tzdata 2009n available - DST change in Pakistan

[Martin Pitt]

Binary package hint: tzdata

Only effective diff (others are just comment changes):

--- tzdata-2009m/asia 2009-09-03 16:23:43.000000000 +0200
+++ tzdata-2009n/asia 2009-09-22 21:05:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -1674,8 +1674,15 @@
 # advance clocks in the country by one hour from April 15 to
 # conserve energy"

-# From Arthur David Olson (2009-04-10):
-# Assume for now that Pakistan will end DST in 2009 as it did in 2008.
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-09-17):
+# "The News International," Pakistan reports that: "The Federal
+# Government has decided to restore the previous time by moving the
+# clocks backward by one hour from October 1. A formal announcement to
+# this effect will be made after the Prime Minister grants approval in
+# this regard."
+# <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=87168">
+# http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=87168
+# </a>

 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
 Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S
@@ -1683,7 +1690,7 @@
 Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
 Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
 Rule Pakistan 2009 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Pakistan 2009 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Pakistan 2009 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
 Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
    5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
0 martin@tick:~/ubuntu/tzdata

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Synced to karmic

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Test case:

wrong (with 2009m):

$ TZ=Asia/Karachi date
Mo 5. Okt 16:52:52 PKST 2009

correct (with 2009n):
$ TZ=Asia/Karachi date
Mo 5. Okt 15:52:41 PKT 2009

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

All uploaded (langpack-locales for dapper again, tzdata for other releases), now needs another SRU member to process.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Accepted into dapper-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Accepted into hardy-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Accepted into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I installed the updates from archive.u.c., and verified that the Pakistan time is now correct. I also tried some other time zones. Package installs and upgrades correctly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009n-0ubuntu0.9.04

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tzdata (2009n-0ubuntu0.9.04) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version 2009n: (LP: #442995)
    - Update DST rule for Pakistan, effective from Oct 1

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:47:23 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009n-0ubuntu0.8.10

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tzdata (2009n-0ubuntu0.8.10) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version 2009n: (LP: #442995)
    - Update DST rule for Pakistan, effective from Oct 1

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:49:11 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009n-0ubuntu0.8.04

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tzdata (2009n-0ubuntu0.8.04) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version 2009n: (LP: #442995)
    - Update DST rule for Pakistan, effective from Oct 1

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:50:31 +0200

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

langpack-locales dapper-proposed copied to -updates.