Recommended update for timezone

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2024:0790-1
Rating: moderate
References:
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE 11-SP4

An update that can now be installed.

Description:

This update for timezone fixes the following issues:

  • Update to version 2023d:
  • 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.
  • Fix predictions for DST transitions in Palestine in 2072-2075, correcting a typo introduced in 2023a.
  • Vostok, Antarctica changed to +05 on 2023-12-18. It had been at +07 (not +06) for years.
  • Change data for Casey, Antarctica to agree with timeanddate.com, by adding five time zone changes since 2020. Casey is now at +08 instead of +11.
  • Much of Greenland, represented by America/Nuuk, changed its standard time from -03 to -02 on 2023-03-25, not on 2023-10-28.
  • localtime.c no longer mishandles TZif files that contain a single transition into a DST regime. Previously, it incorrectly assumed DST was in effect before the transition too.
  • 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 Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-11-SP4-LTSS-EXTREME-CORE-2024-790=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-11-SP4-LTSS-EXTREME-CORE-2024-790=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE 11-SP4 (x86_64)
    • timezone-2023d-0.52.48.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE 11-SP4 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2023d-0.52.48.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (x86_64)
    • timezone-2023d-0.52.48.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2023d-0.52.48.1