Energy Policy Act of 2005 - Daylight Saving Time changes 2007

As you know, due to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, there will be some changes to the daylight saving time starting in 2007. As a hardware/software vendor, Sun Microsystems is ready with a solution (set of patches) to accommodate those changes; and the required information is well documented in the form of alerts.

Documentation

1. Required patches for Solaris, Java and Sun Fire firmware:
   
   BigAdmin tech note: 2007 Daylight Saving Time Changes in the U.S
   
   
   
2. The above tech note is referring to a Sun alert, 102178, which you can find on sunsolve web site at:
   
   Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes for Australia (2006), United States (2007) and Others
   
   
   
3. Required firmware for timezone changes due to energy policy act of 2005 is at:
   
   Required Server Firmware for Timezone Changes Due to U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005

In case if Sun didn't address some areas which may get impacted with the changes mentioned in energy policy act of 2005, feel free to file a bug at bugs.sun.com (Java bugs) or at bugs.opensolaris.org (Solaris bugs).
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