Bug 327734

Summary: Europe/Rome timezone reports wrong summer/winter time (CEST/CET)
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: sanjioh <sjh+kdebug>
Component: kcm_clockAssignee: Paul Campbell <paul>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: minor CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.11.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Slackware   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description sanjioh 2013-11-17 19:05:25 UTC 
KDE reports: 'Current local timezone: Europe/Rome (CEST)' even after the switch to winter time (CET).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open system settings
2. click Time Zone tab
3. set Area: Rome (Region: Europe/Italy) as timezone
4. apply
Actual Results:  
KDE reports: 'Current local timezone: Europe/Rome (CEST)', but at the time of filing this bug (17th November 2013) Italy is in winter time (CET).

Expected Results:  
KDE should report: 'Current local timezone: Europe/Rome (CET)'

The machine is a Macbook Pro 7,1
OS is Slackware 14.1

Additional information from the cli:

root@darkstar:~# date
Sun Nov 17 11:11:01 CET 2013
root@darkstar:~# hwclock
Sun 17 Nov 2013 11:11:05 AM CET  -0.206320 seconds
root@darkstar:~# md5sum /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome 
9828f4466350e4529d97c04e85554430  /etc/localtime
9828f4466350e4529d97c04e85554430  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2015-04-19 16:15:41 UTC 
We simply set it to Rome, whether that is CET or CEST should come from that file.  If that information is wrong, that file needs fixing

There's nothing KDE can do about it. Sorry