[tz] Kazakhstan to shift from UTC+6 to UTC+5

[Tim Parenti]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 03:19, Andrey.Kazakevich at erg.kz <
Andrey.Kazakevich at erg.kz> wrote:

> Does it mean that we don’t need to do TZ changes on our local corporate
> servers if they are using Asia/Almaty TZ at this time?
>

I'm not sure I'm understanding the question.  At a minimum, your servers
will need to take whatever time zone definition updates are available to
them, and you'll want to ensure that those using tzdb have got at least
version 2024a.

It may take a while longer until those updates are ready for any given
system, though.  A tz release like yesterday's is just an initial step in a
distribution process that involves various vendors of operating systems,
programming libraries, and telecommunications infrastructure, all
repackaging our release for use within their own respective ecosystems.
Depending on what your servers are doing, you may need updates from any or
all of these sources which are all downstream of us.  This is why we
typically recommend several months' notice in advance of time zone changes
whenever possible.

And as a reminder, Microsoft uses a completely separate process from us for
disseminating time zone updates to Windows devices.  So if your servers are
Windows servers, we can't really help other than to point again to
"(UTC+05:00) Ashgabat, Tashkent" as a potential workaround.

--
Tim Parenti

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