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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:32:29 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: timezones

On 29-Sep-2011 20:21:03 +0400, Solar Designer wrote:

 > Earlier, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that he had
 > decided to abolish the use of daylight saving time from the autumn
 > of 2011. The same has been done by Belarus, Georgia and the
 > countries of Central Asia."
 > So at least Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, and "the countries
 > of Central Asia" (which ones?) are affected.

That's true. And the solution should look like

--- glibc-orig/timezone/europe     2011-05-31 08:12:33 +0400
+++ glibc/timezone/europe  2011-09-24 10:05:19 +0400
@@ -561,9 +561,9 @@
 #
 Rule   Russia  1992    only    -       Mar     lastSat  23:00  1:00    S
 Rule   Russia  1992    only    -       Sep     lastSat  23:00  0       -
-Rule   Russia  1993    max     -       Mar     lastSun  2:00s  1:00    S
+Rule   Russia  1993    2011    -       Mar     lastSun  2:00s  1:00    S
 Rule   Russia  1993    1995    -       Sep     lastSun  2:00s  0       -
-Rule   Russia  1996    max     -       Oct     lastSun  2:00s  0       -
+Rule   Russia  1996    2010    -       Oct     lastSun  2:00s  0       -
 
 # These are for backward compatibility with older versions.

Please note: _I didn't check that yet_. Also, the timezone names for
Russia have to be changed in accordance with internal names, but I
doubt those old farts wil accept this change:

-                        2:00   Russia  EE%sT
+                        2:00   Russia  EE%sT   2011 Mar lastSun 2:00s
+                        3:00   Russia  KLG

-                        3:00   Russia  MSK/MSD
+                        3:00   Russia  MSK/MSD 2011 Mar lastSun 2:00s
+                        4:00   Russia  MSK

-                        3:00   Russia  VOL%sT
+                        3:00   Russia  VOL%sT  2011 Mar lastSun 2:00s
+                        4:00   Russia  VOL

-                        4:00   Russia  SAM%sT  # Samara Time
+                        4:00   Russia  SAM

-                        5:00   Russia  YEK%sT  # Yekaterinburg Time
+                        5:00   Russia  YEK%sT  2011 Mar lastSun 2:00s
+                        6:00   Russia  YEK

-                        6:00   Russia  OMS%sT
+                        6:00   Russia  OMS%sT  2011 Mar lastSun 2:00s
+                        7:00   Russia  OMS

-                        6:00   Russia  NOV%sT
+                        6:00   Russia  NOV%sT  2011 Mar lastSun 2:00s
+                        7:00   Russia  NSK

-                        7:00   Russia  KRA%sT
+                        7:00   Russia  KRA%sT  2011 Mar lastSun 2:00s
+                        8:00   Russia  KRS

etc.

 > Perhaps this is already addressed in upstream glibc? (I haven't
 > checked.)

As for glibc-2.14, it is not.

 > What do other distros do about these things?

It looks like they wait for being pecked by a fried chicken.


-- 
Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin
<gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru>

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