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

[Dave Froble]

On 3/28/2019 3:50 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-03-28 19:20:36 +0000, Dave Froble said:
>
>> Why?
>
> I'm all for running servers in UTC, but most folks do seem to prefer to
> display the time values in their local timezone.
>
>> Why is it incumbent upon the OS vendor to have to do all the TZ stuff?
>
> Because apps expect to be able to get and display time.
>
> Because apps are increasingly being used by folks across timezones.
>
> Because operating systems are assumed to be capable of maintaining
> something approximating the local time.
>
> Because the operating system vendors variously can't get this timezone
> stuff right, and the end-users can have yet larger difficulties.
>
> Because operating systems including OpenVMS use this data to manage the
> DST switch-over.
>
>> Don't know if it works on later versions, but, on WEENDOZE XP...
>
> Any of the NT-based systems including Microsoft Windows XP and later all
> use the IANA (Olson) timezone data.  As do many (most?) other platforms.
>
> OpenVMS and Windows do both have related issues here, as both share what
> I consider a design flaw; of maintaining the system clock in local and
> not in UTC.
>
> Operating systems and related expectations are increasing in scale and
> scope, and have been for many years.  But an expectation of "proper"
> timekeeping support is a pretty old requirement.
>
>

I think you totally missed my point Steve.  Why not let it up to the 
users?  Give them a tool to set whatever they want.  You're never going 
to make everyone happy, so let them do it.

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