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Re: Removing locale timezone information
- From: "keld at keldix dot com" <keld at keldix dot com>
- To: pinskia at gmail dot com
- Cc: Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "libc-locales at sourceware dot org" <libc-locales at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 20:06:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: Removing locale timezone information
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On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 08:01:17PM +0200, pinskia@gmail.com wrote:
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> > Well, we always need to update glibc with the current stuff, that is normal
> > glibc maintenance.
> >
> > We always need to change locales if the backgrund data changes.
> > For instance if Greece gets a new currency, we need to change that in our
> > locales. I thing tz data changes are not very frequent, but I may be wrong.
> > It has not changed for most of the European countries for many years.
>
> U.S. Timezones has changed in the last ten years due to a few different things. One is an addition of a leap second. Another was to daylight savings time (summer time) start/end date. And then there was Indiana Timezone changes due to deciding to have daylight savings time.
I think the level of changes in Europe are the same, only a few in a decade.
This can easily be managed by current glibc mantenence schedule, and distributin
maintenance schedule. Actually if Olson tz data is maintained in a distribution,
it would follow a similar schedule.
Anyway, are Olson tzdata used in GNU interfaces?
Best regards
Keld