I'm forwarding this message from Avi Koski, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. AK: what's the exact geographic location of the place where things are wrong? --ado ________________________________ From: Koski Avi [mailto:Avi.Koski@comverse.com] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:46 AM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: Sagi Yoav Subject: Problem in DST fall back procedure Hi, We are using the files from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ There is a problem in the fall back procedure, which we encountered in all our tested platforms (Tru64 4.0D/4.0F, Linux AS3 Update 8, Solaris 9). We cahnged time to 01:55 , 4 Nov 2007. The time advances normally from 02:00hrs on and "does not fall back to 01:00hrs as desired". # date Sun Nov 4 02:01:23 EST 2007 # zdump -v US/Alaska | grep 2007 US/Alaska Sat Nov 3 23:05:42 2007 AKDT US/Alaska Sun Mar 11 10:59:59 2007 GMT = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 AKST isdst=0 gmtoff=-32400 US/Alaska Sun Mar 11 11:00:00 2007 GMT = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 AKDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-28800 US/Alaska Sun Nov 4 09:59:59 2007 GMT = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 AKDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-28800 US/Alaska Sun Nov 4 10:00:00 2007 GMT = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 AKST isdst=0 gmtoff=-32400 # zdump -v Canada/Yukon | grep 2007 Canada/Yukon Sat Nov 3 23:06:07 2007 YDT Canada/Yukon Sun Mar 11 10:59:59 2007 GMT = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 YST isdst=0 gmtoff=-32400 Canada/Yukon Sun Mar 11 11:00:00 2007 GMT = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 YDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-28800 Canada/Yukon Sun Nov 4 09:59:59 2007 GMT = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 YDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-28800 Canada/Yukon Sun Nov 4 10:00:00 2007 GMT = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 YST isdst=0 gmtoff=-32400 # Is there a patch to this problem? Please advise, Avi Koski - Comverse Ltd., Platform Linux Group Tel: +972-50-7348330