Description of problem: wrong end date for DST Africa/Cairo 2009 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tzdata-2008i-1.el5.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo | grep 2009 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 21:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu Apr 23 23:59:59 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 22:00:00 2009 UTC = Fri Apr 24 01:00:00 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 27 20:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu Aug 27 23:59:59 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 27 21:00:00 2009 UTC = Thu Aug 27 23:00:00 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 2. 3. Actual results: end date should be Thu Sep 24 2009 (Last Thursday in September at 23:59:59) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958729/ Expected results: Additional info:
If I understand it correctly, Cairo DST should switch at midnight of local time. That's what I see in your output. Is it supposed to be midnight UTC? Can you reference any materials supporting that claim? Thanks.
Disregard that, you talk about the end date.
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-2009-0422.html