714688 - Change time zone data for Moscow

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Moscow switched to permanent summer time, we should reflect that in our software. Not sure, if that is an IT thing.

See discussion at: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/708055#post-44271

Comment 1

[Dinar]

also other regions. and there is no samara time now. samara is in moscow time now. ( and udmurtia that was in samara time is in utc+6 ). also some 1-2 other regions changed their time in addition to becoming in permanent summer time (also can say time zone increasing by 1).

Comment 2

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

I Set my Timezone as Asia/India-+5:30 still the date and time coming wrong in forum, as PST

Comment 3

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

I believe our timezone info either comes from the system or from pytz[1]. We should see if there's a pytz update with the changes. (Several areas in the Pacific also jumped the International Date Line this week, or so I heard.)

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/tree/master/vendor/packages/pytz

Comment 4

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

We're on pytz 2010k, the current version is 2011n: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/2011n

Comment 5

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

Even bugzilla say the time as PST :O

Comment 6

[Berker Peksag [:berkerpeksag]]

Europe/Moscow is in UTC+4 since March 2011[1][2][3], so updating pytz version from 2010k to 2013b will probably solve the problem.

Pull request is here: https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/pull/1292

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Time
[2] http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/zoneinfo.tzc?tz=Europe/Moscow
[3] tzdata for Russia has been updated in the 2011h release: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2011-June/008576.html

Comment 7

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Landed on master:
https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/3d1c765f1b22962d7ac6f8ff015d43029c11ba26


Thanks Berker!

Comment 8

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Deployed to prod now.