Recommended update for timezone
SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for timezone
This update provides the latest timezone information (2014g) for your
system, including the following changes:
* Russia will subtract an hour from most of its time zones on
2014-10-26 at 02:00 local time.
* Turks & Caicos are switching from US eastern time to UTC-4
year-round, modeled as a switch from EST/EDT to AST on 2014-11-02 at
02:00.
* Many past time stamps were updated for correctness.
* Many time zone abbreviations were adjusted or fixed.
* Many performance enhancements and fixes in the time zone
manipulation utilities.
* A new file 'zone1970.tab' was added. The new file's extended format
allows multiple country codes per zone. New applications should use
the new file.
* Some code fixes in 'localtime', 'zic', 'mktime' and 'yearistype'.
For a comprehensive list of changes, refer to the release announces from
ICANN:
* http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2014-August/000023.html
* http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2014-August/000024.html
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-RU-2014:1152-1 |
| Rating: | low |
| References: | #890921 #892843 #894862 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that has three recommended fixes can now be installed. It includes one version update.
Description:
This update provides the latest timezone information (2014g) for your
system, including the following changes:
* Russia will subtract an hour from most of its time zones on
2014-10-26 at 02:00 local time.
* Turks & Caicos are switching from US eastern time to UTC-4
year-round, modeled as a switch from EST/EDT to AST on 2014-11-02 at
02:00.
* Many past time stamps were updated for correctness.
* Many time zone abbreviations were adjusted or fixed.
* Many performance enhancements and fixes in the time zone
manipulation utilities.
* A new file 'zone1970.tab' was added. The new file's extended format
allows multiple country codes per zone. New applications should use
the new file.
* Some code fixes in 'localtime', 'zic', 'mktime' and 'yearistype'.
For a comprehensive list of changes, refer to the release announces from
ICANN:
* http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2014-August/000023.html
* http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2014-August/000024.html
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 Server 11 SP2 LTSS:
zypper in -t patch slessp2-timezone-2014g-9695
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 2014g]:
- timezone-2014g-0.3.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS (noarch) [New Version: 2014g]:
- timezone-java-2014g-0.3.1
References:
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/890921
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/892843
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/894862
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=aba0d267a681c3825fc479e8a2c8f8d5