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Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 by jpatokal on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:25PM (#18009716)
If you're handling timezones, and you're not using tz files, you deserve any pain heading your way. Timezone rules change constantly and trying to roll your own is disastrous. (And I say that in the grave baritone voice of personal experience.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

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Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 by lgeorget on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:39PM (#18009862)
Tz is great indeed but what if you have to interface with code/devices not using it and relying on a static timezone database ?
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Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 by scbrg on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @07:21AM (#18014229)
Well, the only workable solution for those is to never change any timezone again ever. According to the changelog of tzdata on my system any such device/code older than four months is fucked already.

I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect society to freeze because "assumptions in legacy code".

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Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 by 0x0 on Monday September 17, 2018 @06:49PM (#18010787)
Obviously! But that doesn't help users of legacy systems!
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