Bug 694521

Summary: Morroco : winter time should resume at 00:00 between saturday and sunday in 2011
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Felix Dewaleyne <fdewaley>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 6.0CC: mnewsome, syeghiay
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: 698608 698609 698610 (view as bug list) Environment:
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Description Felix Dewaleyne 2011-04-07 14:45:59 UTC
Description of problem:
According to multiple sources, Morroco recently announced they were restoring DST. the summer time rule is correct, but the winter rule is not ; sources listed in the additional info state that winter time resumes at midnight between saturday and sunday whereas our rules resume it between sunday and monday at midnight

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
latest version of tzdata

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.zdump -v Africa/Casablanca | grep 2011 | tail -n 2
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Actual results:
    Africa/Casablanca  Sun Jul 31 22:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Jul 31 23:59:59 2011 WEST isdst=1 gmtoff=3600
    Africa/Casablanca  Sun Jul 31 23:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Jul 31 23:00:00 2011 WET isdst=0 gmtoff=0

Expected results:
    Africa/Casablanca  Sat Jul 30 22:59:59 2011 UTC = Sat Jul 30 23:59:59 2011 WEST isdst=1 gmtoff=3600
    Africa/Casablanca  Sat Jul 30 23:00:00 2011 UTC = Sat Jul 30 23:00:00 2011 WET isdst=0 gmtoff=0


Additional info:
this is a continuation of the bz#692031 ; the websites are 

    - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=60
    - http://24timezones.com/world_directory/current_casablanca_time.php

wikipedia has also been updated, but the governmental webpage doesn't display properly : 

    http://www.map.ma/fr/sections/accueil/l_heure_legale_au_ma/view
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world#Morocco

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-04-07 15:04:14 UTC
Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-06 08:35:43 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-2011-0493.html