Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] escribió el 31/03/10 15:47:
From: Carlos Raúl Perasso [crperasso@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:32 PM To: olsona@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Proposal to the Paraguayan Government
Hi Olson...
I would like to know, considering the tz datebase update procedure and the frequency at which mayor Linux distros, Java, Oracle and so on replicate this updates, how many days do you think there should be between a rule change and the next date it affects.
Hola Carlos, as Paul Koning says, one year is a good start... personally, given the recent history of Argentina, I'd say 4 or 5 months would rock, and anything longer than a week would be fine... :-( The time it takes from a reasonably confirmed published source until it appears in tzdata is usually a couple of weeks or less, then, it is in the hands of distributors.
From my own (little) experience, debian takes a couple of weeks or so and ubuntu sometimes less if there's someone who cares to file a bug and follow it hardly... The last change to Argentina data that was made last October and was announced on Friday 16th and to be applied at 0:00 Sunday 18th (yes, less that 48 hours of time).
tzdata2009p reflecting those changes appeared on Monday 26th (less than 2 weeks) but the ubuntu maintainer somehow trusted me and Margarita Manterola (who is a debian maintainer) and applied the patch she made to ubuntu-updates on Saturday 17th (right on time if you had automatic updates applied daily). However this is hardly the norm (and most concious sysadmin wouldn't apply updates automatically... I don't). If you have ANY kind of influence with the people responsible for deciding on timezone issues within Paraguay, please try to convince them to decide and publish Laws or Decrees at least 6 months in advance of the date they have to be applied. Saludos. -- Mariano Absatz - "El Baby" baby@baby.com.ar www.clueless.com.ar -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never drink & derive -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * TagZilla 0.066 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org