Your message dated Sat, 17 Sep 2016 01:08:27 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#837797: tzdata: America/Eastern reports Local Mean Time by default instead of EST has caused the Debian Bug report #837797, regarding tzdata: America/Eastern reports Local Mean Time by default instead of EST to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: tzdata Version: 2016f-1 Severity: critical Tags: newcomer Justification: breaks unrelated software Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Running unit tests in Python while set timezone using the string 'America/Eastern'. The offset was reported as UTC-4.93333333333333333333 which resulted in a discrepency of about 4 minutes When running the same test on a server running Debian 8.5 with tzdata 2016f-0+deb8u1 the same test passed * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Changing timezone to 'EST' fixed the particular test and gave the expected -5 offset for Standard time, but I think EST and America/Eastern should be returning the same value * What was the outcome of this action? I was sad * What outcome did you expect instead? -5 offset instead of -4.9333... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_mean_time Here's a gist with an example: https://gist.github.com/gregflynn/2ac90ee0c39568f2e45f33ade476df51 -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.4-saddle (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tzdata depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 tzdata recommends no packages. tzdata suggests no packages. -- debconf information: tzdata/Zones/Antarctica: tzdata/Zones/Europe: tzdata/Zones/Australia: * tzdata/Zones/America: New_York tzdata/Zones/Atlantic: * tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC tzdata/Zones/Pacific: tzdata/Zones/Africa: tzdata/Zones/Asia: tzdata/Zones/Arctic: tzdata/Zones/Indian: * tzdata/Areas: America tzdata/Zones/US: tzdata/Zones/SystemV:
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--- Begin Message ---On 2016-09-16 13:33, Greg Flynn wrote: > You are definitely right on all points, can't believe I overlooked that. I > just saw the package difference and the change in default behavior and > wrongfully jumped to conclusions. My apologies and thank you for your help Thanks for your feedback, I am therefore closing the bug with this mail. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net
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