Comment 20 for bug 1158834

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Tomer Cohen (tomerc) wrote :

According to 'timedatectl' command, my system is set to remove the DST bit in a month from now, which means that Ubuntu users didn't suffer from today catastrophe, but if these users will be naive and think that their machines are up-to-date, it'd hit them when no one will alert enough time in advance, on October 6th.

$ timedatectl
      Local time: א' 2013-09-08 15:52:00 IDT
  Universal time: א' 2013-09-08 12:52:00 UTC
        Timezone: Asia/Jerusalem (IDT, +0300)
     NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no
      DST active: yes
 Last DST change: DST began at
                  ו' 2013-03-29 01:59:59 IST
                  ו' 2013-03-29 03:00:00 IDT
 Next DST change: DST ends (the clock jumps one hour backwards) at
                  א' 2013-10-06 01:59:59 IDT
                  א' 2013-10-06 01:00:00 IST

We need this emergency fix as soon as possible, because users are starting to look for workarounds, and not all these workarounds are good enough for daily use, and these workarounds could break packages when an update will arrive.