[arch-general] Daylight Saving Time canceled in Ukraine, will Arch know?

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 09/21/2011 12:29 PM, Barton wrote:
> Beginning this year, Ukraine is switching to year-round DST and will
> permanently reside in UTC+3 timezone (where it is now). Normally, the
> switch to UTC+2 would have occurred some time in October, but no
> longer.
>
> How would Arch Linux handle it for the users who do not have NTP
> configured? Would Arch somehow know not to switch the clock this year or
> should zoneinfo file for Kiev be updated to reflect this change and
> to avoid users' clocks being skewed?

It looks like there's a fix to the tzdata package in the works to deal 
with this:

https://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/a44d60ddb9bb6620?pli=1

So presumably, once that fix gets released upstream, Arch would pick it 
up soon after.

DR