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

[guy keren]

On 09/07/2013 11:22 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> 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 out of date: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

did that now on ubuntu 12.04.

need to upgrade both tzdata and tzdata-java together to avoid breaking 
dependencies... i don't like taking packages from newer ubuntu versions 
- got a feeling it'll bite me sometime soon... oh, well...


-guy