Chile Summer Time CLST Transition Delay Not Updated

[Nicosierra]

The transition from CLST to CLT was historically made each second Saturday of March, and from CLT to CLST each second Satuday of October.

Today times were automatically updated according to this, but since 2010, official time has been changed and updated according to different decrees (see http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm, which holds official time information and the new dates for this year).

Translating the information, for this year:

Start of 2012 Winter Time:

According to Supreme Decree #225, from February, 27th 2012, from "Ministerio del Interior":

a. For continental and Chilean Antarctic Territory.

On April, 28th 2012, at 24.00 hours, time will be delayed to 23.00 hours of the same date. (CLST -> CLT)

b. Easter Island and Salas y Gómez Islands

On April, 28th 2012, at 22.00 hours, time will be delayed to 21.00 hours of the same date. (GMT -5 -> GMT -6)

This will aplied until September, 1st 2012. Usually (this doesn't appear on the website) on that that, at 24.00 hours time will be updated to 01.00 hours of the following date.

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[komputes (komputes)]

Assigned bug to tzdata (time zone and daylight-saving time data) package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[komputes (komputes)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Nicosierra, could you kindly either indicate the release and package version or simply execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 952293

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[valerio (anziolin)]

IANA db already contains the changes for new chile timezone. Just download the source tzdata package (apt-get source tzdata), unpack it, download the new IANA file (https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2012b.tar.gz), unpack inside package source directory and rebuild the package.
Could anyone who has the power please rebuild the packages in the repositories, so that I don't have to fix all my machines one by one. Thanks

[Nicosierra (nicosierra)]

Well yesterday through the system updates, I got a daylight time saving update. Now Chile time it's properly working, and as valerio said, the installed package was tzdata-java_2012b-0ubuntu0.11.10_amd64.deb.

What I can recomend is to get the lastly system updates.

Cheers

[Li Chong (l-chong-v)]

The change of timezone has been reprogramated to April 27th, and in Ubuntu 12.04.2 has done today, Sunday 10 of March.

[Chris Hermansen (c-hermansen)]

This is broken again in 12.10. It is daylight savings time here in continental Chile until 27 April.

Speaking to my colleagues here in Santiago, it seems that the whole world doesn't get this right (ie, even their cell phones).