Australian timezone incorrectly labelled in date output
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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tzdata (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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tzdata (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
When running the "date" command with my timezone set to "Australia/
The correct label for Australian Eastern Standard Time is AEST.
In addition, the label for Australian Eastern Daylight Time doesn't appear to exist. This should be AEDT. As an example, a nearby timezone, the New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT) label is correctly displayed when daylight time is in effect.
The non-existence of the AEDT timezone causes a lot of trouble when you are working with hosts across states in the Australian Eastern timezones. One of these states, Queensland, does not have daylight time in summer. So when you are looking at the date on a host in Sydney that should be in AEDT, and a host in Brisbane that should be in AEST, both are reporting they are in "EST", but an hour apart.
This problem is not limited to the Ubuntu distribution; it also exists in RHEL, that I'm aware of.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 21 13:43:12 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: firefox 3.5.7+nobinonly
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(gnome-
(polkit-
(nautilus:3809): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(firefox:3897): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
Changed in tzdata (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in tzdata (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Won't Fix |
tags: | added: karmic raring |
Changed in tzdata (Debian): | |
status: | Won't Fix → Fix Released |
Moving to tzdata as this is not a Firefox issue.