I will fix unix linux server and platform timezone issues for bc pct transition

Canada

I speak English

Senior Linux, Platform and Devops Engineer

Senior Linux, Platform & DevOps Engineer with 25+ years experience designing, deploying, administering, and troubleshooting UNIX/Linux, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and hybrid infrastructure environments. E...
About this Gig

Is your infrastructure ready for British Columbia's shift to permanent Pacific Time (PCT)?


Many older or unpatched Linux/Unix systems still treat the upcoming date as a standard "fall back" to PST (UTC-08:00). If your servers roll back their clocks automatically, it will result in corrupted database timestamps, misaligned application cron jobs, desynchronized server logs, and broken calendar API's.


As an experienced systems administrator, I will audit, patch and transition your environment to the new permanent year round time offset seamlessly.


What this service covers:

  • System Level updates: Upgrading the OS timezone compiler and tzdata databases to recognize the permenant UTC-07:00 shift)
  • Database Hardening: Ensuring MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MongoDB correctly logs timestamps without an artificial 1-hour jump
  • Task Scheduling and Crontabs: Re-verifying and correcting scheduled system automation tasks so your workflows run at the correct hour
  • Cloud environment alignment: Patching instances across AWS EC2, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud (GCP), and Azure
  • Application Layer Adjustments: Updating local configurations for backend environments like PHP, Node.js, Python, and Java

Server:

Apache HTTP

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Virtual private server

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Database server

Operating system:

Linux

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Unix