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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:15:01 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com>
To:        DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11
Message-ID:  <20070221191231.Q5166@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
In-Reply-To: <45DC9589.6030606@pixelhammer.com>
References:  <0AFEEDC5-5838-4721-9309-E743EFF5C0B0@techally.com> <45DC9589.6030606@pixelhammer.com>

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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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