[Bug 1573045] Re: tzdata is swapping UTC for CDT local time

[Benjamin Drung]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

Your clock was running with the local time, but the system expected the
clock to run in UTC. The solution is to update the clock to the correct
time in UTC. Then setting the correct timezone will give you the correct
local time.

** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  tzdata is swapping UTC for CDT local time

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I'm in Chicago and the correct date/time is Thu Apr 21 08:33:02 UTC
  2016. There is no way I would be at work in the office at 3am :-)

  The UTC is picking up my CDT data. Even when I switch to another
  timezone, like Africa, UTC is showing local time CDT.

  
  jcrochon at achilles:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

  Current default time zone: 'America/Chicago'
  Local time is now:      Thu Apr 21 03:33:02 CDT 2016.
  Universal Time is now:  Thu Apr 21 08:33:02 UTC 2016.

  jcrochon at achilles:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

  Current default time zone: 'Africa/Abidjan'
  Local time is now:      Thu Apr 21 08:33:11 GMT 2016.
  Universal Time is now:  Thu Apr 21 08:33:11 UTC 2016.

  jcrochon at achilles:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

  Current default time zone: 'America/Chicago'
  Local time is now:      Thu Apr 21 03:33:20 CDT 2016.
  Universal Time is now:  Thu Apr 21 08:33:20 UTC 2016.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: tzdata 2016d-0ubuntu0.16.04
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Thu Apr 21 03:36:03 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-07 (13 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160323)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: tzdata
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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