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DST on R5

Started 2 weeks ago | Questions thread
koenkooi Contributing Member • Posts: 920
Re: DST on R5
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Ali wrote:

Even if they could do it thru built in tables and without a network connection, I am sure companies don’t want to be in the business of having to release firmware updates for DST adjustments, which do happen pretty often around the world. Especially firmware updates many years after the camera has been released.

One problem with having a built in table that may go stale is that your camera will change the time when you are not expecting it.

Exactly this! If you look at https://www.iana.org/time-zones you can see that in 2022 there were at least 7 changes that caused a release of the tzdata files.

The example that comes to mind is Turkey in 2015, where they moved DST 2 weeks later, with little to no forewarning, for election shenanigans: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34631326

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