timezone changed to America/Adak

[Chad Aeschliman]

Binary package hint: tzdata

At install I selected America/Indiana/Indianapolis as my timezone. After the most recent update to tzdata (2011e-1) my timezone was changed to America/Adak. Here are the relevant lines from the terminal during install:

Setting up tzdata (2011e-1) ...

Current default time zone: 'America/Adak'

Local time is now: Mon Apr 4 13:46:31 HADT 2011.

Universal Time is now: Mon Apr 4 22:46:31 UTC 2011.

Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.

The UTC time listed was correct however the local time was not. Manually changing my timezone back to America/Indiana/Indianapolis using 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' as recommended fixed the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: tzdata 2011e-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 4 19:01:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tzdata
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Yaron (sh-yaron)]

You should probably try using:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Is this still happening or is it solved?

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

On package upgrade, tzdata reads the /etc/localtime symlink. If /etc/localtime pointed to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Indiana/Indianapolis before the package upgrade, it is a tzdata bug. Otherwise the problem lies somewhere else. Since this bug is very old, I am closing it as invalid (due to a lack of more information). If you have seen such behavior recently, please reopen this bug or open a new bug report.