[NCLUG] Daylight Saving Time, and free unices

[Bob Proulx]

Chad Perrin wrote:
> This year, rather than the first of April as you might have expected,
> DST in North America starts on 11 March.  Some OSes are handling this
> well, with automatic patches available through their respective software
> management systems.  Others, not so well.

Anyone else who maintains their system with current security and
other critical patches will already have gotten the updated timezone
files long ago.  This is really a non-issue.  I personally don't find
it worth discussing.

However what I would find a more interesting question is for anyone
who believes that they are maintaining a system that is not updated
and for some reason can't be upgraded to say why they are in that
position.  Why can't they upgrade?  What is the issue?  That would be
a much more interesting discussion.

Quite frankly anyone who is suffering from stale timezone data is
probably also at risk due to real security vulnerabilities that they
have not fixed.  I would not be worried about an incorrect localtime.
Instead I worry about having the computer cracked with a root-kit.
That would be the more important problem to worry about.

Bob