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If the maintainers are committed to the timezone system they have at<br>
present, then they have to ensure that the timezone updates are done<br>
as soon as the new daylight saving setups become law. Our changes<br>
were officially announced on 30-Apr-07. Instead, they seem to wait<br>
until there is little time left, perhaps thinking that there might be<br>
further changes. So there ends up being little leeway for any of
the<br>
inevitable problems to be worked out. Microsoft seems to be just
as<br>
bad - at work the IT people had real problems ensuring that the server<br>
end of things worked properly, and they really only had less than a<br>
month to work on it. I doubt it will be any better for AU changes,<br>
unless the Aussies do it for themselves.</font></tt></blockquote><div><br>Ideally a distro would have the patches available for testing as soon as possible to give the users as much time as possible for testing.<br><br>Working for an integration company and having gone through this with a wide range of systems, linux based systems are at the better end of the scale. Even if the distro doesn't release the patch in a timely manner, being open it is at least solvable able.
<br><br>This is better than some companies that have an answer of 'we don't support daylight saving in the southern hemisphere' (and that even was before this years changes). <br></div><br></div><br><br>---<br>
Scott Walsh<br><a href="http://zone3.net.nz/">http://zone3.net.nz/</a><br><br>