[geeks] DST change costs

[Bryan Fullerton]

On 1/17/07, Sheldon T. Hall <shel at tandem.artell.net> wrote:
> Thanks for reminding me about the DST change.  Now I know how that sort of
> thing works on IRIX and Solaris (and everything else using the Olson stuff),
> and I've gotten it updated on my two timeservers.  I expect the workstations
> will be OK, since they are all either XP or a recent installation of a
> current BSD or Linux.  I'll check 'em, anyway.

Windows updates for the new US DST were Dec 12th, 2006.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx

Most BSD and Linux systems had updates for it quite a while ago, but
if you're not regularly updating you might not have them depending on
the distro/version.

Bryan