Description of problem: When using a range of years to be displayed, data for the years 1901 and 1938 are displayed too, which it shouldn't. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-common-2.5-34.el5_3.1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. zdump -v -c loyear,hiyear zone Actual results: .qa.[root@ppcp-5s-m1 tps]# zdump -v -c 2009,2010 Africa/Cairo Africa/Cairo Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 22:45:52 1901 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 22:45:52 1901 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 21:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu Apr 23 23:59:59 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 22:00:00 2009 UTC = Fri Apr 24 01:00:00 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 20 20:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu Aug 20 23:59:59 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 20 21:00:00 2009 UTC = Thu Aug 20 23:00:00 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 05:14:07 2038 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 05:14:07 2038 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Expected results: .qa.[root@ppcp-5s-m1 tps]# zdump -v -c 2009,2010 Africa/Cairo Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 21:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu Apr 23 23:59:59 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 22:00:00 2009 UTC = Fri Apr 24 01:00:00 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 20 20:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu Aug 20 23:59:59 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 20 21:00:00 2009 UTC = Thu Aug 20 23:00:00 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Additional info: note also that the description of the "-c" parameter is incomplete (see the bug #517309) and the text is quite confusing (at least for me, but I'm not native English speaker :-))
-c only affects the display of the timezone transitions.
(In reply to comment #1) > -c only affects the display of the timezone transitions. well, while I do not seem to completely understand what is meant by "timezone transition", let's put the question in another way - if using -c does not work as I'd expect, is that possible to list only a range of years somehow?