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itsadok
Asked: 2013-09-09 00:33:09 +0800 CST

How to get recent tzdata onto old ubuntu versions

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I have a bunch of servers running 10.04 with the timezone set to Asia/Jerusalem that have all wrongly switched out of DST last night. My workstation running 13.04, however, has the correct time (for now).

Looking at the package details, it looks like only recent ubuntu versions get timezone updates, so my questions are:

  1. Really? Timezone database updates do not get backported to supported ubuntu versions? It seems like a weird decision, so maybe I'm missing something.

  2. What would be the recommended way to make sure older servers get tzdata updates?

  3. It seems that even the latest tzdata package (2013d) still contains stale information, and would change out of DST a few weeks to early. http://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/asia seems to contain the latest update (2013-06-27), but I'm not sure how to turn that into a zoneinfo database. How should I approach fixing this?

Update: Somebody opened a bug.

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1 Answers

  1. Actually, the latest tzdata package does contain the correct timezone data. To install it manually, I did this:

    wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2013d-1ubuntu1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i tzdata_2013d-1ubuntu1_all.deb
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