That would be great to no have to restart each database. Anyone else do this and found that a restart is not necessary? -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Armstrong-Champ Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:32 PM To: Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR); oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle and DST changes This actually turns out not to be true. I just applied the patch to a test db without shutting down and when I ran the confirmation sql I got the updated results: SQL> select to_timestamp_tz('20070311 00:00:00 US/EASTERN','YYYYMMDD HH24:MI:SS TZR') + to_dsinterval('0 08:00:00') TEST from dual; TEST ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- 11-MAR-07 09.00.00.000000000 AM US/EASTERN (solaris 64-bit/oracle 10.1.0.4) Joe Allen, Brandon wrote: It also confirms that the timezone files are in > fact only read at startup, so a restart is necessary for the new rules > to take effect. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l