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

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2013/9/8 guy keren <guy.choo.keren at gmail.com>:
>
> 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 out of date: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...
The only way it bites afaik is that if you don't add the newer repos
and use pinning your much newer package may not be updated again
automatically until you switch to the newer release or your current
release ups the version number sufficiently....
Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו
>
>
> -guy
>
>
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