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 in

Bug#501169: Give up: Argentina's time zone is not regular and therefore not predictable

2008-10-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Fernando J. Rodríguez (Herr Groucho) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can confirm that the sid version of the package fixes the problem. It doesn't really fix the problem. It just stalls it two weeks. Unless the government decides to do the change upon October 19th,

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 r

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 > sch

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 > d

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Bug#501169: Give up: Argentina's time zone is not regular and therefore not predictable

2008-10-05 Thread Fernando J. Rodríguez (Herr Groucho)
I can confirm that the sid version of the package fixes the problem. I checked all of the America/Argentina/* time zones and they all yield UTC-3 today, which is the correct time zone for all regions of the country as far as I can tell. I verified Argentina/Buenos_Aires and Argentina/Mendoza by

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: About the source of the DST change

2008-10-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 06:51:29AM -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Hi, > > I have just read the article, and it seems really like a bad idea to > have based the change on this. > > The article only talks about gossip and off-the-record information, > not to mention that it's not a well known news

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 correc

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"

Bug#501169: About the source of the DST change

2008-10-05 Thread Martín Ferrari
Hi, I have just read the article, and it seems really like a bad idea to have based the change on this. The article only talks about gossip and off-the-record information, not to mention that it's not a well known news source at all, so it's absolutely premature to make any change based on that.

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 a