FS#34729 - [at] 3.1.13-2 daylight saving not working when time is given in utc

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Tuomas Jäntti (qwertypoke) - Thursday, 11 April 2013, 09:45 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 23 May 2013, 02:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Balló György (City-busz)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

If time is given as HH:MMutc the scheduled time will be in error by an offset of 1 in summer.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
at 3.1.13-2

* config and/or log files etc.

Steps to reproduce:

# Helsinki time is utc+2 + 1 during summer
[tuomas@rotta ~]$ date
to 11.4.2013 12.22.24 +0300

# This is ok:
[tuomas@rotta ~]$ ls | at now
job 17 at Thu Apr 11 12:22:00 2013

# This is ok:
[tuomas@rotta ~]$ ls | at 12:30
job 18 at Thu Apr 11 12:30:00 2013

# 9:30 utc should be 12:30 local time.
# This does not work as intended:
[tuomas@rotta ~]$ ls | at 9:30utc
job 19 at Fri Apr 12 11:30:00 2013

[tuomas@rotta ~]$ atq
17 Thu Apr 11 12:22:00 2013 a tuomas
18 Thu Apr 11 12:30:00 2013 a tuomas
19 Fri Apr 12 11:30:00 2013 a tuomas

The upstream package is in Debian: http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/at.html

and the bug is also reported:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364975

The bug fixes are not applied because the package seems to be currently unmaintained.

If the package is not maintained and contains bugs, should it be removed from the Arch repository? If the package is patched downstream should it be moved to AUR or could the patches be applied to the Arch reposity package?

Workaround for bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364975#29
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Closed by  Balló György (City-busz)
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 02:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Wednesday, 17 April 2013, 18:48 GMT
As gnome-schedule is the only package in the repo which depends on 'at', I moved 'at' to community repo and reassigned the bug to gnome-schedule's maintainer.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Monday, 20 May 2013, 23:52 GMT
I think that this bug is not critical, so we can keep 'at' package in the official repositories. However, I don't want to patch the package, because none of the available patches are reviewed by upstream developers, and may cause regressions.

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