DESCRIPTION

Beginning 11 March 2007, Daylight Saving Time (DST) start and end dates for the United States will transition to comply with the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Under the new law, Daylight Saving Time will begin on the second Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November, extending the timeframe by four weeks. Other countries that will also implement this change are Canada and Bermuda. Due to this DST change, operating system and application software updates may be required to ensure that the system clock on HP products is accurate.

This is not unique to HP products. All devices that automatically adjust for Daylight Saving Time, and support operating systems or software relying on a local time zone that observes DST, will be affected by the 2007 DST change.

2006		2007
US DST Start	US DST End	US DST Start	US DST End
First Sunday in April	Last Sunday in October	Second Sunday in March (3 additional weeks)	First Sunday in November (1 additional week)
2 April 2006	29 October 2006	11 March 2007	4 November 2007

For a complete listing World Wide Daylight Saving time schedule and which countries are changing DST schedules along with the US refer to http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html

Businesses and individuals whose environments are sensitive to date and time transactions and utilize a local time zone may be impacted by changes in the Daylight Saving Time rules. Some applications perform date and time manipulation and may make automatic decisions based on Daylight Saving Time rules.

This document outlines the effects of the DST change on HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE) and its related software components. Information on the US 2007 Daylight Saving Time Changes for other HP products not listed in this communication can be found at http://www.hp.com/go/dst

ISEE Impacts

HP has performed testing on HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE) and has verified that there will be no impact to the normal processing of events logged by ISEE during the DST time changes. However, there are some cases where timestamps may be displayed incorrectly in several places in the User Interface.

HP recommends customers perform a system assessment to understand what updates may still need to be installed by March 11th to allow for the correct timestamp display.

In general, ISEE clients will support the DST change, but supporting software, such as Java, and the underlying Operating systems may need patching in order for the DST changes to be properly applied.

Recommended ISEE Client Software Updates

ISEE Client Software that is impacted by the DST Change:

MS Windows ISEE Client A.03.95.500.24
- This JAVA Virtual Machine version included with this ISEE Client will not be updated. HP recommends upgrading to the latest version of ISEE, which is now an HP SIM plugin called Service Essentials Remote Support Pack.
OpenVMS for Alpha ISEE Client A.03.95.030
- A new OVMS Alpha client version will be available February 28th from
  www.hp.com/software/isee

ISEE Client Software requiring JAVA™ updates:

HP-UX on PA-RISC ISEE Client A.03.95.500.28*
Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 8.0 AS 2.1. 3.0 4.0 and ES 2.1. 3.0 4.0 ISEE Client A.03.95.500.24*
OpenVMS for Integrity ISEE Client A.03.95.032 *
Tru64 Unix 4.0F-5.1F ISEE Client A.03.95.020*

* Run the tzupdater tool to update JAVA™ immediately after installing the ISEE Client.

ISEE Client software that is not impacted by the DST change:

HP-UX on Integrity ISEE Client A.03.95.500.26
Solaris Client A.03.95.500.24
HP-UX 11.0 and 11iv 1.0 (11.11) VAEH Component 1.02.01
HP-UX 11iv2.0 (11.23 ia64) VAEH Component 1.02.02
MS Windows VAEH Component 1.02.01
Red Hat Linux 7.1 or 7.2 VAEH Component 1.02.01
HP-UX 11iv2.0 (11.23 ia64) VAEH Component 1.02.02
MS Windows VAEH Component 1.02.01
Red Hat Linux 7.1 or 7.2 VAEH Component 1.02.01

These clients will need to be restarted after JAVA™ has been updated.

Related Software Updates

The following ISEE related HP-supported software is affected by the DST rules and requires an update other than the updates described above:

Open Service Event Manager (OSEM) should be updated to version 1.4.2. This version of OSEM will be available on February 28, 2007 from
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/svctools/
WEBES should be upgraded to version 4.5.1, this version of WEBES is available from
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/svctools/
- OpenVMS users, please note: WEBES OpenVMS Alpha and Integrity users must install WEBES 4.5.1 on an ODS5 file system. If OpenVMS users do not plan to install WEBES 4.5.1 to address DST changes, timestamps on WEBES events and notifications will be off by one hour during the new periods for DST

Special Instructions for Advanced Configuration Customers

In order to ensure that your SPOP supports the latest DST changes, please contact your local HP account support team that will liaise with you on the OS and Java patches needed. However, HP strongly encourages you to upgrade to the latest SPOP version (A.04.00) to automatically benefit from the latest OS and Java software updates that will be made available to you through the ISEE Software Manager capability.

