Times are literally changing and Ubuntu’s keeping pace – well, kinda. In November, most of Canada will turn its clocks back an hour, but the Western Canadian province of Alberta won’t. It’s decided to stay on daylight saving time permanently rather than fall back to standard time. Meanwhile, in September, Morocco is doing the reverse: after eight years of running an hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, it’s going back to GMT. So Ubuntu has updated its tzdata package so that users in either location – or anyone travelling to them – have systems in sync time-wise. The update refreshes the database […]

You're reading Ubuntu’s ready for Alberta and Morocco time zone changes, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

Times are literally changing and Ubuntu’s keeping pace – well, kinda. In November, most of Canada will turn its clocks back an hour, but the Western Canadian province of Alberta won’t. It’s decided to stay on daylight saving time permanently rather than fall back to standard time. Meanwhile, in September, Morocco is doing the reverse: after eight years of running an hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, it’s going back to GMT. So Ubuntu has updated its tzdata package so that users in either location – or anyone travelling to them – have systems in sync time-wise. The update refreshes the database […]

You're reading Ubuntu’s ready for Alberta and Morocco time zone changes, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.