[plug] daylight savings

Richard Meyer meyerri at westnet.com.au
Thu Oct 26 09:05:26 WST 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 21:50 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> How much havoc will this cause the doze world? - because helpful
> microsoft doesnt allow you to easily override Perths daylight saving
> value because we dont have it!  Will windows update catch up?  I notice
> gentoo regularly updates their TZ stuff, so when (if) this goes through
> I think a swag of bugs on the relevant distros might be in order to make
> sure linux stays on the ball.
> 
> BillK
> 
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 21:37 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:23 +0800, Patrick Coleman wrote:
> > > On 10/25/06, Craig Foster <craig at fostware.net> wrote:
> > 
> __

I was wondering whether it'd be a good idea to send a "heads-up" to the
distro owners. While incorrect time isn't going to discommode me
immensely, I can see all sorts of problems appearing for distributed
networks.
-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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