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Package: tzdata
Version: 2017b-0+deb8u1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
After upgrading tzdata from 2016j-0+deb8u1 to 2017a-0+deb8u1 the timezone abbreviation for the local time stopped showing on date and on our email timestamps. Still happening on 2017b-0+deb8u1
Until version 2016j-0+deb8u1, the timezone abbreviation (for example BRT, BRST) was shown. After the upgrade, the abbreviation was replaced by the time offset (-03, -02)
Downgrading the tzdata package alone reverts to the working situation:
root@gronholm:~# date
Mon Apr 17 15:23:30 -03 2017
root@gronholm:~# date +%Z
-03
root@gronholm:~# apt-get install tzdata=2016j-0+deb8u1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
tzdata
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/186 kB of archives.
After this operation, 163 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: warning: downgrading tzdata from 2017b-0+deb8u1 to 2016j-0+deb8u1
(Reading database ... 47342 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../tzdata_2016j-0+deb8u1_all.deb ...
Unpacking tzdata (2016j-0+deb8u1) over (2017b-0+deb8u1) ...
Setting up tzdata (2016j-0+deb8u1) ...
Current default time zone: 'America/Sao_Paulo'
Local time is now: Mon Apr 17 15:24:06 BRT 2017.
Universal Time is now: Mon Apr 17 18:24:06 UTC 2017.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.
root@gronholm:~# date
Mon Apr 17 15:24:10 BRT 2017
root@gronholm:~# date +%Z
BRT
Upgrading back...
root@gronholm:~# apt-get install tzdata
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
tzdata
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/232 kB of archives.
After this operation, 163 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 47339 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../tzdata_2017b-0+deb8u1_all.deb ...
Unpacking tzdata (2017b-0+deb8u1) over (2016j-0+deb8u1) ...
Setting up tzdata (2017b-0+deb8u1) ...
Current default time zone: 'America/Sao_Paulo'
Local time is now: Mon Apr 17 15:26:15 -03 2017.
Universal Time is now: Mon Apr 17 18:26:15 UTC 2017.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.
root@gronholm:~# date
Mon Apr 17 15:27:53 -03 2017
root@gronholm:~# date +%Z
-03
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
tzdata recommends no packages.
tzdata suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
tzdata/Zones/SystemV:
* tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC
tzdata/Zones/Atlantic:
tzdata/Zones/Asia:
* tzdata/Areas: America
tzdata/Zones/Pacific:
tzdata/Zones/Indian:
* tzdata/Zones/America: Sao_Paulo
tzdata/Zones/Australia:
tzdata/Zones/Africa:
tzdata/Zones/Europe:
tzdata/Zones/Antarctica:
tzdata/Zones/Arctic:
tzdata/Zones/US:
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On 2017-04-17 16:50, Joao S Veiga wrote:
> Ok, sorry, please disregard found diffing the source packages:
Yes, I confirm this is intentional. Over the last few releases, all
invented abbreviations have been removed. They tend to conflict with
each other.
I am therefore closing this bug.
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Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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