tz changes linux debian caused sync diff
hello first background the Question is last i just spent an hour trying to edit America/New_York only to find US had been changed my two hosts disagreed by 1 hr and daylight savings time but not UTC prev US section used "max". apparently (i dont' have all tz revisions) someone change the last US rule this changes assumptions made in all rules of states using US in their Rules meaning one host assumes NY follows US from (19xx) forward, so does the other: but since US chaned they are an hour off -------------------------------------- Question: why was that a good idea ? and what if new Rules file becomes incompat with my libc and i cannot zic/compile and load "new localtime assumptions" ?? it seems rediculous however i'm guessing there is a good answer
John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote:
why was that a good idea ?
You'll have to ask Congress. The U.S. daylight-saving rules were changed by H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, Section 110. Evidently one of your hosts has old tables, and you need to upgrade them to the rules that were put in place in the tz database release 2005l, dated 2005-08-22. While you're at it, I suggest updating to the current tz version (2014b).
On Mar 25, 2014, at 1:45 PM, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell <johnandsara2@cox.net> wrote:
hello
first background the Question is last
i just spent an hour trying to edit America/New_York only to find US had been changed
my two hosts disagreed by 1 hr and daylight savings time but not UTC
prev US section used "max". apparently (i dont' have all tz revisions) someone change the last US rule
No, the latest file shows US rules for 2007 through max. If you have zone data that says otherwise, you have to track down who made that change and why they did it wrong, because it wasn’t the tz project that did this. paul
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