Bug#837797: tzdata: America/Eastern reports Local Mean Time by default instead of EST

2016-09-16 Thread Greg Flynn
wrote: > On 2016-09-14 14:15, Greg Flynn wrote: > > Package: tzdata > > Version: 2016f-1 > > Severity: critical > > Tags: newcomer > > Justification: breaks unrelated software > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > >* What led up to the situati

Bug#837797: Brain Fart

2016-09-14 Thread Greg Flynn
Sorry, everywhere I wrote "America/Eastern" was me having a brain deficiency, I meant "America/New_York" Sorry, I've updated my gist

Bug#837797: tzdata: America/Eastern reports Local Mean Time by default instead of EST

2016-09-14 Thread Greg Flynn
Package: tzdata Version: 2016f-1 Severity: critical Tags: newcomer Justification: breaks unrelated software Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Running unit tests in Python while set timezone using the string 'America/Eastern'. The offset was reported as