[tz] Uruguay out of DST

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Thu Jul 9 17:24:22 UTC 2015


<<On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 17:17:15 +0000, Chris Erskine <chris at cerskine.com> said:

> Actually, there are reasons to put this out as soon as you can.  If
> I schedule something today that occurs when the change occurs, then
> my data will be out of sync.  Some organizations will be dependent
> on future times and need the data update ASAP.  These type of
> organizations will try to turn around changes quickly.  Other
> organizations may not care as much so they will not push to get the
> update.

Of course, those organizations aren't stuck with just released
versions of tzdata, either.  The countervailing argument is that, for
people who are distributing content derived from tzdata, it would be
helpful to batch up changes so that they need not run through their
release/QA cycles multiple times for changes that will affect only a
small number of customers.

-GAWollman



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