582466 – =sys-libs/timezone-data-2016a: wrong information for America/Caracas

Bug 582466 - =sys-libs/timezone-data-2016a: wrong information for America/Caracas

Summary: =sys-libs/timezone-data-2016a: wrong information for America/Caracas

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2016-05-08 17:17 UTC by Jose Maldonado
Modified:	2016-05-15 11:35 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jose Maldonado 2016-05-08 17:17:00 UTC

The current time zone for Venezuela is GMT -4:00 since 1st May 2016, but sys-libs/timezone-data-2016a in Gentoo Stable, show "VET4:30"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Choice America/Caracas
2.Set Clock on system
3.Verify your system time with time on NTP or any service time on Internet
Actual Results:  
Wrong time zone for my country.

Expected Results:  
Correct time for my country.

Comment 1 Coacher 2016-05-08 20:13:43 UTC

This is fixed in timezone-data-2016d: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2016-April/000038.html

2016d is available in tree for a while now:
commit 1139c78920219461ff3e7a168d8f58a35e63c3a1
Author: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 19 21:41:05 2016 +0200

    sys-libs/timezone-data: version bump to 2016d

    Package-Manager: portage-2.2.26

 create mode 100644 sys-libs/timezone-data/timezone-data-2016d.ebuild