Hi Steve,

Thanks for you explanation (and for Daniel Jacobowit too). I've made a big 
mistake on relating this 
stupid bug.

Thanks!

Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu em Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:51:39 -0700:

> severity 333927 normal
> thanks
> 
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:38:09AM -0300, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote:
> > Package: libc6
> > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> > The date show by "date" command (or zdump) for localtime configured 
> > for files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc are inversed (GMT-Number act as
> > GMT+Number, and GMT+Number work like GMT-Number)  this cause bad 
> > date to be written to log files and causes the system to run maintanance
> > tasks out of sync with other systems (database shutdown, by instance), 
> > causing availability problems for systems running in production environment,
> > backup problems, etc. 
> > how to reproduce this bug:
> 
> > (GMT Time is now 14:27)
> > zdump /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-3
> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-3 Fri Oct 14 17:27:22 2005 GMT-3
> 
> > This bug was reproduced on every system that has Sarge installed.
> 
> But GMT-3 isn't even a real timezone, so there's no reason why this should
> be release-critical.
> 
> -- 
> Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
> Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]                                   http://www.debian.org/
> 


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Fortune:

O windows não é ruim, esperem só ele ficar pronto...

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