[Bug 91418] Re: Time not updated when daylight savings switch made

[Benjamin Drung]

The bug is not about tzdata itself (that package contains only the
information about the timezones). Instead it is about the part of the
system that takes care of changing the local time when the daylight
saving switch is done. A solution/workaround is to change the system
clock to be in UTC. Then the hardware clock does not need to be changed.

Is someone still affected by this bug?

** Package changed: tzdata (Ubuntu) => ubuntu

** Changed in: ubuntu
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Time not updated when daylight savings switch made

Status in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: tzdata

  March 11, 2007, edgy did not update my clock.
  I had installed the edgy updates and i do find Adept Manager listing the tzdata_2007b_0ubuntu0.6.10_all.deb as been installed on 03/07/2007.

  I am using Dell Inspiron 5160, dual booting with XP.

  $ sudo dpkg -s tzdata
  Package: tzdata
  Status: install ok installed
  Priority: required
  Section: libs
  Installed-Size: 5728
  Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
  Architecture: all
  Version: 2007b-0ubuntu0.6.10
  Replaces: libc0.1, libc0.3, libc6, libc6.1, locales
  Description: Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data
   This package contains data that represent the history of local time for many
   representative locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to
   reflect changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets,
   and daylight-saving rules
  Original-Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc at lists.debian.org>

  $ sudo zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
  /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
  /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
  /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
  /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
  $

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