Comment 2 for bug 613691

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Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) wrote :

Test case for Egypt, which decided to suspend Daylight Savings Time for Ramadan (starting on August 10, 2010):

Incorrect result with 2010j, keeps Daylight Savings Time after August 10th:

$ LANG= TZ=Egypt date
Thu Aug 5 05:18:47 EEST 2010
$ LANG= TZ=Egypt date -d "next week"
Thu Aug 12 05:19:02 EEST 2010

Correct result with 2010k, suspends Daylight Savings Time after August 10th:

$ LANG= TZ=Egypt date
Thu Aug 5 05:13:51 EEST 2010
$ LANG= TZ=Egypt date -d "next week"
Thu Aug 12 04:13:56 EET 2010