From: Neil Paniraj (npaniraj@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2007 - 06:59:24 EST
Dear SAs:
Thanks a lot for all the responses. Every single
e-mail I got asked me to apply the patch to be
prepared for Fall. Here is one of the responses I got.
Thanks again, SAs for your prompt responses.
NEIL.
--- bill.thompson@goodyear.com wrote:
> Neil,
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> No, you need to apply the patch. The patch updates
> your /usr/lib/tztab file which has the changes for
> both the start and end of
> Daylight Saving Time. If you don't apply the patch
> then your servers will revert back from DST a week
> too early this fall. And if you
> don't apply the patch, then you'll have the same
> problem of not switching to DST a year from now.
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> Bill Thompson
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> Neil Paniraj <npaniraj@yahoo.com>
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> [HPADM] DST Patch forgotten to be applied
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> Dear SAs:
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> We have forgotten to apply the DST OS related
> patches
> on a few old servers running HP-UX 11i. The
> time/clock
> shows an hour behind on many of the forgotten
> server.
> Do we really have to apply this patch now, after the
> DST change? Wouldn't it be good enough if I just
> change the time manually and have it synced with our
> NTP Server?
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> [Fortunately for us none of the apps/databases seem
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> be broken... Many of these forgotten Servers had
> HP-UX
> 11i and outdated APPS running which had nothing
> important, except for a couple which were
> DataProtector Servers... ]
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