Comment 2 for bug 279980

I blogged a quick workaround for people suffering this bug:

    http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/10/08/php5-daylight-saving-dst-timezone-tzdata-ubuntu-hardy-lts/

(php5-timezonedb was synced and then removed from intrepid, largely because it seems that intrepid's php5 includes a patch to support using the system tzdata... would be awesome to get that patch into hardy!)