Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:15:47 GMT From: Jordan Abel <random832@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/95053: share/zoneinfo out of date Message-ID: <200603281915.k2SJFl9a007179@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200603281920.k2SJKFpc010162@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 95053 >Category: misc >Synopsis: share/zoneinfo out of date >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 28 19:20:15 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jordan Abel >Release: 6.0-RC1 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD random.yi.org 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Tue Nov 1 16:42:44 EST 2005 root@random.yi.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: A number of changes have been made to the tz package since whatever version is in FreeBSD, including the change to the US daylight saving time rules effective 2007 and the change in Indiana to move some counties to central time [new zone "America/Indiana/Vincennes", changes to America/Indianapolis and all timezones under America/Indiana] effective 2006. (Marked serious because this will cause times in most US and some canadian locations to be off by one hour for four weeks in 2007) >How-To-Repeat: env TZ=America/Indianapolis date -v 2006y -v 4m -v 2d -v 2H -v 0M -v 0S Output should be: Sun Apr 2 03:00:00 EDT 2006 Output is: Sun Apr 2 02:00:00 EST 2006 >Fix: Update share/zoneinfo to tzdata 2006b It would probably also be a good idea to post a warning about this issue instructions for using zic to install the new versions on a mailing list for people using older versions. The new version of tz can be found at http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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