[Info-vax] EU will abandon daylight savings time in 2021

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-04-01 09:35:54 +0000, Ian Miller said:

> It's nice that people here are catching up with this discussion which 
> has been going on for quite some time unofficially outside of EU 
> organisations and officially within the EU organisations. The decision 
> has been made so what is now needed is country level decisions and then 
> implementation. I hope VSI pick up the new time zone files and update 
> the new rule promptly when this is defined. I wonder if HPE will issue 
> a patch - I suspect they won't. The HPE OpenVMS rule can be updated by 
> each customer. Something to look forward to doing next year and the 
> year after.

The Heisei Era is ending, and the Reiwa era commences on 1-May-2019.  
(Whether that's 1-May local time or 1-May UTC, I've not confirmed.)

There are changes happening several times a year, and variously more often.

It's rare to hear about TZ changes else-planet.  Including among 
customers, when folks are (knowingly or otherwise) running 
planetary-scale apps.

Get on the mailing list for the TZ changes, whether it's (some) of us 
making the TZ changes across our respective systems, or it's VSI 
learning to better integrate with upstream providers, and preferably 
becoming better at rolling out patches and updates.

As for HPE?  They're exiting the OpenVMS business.  It'd be nice if 
they rolled out a final V8.4 UPDATE kit toward the end of 2020 with the 
end of new-patches support.  But I wouldn't bet on that happening.





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