My timezone seems to have just changed to Argentina Summer Time $ date "+%H:%M:%S %z %Z" 01:39:17 -0200 ARST If this change was correct, I'd expect to have heard something about it in the news. *Spring* started a few weeks ago, not summer. Is it really supposed to start now?
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
My timezone seems to have just changed to Argentina Summer Time
$ date "+%H:%M:%S %z %Z" 01:39:17 -0200 ARST
If this change was correct, I'd expect to have heard something about it in the news. *Spring* started a few weeks ago, not summer. Is it really supposed to start now?
According to this website: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/argentina-dst-2008-2009.html and a thread that I just noticed on this mailing list, it's supposed to start on October 19th. Today is 5th. By the way, I use Ubuntu Hardy (maybe you already fixed the tzdata but Ubuntu didn't pick it).
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
According to this website: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/argentina-dst-2008-2009.html
and a thread that I just noticed on this mailing list, it's supposed to start on October 19th. Today is 5th.
By the way, I use Ubuntu Hardy (maybe you already fixed the tzdata but Ubuntu didn't pick it).
I just looked on "important" news sites... didn't find any news on the timezone changing, but *their* clocks match mine! (2:32), while time-dedicated sites like timeanddate.com say it changes on the 19th and show a different time (1:32).
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:48:09 -0200 From: Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com> Message-ID: <gc9dd4$cvb$2@ger.gmane.org> | By the way, I use Ubuntu Hardy (maybe you already fixed the tzdata but | Ubuntu didn't pick it). The current tzdata seems to say that the start date should be the first Sunday on or after the 15th (the 3rd Sunday in October. This year, that is the 19th.) I am not sure if we are certain that "3rd Sunday" is correct, but Oct 19 2008 seems to have been intended. You can fetch the current tzdata from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2008f.tar.gz (or from ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/tzdata2008f.tar.gz ) Assuming your system providez the zic command, you should be able to convert the southamerica file in the tzdata distribution into the zone files for all the South American zones, including all of those for Argentina. Beware that there will soon be another update to deal with recent changes in Brazil. If you don't have zic (in /usr/sbin most likely) then you can also fetch the sources: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2008e.tar.tz is the most recent (or from the similar path at munnari.oz.au), build that, and use the zic contained there - but only do that as a last resort, and test the zone files produces from that zic before installing them to ensure they're compatible with your libc routines. kre
At least in ubuntu hardy, with current updates, tzdata is at 2008e (not 2008f) which expected the change to be today... If you have the binary tzdata package installed, all you have to do is: cd /tmp wget ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2008f.tar.gz tar xzvf tzdata2008f.tar.gz zic southamerica :-) I just reported this in Launchpad, but I don't think they'll upgrade the package today :-( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/278623 Robert Elz escribió el 05/10/08 03:03:
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:48:09 -0200 From: Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com> Message-ID: <gc9dd4$cvb$2@ger.gmane.org>
| By the way, I use Ubuntu Hardy (maybe you already fixed the tzdata but | Ubuntu didn't pick it).
The current tzdata seems to say that the start date should be the first Sunday on or after the 15th (the 3rd Sunday in October. This year, that is the 19th.) I am not sure if we are certain that "3rd Sunday" is correct, but Oct 19 2008 seems to have been intended.
You can fetch the current tzdata from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2008f.tar.gz
(or from ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/tzdata2008f.tar.gz )
Assuming your system providez the zic command, you should be able to convert the southamerica file in the tzdata distribution into the zone files for all the South American zones, including all of those for Argentina. Beware that there will soon be another update to deal with recent changes in Brazil.
If you don't have zic (in /usr/sbin most likely) then you can also fetch the sources: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2008e.tar.tz is the most recent (or from the similar path at munnari.oz.au), build that, and use the zic contained there - but only do that as a last resort, and test the zone files produces from that zic before installing them to ensure they're compatible with your libc routines.
kre
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Mariano Absatz - El Baby wrote:
At least in ubuntu hardy, with current updates, tzdata is at 2008e (not 2008f) which expected the change to be today...
The scary thing was seeing the wrong time in clarin.com... My iPod also thinks we're in DST, and my dad's Mac doesn't. What a mess
There is some interesting discussion here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501169
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