FW: Bug#351049: libc6: America/Havana DST info wrong for 2005/2006

[Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lionel Elie Mamane [mailto:lionel at mamane.lu] 
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 9:18 AM
To: Debian Bug Tracking System
Subject: Bug#351049: libc6: America/Havana DST info wrong for 2005/2006

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.5-12.1
Severity: normal

Cuba did not switch back to non-DST time on October 2005, but the
timezone info in libc thinks it did:


Rule    Cuba    2005    max     -       Oct     lastSun 0:00s   0
S

That line should probably be changed to

Rule    Cuba    2006    max     -       Oct     lastSun 0:00s   0
S


Source:

 http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=99
 (and a friend that spent vacation in Cuba)

Note that the timezone/northamerica says:

# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28):
# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year.
# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-28):
# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html
# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras
# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return
# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)".
# For now, let's assume that it's a one-year temporary measure.
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So it became a two-year temporary measure? We are not sure if it won't
become a 3+ year temporary measure.

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