Daylight Savings Time

[scottm]

Can someone tell me if they know of a UNIX patch for the DST in the US? I'm hoping there is short of just changing the time temporarily.

Thanks,

Scott

[frank]

From Technical Documentation TC0877:

3.2 OmniPCX 4400
For non Linux releases (D2.3xx), refer to the technical communication TC0119 Managing the timezone
available on BPWS.
Example of US management for CST time (Chicago)
The string is: cst+6cdt;M3.2.0,M11.1.0
Description of the string:
• cst+6cdt to identify the standard and daylight time zone
• M3.2.0 3 for March, 2 for the second week and 0 for Sunday
• M11.1.0 11 for November, 1 for the first week and 0 for Sunday
Enter the time zone (default is cst+6cdt;m4.1.0,M10.5.0): cst+6cdt;M3.2.0,M11.1.0
After setting a new time zone, it should be better to restart the system
Do you really want to set time zone to: cst+6cdt;M3.2.0,M11.1.0 ? (Y/N) y
Setting time zone ...
Setting time zone on twin CPU ...
Time zone has been set on both CPUs
The registered daylight-saving time are:
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 cst 2007
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Mar 09 01:59:59 cst 2008
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Mar 08 01:59:59 cst 2009
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Mar 14 01:59:59 cst 2010
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Mar 13 01:59:59 cst 2011
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 cst 2012
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Mar 10 01:59:59 cst 2013
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Mar 09 01:59:59 cst 2014
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Mar 08 01:59:59 cst 2015
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Mar 13 01:59:59 cst 2016
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Nov 04 01:59:59 cdt 2007
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Nov 02 01:59:59 cdt 2008
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Nov 01 01:59:59 cdt 2009
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Nov 07 01:59:59 cdt 2010
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Nov 06 01:59:59 cdt 2011
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Nov 04 01:59:59 cdt 2012
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Nov 03 01:59:59 cdt 2013
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Nov 02 01:59:59 cdt 2014
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Nov 01 01:59:59 cdt 2015
"/DHS3bin/oneshot/mtcl/daylight" launched at Sun Nov 06 01:59:59 cdt 2016