Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2.

2008-10-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 02:11:45AM -0200, Mauro Lizaur wrote: Package: tzdata Version: 2008e-3 Severity: normal Argentina's timezone is GMT -3, but tzdata gives GMT -2, So instead of the clock has moved one hour forward, and the daylight saving (or 'summer time') doesn't starts until

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2.

2008-10-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Margarita Manterola a écrit : Argentinian government hasn't decided upon the Daylight Saving times for 2008. They might happen in October, November, December or not happen at all. tzdata 2008-e release (present in Etch and Lenny) has the switch scheduled for today, so a lot of boxes are

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2.

2008-10-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the sources, the information comes from http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 . Could you please confirm it is correct? The title says They may change the time by the third Sunday in October In

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2.

2008-10-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 08:44:00AM -0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the sources, the information comes from http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 . Could you please confirm it is correct?

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2.

2008-10-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The title says They may change the time by the third Sunday in October Actually someone asked upstream to do the change based on this document. I understand that. What I don't understand is how upstream accepted such

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2.

2008-10-05 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:47:55 -0200, Fernando J. Rodríguez (Herr Groucho) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For us Argentinians it is easier to just give up on automatic adjustments of local time with respect to UTC and manually set etc/gmt-4, etc/gmt-3 or etc/gmt-2 as time zone as the occasion

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2

2008-10-05 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 02:30:59 -0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: Argentinian government hasn't decided upon the Daylight Saving times for 2008. They might happen in October, November, December or not happen at all. tzdata 2008-e release (present in Etch and Lenny) has the switch

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2

2008-10-05 Thread Daniel Bareiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 05 October 2008 19:59:32 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Argentinian government hasn't decided upon the Daylight Saving times for 2008. They might happen in October, November, December or not happen at all. tzdata 2008-e release

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2

2008-10-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Daniel Bareiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will we be in the presence of a generalized bug in the definition of the zone? Are used common definitions in all these operating systems? Indeed the problem was in upstream's definition of Argentina's timezone. They

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2.

2008-10-04 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Package: tzdata Version: 2008e-3 Severity: normal Argentina's timezone is GMT -3, but tzdata gives GMT -2, So instead of the clock has moved one hour forward, and the daylight saving (or 'summer time') doesn't starts until next summer (in aprox, 3 months). Installing tzdata from unstable,

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2.

2008-10-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
Argentinian government hasn't decided upon the Daylight Saving times for 2008. They might happen in October, November, December or not happen at all. tzdata 2008-e release (present in Etch and Lenny) has the switch scheduled for today, so a lot of boxes are currently showing the wrong time.

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2.

2008-10-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
tags 501169 +patch thanks Here's the patch. Attaching it as a single patch, and as a debdiff. This is for the version in unstable. I'll send the one for Etch in a different mail (the patch is almost the same, but the diff doesn't apply due to a small change). -- Besos, Marga Index:

Bug#501169: tzdata has moved the GMT from -3 to -2.

2008-10-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
Patches for the Etch version. The debdiff includes a debhelper log file, that I guess was removed upon clean or something. I have the packages that I built and tested located at: http://www.marga.com.ar/~marga/debian/tzdata/ -- Besos, Marga Index: tzdata-2008e/tzsource/southamerica