Recommended update for timezone

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for timezone
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2012:1258-1
Rating: low
References: #762210 #780276
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

  • An update that has two recommended fixes can now be installed. It includes one version update.

    Description:


    This update for timezone provides 2012f, which includes the
    following time zone changes:

    * Fiji DST is October 21st 2012 -> January 20th, 2013
    * Pacific/Fakaofo: Tokelau is UTC+13, not UTC+14

    It also includes a fix for cleaning up stale symlinks of
    posixrules to /etc/localtime confusing 3rd party
    applications, like Java.

    Patch Instructions:

    To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
    Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2:
      zypper in -t patch sdksp2-timezone-2012f-6827
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware:
      zypper in -t patch slessp2-timezone-2012f-6827
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:
      zypper in -t patch slessp2-timezone-2012f-6827
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:
      zypper in -t patch sledsp2-timezone-2012f-6827

    To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 (noarch):
    • timezone-java-2012f-0.3.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 2012f]:
    • timezone-2012f-0.3.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (noarch) [New Version: 2012f]:
    • timezone-java-2012f-0.3.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 2012f]:
    • timezone-2012f-0.3.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (noarch) [New Version: 2012f]:
    • timezone-java-2012f-0.3.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 2012f]:
    • timezone-2012f-0.3.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (noarch) [New Version: 2012f]:
    • timezone-java-2012f-0.3.1

    References:

    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/762210
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/780276
    • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=671e76473fad3351ef7e978126e84c47