Bug 174984 - missing timezone variable for Asia/Yekaterinburg in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Date/Manip.pm
Summary: missing timezone variable for Asia/Yekaterinburg in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_per...
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 100786
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl-DateManip (Show other bugs)
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Version: 4
Hardware: All Linux
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Assignee: Jason Vas Dias
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Reported: 2005-12-05 13:13 UTC by Aleks Geraschenko
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Description Aleks Geraschenko 2005-12-05 13:13:55 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Programs using Date::Manip doesn't work
if timezone is set to Asia/Ekaterinburg(YEKT),cause of missing timezone variable in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Date/Manip.pm


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-DateManip-5.42a-4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo logwatch

Actual Results:  ERROR: Date::Manip unable to determine TimeZone.
 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Date/Manip.pm line 3495
        Date::Manip::Date_TimeZone called at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Date/Manip.pm line 661
        Date::Manip::Date_Init() called at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Date/Manip.pm line 779
        Date::Manip::ParseDateString('epoch 1133701851') called at /usr/share/logwatch/lib/Logwatch.pm line 508
        Logwatch::TimeBuild() called at /usr/sbin/logwatch line 663


Expected Results:  working logwatch

Additional info:

Here is patch to solve it:

--- /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Date/Manip.pm      2003-07-02 22:42:47.000000000 +0600
+++ Manip.pm    2005-12-05 17:57:34.000000000 +0500
@@ -606,6 +606,7 @@
       "zp4    +0400 ".  # USSR Zone 3
       "msd    +0400 ".  # Moscow Daylight
       "zp5    +0500 ".  # USSR Zone 4
+      "yekt   +0500 ".  # Asia/Yekaterinburg
       "ist    +0530 ".  # Indian Standard
       "zp6    +0600 ".  # USSR Zone 5
       "novst  +0600 ".  # Novosibirsk time zone, Russia
Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2005-12-08 18:09:50 UTC 
Yes, there are MANY missing, duplicate or non-existent zones in DateManip's
zonesrfc variable.

The DateManip code must be extensively revised in order to deal with duplicate 
zone abbreviations such as CST, which could mean GMT offsets of -0600, -0500,
0800, 0930, or 1030 depending on which timezone / location is selected.

I've raised an upstream DateManip bug report on this issue: 
  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=16360
which will hopefully be fixed soon in the next upstream DateManip release.
If not, we'll have to extensively rewrite parts of DateManip to deal with the
duplicate timezone issue - an upstream fix would be better .

Meanwhile, you've found the correct temporary solution with your patch .

We'll have a more comprehensive solution for this issue soon.
Comment 3 Jason Vas Dias 2006-03-16 00:37:48 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100786 ***
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