Rob <[email protected]> writes: >Uwe Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >> Timezone stuff is "Localisation" and handled forex by libc and/or >> other programming frameworks. >> >> And the package manager for "managed" linux distributions ( same for the >> bsds ) >> usually present timely updates.
>So your standpoint is that every system builder who wants to do >such localization should be on their own, providing their own update >mechanism, and there should not be a universal update mechanism for >timezone updates that is neutral to operating system? There already is such a mechanism. It is called the tzdata file. Download it once a month and install it via a cron job and be happy. It is a text file so is operating system independent. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
