From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20080213 Red Hat/1.5.0.12-11.el5_1 Firefox/1.5.0.12 Description of problem: On March 29, 2008, as per an official decree (Decreto Supremo N° 316, del 8 de febrero de 2008), Chile is going into winter time, intead of historical change on March 9. # date Tue Mar 4 13:25:29 CLST 2008 # date -d "now + 5 days" Sun Mar 9 12:25:39 CLT 2008 This change from CLST to CLT should occur on March 29, 2008 at 24:00, instead of March 10 at 23:00, 2008. So the tzdata pkg should have this change implemented *before* March 9, 2008. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional info: See also: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=232
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Update on issue: This is how time change is currently configured (before gvmnt decree): Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 11:59:59 PM 1 hour -3 hours CLST Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 11:00:00 PM No -4 hours CLT This is how it should be changed (after gvmnt decree): Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 11:59:59 PM 1 hour -3 hours CLST Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 11:00:00 PM No -4 hours CLT Source: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=232 This event sent from IssueTracker by mgiles issue 167229
Update on issue: The change requested, so far, is for Continental Chile and Antarctica only. On the same date, but at a different time, there has to be a change for Easter Island and Salas y Gomez Island, too as follows: Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 9:59:59 PM 1 hour -5 hours EASST Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 9:00:00 PM No -6 hours EAST Source: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=914 # date Tue Mar 4 15:54:43 EASST 2008 # date -d "now + 5 days" Sun Mar 9 14:54:46 EAST 2008 This event sent from IssueTracker by mgiles issue 167229
Created attachment 296808 [details] Fix for this problem. Upstream has been notified 11/Feb but shows no activity since then. I attach my stab at the problem. It transitions Sat Mar 29 23:59:59 -> 23:00:00. I made it a permanent rule (i.e. it's scheduled also for following years), but actually have no idea what's in plan. Do you know anything closer?
I forgot to attach Antarctica in the patch, but have it handy. Easter Island and Salas y Gomez Island are both Pacific/Easter and use the rules of continental Chile. They transition as follows under the patched tzdata: Sat Mar 29 21:59:59 2008 -> 21:00:00
Regarding question in Comment #5, AFAIK, the government of Chile did this change to extend DST due to severe draughts in their country (thus affecting hydraulic power generation). So maybe this change will not be permanent, probably next year they will get back to "normal" DST changes. Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 11:59:59 PM 1 hour -3 hours CLST Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 11:00:00 PM No -4 hours CLT Source: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=232
Thanks, but unfortunately I've just started spinning a build. I guess it's not a problem, official tzdata upstream is probably to appear shortly, and we will rebase many times before next year.
Created attachment 297184 [details] Another patch that only made change for this year http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2089/focus=2094
Petr Machata has already built the packages with the updated time zone data. Unfortunately, there was no time to upload them to the Red Hat Network (RHN) servers in time for the change so, as a convenience, Petr has kindly made the packages available at the following URLs until they're availabe as errata on RHN: http://people.redhat.com/~pmachata/tzdata/2.1/ http://people.redhat.com/~pmachata/tzdata/3/ http://people.redhat.com/~pmachata/tzdata/4/ http://people.redhat.com/~pmachata/tzdata/5/
Official tzdata upstream[1] has published new timezone files. Are you going to wait until tzdata2008b.tar.gz appears in order to release a new RPM package or just use tzdata2008a.tar.gz? [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2102
I don't think there is a reason to go with official upstream. If I'm reading the mailing list correctly, the only proposed changes were Chile, or commentary, or code. The first one is covered in our package, the other two are not interesting for tzdata package. We will wait for 2008b, or whichever next version brings in important changes.
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 the 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-2008-0185.html