[Kde-pim] [Libical] libical 0.27 is now available

[Allen Winter]

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 6:06:51 pm Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007 schrieb IGnatius T Foobar:
> >  For anyone interested...
> >
> >    http://easyinstall.citadel.org/libical-0.27.tar.gz
> >
> >  tzdata is updated to 2007c (includes the changes for Daylight Savings
> > Time in the US) as well as a couple of minor bugfixes.
> 
> I took a look at the files now, and it seems that the DST changes in the US
> were implemented wrong. The files contain e.g.
> 
We need to have a fix right away.
What to do?
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143409  


> BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
> TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
> TZOFFSETTO:-0500
> TZNAME:CDT
> DTSTART:19700308T020000
> RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
> END:DAYLIGHT
> 
> which means that starting from 1970 DST started on the second sunday in march!
> This is quite wrong and will lead to wrong times in the years prior to 2007
> (e.g. dates last march will be one hour off!!!)
> The correct solution would be to add a second DAYLIGHT section that represents
> the changes starting from 2007.
> 
> Cheers,
> Reinhold



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