Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Fernando Alegre <alegre@superlink.net>:
Bug#7994; Package timezone.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgFernando Alegre <alegre@superlink.net>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Acknowledgement sent to nordmark@mech.kth.se (Arne Nordmark):
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Fernando Alegre <alegre@superlink.net>.   nordmark@mech.kth.se (Arne Nordmark)  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 10 Mar 1997 22:28:30 +0000 Received: (qmail 9458 invoked from network); 10 Mar 1997 22:28:29 -0000 Received: from lindstedt.mech.kth.se (root@130.237.233.233) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 10 Mar 1997 22:28:28 -0000 Received: from ano.mech.kth.se (root@ppp1.mech.kth.se [130.237.233.191]) by lindstedt.mech.kth.se (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA07220 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:19:42 +0100 Received: by ano.mech.kth.se id m0w4DPx-000ORxC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:19:41 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:19:41 +0100 (MET) From: nordmark@mech.kth.se (Arne Nordmark) To: nordmark@mech.kth.se, submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: timezone: Most timezones seems to be 20 seconds off ??!? Package: timezone Version: 7.55-1 Am I missing something, or what? This is on a machine running timezone version 7.55-1: ano:~> dpkg -l timezone; date +%s; TZ=Europe/Stockholm date; TZ=GMT date Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii timezone 7.55-1 Data files needed to set your local time 858031228 Mon Mar 10 23:00:08 CET 1997 Mon Mar 10 22:00:08 GMT 1997 This is on a machine running timezone version 7.48-3: vulcan:~> dpkg -l timezone; date +%s; TZ=Europe/Stockholm date; TZ=GMT date Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii timezone 7.48-3 Timezone utilities and data files. 858031229 Mon Mar 10 23:00:29 MET 1997 Mon Mar 10 22:00:29 1997 Note that although the system clocks differ by only one second, the reported times differ by 21 seconds. The times reported by vulcan are the correct ones. Both machines run xntpd version 3.5f-4, to keep system clocks synchronized to UTC. -- System Information Debian Release: 1.2 Kernel Version: Linux ano 2.0.27 #1 Sun Mar 2 11:49:55 CET 1997 i586 unknown libc version 5.4.23 --- Begin /etc/timezone (modified conffile) Europe/Stockholm --- End /etc/timezone   Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Fernando Alegre <alegre@superlink.net>:
Bug#7994; Package timezone.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgFernando Alegre <alegre@superlink.net>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Acknowledgement sent to Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Fernando Alegre <alegre@superlink.net>.   Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Received: (at 7994) by bugs.debian.org; 11 Mar 1997 00:16:34 +0000 Received: (qmail 423 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1997 00:16:32 -0000 Received: from slip-89-4.ots.utexas.edu (root@128.83.219.148) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 11 Mar 1997 00:16:32 -0000 Received: by slip-89-4.ots.utexas.edu id m0w4F6S-0001gSC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:07:20 -0600 (CST) To: nordmark@mech.kth.se (Arne Nordmark), 7994@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#7994: timezone: Most timezones seems to be 20 seconds off ??!? References: From: Guy Maor Date: 10 Mar 1997 18:07:19 -0600 In-Reply-To: nordmark@mech.kth.se's message of Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:19:41 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <8767yzs33o.fsf@slip-64-2.ots.utexas.edu> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 nordmark@mech.kth.se (Arne Nordmark) writes: > Am I missing something, or what? timezone 7.55-1 is using right timezone files, while older versions used POSIX timezone files. The right ones correct for leap-seconds, and the POSIX ones don't. We had some discussion recently on debian-devel and the consensus was that this change was a bad idea. You should expect a new version of timezone pretty soon to go back to POSIX timezone files. Then your machines will agree again. Guy