starphase | 4 years ago | on: Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time
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starphase | 4 years ago | on: Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time
Fiji has a habit of changing DST at the last minute, so people have to do the low-tech solution. https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/fijians-reminded-to-switch-o...
However before software vendors can release zoneinfo updates, someone needs to inform the maintainers of tzdata, and they need to make a release. At least in this case someone appears to have done that already.
This does cause problems though. Any software that makes dates in the future (calendar software, billing systems) runs into issues if the future date changes.
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The release is the thing that still needs to happen, but that is close to.