[Bug 1031836] Re: Wrong timezone data for Port-au-Prince, Haiti: DST offset is ignored

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Citing Canonical support: "This missed 12.04 because feature freeze was
on February 16th and the release which corrected the Haiti DST issue was
release on April 3rd. The public bug will not see much work on it. I
have escalated this issue to our engineers using a private bug."

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Title:
  Wrong timezone data for Port-au-Prince, Haiti: DST offset is ignored

Status in “tzdata” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and despite choosing Port-au-Prince
  from the global map in Ubiquity, the time zone / resulting time is
  wrong. It will show for example 8AM when in fact it is 9AM. I've
  compared this with local time (radio, local mobile phones) and with
  different Internet sources to confirm.

  TimeAndDate.com reports the following correct information:

  Standard time zone:	UTC/GMT -5 hours
  Daylight saving time:	+1 hour
  Current time zone offset:	UTC/GMT -4 hours
  Time zone abbreviation:	EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
  Daylight Saving Time	DST started on dimanche 11 mars 2012, 02 h 00 local standard time
  DST ends on dimanche 4 novembre 2012, 02 h 00 local daylight time

  It's even more interesting that this change only happens *this year*:
  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=709

  I believe any Ubuntu system (and probably other Debian derivatives)
  running in this timezone are 1 hoour late as a result.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: tzdata 2012b-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Aug  1 11:08:57 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: tzdata
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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