Hi, All the software vendors have some patches to address the DST problems. Most of the changes are done at the OS level, but there are specific patches for Oracle, DB2 on Windows and Notification services for SQL Server. Sybase seems that is not affected by the DST change.
Regards, Danut, -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antoine Martin Sent: February 1, 2007 4:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Users] Production systems beware: U.S. Daylight Savings Timecomes at a new time this year > it was recently brought to my attention that last year the U.S. > altered the dates when Daylight Savings Time starts and ends. Many if > not most computers presume the old change dates and therefore, if left > to change automatically, will change at the wrong times. This will be > vital for people in the database community who manage applications > that need accurate timestamps. > > You can read up on this issue here, among other places: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007 > 013102318.html?referrer=emailarticle > > I've never investigated how NTP servers handle DST changes They don't. > - that is, > whether they switch with the fabrication that we have more daylight > hours or leave it to clients. Hmmm... Anybody know? It'd be nice to > know that we can trust our NTP servers to tell our systems what time > it is and therefore ignore this issue for those systems that are NTP clients. NTP does not deal with DST or leap years or anything like that, NTP servers exchange time as the epoch since 1900. Regards Antoine _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ingres.com/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ingres.com/mailman/listinfo/users
