Many countries switch to Daylight Saving Time (DST) next weekend March 25th - unfortunately you may need to apply a fix to AIX 6 and AIX 7 before the change or programs can get inconsistent time from various time function and systems calls.  This could have a major impact on many tools, for example, make, logs and databases ... well just about anything that uses a time value.   There was an earlier temporary fix available but now there is a fully details final fix. Please got to the bellow website for all the details :... [More]

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