Time zone updates
Tags: General

As Indiana is observing Daylight Savings Time for the first time in 30+ years this weekend, we have had to update all the time zone settings for the servers. All servers are observing the new rules for Indiana time that have DST starting on April 2, 2006.

• Solaris patches are available that incorporate the new Indiana time zone rules: 113225-03 for Solaris 9 and 109809-03 for Solaris 8.

• Purdue has a good overview of what to do about the new time zone information. In particular, they provide instructions for compiling new zoneinfo files for Unix and a link to the source files to do so. I have done this for all the FreeBSD servers.

Posted by Rowan Littell at March 30, 2006 10:07 AM