[tz] [PATCH] Updates for Chile 2013

[richard_gombert at goodyear.com]

All,

Believe me I appreciate all of the work done on this.

However, my appreciation of the work and effort does not change the legal 
ramifications. Nor does it lessen the attention by the plant manager 
regional directors, production VPs, the CEO and the board. I have tried to 
explain the process to them and illustrate that ultimate responsibility 
lies with the Chilean government, However they all get glassy eyed, when I 
start talking International standards.

My true frustration is with the Chilean Ministry of Energy and the Chilean 
government as a whole (I love the country and have enjoyed all of my trips 
there). I have expressed and requested that my company express our 
displeasure with how this process works.

Thanks,

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RDE & Q - IT - Global Manufacturing D/450D
330.796.4036
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From:   <Paul_Koning at dell.com>
To:     <wollman at csail.mit.edu>, 
Cc:     tz at iana.org
Date:   03/01/2013 02:43 PM
Subject:        Re: [tz] [PATCH] Updates for Chile 2013
Sent by:        tz-bounces at iana.org




On Mar 1, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:32:37 -0500, Andrew Paprocki 
<andrew at ishiboo.com> said:
> 
>> We have a production process based around IANA releases. This process 
can
>> not depend on github snapshots. We need lead time to deploy a real IANA
>> release to thousands of boxes in a safe manner. We can do testing using
>> github, but that doesn't remove the need to get a regularly scheduled 
(as
>> in "everyone knew about the Chile changes weeks ago") update at least a
>> week in advance.
> 
> I think you and several other people on this list are being a bit too
> demanding of people who do this work without compensation in their
> spare time.  If your process requires an "official" release, then you
> need to fix your process, because the official release process is not
> ordered around your scheduling demands.

The other point is that governments announce TZ changes with anywhere from 
a year or two lead time, to negative lead time.  A day or two is quite 
common.  So, realistically, timezone database changes, whether "official" 
or prereleases, will often appear after the fact.  Such things are the 
fault of the respective governments, not of the TZ workers.

                 paul



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