conf/15942: Time zone difference

[Domas Mituzas]

>Number: 15942
>Category: conf
>Synopsis: Europe/Vilnius is in EET since last autumn
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 6 04:30:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Domas Mituzas
>Release: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Duomenu bazes ir technologijos
>Environment:
FreeBSD home2.dammit.lt 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #0: Mon Jan 3 00:24:17 EET 2000 ro...@home2.dammit.lt:/usr/src/sys/compile/DMHOME i386
>Description:
Lithuania government likes to puzzle poor system administrators. It has
changed the timezone last autumn again into CET.
>How-To-Repeat:
go to /usr/share/zoneinfo and observe. or try sysinstall
>Fix:
--- src/share/zoneinfo/europe Thu Feb 18 13:43:04 1999
+++ src/share/zoneinfo/europe.new Thu Jan 6 14:07:47 2000
@@ -1695,7 +1695,9 @@
2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998
2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u
- 1:00 EU CE%sT
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Sep 29 2:20s
+ 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT
+
# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
# IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is
# known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too.
@@ -1703,6 +1705,9 @@
# From Marius Gedminas <mge...@pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07):
# I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone
# (Europe/Vilnius) was changed.
+
+# From Domas Mituzas <mi...@dammit.lt> (2000-01-05):
+# Lithuania (Europe/Vilnius) turned from CET into EET last autumn again.

# Luxembourg
# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.

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