April 11, 2013
4:26 p.m.
I think you are correct that a lot of the est/cst website hits during daylight time are actually caused by the use of tz data on those sites. So, oddly, tz itself may be one of the major hidden factors that has prevented its own update - which doesn't quite seem right. On 2013-04-11 6:43, John Hawkinson wrote:
there is a massive effect from the deployment of the tz database that is nearly impossible to control for.
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