On Monday 2013-09-23 13:07 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
A couple of weeks ago there were widespread reports of problems in the tz database's updates getting propagated to end users in Israel. Many cellphones running Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Symbian were still based on tz release 2012g or earlier, i.e., they had not updated even to tz release 2012h (2012-10-26), much less to the current rules for Israel as per tz release 2013d (2013-07-05).
It also seems odd that these phones didn't have their time adjusted as a result of receiving NITZ messages from cell towers with the correct UTC offset. I thought that using time and timezone information from the cell network was the typical default configuration on smartphones (which makes having an up-to-date timezone database less critical). Are there carriers in Israel that don't broadcast date and offset information from their cell towers? Or were the carriers broadcasting incorrect data? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NITZ doesn't have information on Israeli carriers, but it also suggests that there are substantial numbers of mobile networks that don't provide timezone information. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)