Hi Steve, Thanks for you explanation (and for Daniel Jacobowit too). I've made a big mistake on relating this stupid bug. Thanks! Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> escreveu em Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:51:39 -0700: > severity 333927 normal > thanks > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:38:09AM -0300, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: > > Package: libc6 > > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22 > > Severity: critical > > Justification: breaks unrelated software > > > The date show by "date" command (or zdump) for localtime configured > > for files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc are inversed (GMT-Number act as > > GMT+Number, and GMT+Number work like GMT-Number) this cause bad > > date to be written to log files and causes the system to run maintanance > > tasks out of sync with other systems (database shutdown, by instance), > > causing availability problems for systems running in production environment, > > backup problems, etc. > > how to reproduce this bug: > > > (GMT Time is now 14:27) > > zdump /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-3 > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-3 Fri Oct 14 17:27:22 2005 GMT-3 > > > This bug was reproduced on every system that has Sarge installed. > > But GMT-3 isn't even a real timezone, so there's no reason why this should > be release-critical. > > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/ > --------------------------- Gleydson Mazioli da Silva gleydson@debian.org gleydson@cipsga.org.br Fortune: O windows não é ruim, esperem só ele ficar pronto...
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