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Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> Wed, 10 December 2014 19:04 UTC

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On 10/12/14 18:54, Doug Royer wrote:
> Most (all?) implementations ignore time zone change pushes. Most
> calendar users are clueless to TZ details and would not know if they
> changed and would not do a manual push.
> 
> Most (all?) user agent implementations can not automatically detect or
> start up after a TZ change in order to push the update.

Totally agree ... It is only in the last few years that live inter
continental events have become the norm and being able to reliably sync
things using UTC time has become important. What is being designed in
tzdist is a stable means of ensuring people ARE using the same data, but
it will be some time before all of the capability is fully exposited?

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