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Ah. I missed that while skimming through the page. I was primarily responding to the statement made that "they are also called “time zones” in casual conversati
by wang_li 10y ago
Ah. I missed that while skimming through the page. I was primarily responding to the statement made that "they are also called “time zones” in casual conversation." They are time zones in the official sense of the word.
Speaking as if the Olson tz database is authoritative and official reminds me of when some small country cancelled summer time with only a few days notice and our OS vendors were not going to be putting out a patch in time. While explaining the process of downloading the Olson tz database and updating systems manually, a coworker asked who gave them (the country's government) permission to cancel DST. It took longer than it should have for me to come up with an explanation that sovereign countries don't need permission from the Internet or OS vendors to change their laws and regulations. The computers track the government actions, not the other way around.
- zigg 10y agoWhile you're right that countries don't need permission to change their timekeeping, they should be fully informed of the technical trouble they're creating when they make changes.
- kps 10y ago> some small country cancelled summer time with only a few days notice Egypt just did that. - In April, Egypt announced daylight time would start July 7. http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/204655/Egypt/0/Daylight-savings-time-in-Egypt-postponed-to--July.aspx http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/204655/Egypt/0/D... - On June 30, Egypt decided daylight time would start July 5. http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/232199/Egypt/Politics-/Daylight-savings-time-to-start-on--July-Minister.aspx http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/232199/Egypt/Po... - On July 4, Egypt decided not to have daylight time. http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/232478/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-cabinet-abolishes-daylight-saving-time.aspx http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/232478/Egypt/Po...