Timezone update for Daylight Time Saving changes in Turkey

The government of Turkey has decreed that the previously planned switch back from DST to regular 30th October 2016 is canceled, and that the country will remain on UTC+03 permanently. As this is law, this is effective immediately, affecting forward-looking timestamps. The non-change after which current code will show the wrong time is 2016-10-30.

Mass PTFs and maintenance update of timezone base package version 2016g released before 2016-10-10 introduces a bug. On SLES 11 installing updates released after 2016-10-10 will not obsolete the previous timezone packages.

• The regression was in the upstream code release
• This was first seen in openSUSE Tumbleweed automated and community testing
• SUSE engineering pointed this out to upstream and got a fix:
• http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-October/024280.html
  

SUSE released the maintenance updates and mass PTFs for the timezone base package version 2016g, but few days later a bug was discovered which causes that /etc/localtime symlink breaks on update.
Because of the bug in 2016g version, the package was reverted on all SUSE Linux Enterprise Server versions except SLES 12 GA and SLES 12 SP1 back to version 2016f.

Customers that installed the  2016g update or mass PTF on older versions of SLES therefore have a higher version of package installed than version available through the update channels.

Published mass PTFs (in all cases should the maintenance update supersede the PTF):

SLES 11 SP3 LTSS

• PTF: 2016g-0.32.1.11609.0.PTF
• latest maintenance: 2016f-0.39.1
  

SLES 11 SP4

• PTF: 2016g-0.32.1.11608.0.PTF
• latest maintenance: 2016f-0.39.1

• PTF: 2016g-0.51.1.11615.0.PTF
• latest maintenance: 2016g-0.60.1
  

• PTF: 2016g-0.51.1.11614.0.PTF
• latest maintenance: 2016g-0.60.1