Originally posted by: hdkutz

Hello,
i have a problem with time switch from Winter to Summertime and vice versa.
The Switch works as expected!
Some Processes, e.g. sendmail, work normally on, but they do not realize the time switch.
If I restart them, they work as expected, without this restart, mails send from these sendmail-Daemons live one hour behind (before when vice versa).

Is it advising to restart such Daemons to get the new Time Environment?

This is AIX 5.2 TL 10, 5.3 TL 07.

Cheers,
ku
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Originally posted by: chrissmith

Hi ku

If you are using the TZ variable with a DST offset you should not need to restart any processes.
If you are manually changing the time or TZ string then yes you will need to restart any time sensitive processes

Managing the Time Zone Variable
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1000252

Regards Chris
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Originally posted by: hdkutz

Hmm,
my TZ-Var looks like this:
<snip>
/home/user> cat /etc/environment |grep TZ
TZ=MEZ-1MST-2,M3.5.0/02:00:00,M10.5.0/03:00:00
<snip>
TZ-Setting for Germany.

Cheers,
ku
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