Debian Bug report logs - #18642
timezones: Bad dates reported

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: timezones: Bad dates reported

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:22:43 -0600

Package: timezones
Version: 2.0.7pre1-1

When I issue date commands, or various other programs use dates, I get
something like:

Thu Feb 26 12:20:31 /etc/localtime 1998

On a hunch, I re-ran tzconfig...  I forced it to change the timezone, then
changed it back to the correct value.  Now it works.  I don't know what went
wrong.

John

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (unstable)
Kernel Version: Linux alexanderwohl 2.0.32 #1 Wed Feb 25 19:03:59 CST 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages timezones depends on:
libc6	Version: 2.0.7pre1-1

--- Begin /etc/timezone (modified conffile)
US/Central

--- End /etc/timezone

Message #10 received at 18642@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>

To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org>, 18642@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#18642: timezones: Bad dates reported

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:54:59 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, John Goerzen wrote:

> Package: timezones
> Version: 2.0.7pre1-1
> 
> When I issue date commands, or various other programs use dates, I get
> something like:
> 
> Thu Feb 26 12:20:31 /etc/localtime 1998
> 
> On a hunch, I re-ran tzconfig...  I forced it to change the timezone, then
> changed it back to the correct value.  Now it works.  I don't know what went
> wrong.
> 
Did you --purge the timezone package? Look in the status file and see what
it says for Package: timezone (note, not timezones, which is the new
package name).

Thanks,

Dwarf
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Message #15 received at 18642@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org>

To: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>

Cc: 18642@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#18642: timezones: Bad dates reported

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:02:50 -0600 (CST)

On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> Did you --purge the timezone package? Look in the status file and see what
> it says for Package: timezone (note, not timezones, which is the new
> package name).

alexanderwohl ~$ dpkg -s timezone
Package `timezone' is not installed and no info is available.

Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

Hope this helps,

John

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dwarf
> -- 
> _-_-_-_-_   Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide"   _-_-_-_-_-_-
> 
> aka   Dale Scheetz                   Phone:   1 (904) 656-9769
>       Flexible Software              11000 McCrackin Road
>       e-mail:  dwarf@polaris.net     Tallahassee, FL  32308
> 
> _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_-
> 

Message #20 received at 18642@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>

To: dwarf@polaris.net

Cc: jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org, 18642@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#18642: timezones: Bad dates reported

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 18:45:07 -0500 (EST)

'Dale Scheetz wrote:'
>
>On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
>
>> Package: timezones
>> Version: 2.0.7pre1-1
>> 
>> When I issue date commands, or various other programs use dates, I get
>> something like:
>> 
>> Thu Feb 26 12:20:31 /etc/localtime 1998
>> 
>> On a hunch, I re-ran tzconfig...  I forced it to change the timezone, then
>> changed it back to the correct value.  Now it works.  I don't know what went
>> wrong.
>> 
>Did you --purge the timezone package? Look in the status file and see what
>it says for Package: timezone (note, not timezones, which is the new
>package name).

No doubt he did.  And until you fix this bug, there will be countless
more bug reports.  I still like the dpkg lobotomy (rm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/timezone.postrm).  But maybe the timezone_99
package or reverting the name back to timezone is the better solution.

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