Re: libc: Bucharest has wrong timezone

[Gwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne@mandrakesoft.com>]

Hi,

> I write to you because you're listed as packager for libc6 or timezone.
> 
> Recently I have noticed that Bucharest (Romania) has GMT+3 timezone
> (using /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Bucharest)

Current glibc reads as follows for Europe/Bucharest. However, the link 
provided for the rules is stale. Do you have a better reference? Thanks.

#
# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-07):
# <a href="http://www.nineoclock.ro/POL/1778pol.html";>
# Nine O'clock</a> (1998-10-23) reports that the switch occurred at
# 04:00 local time in fall 1998.  For lack of better info,
# assume that Romania and Moldova switched to EU rules in 1997,
# the same year as Bulgaria.
#
# Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    
LETTER/S
Rule    Romania 1932    only    -       May     21       0:00s  1:00    S
Rule    Romania 1932    1939    -       Oct     Sun>=1   0:00s  0       -
Rule    Romania 1933    1939    -       Apr     Sun>=2   0:00s  1:00    S
Rule    Romania 1979    only    -       May     27       0:00   1:00    S
Rule    Romania 1979    only    -       Sep     lastSun  0:00   0       -
Rule    Romania 1980    only    -       Apr      5      23:00   1:00    S
Rule    Romania 1980    only    -       Sep     lastSun  1:00   0       -
Rule    Romania 1991    1993    -       Mar     lastSun  0:00s  1:00    S
Rule    Romania 1991    1993    -       Sep     lastSun  0:00s  0       -
# Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Bucharest   1:44:24 -       LMT     1891 Oct
                        1:44:24 -       BMT     1931 Jul 24     # Bucharest MT
                        2:00    Romania EE%sT   1981 Mar 29 2:00s
                        2:00    C-Eur   EE%sT   1991
                        2:00    Romania EE%sT   1994
                        2:00    E-Eur   EE%sT   1997
                        2:00    EU      EE%sT