Ubuntu’s ready for Alberta and Morocco’s time zone changes

Times are changing, and Ubuntu’s keeping pace. 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. Ubuntu users in either location – or travelling to them – need their systems to be in sync time-wise, which is what a new update to the tzdata package does. It refreshes […]
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