Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Done
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P4: Low
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None
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5.6, 5.7, 5.8
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None
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Linux (seen on Debian/stretch and RHEL 6.6).
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772b12c436e49fbaedea85e95ac645f40e4aa104
Description
While fixing QTBUG-52284, integration [0] ran into one transition in one zone failing. Closer examination reveals a bug in the TZ database in use on Linux,
misdescribing Europe/Samara's transitions in 2010. According to [1], the 2010-03-28 transition changed the standard offset while starting DST, leading to no change in the actual offset; the 2010-10-31 transition ended DST normally. (The following March saw another standard time offset, this time without DST, and there have been no transitions since.) However, the TZ database describes the 2010-03-28 transition as putting the zone's standard offset at UTC+4 with no DST. This leads to the 2010-10-31 being a fall-back without a DST change, which there is no way to disambiguate when mapping back from zone time to UTC.
This bug report exists to track the need to report this error to the upstream TZ database and record what results.
Attachments
Issue Links
- relates to
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QTBUG-52284 REG[5.4.2-5.5.1] ] toMSecsSinceEpoch result not equal with fromMSecsSinceEpoch source
- Closed