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As described in how to verify 2007 DST readiness on Linux systems, you can verify 2007 DST change readiness by setting the system clock to future date. This is applicable to Windows systems too. If “automatic updates” is turned on in Windows Security Center on your windows systems (Windows XP desktop or Windows 2003 servers), the DST patch mostly had been applied.

Either that, or you’ve manually updated your systems in prep for the 2007 DST changes. Now the only thing left to do is to verify. Here are a few quick steps to verify 2007 DST change readiness on your Windows systems by using the Date and Time properties panel. The latter can be launched by double clicking the time displayed at the system tray, usually in the bottom right corner of your Windows systems. Read the rest of this entry »

In my previous post, I theorized that tzdata RPM from FC1 (Fedora Core 1) updates repository would be useful to prepare old Linux systems such as RHL 9 (redhat Linux 9) or older, without having to upgrade glibc and glibc-common packages. It turned out that the original RHL 9 release had /usr/share/zoneinfo as part of glibc rpm package. It remains to be the case unless glibc rpm is upgraded to version 2.3.2-64 (Mon Jul 28 2003) or newer. Therefore, the glibc actually does need to be upgraded to at least 2.3.2-64, to take advantage of the steps to prepare older Linux systems for 2007 DST changes using an updated tzdata rpm as discussed in an earlier post. Read the rest of this entry »

Wordpress.org acknowledged the 2.1.1 release may have been tempered with for some of the downloads. It is urgent for sites running 2.1.1 to upgrade to the latest 2.1.2 release. As always, no much specifics was given. Read the rest of this entry »