Bug#345479: impact and workaround
Two things, more information about the impact of this problem, and a
workaround described simply.
Impact:
This problem affects people using Debian systems that record time and
date information from Australian sources. It's not just a matter of
having the clock show the incorrect time for a week, it's a much wider
problem.
People who have systems running in other countries but with TZ set to
and Australian timezone are also affected.
Calculations of time differences by subtracting time_t values are also
affected.
Other distributions have already shipped the change in their stable
release. Red Hat for instance already has an updated tzdata package,
and I've verified it contains the change. Perhaps there's an
opportunity to ship the timezone rules separate from libc6 package?
Workaround:
I've placed this on the Debian Wiki.
http://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges
It involves obtaining the updated australasia file from the tzdata
tar.gz in ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ and then running zic(8).
zdump(8) can be used to check it.
--
James Cameron
http://ftp.hp.com.au/sigs/jc/
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