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Re: British Columbia Daylight Saving Time

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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> In Debian, the time zone information is packaged in the tzdata package,
> and the maintainers have a whole workflow for updating it in all
> supported versions of Debian when there are legal changes to time zone
> rules or boundaries. All other software on the system should ideally
> then use the system tzdata for time zone information, although in some
> cases there are other packages that also have to be updated for
> different languages.

I should also have mentioned that, although the details haven't been
finalized yet, if your systems are set to the America/Los_Angeles time
zone, you will probably have to change them to the America/Vancouver time
zone.

Both time zones already exist since Vancouver has diverged from Los
Angeles in time keeping since 1970, and hopefully most folks in BC have
already been using America/Vancouver. But given how stable the US and
Canada time zones have been recently, outside of a few special cases,
sometimes people in "Pacific Time" will just blindly select
America/Los_Angeles, possibly through some intermediate tool that gives it
some older name like "Pacific" or "PST8PDT" or whatnot. Those folks won't
see the updated rules until they move their system to America/Vancouver.

You can do that with dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and then select Americas and
then Vancouver.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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