El 6 Nov 2002 a las 11:06, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) escribió:
Pulu 'Anau has been added to the time zone mailing list at Pulu's request. This message arrived before Pulu's addition to the list.
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-----Original Message----- From: Pulu 'Anau [mailto:pulu@infotech.afe.to] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:43 PM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Tonga Daylight Savings Time ENDS...
Hi,
I'm a system administrator in a country that thinks it's funny to constantly play around with the time. To keep the story short, Tonga Hi Pulu... welcome to the club :-P
Tonga's government is not alone in the world changing DSTs... there are a bunch of them (including mine in Argentina) that every now and then go crazy about it... Brasil changed the date this year because of a second round in the elections... you're not alone :-)
decided to create daylight savings time to get a jump on everyone for the new millenium. The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. Unfortunately, a good number of the systems I maintain (Debian Linux and OpenBSD) would like to believe the government here is reasonable and doesn't play around with stuff like this. Ha! Distros are usually somehow behind elsie... the most current files are allways at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ as tzdata*.tar.gz...
Anyway, when they implemented daylight savings it took me a few hours to find the zone files and recompile them, and I don't think the changes were officially reflected (at least in Debian) for about a year. I don't really know where else to report this, but considering the vast amount of history that's already available in the data files, I hope this mailing list will work. I've modified the australasia file from the data file as below. I'm not a zic expert so I hope it's appropriate. It fixed the issue here, anyway. Also, in the compiled file that was pre-existing on this system (Debian 3.0), the file for Tongatapu had a bunch of junk in it, basically a help file for vi and some other binary data after the zoneinfo... I don't know if it's a debian thing or not, I'm not near the openbsd machines to take a look at them... Just FYI...
Surely Paul Eggert will have a saying about your data.
If this file is going to explode on me at some later date, I'd really appreciate if someone could write back and let me know. Some of my
Keeping in touch with this list is allways a good idea, and providing local info about DST in the countries you know about, better yet, you provide help for the rest of us...
customers rely on this information to do some dialup internet/mail stuff, and explaining they ought to complain to the government doesn't work because most of them are the government. :-D
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