RE: ALERT - Potentially Serious Problem with DST Patches for New Timezones

Yes! That's what I'm trying to alert everyone about. The new utltzuv2
(even with the latest timezdif.csv file) incorrectly fails to report
these new timezones because they weren't included in timezdif.csv. Please see all my earlier posts on this subject for more detail
(including my original post under the slightly different and misleading
subject "ALERT - Potentially Serious Problem with DST Patches for PST8PDT Timezone". I have been told that the Oracle Development team is working fast to get something posted about this on Metalink, but I have not been given a note number yet. As soon as they tell me it's been posted, I'll post it to this list.

Also, there is a key difference with these new timezones and the others that have DST changes in 2007. Data with these new timezones must be backed-up and restored regardless of the timeframe (so I've been told). I'm still in the process of testing to see exactly what happens if they are not backed-up and restored before upgrading the tz files.

Regards,
Brandon

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Armstrong-Champ [mailto:joseph.armstrong-champ_at_tufts.edu] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 9:31 AM
To: Allen, Brandon
Cc: oracle-l-freelists
Subject: Re: ALERT - Potentially Serious Problem with DST Patches for New Timezones

Brandon,

Do you know whether utltzuv2 incorrectly reported the presence/absence of data because of this error?

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