: Country changes time zone behavior My country used to change from -3 to -2 first Sunday of October and then back in March. Four or five months ago government announced the time will not change
My country used to change from -3 to -2 first Sunday of October and then back in March.
Four or five months ago government announced the time will not change this year.
Yesterday was the first Sunday of October and here came the mess.
Almost no ntp servers were notified about that change and almost all clocks adjusted automatically from internet changed their time.
At this time, next day, I have good time in my iPhone 5s (iOS 9.02) and Ubuntu 12.04; bad time in my iPad mini 2 (iOS 8.4) and iMac OS 10.9. My Garmin Oregon 450 (GPS) gets the bad time.
A real mess.
I think it is absurd to change each hardaware settings like old times and set them manually.
I suppose it should be our government authority who had to anticipate this problem and act accordingly.
It seems they did not. So my question is what can we, end users, do 'propagate' this time change, if posssible?
How is that kind of changes be notified to all ntp servers++ ?
I really don't know where is the best place to post these questions, I started here. Maybe you can suggest other sites/forums
Edit: time.windows.com and other Windows time options also didn't update the info
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Almost no ntp servers were notified...
It's not the purpose of the NTP server to hold information about the time zones (and corresponding DST). The NTP server "simply" responds with an accurate UTC time.
It is generally up to the OS and server-software to hold information about the time zones. If a particular system is incorrect then it's that system that needs to be updated.
In the case of Windows this is something that is delivered periodically via Windows Updates.
If you are working with PHP then PHP has its own database. This can be manually updated by downloading the latest from PECL (based on the IANA Time Zone Database) and recompiling PHP. The latest update, at the time of writing, being version 2015.7 (dated 2015-10-03 / 3 days ago).
what can we, end users, do 'propagate' this time change
Unfortunately, I suspect "not a lot". Apart from logging a bug and hoping they'll push out an update sometime soon.
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