Recommended update for timezone

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2024:0791-1
Rating: moderate
References:
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that can now be installed.

Description:

This update for timezone fixes the following issues:

  • Update to version 2024a
  • Kazakhstan unifies on UTC+5
  • Palestine springs forward a week later than previously predicted in 2024 and 2025
  • Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh's 1955-07-01 transition occurred at 01:00 not 00:00
  • From 1947 through 1949, Toronto's transitions occurred at 02:00 not 00:00
  • In 1911 Miquelon adopted standard time on June 15, not May 15
  • The FROM and TO columns of Rule lines can no longer be "minimum"
  • localtime no longer mishandle some timestamps
  • strftime %s now uses tm_gmtoff if available
  • Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland changes time zones on 2024-03-31
  • Vostok, Antarctica changed time zones on 2023-12-18
  • Casey, Antarctica changed time zones five times since 2020
  • Code and data fixes for Palestine timestamps starting in 2072
  • A new data file zonenow.tab for timestamps starting now
  • Much of Greenland changed its standard time from -03 to -02 on 2023-03-25
  • localtime.c no longer mishandles TZif files that contain a single transition into a DST regime
  • tzselect no longer creates temporary files
  • tzselect no longer mishandles the following:
  • Spaces and most other special characters in BUGEMAIL, PACKAGE, TZDIR, and VERSION.
  • TZ strings when using mawk 1.4.3, which mishandles regular expressions of the form /X{2,}/
  • ISO 6709 coordinates when using an awk that lacks the GNU extension of newlines in -v option-arguments
  • Non UTF-8 locales when using an iconv command that lacks the GNU //TRANSLIT extension
  • zic no longer mishandles data for Palestine after the year 2075

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-791=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-791=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-791=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • timezone-2024a-74.79.1
    • timezone-debugsource-2024a-74.79.1
    • timezone-debuginfo-2024a-74.79.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2024a-74.79.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • timezone-2024a-74.79.1
    • timezone-debugsource-2024a-74.79.1
    • timezone-debuginfo-2024a-74.79.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2024a-74.79.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • timezone-2024a-74.79.1
    • timezone-debugsource-2024a-74.79.1
    • timezone-debuginfo-2024a-74.79.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2024a-74.79.1