Announcement: IBM WebSphere Application Server and the new U.S. Daylight Saving Time (DST) default date changes starting in 2007
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Abstract
The following information is about the new Daylight Saving Time start and stop times going into affect in 2007 for the *U.S., and any APARs, maintenance, or actions that will be required to address this issue possibly relative to IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.
 
Content
The U.S. Government passed a law (Energy Policy Act) which alters the Daylight Saving Time (DST) start and stop dates by four weeks. Extended Daylight Saving Time will begin in March of 2007. Due to this change, APARs, maintenance, or actions will be required for several IBM software products that work in association with IBM WebSphere Application Server.

The *U.S. official DST changes will be:
  • Start Date: Second Sunday of March.
  • End Date: First Sunday of November.

IBM SDK
IBM Software Development Kit (SDK®) development is addressing this issue in future SDK service releases during 2006:
  • IBM SDK development is estimating availability of this fix in the following SDK service releases:
  • SDK 1.3.1 SR10 (Q3 2006)
  • SDK 1.4.2 SR5 (Q2 2006)
  • SDK 5.0 SR2 (Q2 2006)
  • Currently there are no related WebSphere® Application Server fix packs available to address this issue. These fixes will be included only in the preceding SDK service releases and will not be available as individual fixes to your current SDK releases.

IBM AIX®
AIX development will be releasing APARs to change the current IBM AIX behavior.

The IBM AIX APARs are the following:
  • APAR_aix_53 = IY75211
  • APAR_aix_52 = IY75213
  • APAR_aix_51 = IY75214
  • Currently no related PTFs are available.
 
 
Cross Reference information
Segment Product Component Platform Version Edition
Application Servers WebSphere Application Server - Express
Application Servers WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
 
 


Document Information


Product categories: Software > Application Servers > Distributed Application & Web Servers > WebSphere Application Server > General
Operating system(s): z/OS
Software version: 6.0
Software edition:
Reference #: 1219396
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: Feb 20, 2006