Post #2239388
2025-01-17 22:08 UTC
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org That's my fault! Ireland's standard time is UTC+1 (summer time) legally, and their DST jump is therefore -1 hour.
I pointed that out on the tz list as an interesting fact, bit then they went ahead and actually encode it that way and that broke Java.
https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/europe#L369-L383
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@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org 2025-01-17 22:16
@derickr@phpc.social wow well that is quite a teachable moment in computer history!
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@jmason@mastodon.ie 2025-01-17 22:28
@derickr@phpc.social @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org we (as a Dublin based software company) enjoyed a brief outage as a result 😀