[Bug 1910162] Re: jq fromdate is one hour off and hence FTBFS when local time is during daylight savings

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

Tested fine from the PPA, change is still the same that Alex proposed for Hirsute.
Uploading to F/G-unapproved

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Title:
  jq fromdate is one hour off and hence FTBFS when local time is during
  daylight savings

Status in jq package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in jq source package in Focal:
  Triaged
Status in jq source package in Groovy:
  Triaged
Status in jq source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released
Status in jq package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * An upstream change in version 1.6 turned out to break
     depending on the current timezone (that is how it went undetected
     for so long)

   * Upstream undid the change and we want to follow them by backporting 
     that.

  [Test Case]

   * root at h:~# TZ=America/New_York jq -n '"2018-08-31T00:00:00Z"|fromdate|todate'
  "2018-08-31T01:00:00Z"

  This should return the same time as it was passed.

  [Where problems could occur]

   * jq can do many things and handling date conversions is just a small 
     fraction of it. But in that fraction fromdate|todate and regressions 
     would happen to take place.
     And vice versa - if a jq user does not use those conversions it should 
     be a no-op for him.

     Another regression could be if users were aware and added workarounds 
     (like doing -1 after the conversion). Obviously by fixing this it would 
     then be -1 off afterwards.

  
  [Other Info]
   
   * n/a

  ---

  When trying to build jq locally it FTBFS for me since the unit tests
  that run during the build and check the output of fromdate fail:

  Testing 'fromdate' at line number 642
  *** Expected 1425599507, but got 1425603107 for test at line number 644: fromdate
  Testing 'strptime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")' at line number 646
  Testing 'strptime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")|mktime' at line number 650
  *** Expected 1425599507, but got 1425603107 for test at line number 652: strptime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")|mktime

  This is caused by this upstream bug
  https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/2001 which was fixed by this
  upstream commit
  https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/3c5b1419a278dfb192666b33197dc182c670290d
  but this fix is not yet in 1.6-2 as shipped in Ubuntu.

  See attached for a debdiff which includes the upstream patch to
  resolve this.

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