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

[pcoviello at gmail.com]

On Monday, April 1, 2019 at 11:22:27 AM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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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I have to ask why one would not be using NST for the time anyways?  would this not solve this issue?  or did I miss something?