On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Guy Harris wrote:
I wonder why the cellphones' copies of the tz database are not being updated?
Perhaps there isn't an over-the-air automatic "update the tzdb" mechanism separate from the regular "update the OS" mechanism.
This seems to have been the case. Following a warning message I sent at the end of August to Israel's Inter-University Computation Center mailing list warning that systems with timezone files that hadn't been updated after June (or at least after last November) would switch over to Standard Time seven weeks early on September 8, cellphone companies sent the following (or similar) SMS to all their customers (translated from the Hebrew original): Dear Customer, To avoid disruptions of the clock and event calendar of your device between 8/9 and 27/10 due to the changeover to winter time, go to Definitions->Time-and-Date and disable the automatic update option and change the timezone to Athens, Greece. For assistance, go to the URL etc. Even though Greece will change its clocks two hours later than Israel, I suppose it's better than seven weeks early ... _____________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Phone/Fax number: +972-2-5494521