[oe] How will OE handle the US timezone change?

[Matt Reimer]

On 2/5/07, Rod Whitby <rod at whitby.id.au> wrote:
> Not that I really care (not living in the US), but people using distros
> built from OE are getting concerned about how the new US DST timezone
> thing is going to be handled.
>
> Are there any OE developers in the US who know enough and care enough to
>  fix it properly?  Our someone else who is gracious enough to help our
> US friends out of their timezone mess?
>
> At the moment, there seems to be a timezones package which downloads
> binary files from some OPIE site.  I've heard that timezone data is
> endian specific, so it seems that some better solution might be required.

Todd Blumer (tnb on IRC) has been working on getting the timezones
packages up. Check with him.

Matt