Time Zone Change in Argentina – How to create the new Time Zone?

RE: Georgetown?

LatamBlog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:06:40 GMT

You're right. The windows team is looking into this and they will probably include this change in an upcomming DST update for the Windows Operating Systems.

Georgetown?

Yoshito Umaoka — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:17:19 GMT

We maintain Windows->Olson zone mapping data. I think the change for Argentina itself makes sense, however, I have a question about "(GMT-03:00) Georgetown". My understanding is this zone is for Georgetown, Guyana. Based on other sources, such as Olson tzdata, Guyana uses -4 hour offset, not -3 hour. Do you have any plan to fix this problem?

re: Time Zone Change in Argentina – How to create the new Time Zone?

Conor McKeown — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:02:57 GMT

Will there be a CDO patch for this timezone update to cover non MAPI clients such as OWA?

In addition to Argentina in December, there have been other timezone changes for LATAM countries recently such as Venezuela in December and Chile now in March that would surely warrant a cumulative CDO patch?

Regards,

Conor McKeown.

re: Time Zone Change in Argentina – How to create the new Time Zone?

nadia — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:48:31 GMT

> Brasilia DST ends in feb 17, 2008, but I

> certainly expect MS to come up with the fix

> before that time ;)

Well, its feb 21, has MS released a fix?

re: Time Zone Change in Argentina – How to create the new Time Zone?

Federico Andres Gallo v-61fega — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:22:31 GMT

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re: Time Zone Change in Argentina – How to create the new Time Zone?

LatamBlog — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:01:59 GMT

Users will schedule appointments in the future :)

That's why we don't like much the strategy of changing to an alternate zone (specially if you are located in Argentina). The reason is: the user will end up with appointments created in multiple time zones, which could complicate even more if they have to run TZMove in the future.

We need to keep in mind that Argentinean gov. announced that the DST period will span from October to March in 2008/2009 so, it's very likely that we run tzmove again when they defined these dates.

re: Time Zone Change in Argentina – How to create the new Time Zone?

Gabriel Maranca — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:48:20 GMT

Users may be scheduling recurring appointments for the future so Microsoft should release this as a patch as soon as possible.

Anyway, as a temporary solution switching to Mid Atlantic seems better than switching to Brasilia because nobody in Argentina would be prepared to make an adjustment when Brasilia DST ends (Argentina DST will actually end after Brasil's). At least mid atlantic does not ever change.

re: Time Zone Change in Argentina – How to create the new Time Zone?

Daniel Cazzulino — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:33:30 GMT

This is quite overkill, especially given that setting the timezone to "(GMT-03:00) Brasilia" solves the issue as it does have daylight saving which right now matches the right time in Argentina.

Brasilia DST ends in feb 17, 2008, but I certainly expect MS to come up with the fix before that time ;)

re: Time Zone Change in Argentina – How to create the new Time Zone?

LatamBlog — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:33:11 GMT

Nicolas,

Microsoft will continue to release cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems. However, we don't know at this point when the update containing the information for Argentina will be released.

re: Time Zone Change in Argentina – How to create the new Time Zone?

Nicolas — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:06:55 GMT

Microsoft will not release any update to the KB942763 fix?