Daylight Savings time rule change require a reboot?
Hi,
We are running business critical applications on our sun servers (who doesn't ;)...and would like to do something about the daylight savings time rule change that will come into effect this year. We are in the pacific standard time zone.
Sun has released a set of patches to deal with this but all this require a reboot (as per Sun Website). However I was wondering if there is any way to accomodate the daylight savings time rule change without a reboot?
I am specifically looking at sunsolve document 83617 (Option number 2) which says one can download the timezone files and compile with zic. I was wondering if anyone has any input about this. Is it possible to do this without reboot of the server.
Thanks
David
[760 byte] By [
nethawka] at [2007-11-26 14:10:41]
# 1
> Sun has released a set of patches to deal with this
> but all this require a reboot (as per Sun Website).
> However I was wondering if there is any way to
> accomodate the daylight savings time rule change
> without a reboot?
Most of the changes would be picked up by any process that is launched after patch installation.
Any long-running process that started beforehand would not see the updates. The reboot guarantees all processes have restarted.
> I am specifically looking at sunsolve document 83617
> (Option number 2) which says one can download the
> timezone files and compile with zic. I was wondering
> if anyone has any input about this. Is it possible to
> do this without reboot of the server.
Yes, but it's possible to install the patches without rebooting as well. For the most part, the effect should be the same.
--
Darren
# 3
> Do we still need to install the timezone patch even
> if our servers running on sol10
Yes, assuming you do not have the update yet.
If 'zdump -v US/Pacific | grep 2007' shows dates in April, you do not have the right timezones set. If it shows March, you should be good.
> and using NTP server
> to synchronize the time?
Absolutely!
--
Darren
