severity 333927 normal thanks On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:38:09AM -0300, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks unrelated software
> The date show by "date" command (or zdump) for localtime configured > for files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc are inversed (GMT-Number act as > GMT+Number, and GMT+Number work like GMT-Number) this cause bad > date to be written to log files and causes the system to run maintanance > tasks out of sync with other systems (database shutdown, by instance), > causing availability problems for systems running in production environment, > backup problems, etc. > how to reproduce this bug: > (GMT Time is now 14:27) > zdump /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-3 > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-3 Fri Oct 14 17:27:22 2005 GMT-3 > This bug was reproduced on every system that has Sarge installed. But GMT-3 isn't even a real timezone, so there's no reason why this should be release-critical. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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