Bug 495474

Summary: [RHEL 2.1] Pakistan plan to introduce DST from April 15, 2009 - need updated tzdata urgently!
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Jose Plans <jplans>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: high    
Version: 2.1CC: mnewsome, syeghiay, tao
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Description Jose Plans 2009-04-13 11:12:30 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #495470 +++

Escalated to Bugzilla from IssueTracker

--- Additional comment from tao on 2009-04-13 07:06:38 EDT ---

Description of problem:
Pakistan Govt only a week ago has decided to have DST this year and its to begin on April 15th!
http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/

The latest tzdata file on this official(?) tzdata site doesn't even have the Pakistan DST for 2009:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/

Can we create an entry for Pakistani DST in 2009 and get it out to the customer within 2 days?!  It is quite urgent for the customer so I'm setting the level of this ticket to match.

Cheers,
Mark
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--- Additional comment from tao on 2009-04-13 07:06:39 EDT ---

I imagine it affects all versions of RHEL, that is why the version is
'UNKNOWN'.

Here is the current tzdata on RHEL5.3 showing the 2009 daylight savings
info isn't in there for Pakistan:

[root@mhuth ~]# rpm -q tzdata
tzdata-2008i-1.el5
[root@mhuth ~]# zdump -v Asia/Karachi
...
Asia/Karachi  Sat Apr  6 19:00:59 2002 UTC = Sun Apr  7 00:00:59 2002 PKT
isdst=0 gmtoff=18000
Asia/Karachi  Sat Apr  6 19:01:00 2002 UTC = Sun Apr  7 01:01:00 2002 PKST
isdst=1 gmtoff=21600
Asia/Karachi  Sat Oct  5 18:00:59 2002 UTC = Sun Oct  6 00:00:59 2002 PKST
isdst=1 gmtoff=21600
Asia/Karachi  Sat Oct  5 18:01:00 2002 UTC = Sat Oct  5 23:01:00 2002 PKT
isdst=0 gmtoff=18000
Asia/Karachi  Sat May 31 18:59:59 2008 UTC = Sat May 31 23:59:59 2008 PKT
isdst=0 gmtoff=18000
Asia/Karachi  Sat May 31 19:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Jun  1 01:00:00 2008 PKST
isdst=1 gmtoff=21600
Asia/Karachi  Fri Oct 31 17:59:59 2008 UTC = Fri Oct 31 23:59:59 2008 PKST
isdst=1 gmtoff=21600
Asia/Karachi  Fri Oct 31 18:00:00 2008 UTC = Fri Oct 31 23:00:00 2008 PKT
isdst=0 gmtoff=18000
Asia/Karachi  9223372036854689407 = NULL
Asia/Karachi  9223372036854775807 = NULL



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Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-04-15 09:44:50 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-0422.html