Description of problem: As on June 1 2008 Pakistan will be introducing DST moving clocks ahead one hour. Ref http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Everytime. Steps to Reproduce: 1. zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Karachi | grep 2008 2. No DST definitions 3. Sigh at Yet Another Country Changing DST With Short Notice (YACCDSTWSN) Actual results: Lack of DST for Pakistan in 2008 Expected results: DST for Pakistan 2008 Additional info: This does of course apply to all versions of RHEL. New DST does not even appear to be in upstream tzdata set yet. I expect this will be fixed very shortly.
Created attachment 305928 [details] A fix... I guess The closest thing to official announcement that I found just mentions that the change will be introduced on Jun/1, and will last three months, which is not very exact. timeanddate.com think that DST will start 0:01 (local time) and end Aug/31 0:01. This is reasonable, because that matches transition points from previous DST period (both Sundays, 0:01).
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-2008-0506.html