Full marks for remote diagnostician Paul Eggert: Script started on Thu 29 Mar 2007 01:39:00 PM EDT lecserver$ who -b . system boot Jan 22 14:40 lecserver$ ls -l /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/America/New_York -rw-r--r-- 2 root other 3519 Feb 12 17:44 /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/America/New_York lecserver$ exit script done on Thu 29 Mar 2007 01:39:23 PM EDT And, with a sendmail daemon restart, this (and subsequent) messages should be correctly stamped. The hidden perils of a long-running system... --ado -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:14 PM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: Time bobbles
Received: from lecserver.nci.nih.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lecserver.nci.nih.gov (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2SDSIlX004500; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:28:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from olsona@localhost) by lecserver.nci.nih.gov (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l2SDS1lb004487; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:28:01 -0400 (EDT) ... Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:27:53 -0400 From: "Olson, Arthur David \(NIH/NCI\) [E]" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov>
Word from a Washington, DC-area AOL subscriber is that their outgoing electronic mail is still being marked with "EST" time stamps that are an hour behind wall clock time. Do folks know of other high-visibility bobbles of the change in US DST rules?
There was a bobble in your message headers (look for "EST" above); does that count as high visibility? Most likely your message's bobble was because the main 'sendmail' daemon on lecserver.nci.nih.gov started running before its tz tables got patched. (The sendmail submit process on the same host knew the right time zone.) The tz database was fixed in August 2005. Do you happen to know when the patch was propagated to lecserver.nci.nih.gov, and when was its sendmail daemon last restarted?...