[tz] Issue in Time Zone Database for Kazakhstan's zones

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/28/2016 04:15 AM, Zhanibek Adilbekov wrote:
> After upgrading tzdata to 2016d version some of applications unable to 
> determine right timezone for all zones which belong to Kazakhstan. I 
> personally use Asia/Almaty (which is +06:00 and no DST) on my machine 
> (Arch Linux with Plasma 5.6), and it leads some programs to produce 
> unexpected results. E.g.: Digital Clock applet shows -12 hours from 
> current time and Plasma Lockscreen shows time in UTC.


I'm not observing this problem on Fedora 23 (2016d-1.fc23) with 
gnome-clocks (3.18.0-1.fc23).

Other users have reported problems with the Plasma Digital Clock applet 
after earlier tzdata upgrades. See for example:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193233

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343610

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?69655-Issues-with-Plasma-Digital-Clock-Widget

The first thread says that a relevant bug was fixed in plasma 5.5; are 
you running that version? If not, I suggest upgrading. If so, perhaps 
there are other, similar bugs that haven't been fixed yet.