Ubuntu
tzdata package

Daylight Saving changes in the United States, Canada, and Bermuda

Bug #83446 reported by Luis Mondesi
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
tzdata (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Dapper
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Edgy
Fix Released
High
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: tzdata

Daylight Saving Time (DST) will be extended by four weeks, beginning in 2007, in the United States, Canada, and Bermuda.

The new tzdata package from Debian includes the 2007a revision of this important files. Please re-sync tzdata with Debian as soon as possible.

If not in sync by March, computers will be showing time off by one whole hour, and ntp cannot account for this change (since ntp internally uses UTC anyway).

References:
* http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_9951
* http://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges
* http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tzdata.html

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. That's already fixed:

 tzdata (2007a-3ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
     - Add replaces: on locales, where tzdata was kept in Dapper (must be kept
       until the next LTS release).

Changed in tzdata:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

We should update stables as well.

Changed in tzdata:
assignee: nobody → pitti
importance: Undecided → High
status: Unconfirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

This is the effective diff of the upstream tzdata tarball. The new tarball will just be put into edgy's tzdata and dapper's langpack-locales source packages; this new tarball with attached diff and debian/changelog will be the only source package changes.

upstream tzdata changes look sane:
- fixed spelling of two timezones, added compatibility links to the old names
- updated DST rules

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Hm, it seems that 2007a does not actually contain the changes mentioned in this bug.

Changed in tzdata:
status: Fix Released → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

OK, false alarm. I did not see these changes in the attached diff because the new rules are already in 2006p, and thus also already in dapper/edgy.

Changed in tzdata:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Already ok in dapper.

Changed in tzdata:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Already fixed in Edgy as well.

Changed in tzdata:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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