New tzdata exposes bug (?) in calculation of daylight

Andreas Jaeger aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
Fri Mar 19 11:16:00 GMT 1999


The testsuite reports now an error in timezone/tst-timezone.  The
relevant part is:
Checking timezone Asia/Tokyo
tzname[0]: JST
tzname[1]: JST
daylight: 1
timezone: -32400
Timezone: Asia/Tokyo, daylight is: 1 but should be: 0
tzname[0]: JST
tzname[1]: JST
daylight: 1
timezone: -32400
Timezone: Asia/Tokyo, daylight is: 1 but should be: 0

Looking at the zone file (timezone/asia) I notice that there's no
daylight saving time in effect, they just changed the name (`FORMAT').

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
Zone	Asia/Tokyo	9:18:59	-	LMT	1887 Dec 31 15:00u
			9:00	-	JST	1896
			9:00	-	CJT	1938
			9:00	-	JST

Formerly the format was just:
Zone	Asia/Tokyo	9:19:04	-	LMT	1896
			9:00	-	JST

I do think that daylight should be 0 and not 1.

Andreas
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