Hello guys, This is Marlon, from Porto Alegre, Brazil (Debconf...). The Brazilian Federal Government, that rules the daylight saving time in Brazil has published the decree about this year's DST. It'll be from November 2nd through February 20th, 2005. I've fixed the file 'southamerica' in the source package 'libc6' myself, and I'm spreading over the servers I administrate and forwarding through some mailing lists. The main problem I see is that in the last year, the DST started on the second Sunday in October (Sun >= 8), and by the file 'southamerica', almost every machine running Debian today will become DST on next Sunday, that's the second Sunday in this month. That might be a big hassle with unaware people. I don't know whether that could be considered as a reason to release an update of the package libc6. Maybe it's reasonable doing that even in Woody, in security.debian.org, once that that could a problem that would affect many machines. The Brazilian Government, for example, has thousands of Woodies running today. Anyway, the changed file 'southamerica' is available in my website. Maybe you guys could forward it to the upstream maintainer, in order to get it done in a next release of Glibc. http://hackers.propus.com.br/~marlon/dst/ Best regards. -- MARLON DUTRA Propus GnuPG ID: 0x3E2060AC pgp.mit.edu http://www.propus.com.br/ http://hackers.propus.com.br/~marlon/
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