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by tilolebo 2643 days ago
I have been wondering for a while: will this decision trigger any significant work to make software compatible?

Or is it "just" a timezone library to update and voila?

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it's just a tz library to update, assuming you're using a tz library. Any poorly localized software is going to have issues.

The challenge is actually getting that update pushed out to everything that needs it. Every embedded and IoT device needs to get a new tz database, and any applications that might use a different tz database to the system one need to be updated. It's not significant programming work necessarily, but it's still probably going to cause a significant number of bugs in reality.