[geeks] DST hell

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:40:59 -0500
Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:00:39AM -0600, Mike Hebel wrote:
> > 
> >> If we're dealing with Win-blows boxes you would:
> >>
> >> 1) Patch the PDC for DST.
> >> 2) Use ntp to set it's local clock.
> >> 3) Turn off DST on the desktops.
> >> 4) Use "net time" in the login scripts to set the local time to the 
> >> PDC.  (0)
> >>
> >> Mike Hebel
> >> (0) You _are_ making sure your users logout every night right?  Unless 
> >> of course you've got third-shift people that is.
> > 
> > Seems poor form to require that your users always logout at night.
> 
> We require that on all of our database servers.  It's so we can back up 
> their datafiles.

Which databases are you using that require shutting down for this?

Even MySQL can do live backups...



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