Comments on: UTC+9 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/12/04/utc9/ Random stuff Tue, 17 May 2011 12:23:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mathew http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/12/04/utc9/comment-page-1/#comment-319 mathew Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/12/04/utc9/#comment-319 Another example of the same problem being "solved" over and over again is locales. I created a locale definition for en-US@ISO (ISO 8601), only to discover that it only works for command line programs--X software has its own locale system. Another example of the same problem being “solved” over and over again is locales. I created a locale definition for en-US@ISO (ISO 8601), only to discover that it only works for command line programs–X software has its own locale system.

]]> By: Henri http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/12/04/utc9/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Henri Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/12/04/utc9/#comment-320 Just out of curiosity, why doesn't Australia switch at the same time as most of the rest of the world? Most South American countries that observ it switch at the same time as Europe and Asia does. Our North American friends always has to be special of course, but that's just business as usual. Just out of curiosity, why doesn’t Australia switch at the same time as most of the rest of the world? Most South American countries that observ it switch at the same time as Europe and Asia does. Our North American friends always has to be special of course, but that’s just business as usual.

]]> By: James Henstridge http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/12/04/utc9/comment-page-1/#comment-321 James Henstridge Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/12/04/utc9/#comment-321 Henri: Looking at the time zone definitions from the tzdata package, there is a huge variation in the start/end dates for different countries and the times of day they choose to have the transitions (and whether they define the transition times in terms of standard time or wall clock time). Some countries like Brazil don't even have a predictable rule for determining the transition dates.<p/>Europe seems to be a bit of an anomaly, with a bunch of countries agreeing on transition times (not that that's a bad thing). Henri: Looking at the time zone definitions from the tzdata package, there is a huge variation in the start/end dates for different countries and the times of day they choose to have the transitions (and whether they define the transition times in terms of standard time or wall clock time). Some countries like Brazil don’t even have a predictable rule for determining the transition dates.

Europe seems to be a bit of an anomaly, with a bunch of countries agreeing on transition times (not that that’s a bad thing).

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