A look at the 3.12 development cycle

Posted Oct 24, 2013 11:07 UTC (Thu) by jnareb (subscriber, #46500)
In reply to: A look at the 3.12 development cycle by josh
Parent article: A look at the 3.12 development cycle

> It should be possible to improve the time-zone-based estimates significantly by correlating date with time zone: the combination of the two along with the tzdata time zone database should mostly distinguish between adjacent time zones that might or might not have a DST off-by-one error.

This assumes that all countries in the same timezone have their DST switch times (some countries do not use DST, some switch at different dates though differences are small) and DST offset synchronized (compare northern and southern hemisphere DST).

A look at the 3.12 development cycle

Posted Oct 24, 2013 12:32 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

"improve", not "perfect".

A look at the 3.12 development cycle - time zones

Posted Oct 25, 2013 16:29 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link] (1 responses)

I believe essentially all places that use summer time at all were using it throughout the release cycle.

Also, there aren't enough contributors in places that don't use summer time to make a noticeable difference in the histogram.

A look at the 3.12 development cycle - time zones

Posted Oct 31, 2013 3:04 UTC (Thu) by gnu_andrew (guest, #49515) [Link]

Except those in the southern hemisphere, which are just now entering summer time; Sydney just moved from +10 to +11 at the beginning of October and Rio moved to -2 a week and a half ago.

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2013.html