On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 00:27 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Jan 1, 2008 Venezuela changed its timezone from UTC-0400 to UTC-0430. > > Fedora was on the ball and adjusted pretty quickly, likewise Windows, > > however Firefox had an interesting Javascript bug: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411726 initially reported > > on MacOS X but later confirmed on Fedora 8. It took about a year to fix. > > > > IOW, even though the platform gets it right, some apps may still get it > > wrong because of hidden assumptions, e.g. that timezones are always > > integral numbers of hours away from UTC. > > If that had been the problem, it would have been already broken for India. > But looking at the bug report, the problem might atually have been more > complicated than that, because the problem was also reported for a timezone > with an integral offset (Georgetown - Guyana).
Yes, I meant that last as a general observation rather than a comment on the specific bug. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
