Hi, At Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:20:20 -0300, Marlon Dutra wrote: > This is Marlon, from Porto Alegre, Brazil (Debconf...). > > The Brazilian Federal Government, that rules the daylight saving time in > Brazil has published the decree about this year's DST. It'll be from > November 2nd through February 20th, 2005. > > I've fixed the file 'southamerica' in the source package 'libc6' myself, > and I'm spreading over the servers I administrate and forwarding through > some mailing lists. > > The main problem I see is that in the last year, the DST started on the > second Sunday in October (Sun >= 8), and by the file 'southamerica', > almost every machine running Debian today will become DST on next > Sunday, that's the second Sunday in this month. > > That might be a big hassle with unaware people. > > I don't know whether that could be considered as a reason to release an > update of the package libc6. Maybe it's reasonable doing that even in > Woody, in security.debian.org, once that that could a problem that would > affect many machines. The Brazilian Government, for example, has > thousands of Woodies running today. > > Anyway, the changed file 'southamerica' is available in my website. > Maybe you guys could forward it to the upstream maintainer, in order to > get it done in a next release of Glibc. > > http://hackers.propus.com.br/~marlon/dst/
Nice catch up. Your report is now reflected into tzdata2004e, and I update it to that version with your proposal for sarge in 2.3.2.ds1-18. It should be appeared in testing before 2 Nov. Thanks for your report. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
