Saturday, April 12, 2008

DAC Schedule impacted by Daylight Saving time (DST)

DAC Schedule may be impacted by the Daylight Saving Time (DST) if the JRE used is not DST patched. DAC Server uses the JRE and if the JRE used does not have the DST fix, DAC schedule will be impacted when the time change.

You need to check if the JRE used has the DST fix. Sun Microsystem provide the Timezone updater tool (tzupdater.jar) to update the Timezone data in JDK/JRE installed on the Server. More information regarding the Timezone updater tool can be found at http://java.sun.com/javase/tzupdater_README.html. Download the Timezone updater from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp#timezone and run it to update the timezone data.

The usage of the TZUpdater tool is as follows

java -jar tzupdater.jar options

Where options are

-t - Run verification test. Use this option to test if the JDK/JRE is up to date with the Timezone data

-u - Update the timezone data. If the verification failed when option -t used, use -u to update the JDK/JRE.

1 comment:

विवेक said...

Hi, I am observing one strange thing in DAC since DST ended. Till Nov 01, 2009 I was getting the email notification from DAC but since Nov 02, 2009 I am not receiving email notification. All jobs run with proper changed DST timing only email stopped working. I haven't made any changes to the email settings and also nothing changed on server side. Could you please help?