Removing locale timezone information
keld@keldix.com
keld@keldix.com
Sun Aug 9 14:52:00 GMT 2015
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 08:45:24PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 06 Aug 2015 19:52, keld@keldix.com wrote:
> > 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.
>
> across the world, there are usually multiple changes every year. sometimes
> with very short notice (weeks or even days). simply read the history of the
> tzdata package if you want data. distros updating the timezone database and
> porting it back to older releases is trivial. patching & pushing glibc
> updates are not.
Well, I don't se why there is a big difference, but maybe you can tell me.
best regards
keld
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