[Bug 1372923] Package modified in Fedora exhibits bad behavior when /etc/ localtime is old

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1372923



--- Comment #3 from Don Beusee <don@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
I've read some of the history on this issue, and I don't agree with maintaining
your own branch of the package.  Your fix ignores the ill configured system
(/etc/localtime out of sync with /usr/share/zoneinfo), which means the system
will give incorrect time due to rule changes which /etc/localtime doesn't know
about because it's out of date.  I'd rather SOME program tells me something is
wrong so I can fix it.  On top of localtime being wrong, tzfile's guess can
also be wrong and then you have 2 wrongs.  It's better to raise an error so the
sysadmin can fix the system and everything is set right again.  And you don't
have to maintain a branch of code trying to ignore a DST patch not properly
applied.  I am betting you could talk the package owner into producing a better
error message indicating something being wrong with /etc/localtime.

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