Lebanon's IT folks face double trouble as leaders delayed Daylight Savings Time
"Initially, the impact of the time zone change was going to be significant, but people ended up ignoring it due to various reasons such as Christians opposing DST change because it accommodated Muslims fasting , the government not recognizing the change as is the case with the Education ministry, or their workplace ignoring it outright," said Rany Hany, a software developer participating in the IANA discussion, told"This reduced the damage slightly.
"This is because while initially, it seemed like everyone was going to respect the change, most users no longer did, and that meant that admins had to scramble to rollback their changes." Hany said Lebanon's mobile operators, Alfa and Touch, handled the situation poorly by broadcasting an SMS message to their customers directing them to disable NTP and set their mobile clocks manually to recognize government-declared time.
"This had the result of the clock being off by one hour relative to UTC, breaking calendars among other things," Hany explained."The proper advice is to modify the GMT offset either by setting it to a different region or using Etc/GMT-2." In all, Hany said, the abrupt time change caused a lot of confusion, which was made worse by interfaces that do not display the server's GMT/UTC offset.addressing"the time zone chaos in Lebanon," either by reverting the 2023b patch or by creating a new 2023c patch with more detail to undo 2023b. The situation, he admitted, is confusing."In the meantime I again suggest to downstream distributors to stick with 2023a and avoid 2023b," he said.
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