I echo this ETA request.
We need to get this patch installed next week. Or at least before 8 March 2013, when all non-patched systems will "fall" back.
We also need to let other teams have time to create patches (Apache, PHP, Java, Oracle, etc).
Cheers,
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From: Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmit@apple.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Cc: tz@iana.org, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
Date: 02/25/2013 07:27 PMSubject: Re: [tz] [PATCH] Updates for Chile 2013Sent by: tz-bounces@iana.org
Hi,
Is there an ETA for when 2013a might be released?
Thank you,
Deborah Goldsmith
On Feb 20, 2013, at 11:50 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
> On 02/20/2013 04:42 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
>> So, the patch above just assumes that the 2012/2013 strategy will continue
>> forwards
>
> Thanks, that sounds like the best guess. I'll soon send out a proposed
> patch along these lines. Along with this I'll send out some lower-priority
> patches that have been accumulating. The only other patch worth noting is
> one that will allow 24:00 as a valid UTC offset in the POSIX string at the
> end of binary version-2-format time zone files. Formerly, zic limited this
> to 23:59:59, but the 2008 edition of POSIX changed to allow 24:00 and tzfile.5
> specifies POSIX so this will fix zic to match the documented behavior.
> People who write binary tz file readers may need to adjust them accordingly.
>
> There should be 7 proposed patches total. I've updated the github experimental
> repository to contain these patches.