[Bug 1158834] Re: Daylight saving dates for Asia/Jerusalem need updating

[Yitzchak Gale]

@Tomer Cohen: You seem to be using Raring, which at this moment is on
version 2013b of the time zone database. That is why you will only be
hit on October 6. All other supported Ubuntu releases are on earlier
versions, so all those users were already hit today by this bug. (I am
using Quantal, so I was affected.) People testing the unreleased Saucy
will not be affected at all, since Saucy is already updated to 2013d. So
my statement above that "all Ubuntu-based machines in Israel are now
affected" was not quite correct - it is all machines using any supported
release of Ubuntu except Raring, and Raring users will soon be affected
too.

None of that detracts from the urgency of fixing this bug.

For any of the affected releases, I highly recommend the version of the
work-around posted above by @Roy Erez.

I am glad to see that the current tzdata package has already been ported
to Ubuntu and made it into Saucy. Let's hope the Ubuntu team can
expedite the process of approving it for backporting to all other
supported releases.

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Title:
  Daylight saving dates for Asia/Jerusalem need updating

Status in “tzdata” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The new POSIX definitions for daylight-saving in Israel are:
   # The law has been changed (2012-11-05): As of 2013, 
   # DST starts at 02:00 on the Friday before the last Sunday in March. 
   # DST ends at 02:00 on the first Sunday after October 1 
   # unless it occurs on the second day of the Jewish Rosh Hashana holiday, in which case,
   # DST ends a day later (i.e. at 02:00 the first Monday after October 1
   #Rule   NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON           AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
  Rule	Zion	      2013	     max     -         Mar      Fri>=23  2:00     1:00     D
  Rule	Zion	      2013	     2026    -        Oct       Sun>=2  2:00	     0          S
  Rule	Zion       2027	     only     -         Oct      4              2:00     0          S
  Rule	Zion	      2028	     2053    -        Oct      Sun>=2   2:00	     0          S

  In 2013 the change to DST is the same as before: 29-Mar-2013
  However the change to Standard time has moved from 28-Sep to 6-Oct

  This has been officially announced by the Knesset (Israeli parliament) but the documents are in Hebrew 
  I do not know whether this falls under 'bugs' or 'update request'

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