However I have recently run into a very informative article on fixing some of these legacy Linux boxes: Switching your Linux System to the new DST http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html -- Warren
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