time & egypt

أحمد فيصل ahmedfaissl at gmail.com
Sun Apr 24 21:46:45 UTC 2011


*I always use NTP in every installation, no matter what distro I use, no
changes to be made but also no need for any and it updates automatically as
I said before..*

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Angie T. Muhammad
<angie.tawfik at gmail.com>wrote:

> Correction /* Qutoing TZdata maintainer David Olson */ :
>
> Given the short notice on the Egyptian changes...if no problems are found,
>>
>> the ftp site will be updated on 2011-04-25.
>>
>>
> So we should make sure Ubuntu maintainers create their tzdata package after
> this date to reflect the update on the Egyptian time.
> Sorry for mentioning April 20th at first. I didn't check all the messages
> then.
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Angie T. Muhammad <angie.tawfik at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I did a short research. The original TZ data mailing list is aware of
>> cancelling daylight saving in Egypt.
>>
>> Check out:
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/3750
>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz
>>
>> The mailing list can be contacted on:
>> tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
>>
>> However, I guess Ubuntu maintainers should be informed of the update
>> unless they [ would package | have packaged ] tzdata after April 20th when
>> tzdata mailing list was originally informed. However, informing Ubuntu
>> maintainers of something they might already know is much better than having
>> Ubuntu not properly showing time for Egypt.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Amahdy <mrjava.javaman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> For Ubuntu users, there are two types of possible timing system:
>>>
>>> 1] tzdata which reads the information from
>>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo, this is updated manually by Ubuntu
>>> maintainer.
>>> 2] NTP which reads from an internet server, it has an automated
>>> algorithm to change in specific dates, regardless any local situations.
>>>
>>> Micro$oft uses #2, Ubuntu uses #1 by default (you can change it), #2
>>> looks more professional but very hard to make change, while in #1 you can
>>> simply fill a request to patch the timezone to be adjusted based on the
>>> local situation.
>>>
>>> You can detect weather your system is using NTP or not by looking weather
>>> the package "ntp" is installed, and the file /etc/ntp.conf exists. You may
>>> run "ntpdate" for server info (if not installed then no server will be
>>> available)
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok now my answer to the email :)
>>> If your Ubuntu is using #1 (the default), and the maintainer was never
>>> notified about any changes about our local time, then nothing will happens w
>>> Allah a3lm :))
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Amahdy AbdElAziz
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/amahdyabdelaziz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 16:55, <ahmadtarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think this issue need study to know what will be affected. Not only
>>>> computers but also web services - like google - mobile phones, watches and a
>>>> lot of other things. If any one got a problem I thuink any country with +2
>>>> timezone and without summer time would work with him.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ahmad Tarek
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:01:39
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>> All the best,
>> Angie T. Muhammad
>> http://angie-tawfik.blogspot.com
>>
>>
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