Time is wrong (prematurely ended DST) in Chile

[Zero Piraeus]

Ubuntu 12.10 is still using the 2012e release of tzdata, which doesn't reflect the latest changes to Chilean Daylight Saving Time:

http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/chile-extends-dst-2013.html

As a result, the time for Chile is wrong by one hour, as of today.

Updating to the 2013a release:

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2013-March/000009.html

... ought to fix it.

[llongeri (llongeri)]

Ubuntu 12.04 is also affected.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Enrique Contreras (enrique-contreras-rodriguez)]

The government have applied the change and many system with ubuntu have been affected.
this is an official site where it explain the change http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm

Sat 27th April the clock will delay in one hour (GMT/UTC - 04) -For continental and Antartic
For Eastern Island will be the same (GMT/UTC - 06)

The change will remain until first week of September

Sat 7th September, clocks were turned forward 1 hour (GMT/UTC - 03) -For continental and Antartic
For Eastern Island will be the same (GMT/UTC - 05)

[Robert Schroll (rschroll)]

Note that Raring has the updated versions of tzdata. You can get them, http://launchpadlibrarian.net/133351892/tzdata_2013a-1ubuntu1_all.deb and http://launchpadlibrarian.net/133351894/tzdata-java_2013a-1ubuntu1_all.deb, and install them with `sudo dpkg -i tzdata*` (assuming you don't have any other tzdata files in that directory). This fixes this bug.

[Enrique Contreras (enrique-contreras-rodriguez)]

Thanks Robert, it works. You should add this patch to the updates for Ubuntu.

Regards.

[roko (kochrobert)]

Confirmed that the first patch works on Ubuntu 12.04. Didn't try yet the java patch.

[Zero Piraeus (schesis)]

Also confirming that rschroll's solution works (on 12.10). Does anything other than time/availability of people with the relevant privileges prevent those packages being applied to earlier releases?

[Robert Schroll (rschroll)]

On 03/11/2013 02:38 PM, roko wrote:
> Confirmed that the first patch works on Ubuntu 12.04. Didn't try yet the
> java patch.

If you don't have tzdata-java installed (I think it comes from OpenJDK),
there's no need to install the updated version. But if you do, you
really want to install both. Otherwise, apt will complain about broken
packages. tzdata-java depends on the specific version of tzdata, so you
want to have them on the same version.

On 03/11/2013 03:37 PM, Zero Piraeus wrote:
> Does anything other than time/availability of people with the
> relevant privileges prevent those packages being applied to earlier
> releases?

I don't think so. I believe these packages just contain data about
timezones, so there shouldn't be issues of compatibility. I've had no
problems with the new versions on either of my 12.04 systems.