[tz] Summer time during WW2 for Europe/Zagreb

[Andreas Schwab]

Miro <disponiblekonto at yahoo.com> writes:

> Anyway, I have Arch Linux installed with latest tzdata package: 2011n. Package
> information is available at:
> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/tzdata. I noticed weird behaviour
> in Firefox when I try to enter some dates during WW2. Basically summer time
> doesn't get accounted for. Here is a simple test I ran in Firefox:
>
> 8<---------------------------------------------------------
> var d = new Date(Date.UTC(1942, 5, 11, 22, 0, 0, 0));
>
> // Firefox 8.0.1, Rhino 1.7 release 3 2011 10 16
> d.toString(); // Thu Jun 11 1942 23:00:00 GMT+0100 (CET)
>
> // this is what I expect:
> // Chrome15, IE8, nodejs 0.6.2, and code in Java and Ruby
> d.toString(); // Fri Jun 12 1942 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (CEST)
> --------------------------------------------------------->8

Try running this in a shell:

$ TZ=Europe/Zagreb date -d '1942-06-11 22:00 UTC' +'%c %z'

If this prints the correct date then the bug is most likely in firefox.
If not then there is something wrong with your tzdata installation.

Andreas.

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