Daylight saving time has been extended. Effective this year it’s starting on March 11 and ending November 4. This means lots and lots of patching. For the most part it’s only the OS that needs to be patched. But there are a few applications out there, notably Java, that don’t make standard system calls to manipulate dates and times. At first I didn’t think this was a big deal. However, how many different databases embed JVM’s in them as a stored procedure language? Oracle, Informix, and DB2 come to mind. What other apps am I missing?

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