[Bug 360807] Re: Pacific tz has wrong start/stop dates for DST

[David M. Karr]

The thread I started on c.l.j.p might have some relevant information:
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/dfa4f1e81bf06bc0#>.

As a result of this discussion, I replaced the hard file
"/etc/localtime" with a symlink to "/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific".
This appears to "fix" the problem, but I have no idea why (I'm waiting
for a response to that question). This is even more intriguing, as
before I replaced the hard file with a symlink, I did a "cmp" on the two
files, which showed they were identical.

Before I did the replacement, an "ls -l" on these files showed the
following:

davidkarr at davidkarr-desktop$ ls -lt /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific /etc/localtime 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2819 2009-04-06 08:30 /etc/localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2819 2009-03-30 07:56 /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific

Also as a result of this discussion, I downloaded and ran the
"tzupdater" tool, but this had no effect on the symptom.

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Pacific tz has wrong start/stop dates for DST
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360807
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