Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-08 Thread Rob Hudson
Jason LaPier wrote: I'm glad I'm stocked up on homebrew for this sleeper Y2k Now there's something to talk about! :) ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-08 Thread Jason LaPier
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garl Grigsby > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:51 AM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time > > > > At work, I up

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-08 Thread Garl Grigsby
At work, I updated my Windows machine today, and sure enough, I looked at an Outlook weekly appointment for next week that should show for 9am. It shows as 10am. For the next three weeks, the appointment shows at 10am. Then starting in April, the appointment shows correctly again -- 9am for t

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-07 Thread larry price
an up to date debian or ubuntu machine will have this taken care of on freebsd you can either update to 5.5 or 6.2 or you can install the zoneinfo from ports and run tzsetup for the detail oriented the rules now in effect are RuleUS 2007max - Mar Sun>=8 2:001:00

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Miller
Carl Cole wrote: > Here's my 2 cents. > > [Clear and thorough explanation] Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Outlook/Exchange is displaying all meetings off by an hour for three weeks. (FWIW, just about every meeting I attend involves people from multiple time zones.) So, my questio

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-07 Thread silver
- Original Message - From: "Bob Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:01 PM Subject: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time > Is anyone experiencing any problems on any Linux or Unix-based > apps due to the new Daylight Savings Time rules? > > Two (Windows-based, Wi

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-07 Thread Carl Cole
Here's my 2 cents. My understanding is that the problem is not with the current date but with stored dates. Many applications store a dates and datetimes as offsets from some reference time. For instance, the number of seconds after or before a reference date. When stored, the datetime is a

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-07 Thread Michael Miller
This is how I understand it from a Sysadmin view. You would think that if you use a date() system call. In PHP you would use string date ( string $format [, int $timestamp] ). So if that is using the X Unix like OS epoch to resolve the date. Then you check to make sure your systems spits this e

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-07 Thread John Sechrest
In terms of being political, it is worth looking at the http://standardtime.com/ and then writing a new to your congress critters about the issue. "Ben Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % Technology will NOT be hampered by polyticks, around here! % % ben % % % On 3/7/07, Jeff

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Crandell
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 17:01 -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > Is anyone experiencing any problems on any Linux or Unix-based apps > due to the new Daylight Savings Time rules? Not at this time. > Two (Windows-based, Windows-oriented) meeting scheduling apps at my > employer have melted down. One has los

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-07 Thread Ben Barrett
Technology will NOT be hampered by polyticks, around here! ben On 3/7/07, Jeff Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rumor has it that it might, I say might, as these are rumors, I am hearing here might cause a foul up if it does, than we can blame it on Congress's voting with the idiotically

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-07 Thread Jeff Newton
Rumor has it that it might, I say might, as these are rumors, I am hearing here might cause a foul up if it does, than we can blame it on Congress's voting with the idiotically stupid Bush Administration, since they don't know what they're doing, but causing hovac around here! Jeff ---Orig