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Athena and Daylight Savings Time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Feb 9 13:29:27 2007
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:25:53 -0500
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From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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The US Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed the dates at which Daylight
Savings Time takes effect. Here's how these changes affect Athena
machines:
* Athena machines keep track of time in a linear fashion (seconds
since midnight January 1, 1970 GMT), so there is no issue of them
losing track of what time it is--only with displaying the time
properly during certain times of the year.
* Linux-Athena machines running 9.4.19 or later will display the
time properly.
* Solaris-Athena machines running 9.4.27 or later will display the
time properly.
More details on the daylight savings changes enacted in 2005 can be
found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005#Change_to_daylight_saving_time
If you have any further questions, please contact
release-team@mit.edu.
Greg Hudson
Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture
Information Services and Technology
