Besides laptop and desktop systems whose updates may take some weeks;
server updates, especially LTS releases, may take months due to slower
downstream update processes, plus inhouse corporate testing processes;
tablet and phone mobile devices may take weeks or months depending on their
priority with the vendor, the telco, and the size of the market in the country
for the device;
older, cheaper devices (like mine) may only get annual updates, if they are
still supported on any upgrade schedule by the telco or vendor.
Governments like to think external orgs can provide updates in days, but it
normally takes weeks for any official updates, and for older releases months, or
never, so may be DIY, by finding something on the internet and trying it!
Especially so if the country in question has a population (AKA market) less than
some cities, or for some island nations smaller than large towns!
As a workaround fallback, users may select the zone below (extracted from
zonenow.tab) until updates are made available for their system:
-03 America/Sao_Paulo eastern and southern South America
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On 2025-03-24 12:32, Martin Vuyk via tz wrote:
Hi Tim,
thanks a lot for the information! good to know there are people who are so much
on the lookout for these changes!
> Unfortunately, downstream maintainers can often be slow to pick up on these
changes. We suggest working with the maintainers of these systems to pick up
and distribute our latest release to your users.
It seems this is totally a thing about version release schedules. It was way too
soon to declare a change like that on my country's part.
Thanks a lot and your work maintaining this is highly appreciated :)
Cheers,
Martin Vuyk L.
El lun, 24 mar 2025 a la(s) 2:57 p.m., Tim Parenti escribió:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 13:38, Martin Vuyk via tz <tz@iana.org
<mailto:tz@iana.org>> wrote:
A lot of systems went crazy [in Paraguay] because some changed the
timezone [this past Saturday evening] and some didn't. I have some
headaches at work already on a Sunday (yay). AFAIK this database is the
source of truth for most systems. But I don't know how fast you could
change this and it getting pushed to all devices.
All— The recent change for Paraguay (staying on -03 and no longer falling
back to -04 from 2025-03-22 24:00) was made to our development repository in
the following commits dated 2024-10-05 and 2024-10-15:
https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/636e6f983bca35e6f945e092ffdc315ae3e5dd9e
<https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/636e6f983bca35e6f945e092ffdc315ae3e5dd9e>
https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/486e1e890e68d52f9236b2b354484463f57ec692
<https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/486e1e890e68d52f9236b2b354484463f57ec692>
These changes were included in version 2025a of tzdata, released 2025-01-16,
and remain available in version 2025b released this past weekend.
Unfortunately, downstream maintainers can often be slow to pick up on these
changes. We suggest working with the maintainers of these systems to pick
up and distribute our latest release to your users.
