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

[Dave Froble]

On 4/1/2019 10:00 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.

I have to ask, Why?

Anyone using current VMS should be on a VSI version.  And VSI support.


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