Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

[Omer Zak]

I checked the timezone in two Linux machines.
One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise Pangolin - running in a virtual
machine).

I found to my horror that the timezone definitions in them are rather
out of date:

$ zdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013
Asia/Jerusalem  Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013
IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200
Asia/Jerusalem  Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013
IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Sep  7 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Sep  8 01:59:59 2013
IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Sep  7 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Sep  8 01:00:00 2013
IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200

Does anyone have the magic spell how to update the timezones to 2013d
for those machines?
I plan to upgrade the Debian machine to Debian Wheezy in few days, after
an important milestone in my project.  I do not have plans to upgrade
the Ubuntu virtual machine.

--- Omer

On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 21:34 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> I just checked my Mageia 3 and found that the files are from 2013c.
> 
> [solomon at shlomo1 ~]$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013
> Asia/Jerusalem  Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 IST isdst=0 
> Asia/Jerusalem  Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 IDT isdst=1 
> Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Oct  5 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct  6 01:59:59 2013 IDT isdst=1
> Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Oct  5 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct  6 01:00:00 2013 IST isdst=0
> 
> I then updated to 2013d from Cauldron (I wonder why no "production" version of 2013d). Now it looks OK.
> 
> [solomon at shlomo1 ~]$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013 
> Asia/Jerusalem  Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 IST isdst=0
> Asia/Jerusalem  Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 IDT isdst=1
> Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Oct 26 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:59:59 2013 IDT isdst=1
> Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Oct 26 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 2013 IST isdst=0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 21:24:19 +0300
> "Amichay P. K." <am1chay.p.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > tnx, my machine is ok :)
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