tzdata 2011j-1 available

[Gary Lasker]

There is a new tzdata version 2011h:

   - Russia abandons DST in June 2011 and forward
   - Change AN (Netherlands Antilles) to CW (Curacao), SX (Sint Maarten) and (BQ) Bonaire Sint Eustatius & Saba
   - Egypt abandons DST in 2011 (and forward) is included

Debian changelog entries:

tzdata (2011h-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correctly handle empty debconf values (how is that possible for a
    select entry?). Closes: #545146, #631878.

 -- Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:53:21 +0200

tzdata (2011h-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Ignore debconf errors, return default values in that case.
    Closes: #631878.

 -- Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:23:04 +0200

tzdata (2011h-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * Fix preseeding. Closes: #510908.

  [ Clint Adams ]
  * New upstream release.
  * Bump to Standards-Version 3.9.2.

 -- Clint Adams <email address hidden> Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:33:48 -0400

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Test case for Russia abandoning DST in June of 2011, timezone for the test is "Europe/Moscow":

Incorrect result with 2011g showing active DST transitions for Russia in 2011 for both March and October:

$ zdump -v Europe/Moscow | grep 2011
Europe/Moscow Sat Mar 26 22:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 01:59:59 2011 MSK isdst=0 gmtoff=10800
Europe/Moscow Sat Mar 26 23:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 03:00:00 2011 MSD isdst=1 gmtoff=14400
Europe/Moscow Sat Oct 29 22:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Oct 30 02:59:59 2011 MSD isdst=1 gmtoff=14400
Europe/Moscow Sat Oct 29 23:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Oct 30 02:00:00 2011 MSK isdst=0 gmtoff=10800

Correct result with 2011h showing the October transition has been removed (note that the March transition remains for historical purposes):

$ zdump -v Europe/Moscow | grep 2011
Europe/Moscow Sat Mar 26 22:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 01:59:59 2011 MSK isdst=0 gmtoff=10800
Europe/Moscow Sat Mar 26 23:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 03:00:00 2011 MSK isdst=0 gmtoff=14400

And checking next year (2012) with 2011h we see that there are no transitions at all:

$ zdump -v Europe/Moscow | grep 2012

(no result)

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

I've prepared the updates for Hardy, Lucid, Maverick and Natty and uploaded them to the following locations:

  http://people.canonical.com/~tremolux/tzdata_2011h_hardy/
  http://people.canonical.com/~tremolux/tzdata_2011h_lucid/
  http://people.canonical.com/~tremolux/tzdata_2011h_maverick/
  http://people.canonical.com/~tremolux/tzdata_2011h_natty/

Note that we are already updated for Oneiric as the version 2011h-3 has been synced from debian.

Many thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Whoops, sorry Gary, seems I totally missed the bug mail for this. Can you update to 2011j right away? That version is in oneiric now.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi Martin, my apologies as I should have pinged you on the 2011h updates when they were ready.

I've prepared the updates for 2011j for Hardy, Lucid, Maverick and Natty and uploaded them to the following locations:

  http://people.canonical.com/~tremolux/tzdata_2011j_hardy/
  http://people.canonical.com/~tremolux/tzdata_2011j_lucid/
  http://people.canonical.com/~tremolux/tzdata_2011j_maverick/
  http://people.canonical.com/~tremolux/tzdata_2011j_natty/

Please sponsor these and I will test them as soon as they are available in -proposed.

Many thanks as always!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Gary, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata 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!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Gary, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into lucid-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)]

Hello Gary, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into maverick-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)]

Hello Gary, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into natty-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!

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi Martin,

I have verified the updates in -proposed per the supplied test case for all of the following:

  hardy
  lucid
  maverick
  natty

Many thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2011j~repack-0ubuntu0.8.04

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tzdata (2011j~repack-0ubuntu0.8.04) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 2011j: (LP: #802778)
 -- Gary Lasker <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:52:15 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2011j-0ubuntu0.10.04

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tzdata (2011j-0ubuntu0.10.04) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 2011j: (LP: #802778)
 -- Gary Lasker <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:23:40 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2011j-0ubuntu0.10.10

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tzdata (2011j-0ubuntu0.10.10) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 2011j: (LP: #802778)
 -- Gary Lasker <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:12:09 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2011j-0ubuntu0.11.04

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tzdata (2011j-0ubuntu0.11.04) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 2011j: (LP: #802778)
 -- Gary Lasker <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:47:46 -0400

[Atis (ubuntu-atis)]

AFAIK after Russia abandoned DST, the Belarus (Europe/Minsk) followed:

http://timeanddate.com/news/time/belarus-eternal-dst.html

[Oleg Kolomiets (okolomiets)]

After Russia and Belarus, the Ukraine has also decided to observe DST year-round:
http://timeanddate.com/news/time/ukraine-vote-dst.html

[Oleg Kolomiets (okolomiets)]

Global time zone database closed following legal threat.

http://www.cso.com.au/article/403396/global_time_zone_database_closed_following_legal_threat/#closeme
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4133

Does it mean that further update is unreal from now?

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

@Oleg: tzdata is now working again: http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/time-zone-database-rebooted.html.