Ubuntu’s ready for Alberta and Morocco’s new time rules
Times are changing and Ubuntu’s keep pace – literally. 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 as usual. 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. Users of Ubuntu in either of these locations need their system to be in sync, which is what a new update to the tzdata package does. It refreshes the database […]