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Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject	Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?
Date	2024-10-03 15:40 +0000
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 05:51 this Thursday (GMT):
> 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.


Weird. Wouldn't it just adjust the UTC time it gets from the NTP server?
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Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-10-01 08:26 -0400
  Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-01 18:31 +0000
    Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-10-01 18:05 -0400
    Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-02 02:59 +0000
      Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-10-01 23:01 -0400
        Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-02 03:51 +0000
      Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2024-10-02 00:07 -0400
        Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-10-02 04:49 +0000
        Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-03 05:51 +0000
          Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-03 15:40 +0000
            Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-10-03 16:15 +0000
            Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-10-04 21:06 +0000
              Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-05 01:24 +0000
                Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-10-05 10:34 +0000

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