Walter Premier <[email protected]> writes: > I am a Debian user and I have just learned that BC will advance clocks > on the 8th October 2026 and remain on DST forthwith.
> Will the Debian team factor in this change as it will only affect BC > residents. Hi Walter, Yes, Debian routinely deals with changes like this. There are few things that governments around the world seem to love more than tweaking their time zone rules. :) In Debian, the time zone information is packaged in the tzdata package, and the maintainers have a whole workflow for updating it in all supported versions of Debian when there are legal changes to time zone rules or boundaries. All other software on the system should ideally then use the system tzdata for time zone information, although in some cases there are other packages that also have to be updated for different languages. But rest assured that although this is not routine for British Columbia residents, it is very routine from the perspective of all the world's time zones, often on much shorter notice. The upstream tz maintainers are working on this change right now; draft patches have already been posted to the [email protected] mailing list. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
