[tz] Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last

[Petr Machata]

"Dan Abitbol" <dabitbol at streamwide.com> writes:

> Sorry to disturb again but as you know Morocco have new DST rules and
> first change is scheduled on 25 March 15, 2012-03-15 Do you plan to
> release 2012c that takes into account these new rules for Morocco
> soon?
>
> We really need them to get Red Hat publish new tzdata rpm and PHP Pecl
> to publish new timezone db extension from your official files And then
> we need to update more than 40 machines at one of our customers in
> Morocco

An update with the Morocco changes is in the making for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux in particular.

About the PHP extension, are you talking about "timezonedb"?  They write
that "you should only install this extension in case you need to get a
later version of the timezone database than the one that ships with
PHP".  I believe that on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in particular, PHP is
patched to use system-wide tzdata.  If that is not the case, it would be
worthy of a bug report.  Of course, if you are using a different
operating system, that may not apply to you.

Thank you,
PM