[Bug 772024] Re: tzdata update keeps changing my timezone

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This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2022g-2ubuntu1

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tzdata (2022g-2ubuntu1) lunar; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - Ship ICU 2022g timezone data files which are utilized by PHP
    - Do not rename NEWS into changelog.gz, this fixes a build failure on
      moment-timezone.js
    - Point Vcs-Browser/Git to Launchpad

tzdata (2022g-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Update Czech debconf translation.
    Thanks to Miroslav Kuře <kurem at upcase.inf.upol.cz> (Closes: #1027862)
  * Update Korean debconf translation.
    Thanks to Changwoo Ryu <cwryu at debian.org> (Closes: #1027983)
  * d/tzdata.config: Update Mideast/Riyadh8[789] to Asia/Riyadh
  * Address shellcheck complaints in postinst and tzdata.config
  * d/tzdata.config: Rename Pacific/Enderbury to Pacific/Kanton
  * Replace obsolete two-level American timezones by three-level timezones
  * Translate area "America" as "Americas" in English
    (Closes: #508118, LP: #599466)

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * Update Spanish debconf translation.
    Thanks to Jonatan Porras <jonatanpc8 at gmail.com>
  * Update Polish debconf translation.
    Thanks to Łukasz Dulny <BartekChom at poczta.onet.pl>
  * Update French debconf translation.
    Thanks to Baptiste Jammet <baptiste at mailoo.org>
  * Update Hebrew debconf translation.
    Thanks to Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il>
  * Update Swedish debconf translation.
    Thanks to Luna Jernberg <droidbittin at gmail.com>
  * Drop wrong conversion of the Pacific/Enderbury timezone

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * d/rules: Exclude obsolete Uzhgorod and Zaporozhye from debconf
  * Generate debconf templates with Python
  * Drop obsolete tzconfig command (use "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" instead)
  * Do not update US/* timezones to their America/* counterparts
    (Closes: #688318, LP: #772024)
  * Fix German translation of "Indian" to "Indischer Ozean"

 -- Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com>  Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:50:27 +0100

** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  tzdata update keeps changing my timezone

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in tzdata package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: tzdata

  Other than the fact that Chicago, Illinois is in US Central Timezone,
  I have no relationship to Chicago.  I am not in Chicago. I do not want
  to be in Chicago. I am in the Central Timezone. I am physically closer
  to other cities mentioned in tzdata. Selecting America/Chicago versus
  US/Central is not easier for me nor is it more intuitive.  I
  understand that the upstream tzdata package goes a long way in
  documenting all of the weirdness associated with timezones and
  different localities' treatment of timezones and daylight "savings"
  time. However, from an end-user perspective, the distribution should
  place no special importance or preference on one timezone
  specification or another. Likewise, if a user chooses a timezone, the
  system should never change it.

  To reproduce the issue:

  # Manually select US/Central
  me at ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
  [sudo] password for me: 

  Current default time zone: 'US/Central'
  Local time is now:      Wed Apr 27 16:05:02 CDT 2011.
  Universal Time is now:  Wed Apr 27 21:05:02 UTC 2011.

  # Validation that selection was accepted
  me at ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/timezone
  US/Central

  me at ubuntu:~$ md5sum /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central 
  6540624294b1193e22ed7a15692f2de7  /etc/localtime
  6540624294b1193e22ed7a15692f2de7  /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central

  me at ubuntu:~$ debconf-show tzdata
  debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
    tzdata/Zones/Australia:
  * tzdata/Zones/US: Central
    tzdata/Zones/Asia:
  * tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC
    tzdata/Zones/SystemV:
    tzdata/Zones/Arctic:
    tzdata/Zones/Pacific:
    tzdata/Zones/Antarctica:
    tzdata/Zones/Europe:
    tzdata/Zones/Africa:
  * tzdata/Zones/America: Chicago
  * tzdata/Areas: US
    tzdata/Zones/Atlantic:
    tzdata/Zones/Indian:

  # Force the package to reinstall
  me at ubuntu:~$ aptitude reinstall tzdata
  The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
    tzdata 
  0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/658 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
  Preconfiguring packages ...              
  (Reading database ... 168356 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace tzdata 2011g-0ubuntu0.11.04 (using .../tzdata_2011g-0ubuntu0.11.04_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement tzdata ...
  Setting up tzdata (2011g-0ubuntu0.11.04) ...

  Current default time zone: 'America/Chicago'
  Local time is now:      Wed Apr 27 16:05:22 CDT 2011.
  Universal Time is now:  Wed Apr 27 21:05:22 UTC 2011.
  Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.

  # Now previous indicators are reset to America/Chicago instead of
  US/Central

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: tzdata 2011g-0ubuntu0.11.04
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Apr 27 15:54:33 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
  SourcePackage: tzdata
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-10 (17 days ago)

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