Bug#837797: tzdata: America/Eastern reports Local Mean Time by default instead of EST

2016-09-16 Thread Greg Flynn
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 On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 7:14 PM Aurelien Jarno wrote:

Bug#837797: tzdata: America/Eastern reports Local Mean Time by default instead of EST

2016-09-15 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2016-09-14 14:15, Greg Flynn wrote: > 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 >

Bug#837797: tzdata: America/Eastern reports Local Mean Time by default instead of EST

2016-09-14 Thread Greg Flynn
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