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Daylight Savings Time Change for Western Australia

Details

On November 20, 2006, a bill was passed which introduced daylight saving from December 3 for a three-year trial, to be followed by a referendum in 2009 for Western Australia.

Solution

To accommodate this bill, the time zone file for Perth has been revised and is available for all servers that are in this time zone.

To install and configure the new time zone file

Download the attachment below and save it as Perth.tgz. Copy the file to the ESX Server host and put it in the /tmp folder.
Validate the md5sum:

[root@esxhost]# md5sum Perth.tgz

The output should match the following:

16edc879f5419f9532029d799cd9939c Perth.tgz
As root, extract the tar file:

[root@esxhost]# tar zxvf Perth.tgz
Execute the PerthDST-2006.sh script to put the new time zone file in place:

[root@esxhost]# ./PerthDST-2006.sh
Set the hardware clock to the system time by executing:

[root@esxhost]# hwclock --systohc
Make a backup copy of the /etc/sysconfig/clock file:

[root@esxhost]# cp -p /etc/sysconfig/clock /etc/sysconfig/clock.orig
Using your favorite text editor, modify the first line of the /etc/sysconfig/clock file to the following:

ZONE="Australia/PerthDST"

On December 3rd, 2006 at 2AM, the system clock will be adjusted automatically to be one hour ahead, 3AM WDT.

This is a temporary workaround until a permanent fix is integrated into the upcoming patch and update for ESX 2.x and 3.x.

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PerthDST.TGZ

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KB Article: 3831504
Updated: Aug 14, 2009

Products:
VMware ESX
Product Versions:
VMware ESX 2.0.x
VMware ESX 2.1.x
VMware ESX 2.5.x
VMware ESX 3.0.x

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