[tz] [EXT] Re: Uruguay out of DST

[Brian Inglis]

Large client corps/orgs with a few thousand each Linux, MS, Oracle servers are not a lot faster. Dynamic online tz updates are as desirable for their stability impact as Windows updates ;^>

Dynamic online updates are really intended to allow personal clients to accept a certain downside risk and not have to think about updates. Most IT people and groups prefer stability, and while they may automatically download updates, will test and evaluate the risk before applying. Don't see a web source delta distro solving any problems or adding much value, unless vendors see enough downstream support savings to build the download and update process for the binary data, which they have not done yet. Someone may decide to build an app for that.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis


On 2015-07-14 05:32, Rich Gombert wrote:
> I do now that several years ago Oracle did not release a Java update that included the TZdata updates for a change in Timezone information until 72 hours after the change went into affect.
> Large companies like Oracle, Microsoft, etc. move as fast a Governments.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tz-bounces at iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces at iana.org] On Behalf Of Steve Allen
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 1:39 PM
> To: Time Zone Database discussion
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [tz] Uruguay out of DST
>
> On Fri 2015-07-10T10:24:49 -0700, Paul Eggert hath writ:
>> Also, there's overhead to making a release.  Even when data can be
>> 99.999% verified there is still benefit to having ten releases a year
>> instead of fifty, if ten will do.
>>
>> Downstream users of the tz database need to be reasonably prompt in
>> applying new releases anyway.  Governments sometimes decide changes
>> only a few days before they take effect, so if users care about
>> timestamps, OS release schedules simply cannot require three-month
>> delays.  This is true regardless of whether we issue a new
>> Uruguayan-related tz release this week or next week.
>
> I think we should expect that these economics and timing of timezone information authority, packaging, and distribution will change if the Time Zone Data Distribution Service (tzdist) becomes a widely implemented standard.
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tzdist/documents/
> Changing the distribution of the information from OS updates to on-demand web service may mean that the IANA efforts of this mail list, Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc.  will all have to decide how they want to fit into that new model of "publishers" and "providers".
> This current discussion about Uruguay seems to be leading toward that process.