Australian DST change for 2008

As at 2007-10-31

Problem:

Council for the Australian Federation (CAF)
Communiqué 12 April 2007

Daylight Saving
Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory New South Wales and South Australia agreed to
start daylight saving on the first Sunday in October and conclude it on the first
Sunday in April.

ACT
NSW
Tasmania
Victoria
South Australia

Solutions

AIX (and VIOS Virtual I/O Server)

To update AIX (and VIOS) for the 2008 change use chtz to to change to the correct TZ string, see DST Change for AIX and ANZ Information for further information.
APAR IZ08776: ZONEINFO CHANGE FOR EASTERN AUSTRALIA REGIONS
APAR IZ08697: DST CHANGE FOR EASTERN AUSTRALIA IN 2008 (smit defaults)

The APARs are NOT required, unless you use the zoneinfo database, most if not all customers we are aware of use the standard AIX TZ environment variable, so this environment variable is all that needs to be updated, there are no APARs to make this change. This change can be done by editing the /etc/environment file or using the chtz command, and rebooting.

Java

JTZU Version 1.3.7h delivers the changes needed for:
Australia: Changes to DST starting 06 Apr 2008.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/dst/index.html

System p and i HMC (Hardware Management Console)

HMC V7 APAR MB02236 Linux zone info MH01081
HMC V6 APAR MB02237 Linux zone info MH01082

Other

SUSE
RedHat
Microsoft