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This year, Daylight Savings Time starts three weeks early—here's what you need to know
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires that this year, Daily Savings Time starts on March 11 and ends on November 4. This may require special patches or other steps for Oracle databases, clients, and applications.
New update
Sun notified us on Friday, March 9 via Sun Alert 102836 that there is an error in their DST patch for one of the previously released versions of the JDK. This error may affect Oracle Database customers on version 10.1 of the database (no other versions are impacted), who have installed the DST Oracle JVM patch; and all Application Server JDK users. In both situations, you are only impacted if you use Hawaiian, Mountain or Eastern time zones using the three letter acronym for the time zone, such as HST, MST, or EST. The likely impact is that any dates may be out by 1 hour for the period between the new start of DST and the previous start of DST.
If you think this is likely to cause a problem, you can easily resolve it. Database users should check note 418617.1 on metalink.oracle.com, while Application Server JDK users should check note 418702.1 on metalink.oracle.com, for instructions as how to resolve this problem.
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