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Daylight Savings Bug
Vendor Patches/Fixes


(also see Daylight Savings Bug Story)

Appache and Tomcat
http://blog.covalent.net/roller/covalent/entry/2
US Daylight Saving Time Change 2007 Effects on Apache and Tomcat
Covalent Technologies advisories for users of Apache and Tomcat


Apple
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303179
About the Mac OS X 10.4.5 Update (delta)
Any update newer than 10.4.5 also includes the DST updates

http://www.afp548.com/
AFP548 Fix for DST time change on 10.3 and 10.2
At this time Apple has not yet released information about whether official updates for earlier versions of Mac OS X will be made available. Unofficial patches for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and 10.2 Jaguar have been contributed at AFP548.com.

Blackberry
Impact of North American Daylight Saving Time changes in 2007 on BlackBerry smartphone users

HP
Maintenance Updates Needed to Ensure ProLiant Server System Clock is Accurate when U.S. Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes Go Into Effect in 2007
This covers some HP products but is not complete. Search the HP support site for more information specific to your products.


IBM
http://www.ibm.com/support/alerts/us/
IBM-wide product alerts
Update information is organized by categories of products

Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/DST2007/
Preparing for daylight saving time changes in 2007
Comprehensive document regarding the DST issue with pointers to other knowledge base articles and patches

Prepare Outlook calendar items for daylight saving time changes in 2007
Instructions for users and administrators to address DST changes. Note that Microsoft now recommends the Microsoft Time Zone Data Update Tool for Outlook 2007 as well as earlier versions.

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.3 Update
Includes fixes for Entourage

DST 2007 Changes & Entourage 2004 for Mac
Not an official support document, but useful information posted on Amir's Exchange Clients Blog

The Office for Mac Team Blog entry

IntelliAdmin: Unofficial Windows 2000 Daylight Saving Time Patch
Microsoft is not providing an update to Windows 2000 for extended DST but has outlined a multi-step procedure which involves updating the registry. IntelliAdmin created this unofficial utility program to automate the procedure recommended by Microsoft.

http://www.sharpebusinesssolutions.com/dst2007.htm
DST Update Tool for Windows from NT4 through Server 2003 and XP
A global update solution from Sharpe Business Solutions for most versions of windows from NT 4 and Win2KPRO through WinXP. This is a product.

http://solprovider.com/articles/win98timezones
Fixing Windows 98 TimeZones for the New 2007 Daylight Saving Time Rules
An unofficial fix from SolProvider for extended DST for Windows 98 and a companion way to set the system back to the old rules (in case Congress changes its mind because the expected benefits from the change don't actually occur).


Oracle
Tech note 397281.1 Notes on the DST change for Oracle Database and Fusion Middleware products
Tech note 399739.1 Notes on the DST change for the Oracle Calendar product
Tech note 406289.1 Why Oracle is not providing a tool to automate the change
Patch #5677174 Updated DST rules for the Calendar component of Oracle Collaboration Suite
You need a MetaLink account to access these documents, so direct URLs are not available

Red Hat
Red Hat Knowledgebase Article ID 7909
DST updates available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2, 3, 4, and related links

Sun
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hubs/dst/
DST: Daylight Saving Time Changes (2007)
A central index of DST change information for Sun products, both software and hardware
Overview and Mitigation of the USA2007DST Issue for the Java SE platform and Solaris OS A listing of which Java run time environments have updated DST rules
Sun Java SE JDK tzupdater Tool
A tool for updating time zone data in JDK and JRE version 1.4 and later

VMWare
2007 U.S. Daylight-Saving Time Extension
Updates for ESX Server 2.x and 3.0.x

Information provided by The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

(also see Daylight Savings Bug Story)


 
 

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