title: DST Problem on OIM_OIF Release 3 Install link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/dst-problem-on-oim_oif-release-3-install/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 736 created: 2007/03/21 19:50:00 created_gmt: 2007/03/21 19:50:00 comment_status: open post_name: dst-problem-on-oim_oif-release-3-install status: publish post_type: post

DST Problem on OIM_OIF Release 3 Install

Last couple of days was frustrated in trying to install Oracle Identity Management Release 3 in a VM on my work machine. Since at the OS level it’s identical to my home system, I figured there’d be no problem following my expert install procedure (written during my last install on March 9 of this year).

Ha! Did 3 abortive installs, with a trip home in between to re-download and re-burn the CDs (and copy them from disk mounted inside the VM — I try to be kind to my fellow employees in the bandwidth poor sales branch I work out of), all with the result that dbconsole failed to come up during setup. On the fourth attempt I let the installer complete and then tried starting dbconsole. Clocked.

Damn. DST. Freaking H.R. 6, the “Energy Policy Act of 2005”. Signed into law on August 8, 2005. Thank you SO much 109th Congress for wasting my time and my employer’s money by changing a 20 year old standard that’s been burned into every damn computer system on the planet.

So I shut everything down, grabbed patches 5865568 and 5632264 (READ THE DIRECTIONS!), did the “opatch apply” thing for each and, of course, everything now works.

I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me why it took almost every commercial software vendor two freaking years to come out with patches incorporating the shift from April 1 to March 11 into their products, and why any of them still have bits for download — especially distribution disks — that don’t include it.

Morons.

For those of you out there who haven’t been paying attention, below I’ve spelled out what the 2007 dates for DST would have been here in the U.S., and what the law now requires.

Would be: April 1 - October 28
Is now: March 11 - November 4

So if anyone out there thought they were clever and took the short cut of just manually advancing their clocks, they’re going to be in for a surprise on April 1. And on October 28.

You have been warned.

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