new version 2009l - Egypt DST change

I can confirm that this is the case. The output from "date" reads:

Sat Aug 22 11:31:48 EEST 2009

The time is actually 10:31:48 presently but the timezone is correctly indicated here as EEST.

This is also a bug problem in Debian Lenny/Stable, FYI.

I found the line (#280) in the source that contains the problem:

Rule Egypt 2009 only - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 -

This should be changed to:

Rule Egypt 2009 only - Aug 20 23:00s 0 -
Rule Egypt 2010 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 -

The above two lines reflect the actual end of daylight savings this year and the probable end next year. Egypt changed the end of DST this year to happen just before the beginning of the Islamic Hijri month of Ramadan, which this year began on Saturday 22 August, the time shift occurred at midnight on Thursday 20/Friday 21 August and changed the clock back one hour to 23:00 Thursday 20 August. Next year the government will likely revert to their standard shift date which is at the end of September.

confirmed in jaunty

This problem has been patched upstream in: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2009l.tar.gz

2009l synced into Karmic.

- Updates DST rules for Egypt (effective from August 20, 2009)
- Updates DST rules for Mauritius (effective from 2010)

All uploaded, awaiting SRU processing.

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I installed the intrepid-proposed package and the clock now shows the correct time, thanks!

Oops, sorry, I meant I installed the jaunty-proposed package.

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009l-0ubuntu0.9.04

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tzdata (2009l-0ubuntu0.9.04) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version 2009l: (LP: #416980)
    - Updates DST rules for Egypt (effective from August 20, 2009)
    - Updates DST rules for Mauritius (effective from 2010)
  * Drop fix-bdst-syntax.diff, applied upstream.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:38:12 +0200

Verified for hardy-proposed. Before:

$ TZ=Africa/Cairo date
Di 25. Aug 22:56:24 EEST 2009

With proposed tzdata update:

$ TZ=Africa/Cairo date
Di 25. Aug 21:57:11 EET 2009

Verified for intrepid-proposed packages, too.

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009l-0ubuntu0.8.10

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tzdata (2009l-0ubuntu0.8.10) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version 2009l: (LP: #416980)
    - Updates DST rules for Egypt (effective from August 20, 2009)
    - Updates DST rules for Mauritius (effective from 2010)
  * Drop fix-bdst-syntax.diff, applied upstream.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:42:55 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009l-0ubuntu0.8.04

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tzdata (2009l-0ubuntu0.8.04) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version 2009l: (LP: #416980)
    - Updates DST rules for Egypt (effective from August 20, 2009)
    - Updates DST rules for Mauritius (effective from 2010)
  * Drop fix-bdst-syntax.diff, applied upstream.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:47:14 +0200

Verified updated locales package in dapper, too.

langpack-locales dapper-proposed copied to -updates.