Topic: Daylight Savings Time changes and Slackware (Read 5355 times)

Demosthenes · « **on:** February 21, 2007, 06:05:29 PM »

In case anyone with a Slack box is wondering, good info here on fixing the Daylight Savings Time glitch on machines running anything older than Slackware 11: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=516681&

If you're running Slackware 11 you should be good to go.

12AX7 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 21, 2007, 06:46:56 PM »

FUCK Congress. I didnt realize how many PBX's we monitored. We have to check em all; hundreds of thousands of them. There's 16 of us.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2007, 06:50:28 PM »

Yeah, I feel you. I'm a server admin in a DC that has 200+ Windows Server 2003 boxes that are all going to be needing some complicated hand holding through this process.

Plus our Exchange boxes are all in need of two parts to this... the actual update to Exchange, and then a different tool to "fix" each mailbox, one at a time.

We'll be reeling from this for weeks, I'm sure.

For my home machines this is pretty simple, but I wish Windows were as easy as Linux sometimes. It'd make my job tons less stressful.

ivan · « **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2007, 06:52:40 PM »

Y2K?

DST2K!

pbsaurus · « **Reply #4 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:00:24 PM »

I must've been hiding under a rock or something. How is daylight savings time changing?

ivan · « **Reply #5 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:05:08 PM »

Begins 2 weeks sonner, ends 2 weeks later.

12AX7 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:10:17 PM »

So everything programmed to change. . .

pbsaurus · « **Reply #7 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:21:30 PM »

Well that sucks.

Hate DST

BizB · « **Reply #8 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:23:49 PM »

Yippee!!! I wish we could stay on DST year round.

ivan · « **Reply #9 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:27:49 PM »

Maybe that's where this is headed. I would like that too. In any case, better than changing clocks twice every year.

I think the only time year-round DST was tried was years ago in England, and a bunch of school kids got run over in the dark, so they never tried it again.

That might be apocryphal.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #10 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:37:25 PM »

I wish we could go off DST twice a year and not go on it. Two days of an extra hour of sleep. That would be awesome!

ivan · « **Reply #11 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:47:50 PM »

Sorry, ends 1 week later, not 2.

Instead of first Sunday in April, it will start on second Sunday in March.

Instead of last Sunday in October, it will end on first Sunday in November.

So DST will be extended by about a month.

There have been motions in California to adopt year-round DST. There are also motions to then adopt Double-Daylight Saving Time in the summer.

ivan · « **Reply #12 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:48:49 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus on February 21, 2007, 07:37:25 PM

I wish we could go off DST twice a year and not go on it. Two days of an extra hour of sleep. That would be awesome!

And we'd be in synch with the rest of the world every 12 years. Not bad!

pbsaurus · « **Reply #13 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:51:30 PM »

Time is relative, don'tcaknow.

ivan · « **Reply #14 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:55:36 PM »

That depends on your point of view.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #15 on:** February 21, 2007, 08:31:26 PM »

Indeed

jeee · « **Reply #16 on:** February 22, 2007, 11:27:52 AM »

Damn, 12 and Demo that really sucks. Good thing we don't follow the americans for once.

12AX7 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 22, 2007, 11:28:20 AM »

Indeed

xolik · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2007, 01:55:32 PM »

I sent out the mass email telling everbody about it on campus, made the fix easily available, held two discussion meetings about the implications of not updating the systems and all I can do now is wait for the flood of trouble tickets to come in because nobody ever listens to a goddamn word I say around here anyways.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2007, 03:06:00 PM »

Within two months I vow to be running Slackware.

xolik · « **Reply #20 on:** February 23, 2007, 04:49:36 PM »

Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on February 23, 2007, 03:06:00 PM

Within two months I vow to be running Slackware.

SA avatar?

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #21 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:09:24 PM »

Yeah I saw it today and couldn't resist it struck me as so cool. I'm proud to say that within ten minutes of the first Baikov story I had requested the second.

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