From: Lionel Elie Mamane [mailto:lionel@mamane.lu] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 9:18 AM
Cuba did not switch back to non-DST time on October 2005, but the timezone info in libc thinks it did:
Thanks for reporting this. This bug was fixed in the tzdata2005o release (2005-11-28) and was propagated into libc last month. The Debian folks need not wait for libc patches; they can simply grab the latest time zone data from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata* themselves. This would be a nice thing to do, so that people could simply use 'aptitude' to keep their time zone tables up-to-date.
So it became a two-year temporary measure? We are not sure if it won't become a 3+ year temporary measure.
Yes, we don't know either. Currently we're still assuming that they will revert to standard time this year, on the last Sunday of October at 00:00, but this is just a guess.