[tz] Last weekend's daylight-saving confusion in Morocco
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Oct 1 22:09:16 UTC 2015
Thomas Savage reports confusion in Morocco last weekend involving
daylight saving time. See:
Savage T. Quelle heure est-il vraiment au Maroc? Telquel.ma 2015-09-30.
http://telquel.ma/2015/09/30/quelle-heure-il-vraiment-au-maroc_1464578
Savage quotes last month's confusion on the tz mailing list over whether
Morocco's fallback transition this year would be Sept. 27 (as an
incorrect news report would have it) or Oct. 25 (the official date), and
speculates that this confusion led to many electronic devices in Morocco
to misbehave on Sept. 27. In thinking about the failure symptoms,
though, I guess a more plausible explanation is that the malfunctioning
devices were using the equivalent of a tz release somewhere from tzdata
2012c (dated 2012-03-07) through 2013g (dated 2013-09-30), as these
older releases predicted that Morocco would fall back the last Sunday in
September -- a prediction that was correct in 2012 but incorrect in 2013
through 2015.
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