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Shows incorrect time for Chile. DST isn't until April 28th. http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/chile-longer-dst-2012.html http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time

• apaprocki 15y ago
  It means that they didn't apply the latest tzdata2012a or b update released the first week of March which contained the America/Santiago zone change.
  • phillmv 15y ago
    Time is a surprisingly difficult subject to get right.
    • apaprocki 15y ago
      Governments are free to change timezone rules at will with no real advance notice. Case-in-point, tzdata2012b was just published a few days ago and already on the tz mailing list Morocco's DST date is changing and Haiti apparently changed as well. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that most systems rely on OS tzdata instead of shipping it themselves, yet in many places the administration of the OS is separated / walled off from the devs who maintain the apps which actually suffer from the bugs. I feel bad for users who live in countries whose governments play with DST law on a whim, because they are certainly destined to encounter bugs throughout the Internet because it isn't always reasonable to ask all administrators around the globe to patch all production systems in a matter of a few days.
• time_is 15y ago
  Thanks, we have corrected this now. :)