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DST change over not correct....

Started by colinjones, October 05, 2008, 12:06:22 AM

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colinjones

In the eastern states of Australia, we have just entered DST - but this is several weeks earlier than usual as they changed the rule (again!) this year. LMCE hasn't updated so is now out by an hour, and I assume this is because the auto update system is disabled.

So I tried sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install tzdata but it says it is the most recent version. When I zdump -v Australia/Sydney | grep 2008 I can see it still thinks the change over is at the end of October.

Any ideas on what I need to do?

Zaerc

Download the package from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy-updates/tzdata, and install it manually with "dpkg -i tzdata_2008e-0ubuntu0.7.10_all.deb"
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colinjones

woo hoo! Thanks Zearc, worked perfectly! Stupid question, but why did updating apt-get and then trying to reinstall tzdata not pick up the new version and install it?

Zaerc

Because apt is pinned down to prevent it from breaking your system with upgrades.
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