Links to Specific Operating System Updates, Patches, And Erratas

The following table provides operating system information and links to updates specific to your operating system environments.

OS/HW	Required Java version	Operating Update
HP-UX for Integrity	1.4.2-12	HP-UX - Operating System update to support 2007 US Daylight Savings Time changes Java support for HP-UX: http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/DST-US.html
HP-UX for PA-RISC	1.4.2-12	HP-UX - Operating System update to support 2007 US Daylight Savings Time changes Java support for HP-UX: http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/DST-US.html
Red Hat Linux	1.4.2-13	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 users must update the glibc errata. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 must update the tzdata errata. Errata are available at the following Red Hat URLs: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2006-0208.html Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-655.html Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-656.html General information on DST changes to Red Hat Enterprise Linux products is available at the following Red Hat URL: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_7909.shtm
OpenVMS for Alpha	1.4.2-6	The definition for changing time zones and Daylight Savings is documented in the following FAQs: http://h7100.ww7.hp.com/faq/vmsfaq.pdf http://h7100.www7.hp.com/faq/openvms_faq.html Java support for OpenVMS: http://h18012.www1.hp.com/java/alpha/
OpenVMS for Integrity	1.4.2-3	The definition for changing time zones and Daylight Savings is documented in the following FAQs: http://h7100.ww7.hp.com/faq/vmsfaq.pdf http://h7100.www7.hp.com/faq/openvms_faq.html Java support for OpenVMS: http://h18012.www1.hp.com/java/alpha/
Tru64	1.4.2-6	The definition for changing time zones and daylight savings is documented on: http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51B_HTML/ARH9FETE/CSTMZMNT.HTM Java support for Tru64: http://h18012.www1.hp.com/java/alpha/DST-US.html
Windows	Not available from Microsoft	DST update patches for the Windows Operating system: http://www.microsoft.com/kb/928388 Java support for Windows: Client that uses the Microsoft JVM are no longer supported by Microsoft and will not have a patch available. It is recommended to implement the Service Essentials Remote Support Pack solution in order to receive remote monitoring capabilities.
Solaris	1.4.2_13	DST update patches for the Sun Solaris Operating system: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102178-1 Java support for Sun Solaris: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/USDST/
Novell SUSE Linux	Independently of ISEE	Regular applications under Linux rely on the data included in the timezone package for their handling of timezones and DST. The timezone package included with the initial release of SLES 10 and SLED10 already include the newer DST rules, so no patch is needed for these products. DST updates are included in Version 2.3.3-98.61 for SLES 9, NLD 9 and OES/Linux, available as Patch-10738, Recommended update for glibc, at the Novell patches website: http://support.novell.com/patches.html DST updates are included in Version 2.2.5-235 for SLES8, available as Patch- 10905, Recommended update for glibc, at the Novell patches website: http://support.novell.com/patches.html
VMware ESX	Independently of ISEE	For VMware ESX, the DST changes are documented at the VMWare Support site: http://kb.vmware.com/vmtnkb/supportcentral/supportcentral.do?id=m1 . Search for document number 8695824.
SCO UnixWare	Independently of ISEE	For UnixWare 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, the DST changes are recorded at the SCO Knowledge Center: http://wdb1.sco.com/kb/search . Search for document number 110564. For UnixWare 7.1.3, apply Patch ptf9008a (or later), the UnixWare 7.1.3 Timezone Rules Update and ptf9009a, the UnixWare 7.1.3 C Library Update for New Timezone Rule, available at the following UnixWare URL: http://www.sco.com/support/update/download/uw713list.html For UnixWare 7.1.4, apply Patch ptf9052e (or later), available at the following UnixWare URL: http://www.sco.com/support/update/download/uw714list.html
Novell NetWare	Independently of ISEE	Novell NetWare 6.0 or 6.5 require a patch, Daylight Saving Time Adjustment Tool for NetWare Servers at the Novell Support URL: http://www.novell.com/support/supportcentral/supportcentral.do?id=m1 . Search for document number 3094409.