[geeks] DST hell

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:00:39AM -0600, Mike Hebel wrote:
> 
>> If we're dealing with Win-blows boxes you would:
>>
>> 1) Patch the PDC for DST.
>> 2) Use ntp to set it's local clock.
>> 3) Turn off DST on the desktops.
>> 4) Use "net time" in the login scripts to set the local time to the 
>> PDC.  (0)
>>
>> Mike Hebel
>> (0) You _are_ making sure your users logout every night right?  Unless 
>> of course you've got third-shift people that is.
> 
> Seems poor form to require that your users always logout at night.

We require that on all of our database servers.  It's so we can back up 
their datafiles.

We also backup exports, of course.

Peace...  Sridhar