Re: tzdata package for Sarge - Daylight Savings Change

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Mar 7, 2007, at 3:52 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 20:41:42 -0500, Michael Lueck wrote:
> > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >
> > > Well, the article is incorrect.
> > >
> > > glibc (2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5) stable; urgency=low
> >
> > And it seems I have it...
> > # dpkg -l|grep libc
> > ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-22sa GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
> > Timezone
> >
> > Thanks for the detail that things have changed between Sarge and  
> > Etch.
>
> If you want to be absolutely sure then you can verify the dates for  
> the
> DST-related changes yourself:
>
> $ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
> /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 01:59:59  
> 2007 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600
> /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 25 01:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 03:00:00  
> 2007 CEST isdst=1 gmtoff=7200
> /etc/localtime  Sun Oct 28 00:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 02:59:59  
> 2007 CEST isdst=1 gmtoff=7200
> /etc/localtime  Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 02:00:00  
> 2007 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600
>
> This is for timezone Europe/Madrid. I am on Sid, but I would expect  
> that
> zdump works like that on Sarge as well.

It does.

Here's my Sarge machine in the US-Eastern zone.

$ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59  
2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00  
2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59  
2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00  
2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
$

Rick