> Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 07:54:23 -0700
> From: eggert@cs.ucla.edu
> To: tz@iana.org
> Subject: [tz] Propagation latency to end user for 2014c tzdata
>
> In what must be a speed record for my personal desktop, the 2014c
> release of tzdata was installed at 22:13:49 UTC yesterday, which is only
> 25780 seconds (roughly 7 hours 10 minutes) after the announcement was
> sent to tz-announce at 15:05:51 UTC.
>
> I got this entirely through the normal channels by doing the software
> updates I normally do from my supplier Canonical; the desktop runs
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the current long term stable release. If I understand
> the process correctly, Debian had the patch prepared by 17:05:45 UTC
> yesterday, 7296 seconds (roughly 2 hours 3 minutes) after the
> announcement, and Ubuntu followed suit by 17:53:46 UTC yesterday, 10177
> seconds (roughly 2 hours 50 minutes) after the announcement, though I
> don't know when the prepared patches were actually published.
>
> If only our cell phones and servers were updated so quickly!