Sujet : Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 03. Oct 2024, 06:51:42
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 00:07:23 -0400, DFS wrote:
MS is doomed.
Remember the last time the US and NZ extended their daylight-saving time,
within a relatively short while of each other? And all the trouble those
Microsoft and Apple users had? First of all, having to wait for a software
update just to change their timezone database, and secondly having the
update play havoc with their automatic system time adjustment -- some
people had the adjustment applied twice, while others missed it
altogether?
And then there was this other time where one of the Latin American
companies decided to extended its daylight-saving time, giving only about
a month’s notice of the change. The tzdata folks had a patch available
within a few days, which Linux folks like me were immediately able to use.
Because tzdata is just data, updating it doesn’t require any code changes
like a software update does.
But then, all that might have been before your time, depending on whether
you’ve finished primary school yet.
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