In Lucid, I get the following results when checking the two time zone changes called out in this bug. You can see that on the Sun Mar 28 switch to DST, the times do not match between Europe/Samara vs. Europe/Moscow and Asia/Kamchatka vs. Asia/Magadan: $ apt-cache policy tzdata tzdata: Installed: 2010i-1 Candidate: 2010i-1 Version table: *** 2010i-1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ zdump -v -c 2010,2011 Europe/Moscow Europe/Moscow Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 23:15:52 1901 MMT isdst=0 gmtoff=9000 Europe/Moscow Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 23:15:52 1901 MMT isdst=0 gmtoff=9000 Europe/Moscow Sat Mar 27 22:59:59 2010 UTC = Sun Mar 28 01:59:59 2010 MSK isdst=0 gmtoff=10800 Europe/Moscow Sat Mar 27 23:00:00 2010 UTC = Sun Mar 28 03:00:00 2010 MSD isdst=1 gmtoff=14400 Europe/Moscow Sat Oct 30 22:59:59 2010 UTC = Sun Oct 31 02:59:59 2010 MSD isdst=1 gmtoff=14400 Europe/Moscow Sat Oct 30 23:00:00 2010 UTC = Sun Oct 31 02:00:00 2010 MSK isdst=0 gmtoff=10800 Europe/Moscow Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 06:14:07 2038 MSK isdst=0 gmtoff=10800 Europe/Moscow Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 06:14:07 2038 MSK isdst=0 gmtoff=10800 $ zdump -v -c 2010,2011 Europe/Samara Europe/Samara Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 00:06:28 1901 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=12036 Europe/Samara Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sun Dec 15 00:06:28 1901 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=12036 Europe/Samara Sat Mar 27 21:59:59 2010 UTC = Sun Mar 28 01:59:59 2010 SAMT isdst=0 gmtoff=14400 Europe/Samara Sat Mar 27 22:00:00 2010 UTC = Sun Mar 28 02:00:00 2010 SAMST isdst=1 gmtoff=14400 Europe/Samara Sat Oct 30 22:59:59 2010 UTC = Sun Oct 31 02:59:59 2010 SAMST isdst=1 gmtoff=14400 Europe/Samara Sat Oct 30 23:00:00 2010 UTC = Sun Oct 31 02:00:00 2010 SAMT isdst=0 gmtoff=10800 Europe/Samara Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 06:14:07 2038 SAMT isdst=0 gmtoff=10800 Europe/Samara Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 06:14:07 2038 SAMT isdst=0 gmtoff=10800 $ zdump -v -c 2010,2011 Asia/Magadan Asia/Magadan Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 06:49:04 1901 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=36192 Asia/Magadan Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sun Dec 15 06:49:04 1901 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=36192 Asia/Magadan Sat Mar 27 14:59:59 2010 UTC = Sun Mar 28 01:59:59 2010 MAGT isdst=0 gmtoff=39600 Asia/Magadan Sat Mar 27 15:00:00 2010 UTC = Sun Mar 28 03:00:00 2010 MAGST isdst=1 gmtoff=43200 Asia/Magadan Sat Oct 30 14:59:59 2010 UTC = Sun Oct 31 02:59:59 2010 MAGST isdst=1 gmtoff=43200 Asia/Magadan Sat Oct 30 15:00:00 2010 UTC = Sun Oct 31 02:00:00 2010 MAGT isdst=0 gmtoff=39600 Asia/Magadan Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 14:14:07 2038 MAGT isdst=0 gmtoff=39600 Asia/Magadan Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 14:14:07 2038 MAGT isdst=0 gmtoff=39600 $ zdump -v -c 2010,2011 Asia/Kamchatka Asia/Kamchatka Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 07:20:28 1901 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=38076 Asia/Kamchatka Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sun Dec 15 07:20:28 1901 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=38076 Asia/Kamchatka Sat Mar 27 13:59:59 2010 UTC = Sun Mar 28 01:59:59 2010 PETT isdst=0 gmtoff=43200 Asia/Kamchatka Sat Mar 27 14:00:00 2010 UTC = Sun Mar 28 02:00:00 2010 PETST isdst=1 gmtoff=43200 Asia/Kamchatka Sat Oct 30 14:59:59 2010 UTC = Sun Oct 31 02:59:59 2010 PETST isdst=1 gmtoff=43200 Asia/Kamchatka Sat Oct 30 15:00:00 2010 UTC = Sun Oct 31 02:00:00 2010 PETT isdst=0 gmtoff=39600 Asia/Kamchatka Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 14:14:07 2038 PETT isdst=0 gmtoff=39600 Asia/Kamchatka Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 14:14:07 2038 PETT isdst=0 gmtoff=39600