misc/159707: Olson's timezone database is old for Russia in 7.X/8.X

Konstantin konstantin.malov at kaspersky.com
Fri Aug 12 11:10:09 UTC 2011


>Number:         159707
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Olson's timezone database is old for Russia in 7.X/8.X
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug 12 11:10:08 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Konstantin
>Release:        8.X/7.X
>Organization:
Kaspersky Lab
>Environment:
>Description:
The problem is that in 7.X and 8.X (except CURRENT 8-STABLE) Olson’s timezone database for Europe is obsolete. 
I have found current version 8.33 only in RELENG_8.
This spring Russian government had canceled Daylight saving time.
So if you are still using 7.X or 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 in Russia, this fall you will definitely have problems with you timezone.
Whole country will stay with UTC+4 and you will back to winter time UTC+3. That is not good at all =)

Please update share/zoneinfo in src and add new /usr/share/zoneinfo/ files in binary update. 
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
1) Download new europe version from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ or from RELENG_8 to /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/
2) cd /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/
4) make clean; make install
5) (if it's needed) 
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Moscow /etc/localtime

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