Description of problem: Everything shows that starting this Sunday [...] at least five provinces would not move forward the clocks. San Luis and Mendoza already confirmed it and in La Rioja, San Juan and Catamarca they say there is no oficial decision yet, but "very probably" they will not move the clock hands. And: It seems to be official in Catamarca and San Juan as well now, according to the press: [snip] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2389 Current tzdata package is not ready for this. We will have to issue an update. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tzdata-2008g How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ TZ=America/Argentina/Mendoza date +%Z -d '2008-10-18 12:00' ART $ TZ=America/Argentina/Mendoza date +%Z -d '2008-10-19 12:00' ARST Actual results: ART and ARST (transition occurs in Mendoza) Expected results: ART and ART (transition doesn't occur in Mendoza) Additional info: Customers in Mendoza, San Juan, Catamarca and La Rioja could temporarily work around the problem by changing their zones to America/Argentina/San_Luis. Note that people from Chubut should keep their zone, America/Argentina/Catamarca.
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Created attachment 320544 [details] Proposed patch Sent upstream for feedback: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2390
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-2008-0969.html