Upstream tzdata has switched from ambiguous Australian timezone names to
prepending "A", closing this bug.
** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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Title:
extern variable tzname is not set correctly for Australia/Sydney
timezone
Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
I compile and run the following C program on a machine whose default
timezone is "America/New_York":
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <assert.h>
void printTimezone(void) {
printf("Timezone is now '%s/%s', %ld seconds West of UTC\n",
tzname[0], tzname[1], timezone);
}
int main(const int argc, const char *argv[]) {
tzset();
printTimezone();
setenv("TZ", "Asia/Hong_Kong", 1);
tzset();
printTimezone();
setenv("TZ", "Europe/London", 1);
tzset();
printTimezone();
setenv("TZ", "Australia/Sydney", 1);
tzset();
printTimezone();
}
The resulting output is:
Timezone is now 'EST/EDT', 18000 seconds West of UTC
Timezone is now 'HKT/HKST', -28800 seconds West of UTC
Timezone is now 'GMT/BST', 0 seconds West of UTC
Timezone is now 'EST/EST', -36000 seconds West of UTC
As can be seen from the last line of the output, the values of
tzname[0] and tzname[1] are incorrect for Australia/Sydney (seem to be
set similarly to America/New_York) even though the value of timezone
(i.e. seconds West of UTC) appears to be correct.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: tzdata 2012e-0ubuntu0.10.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-45.99-generic 2.6.32.60+drm33.26
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-45-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 12 16:18:45 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64
(20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tzdata
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