DST - its 20070215 and the patches are still in flux.
- From: "Paul Drake" <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:58:05 -0500
I checked in on *Note:397281.1 again today and found that *Patch 5632264 has
changed.
I don't get this.
Some people only get downtime windows once a month and have to test these
patches out prior to applying them to production.
So at what point is Oracle going to say "Ok. That's it. We're done. No more
changes to DST patches. Go with it."
Today is Feb 15th. The time change occurs on March 11th.*
This act was passed in the year 2005.
*The Canadian changes were not made in the calendar year 2005. Ok. I don't
know when such changes were made. What I do know is that there is just over
3 weeks remaining until showtime and the script isn't written yet.
*"*The Canadian changes are only available in the the more recent version-4.
This version-4 of the time zone files is available through a one-off patch
for bug 5632264 <http://updates.oracle.com/download/5632264.html>,"
Granted:
"If you do not use any of the time zones that are updated in version-4 of
the time zone files there is no need to specifically apply this, and you can
just use version-3, which is more widely available at this moment."
I didn't take the course whereby I get to predict future usage patterns of
an application.
So I guess that I take today's patch with version-4 time zones for
10.1.0.4and run with it (and hope that it doesn't change again).
No version-5, please. No updates. Thanks.
Paul
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