Bug 460634

Summary: tzdata: Mauritius ends DST on Mar/29 2009, not Mar/27 2009
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Petr Machata <pmachata>
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Description Petr Machata 2008-08-29 11:10:44 UTC
Description of problem:

According to timeanddate.com, Indian/Mauritius also has a plan to switch
back to Standard Time (UTC +4) on March 29th 2009 at 2AM, but Indian/Mauritius
tzdata show the change will occur on March 26th...

%> rpm -q tzdata
tzdata-2008e-1.el4.noarch

Indian/Mauritius  Thu Mar 26 21:59:59 2009 UTC = Fri Mar 27 02:59:59 2009 MUST
isdst=1 gmtoff=18000
Indian/Mauritius  Thu Mar 26 22:00:00 2009 UTC = Fri Mar 27 02:00:00 2009 MUT
isdst=0 gmtoff=14400

Comment 1 Petr Machata 2008-11-26 14:50:18 UTC
We've delivered 2008i recently:

$ rpm -q tzdata
tzdata-2008i-1.fc9.noarch
$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v Indian/Mauritius| grep 2009
Indian/Mauritius  Sat Mar 28 21:59:59 2009 UTC = Sun Mar 29 02:59:59 2009 MUST isdst=1 gmtoff=18000
Indian/Mauritius  Sat Mar 28 22:00:00 2009 UTC = Sun Mar 29 02:00:00 2009 MUT isdst=0 gmtoff=14400
Indian/Mauritius  Sat Oct 24 21:59:59 2009 UTC = Sun Oct 25 01:59:59 2009 MUT isdst=0 gmtoff=14400
Indian/Mauritius  Sat Oct 24 22:00:00 2009 UTC = Sun Oct 25 03:00:00 2009 MUST isdst=1 gmtoff=18000