Bug#665408: tzdata: San Luis and Cairo wrongly show UTC
reassign 665408 libc6
fixed 665408 2.10.1-1
thanks
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 02:40:36PM -0700, Martin Dorey wrote:
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2011n-0lenny1
> Severity: normal
>
> On a server with tzdata 2009l-0lenny1:
>
> dsatow@mercury11:~$ LANG= TZ=America/Argentina/San_Luis date
> Thu Mar 22 21:41:43 WART 2012
> dsatow@mercury11:~$ LANG= TZ=Africa/Cairo date
> Fri Mar 23 03:41:55 EET 2012
> dsatow@mercury11:~$
>
> On a server with 2011n-0llenny1:
>
> martind@whitewater:~$ LANG= TZ=America/Argentina/San_Luis date
> Fri Mar 23 18:30:10 UTC 2012
> martind@whitewater:~$ LANG= TZ=Africa/Cairo date
> Fri Mar 23 18:30:11 UTC 2012
> martind@whitewater:~$
>
> "WART" and "EET" change to "UTC". I believe this to be incorrect.
>
> This does not happen with the Squeeze libc and the same Lenny tzdata.
> I suspect that this was the fix:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/libc-alpha/2009-06/msg00102.html
>
This is indeed the correct patch, hence the problem is in libc6 and not
in tzdata. I am therefore reassigning the bug and marking it as fixed in
version 2.10.
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