[mythtvnz] Fw: Listings 1hour out of whack

[Scott Walsh]

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> If the maintainers are committed to the timezone system they have at
> present, then they have to ensure that the timezone updates are done
> as soon as the new daylight saving setups become law.  Our changes
> were officially announced on 30-Apr-07.  Instead, they seem to wait
> until there is little time left, perhaps thinking that there might be
> further changes.  So there ends up being little leeway for any of the
> inevitable problems to be worked out.  Microsoft seems to be just as
> bad - at work the IT people had real problems ensuring that the server
> end of things worked properly, and they really only had less than a
> month to work on it.  I doubt it will be any better for AU changes,
> unless the Aussies do it for themselves.


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.

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.

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).



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Scott Walsh
http://zone3.net.nz/
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