Day Light Savings time changes on March 11
Duane Hill
d.hill at yournetplus.com
Wed Feb 21 19:41:50 UTC 2007
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, DAve wrote:
> Mikel King wrote:
>> Just curious what is that status of this issue with the current version of
>> FreeBSD? I am betting that it has already been taken care of ages ago, in
>> which case I am curious how far back that might have been?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mikel
>
> I believe that was fairly recently decided, last six months sticks in my
> head. I'm probably wrong.
>
> Since we are in Indiana we just had to convert all our servers to DST last
> summer. It was a chore because we have everything from FreeBSD 6.1 to Solaris
> Sparc 10s. I am seriously considering switching all of our NOCs to GMT and
> calling it a done deal. I am not convinced that the DST rules will not change
> again and playing catch up with politicians is not a good use of my techs
> time.
>
> I noticed Yahoo switched to GMT. Is anyone else running all their servers on
> GMT?
>
We are all GMT here on over 18 servers. Of them, five are FreeBSD. I have
been running everything I touch in GMT for over eight years now. Once you
get the hang of the mental conversion for your zone, it becomes second
nature.
>
> --
> Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a
> logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos
> for other non-international holidays, but nothing for
> Veterans?
>
> Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.
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