Australian timezones incorrect for 2006

Dapper has the correct data.

I agree that this fix should be pushed out to all supported releases. Otherwise most Ubuntu computers in Australia will show the incorrect time for a week.

A bit more information about this issue can be found in this post:
<http://www.linuxsa.org.au/pipermail/linuxsa/2006-February/082329.html>

Okay. We've solved this in a more elegant way for Dapper and future releases, and have split out the timezones from the glibc package. They'll get updated occasionally with other locales updates.

Now we need to solve what happens for older releases.

Ok'd by mdz for updates to warty, hoary and breezy. Will try to do these early next week.

When's this expected to be pushed out now?

We've got just over 2 weeks (as I write) before this bug bites people like me in Australia.

Please can we get an update on when this is likely to get pushed out please ?

Matt, can this be pushed out this week?

I've got people using Hoary and Breezy and would prefer them not to notice this.

Please don't randomly assign things to people.

There are debs in http://people.ubuntu.com/~jbailey/glibc-tzupdate/ if you could test them, that would be lovely.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

Thanks Jeff.

I can confirm that these packages correct the timezone situation on Breezy for Australia/Adelaide.

There was a slight hiccup when I upgraded libc6 and libc6-i686 at the same time, but presumably that's due to my use of dpkg. Pasting the entire output of dpkg below just in case it matters:

john@john-ubuntu:/tmp $ sudo dpkg -i libc6* locales_2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1_all.deb
(Reading database ... 170732 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.5-1ubuntu12 (using libc6_2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.3.5-1ubuntu12 (using libc6-dev_2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1_i386.deb) ...Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
dpkg: regarding libc6-i686_2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1_i386.deb containing libc6-i686, pre-dependency problem:
 libc6-i686 pre-depends on libc6 (= 2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1)
  libc6 latest configured version is 2.3.5-1ubuntu12.
dpkg: error processing libc6-i686_2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1_i386.deb (--install):
 pre-dependency problem - not installing libc6-i686
Preparing to replace locales 2.3.5-1ubuntu12 (using locales_2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement locales ...
Setting up libc6 (2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1) ...
Current default timezone: 'Australia/Adelaide'.
Local time is now: Mon Mar 20 09:27:53 CST 2006.
Universal Time is now: Sun Mar 19 22:57:53 UTC 2006.
Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it.

Setting up libc6-dev (2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1) ...
Setting up locales (2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1) ...
Generating locales...
  en_AU.ISO-8859-1... done
  da_DK.ISO-8859-1... done
  fr_FR.ISO-8859-1... done
  ru_RU.KOI8-R... done
  da_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
  fr_FR.UTF-8... done
  pt_BR.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc6-i686_2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1_i386.deb

john@john-ubuntu:/tmp $ ls libc* -1
libc6_2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1_i386.deb
libc6-dev_2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1_i386.deb
libc6-i686_2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1_i386.deb

I should be able to test this on Hoary this Wednesday.

Tested on hoary, works okay (with the same dpkg hiccup as I had with breezy).

Is there any chance that this will get uploaded in the next 24 hours? If it gets out that soon, I can let users take care of themselves via update-notifier on Friday, otherwise I will need to be more pro-active.

Unfortunately I've run out of time for this fix, I'm going to be in QLD Thursday and Friday so I've had to grab the /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne TZ file from a Dapper box and copy it onto the Breezy and Hoary boxes I run.

Testing with zdump shows that it will do the right thing now.

If the official fix appears then I'll dist-upgrade to it when it hits the mirrors.

This update has not been provided for Breezy Badger on PowerPC. How soon will we get this critical libc6 fix so we can have the correct time?

This went into the archive on Friday: https://launchpad.net/+builds/+build/179531

Do you have breezy-updates as one of your sources in your sources.list file?

This was fixed in all supported dists (though, admittedly, prettly close to the wire), so closing now.