Daylight Saving Time Changes for 2007 - Updated
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Updated: 14 Feb 2007 |
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Starting in 2007, Daylight Saving Time will be extended by 4 weeks in most United States and Canadian time zones. Daylight Saving Time will begin the second Sunday in March (March 11th), 3 weeks earlier than in past years. Daylight Saving Time will end the first Sunday in November (November 4th), 1 week later than in past years. This change complies with a provision of the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 and affects all U.S. time zones that observe Daylight Saving Time (DST). In addition to the United States, many countries have adopted or are considering adopting similar DST changes, I.e. Canada.
Tips submitted for DST
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The following TIDs were created to ensure that all Novell Products are modified as appropriate to handle changes to DST.
Novell OES/NetWare Servers:
- OES/NetWare servers in affected United States and Canada time zones should be updated with DSTShift.nlm, a Novell provided utility: TID 3397648 - Daylight Savings Time Adjustment Tool for Netware Servers.
This tool can be used to configure NetWare file servers in both United States and Canada.
DSTSHIFT is available for customer use and is located at: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=carEGqApMKo~
Note: This utility does NOT apply to Novell Access Manager (iChain) or Novell/Enterprise Branch Office (NBO/BOMA) server.
The DSTSHIFT utility makes all necessary changes on standard NetWare servers, takes effect immediately and does not require a server re-boot. (Check your server's autoexec.ncf for references to files called DSSTART.NCF and DSEND.NCF. If none are present, the DSTSHIFT utility should work correctly on that server.) NBO and iChain servers store and use DST settings in different locations, and will require additional steps or an alternate method to adjust the start and end dates to the new values. The DSTSHIFT utility alone will not make all the necessary changes for NBO or iChain NetWare servers.
- OES/NetWare servers located in Western Australia timezone should be updated as documented in TID 3109599 - Western Australia (Perth) Daylight Savings Trial from 3rd December 2006
- The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) provided with OES/NetWare and NetWare servers also requires an update. See: TID 3980430 - Daylight Saving Time (DST) defaults changing in 2007 and the impact on the NetWare Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
For more information about the Daylight Saving Time Changes visit: http://www.novell.com/info/daylight_saving.html.
Tips for DST
Lupe Silva
We have to update 150+ netware servers for the daylight savings change. Unfortunately, we do not have any tools like ZEN for Servers or other server management tools to do mass changes. As usual for me, I hate repetitive tasks so I wrote a perl script to push these changes out to the servers.
This utility runs on an Windows Workstation. It utilizes Perl ( www.activestate.com), the remote command (http://www.WolfgangSchreiber.de) and the dstshift.nlm from support.novell.com.
The script will query LDAP to find all the servers, then copy the dstshift files to the server, then utilizing the remote.exe command, execute the dstshift.nlm.
I hope this helps someone out there.
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