Mike Schilli wrote:
Is DateTime ready for this?http://support.microsoft.com/?id=909915 http://ftp.support.compaq.com.au/
Whenever an updated Olson database is available, a new DateTime release can handle it. It looks like tzdata2006a was released Jan 30, so Dave Rolsky rolled a new release of DateTime::TimeZone on the 31st (good on ya, Dave!). I can't read the coded notation in the .PM files, but I'm assuming that either that release or the previous one included the fix.
There are a *lot* of applications (not just M$loth's brood) which rely on governments not doing stupid things like this. Thankfully for most of the world, this particular stupidity is limited to a relatively small country (population wise), lovely though it might be. What is scary is that the anti-science misfits in the current US administration were talking about extending DST in the US last year (as they do with frightening frequency) even though there is a lot of technology that relies on the "First Sunday in April" and "Last Sunday in October" algorithm.
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