Ubuntu refreshes time zone data for Canadian clock changes

This time of the year, clocks spring forward and fall back across the globe, but some places are making permanent changes – and Ubuntu needs to keep pace. Over recent weeks, Canonical has refresh Ubuntu’s system time zone database package tzdata on all supported releases to ensure the system reflects the local time in parts of Canada, where: The system needs to show the right time for obvious reasons (alarms, calendar alerts, knowing when you need to go to bed), but some apps and tooling rely on the tzdata package when trying to calculate times and offsets. Thus, it’s helpful […]

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