<div><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="2"><span class="450262908-08102007">Hi</span>,<br>I wanted to update my linux box with the
recent DST changes in Australia/Newzealand. I downloaded the latest tzdata from
</font></font><a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/" target="_blank"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/</font></a><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"> and I compiled 'australasia' using zic compiler. I
replaced the latest timezone settings for Australia under /usr/share/zoneinfo.
<br><br>zdump shows the recent DST changes for Australian time zones. (from
2008, daylight savings starts on the first Sunday in October and end on the
first Sunday in April)<br><br>[root@a10-10-4-61 root]# zdump -v /etc/localtime |
grep 2008<br>/etc/localtime Sat Apr 5 16:29:59 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 02:59:59
2008 CST isdst=1 gmtoff=37800<br>/etc/localtime Sat Apr 5 16:30:00 2008 UTC =
Sun Apr 6 02:00:00 2008 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=34200<br>/etc/localtime Sat Oct 4
16:29:59 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 5 01:59:59 2008 CST isdst=0
gmtoff=34200<br>/etc/localtime Sat Oct 4 16:30:00 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 5 03:00:00
2008 CST isdst=1 gmtoff=37800<br>[root@a10-10-4-61 root]#<br><br>Now my problem
is, DST settings for Australia starts correctly on first sunday of October, but
it is not ending at first sunday of April.<br><br></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="2"><b>DST START: (working
perfectly)<br>---------</b><br>[root@a10-10-4-61 root]# date<br>Sun Oct 5 <font color="red">01:59:59</font> CST 2008<br>[root@a10-10-4-61 root]# date<br>Sun Oct 5
<font color="red">03:00:00</font> CST 2008<br>[root@a10-10-4-61
root]#<br><br></font></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="2"><b>DST END:
(not working)<br>--------</b><br>[root@a10-10-4-61 root]# date<br>Sun Apr 6
<font color="red">02:59:59</font> CST 2008<br>[root@a10-10-4-61 root]# date<br>Sun
Apr 6 <font color="red">03:00:00</font> CST 2008<br>[root@a10-10-4-61
root]#<br><br>To cross verify, I tried the same thing in Fedora Core 7 without
the patch, there also I observed the same behavior. i.e., without the patch, DST
correctly starts on last Sunday of October, but not ending at last Sunday of
march.<br><br></font></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="2"><span class="450262908-08102007">Is this an known issue? </span></font></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="2">Not sure if I am doing something wrong.
<br><br><span class="450262908-08102007"></span>Any help would be highly
appreciated.<br><br>Thanks for your time,</font></font></div>
<div><span class="450262908-08102007"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">Prabhu</font></span></div>