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ESX Server 3.0.0, Patch ESX-4969507: Time Zone Update Mechanism and Time Zone Rules Update

Details

Resolved Issues

This patch enhances the mechanism for time zone updates to ensure updated time zone rules are reflected in /etc/localtime .

This patch also provides the following updated time zone rules:

  • Pulaski County, Indiana, is switching from CST/CDT to EST/EDT on 3/11/07
  • Turkey switches at 01:00 standard time, not at 01:00 UTC
  • Updated Bahamas time zone with 2007 US DST change compliance
  • Added new zone Australia/Eucla
  • Atlantic/Faeroe time zone is renamed to Atlantic/Faroe
  • Latitude/longitude changes for Europe/Jersey and Europe/Podgorica
    Note: Europe/Jersey and Europe/Podgorica time zones no longer observe daylight savings; the DST roll-forward on 3/25/07 and roll-back on 10/28/07 rules have been removed
  • Cuba has ended its three years of permanent DST
    Note: The rule governing the time change occurring on 10/28/07 has been removed

Solution

Applicability

This patch is for ESX Server 3.0.0 only. For the related patch for ESX Server 3.0.1, please refer to http://kb.vmware.com/kb/7281356.

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows:

  1. Download patch ESX-4969507 from http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches.html.
  2. Log into the ESX Server service console as root.
  3. Create a local depot directory.

    # mkdir -p /var/updates

    Note: VMware recommends that you use the updates directory.

  4. Change your working directory to /var/updates.

    # cd /var/updates

  5. Download the tar file into the /var/updates directory.
  6. Verify the integrity of the downloaded tar file.

    # md5sum ESX-4969507.tgz

    The md5 checksum output should match the following:

    89c232120f91721db24717bcce000dc5 ESX-4969507.tgz

  7. Extract the compressed tar archive.

    # tar -xvzf ESX-4969507.tgz

  8. Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-4969507.

    # cd ESX-4969507

Installation Instructions

Note: All virtual machines on the host must be either shut down or migrated using VMotion before applying the patch. A reboot of the ESX Server host is required after applying this patch.
 
After you have downloaded and extracted the archive, and if you are in the directory you created above, install the update using the following command:

# esxupdate update

If you want to run esxupdate from a different directory, you must specify the bundle path in the command:

# esxupdate -r file://<directory>/ESX-4969507 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate –r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-4969507 update

During the update process, logs appear on the terminal. You can specify the verbosity of esxupdate logs by using the -v option as shown below:

# esxupdate -v 10 -r file://<directory>/ESX-4969507 update

For more information on using esxupdate, please refer to the Patch Management for ESX Server 3 tech note at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_esxupdate.pdf.

Keywords

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