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

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2013/9/7 Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il>:
> 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 out of date: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?
Just download the up-to-date packages and install them manually..
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tzdata&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=tzdata&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

On my raring machine the tzdata 2013b-1ubuntu1 is still a bit out of
date (ie. Oct 5 instaed of Oct 27), but they still have a month to
correct that, or alternatively I'll likely anyhow do a slightly early
upgrade to 13.10....

Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו

> 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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