[Bug 2092236] Re: 24.04.1 tzdata with unknown time zone quietly causes havoc

2024-12-20 Thread Benjamin Drung
Thanks. So I am marking this bug as invalid for tzdata, since tzdata behaves correctly. The remaining bug is that programs misbehave when TZ doesn't contain a valid time zone. Which GUI programs misbehave or crash? I'll mark coreutils (which ships the date command) as affected: ``` $ TZ=Canada/Ea

[Bug 2092236] Re: 24.04.1 tzdata with unknown time zone quietly causes havoc

2024-12-19 Thread Ian! D. Allen
Thank you Benjamin (bdrung) -- the problem was that my .bashrc/.bash_profile set TZ=Canada/Eastern, a legacy time zone name, and that legacy name disappeared in Ubuntu 24.04.1. Its disappearance caused many programs to silently misbehave, including both "date" and the GUI. Setting TZ=America/Toro

[Bug 2092236] Re: 24.04.1 tzdata with unknown time zone quietly causes havoc

2024-12-19 Thread Ian! D. Allen
** Summary changed: - 24.04.1 tzdata wrong time zone, cannot reset, downgrade + 24.04.1 tzdata with unknown time zone quietly causes havoc ** Description changed: See https://askubuntu.com/questions/1528949/time-setting-problems-with- ubuntu-24-04 + + EDIT: All the problems below come from