Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid

A cruise ship is searching for the colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

CLSA-2024-1711564050 Update of tzdata

Upgrade to tzdata-2024a - Kazakhstan unifies on UTC+5 beginning 2024-03-01. - Palestine springs forward a week later after Ramadan. - localtime no longer mishandles Ciudad Juárez in 2422. - zic no longer pretends to support indefinite-past DST. - Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland changes time zones on...

Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid

Interesting article on the colossal squid, which is larger than the giant squid. The article answers a vexing question: So why do we always hear about the giant squid and not the colossal squid? Well, part of it has to do with the fact that the giant squid was discovered and studied long before t...

Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid Photographed off the Coast of Antarctica

Wow. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Debian DLA-702-1 : tzdata new upstream version

This update includes the changes in tzdata 2016i. Notable changes are : - Pacific/Tongatapu DST starting on 2016-11-06 at 02:00. - Northern Cyprus is now +03 year round, the Asia/Famagusta zone has been added. - Antarctica/Casey switched from +08 to +11 on 2016-10-22. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tzdata on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

A tzdata enhancement, with updates for Venezuela, Indiana, Egypt, Gaza, South Australia, Antarctica, Brazil, and Iran is now available. The tzdata package contains data files with information regarding and rules for daylight saving times in various timezones around the world. The updated package...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tzdata on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

The tzdata package contains data files with rules for various time zones around the world. This updated package addresses the following changes to Daylight Saving Time DST observations and to time zones : - Bangladesh changed their clock back to Standard Time on December 31, 2009. BZ550570,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tzdata on SL3.x i386/x86_64

A tzdata enhancement, with updates for Venezuela, Indiana, Egypt, Gaza, South Australia, Antarctica, Brazil, and Iran is now available. The tzdata package contains data files with information regarding and rules for daylight saving times in various timezones around the world. The updated package...