Re: daylight savings patches needed? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: daylight savings patches needed?
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Msg-id 86FAE3B6-742B-45BA-9E2C-DD714D21C419@khera.org
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In response to Re: daylight savings patches needed?  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Responses Re: daylight savings patches needed?  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
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On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:13:42PM -0600, Ed L. wrote:
>> Would I be correct in understanding that every pre-8.0 cluster
>> must be restarted in order for the OS changes to take affect?!?
>
> Possibly, I imagine many C libraries would cache the timezone data
> over
> a fork and might not motice the changes...

You also need to restart cron, possibly syslog, etc.  Much easier to
reboot than chase down every long running app just to update the date
library's cached zone info.


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