137459 – EST is an hour out.

Bug 137459 - EST is an hour out.

Summary: EST is an hour out.

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers

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Reported:	2006-06-20 22:59 UTC by Chris Bruner
Modified:	2006-06-22 12:30 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Chris Bruner 2006-06-20 22:59:31 UTC

/usr/share/zoneinfo/EST should be the same as
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern

/usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern gives the correct time.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-21 05:34:33 UTC

timezone-data and/or glibc version needed.

Comment 2 Chris Bruner 2006-06-21 10:40:38 UTC

Timezone data is 2006g
glibc is 2.4-r3

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-06-21 10:56:41 UTC

please e-mail any such concerns to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov, they maintain said timezone files

Comment 4 Ken Pizzini 2006-06-22 12:28:49 UTC

Canada/Eastern is *not* the same as EST.  EST is standard time year-round, but Canada/Eastern observes daylight saving time.  The difference in output is correct (pay attention to the time zone indicator).

Also, it is preferable to choose a city-based zone name (e.g., America/Toronto), which are the canonical names in the tz database, instead of the backward-compatability names (e.g., Canada/Eastern) --- the old names have ambiguity problems that the newer (city-based) names were designed to correct.