Chile time changed early?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-time-is-it-in-chile-theres-no-telling-14630... Since the change isn't scheduled until Sunday, the only way I can think that this happened is that the cell towers were updated prematurely. Can anyone confirm or comment? -Matt
On 05/12/2016 03:02 PM, Matt Johnson wrote:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-time-is-it-in-chile-theres-no-telling-14630...
... the only way I can think that this happened is that the cell towers were updated prematurely.
More likely, people are using phones with older Android releases that have obsolete time zone data. A device based on tz2014j or earlier should exhibit the bugs mentioned in the WSJ article. Although I don't know how to map tz release numbers to Android release numbers, patches such as this one: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore/+/android-cts-5.0_r4 indicate that Google was laboring as late as December 2015 to push tz2015a through its delivery pipeline, and undoubtedly many Android phones run software older than that. Plus, many people don't update their phones at all. Ironically, just today I gave a lecture on how to shorten cycle times in software pipelines when doing continuous delivery. Perhaps I should follow up next week using tzdata as a case study....
More likely, people are using phones with older Android releases that have obsolete time zone data. A device based on tz2014j or earlier should exhibit the bugs mentioned in the WSJ article.
Yes, that makes sense. I guess I just wasn't thinking about unpatched devices, especially for ones that old.
Perhaps I should follow up next week using tzdata as a case study....
That would be fascinating! Thanks, Matt
On May 13, 2016, at 12:28 AM, Matt Johnson <mj1856@hotmail.com> wrote:
More likely, people are using phones with older Android releases that have obsolete time zone data. A device based on tz2014j or earlier should exhibit the bugs mentioned in the WSJ article.
Yes, that makes sense. I guess I just wasn't thinking about unpatched devices, especially for ones that old.
Perhaps I should follow up next week using tzdata as a case study....
That would be fascinating!
What was great about that article is that it clearly lays the blame where it belongs: with the authorities who tinker with the rules over and over, changing them at the last minute. Perhaps this sort of bad publicity will make a few of them make adjustments to their bad practices. paul
Perhaps this sort of bad publicity will make a few of them make adjustments to their bad practices.
Perhaps. I'm all about educating folks. But then again, the colloquialism "you can't fix stupid" certainly applies. I hope that over time, the state of our technology will improved to be resilient to these sort of human behaviors. :) -Matt
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