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We rely on heavily on timezone databases and when designing our app had a a lot of debate on what would be the best way to go. We opted for a hybrid solution implementing several options with redundency Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine that the Unix TMZ database would be compromised in such a a way. Just goes to show that you can never think of all contigencies, but good planning and foresight is essential.



I wonder if even some GNU software has gotten caught up in this. Those guys are pretty darn careful. Talk about justifying your paranoia!


Each time something like this comes down the pipe, I click over one notch more GNU/FSF.




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