Bug#433870: Sarge: TimeZone: New Zealand change to daylight time transition
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6
Severity: normal
The New Zealand Government has altered the dates when Daylight Time
will start and end starting this year. Daylight Time will begin one
week earlier (on the last Sunday in September, instead of the first
Sunday in October), and finish two weeks later:
http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended?OpenDocument
The tzdata package in testing and unstable (2007f-9) includes this
change, and the timezone is correctly reported in those versions (as
seen in, eg, "tzdump -v Pacific/Auckland"). I have filed another bug
on tzdata in stable (etch) about this problem.
In oldstable (sarge) the timezone information is included in the libc6
package, which is based on tzdata 2006p-1, and is now out of date for
New Zealand (Pacific/Auckland).
I see that there was a libc6 update for sarge last year
(2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5) which included time zone data 2006p-1, and brought
in the correct time zone information for the USA and Western Australia.
Is another update planned for sarge to bring in the updated tzdata (2007f)
that includes the New Zealand time zone change? If not, can you recommend
the best way to update this time zone information on sarge based systems?
(And yes, I'm upgrading them to Etch as fast as possible, but there's a
bunch to do.)
Ewen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.8-amd64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
-- no debconf information
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