Hi All,
I guess this is a political question rather than technical.
New Zealand is probably extending daylight saving time with a bill currently being drafted. It will (most likely) change the end data of dst by pushing it out ~3 weeks.
My question; AFAIK CentOS/whitebox/et. al. should not make any changes to tzdata - it is an upstream issue, but how do we ensure that 'upstream' find out about things like this?
Regards,
MrKiwi.
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:36:48 +1300 MrKiwi mrkiwi@gmail.com took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:
Hi All,
I guess this is a political question rather than technical.
New Zealand is probably extending daylight saving time with a bill currently being drafted. It will (most likely) change the end data of dst by pushing it out ~3 weeks.
My question; AFAIK CentOS/whitebox/et. al. should not make any changes to tzdata - it is an upstream issue, but how do we ensure that 'upstream' find out about things like this?
Regards,
MrKiwi.
If I'm not mistaken a change like that would be be a bug filed under the appropriate upstream maintainer. Possibly that would fall under feature request, since I don't think it's really a bug per se. I could be very mistaken on what type of bug you'd file in this case.
HTH
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:36:48PM +1300, MrKiwi wrote:
I guess this is a political question rather than technical. New Zealand is probably extending daylight saving time with a bill currently being drafted. It will (most likely) change the end data of dst by pushing it out ~3 weeks. My question; AFAIK CentOS/whitebox/et. al. should not make any changes to tzdata - it is an upstream issue, but how do we ensure that 'upstream' find out about things like this?
File in upstream bugzilla. But actually, they're generally really on top of this.
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:36:48PM +1300, MrKiwi wrote:
I guess this is a political question rather than technical. New Zealand is probably extending daylight saving time with a bill currently being drafted. It will (most likely) change the end data of dst by pushing it out ~3 weeks. My question; AFAIK CentOS/whitebox/et. al. should not make any changes to tzdata - it is an upstream issue, but how do we ensure that 'upstream' find out about things like this?
File in upstream bugzilla. But actually, they're generally really on top of this.
The underlying data isn't distribution or even Linux specific.
There's probably more than you want to know here: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
Les Mikesell wrote:
File in upstream bugzilla. But actually, they're generally really on top of this.
The bug report would be safe, but RH did have the fix out for Western Australia before DST was implemented two or threee weeks after the enabling legislation.
My guess is that "upstream" is on top of it any all the distros need to is keep an eye on that.
The underlying data isn't distribution or even Linux specific.
I "fixed" my powerbook by copying /etc/localtime from a nahant-clone system.
It takes instantly, but applications may need to be restarted. I alerted KDE by changing to a different timezone (I had chosen to monitor Greece for the Olympics) and back.
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