Recommended update for timezone

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for timezone
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2016:0444-1
Rating: low
References: #963921
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
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    An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed.

    Description:


    This update provides the latest timezone information (2016a) for your
    system, including the following changes:

    - America/Cayman will not observe daylight saving this year.
    - Asia/Chita switches from +0800 to +0900 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00.
    - Asia/Tehran now has DST predictions for the year 2038 and later.
    - America/Metlakatla switched from PST all year to AKST/AKDT on 2015-11-01
    at 02:00.
    - America/Santa_Isabel has been removed, and replaced with a backward
    compatibility link to America/Tijuana.
    - Asia/Karachi's two transition times in 2002 were off by a minute.

    This release also includes changes affecting past time stamps,
    documentation and some minor code fixes. For a comprehensive list, refer
    to the release announcement from ICANN:

    http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-January/023106.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 12-SP1:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-252=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-252=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-252=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2016-252=1

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

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
      • timezone-2016a-0.29.1
      • timezone-debuginfo-2016a-0.29.1
      • timezone-debugsource-2016a-0.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (noarch):
      • timezone-java-2016a-0.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
      • timezone-2016a-0.29.1
      • timezone-debuginfo-2016a-0.29.1
      • timezone-debugsource-2016a-0.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (noarch):
      • timezone-java-2016a-0.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 (x86_64):
      • timezone-2016a-0.29.1
      • timezone-debuginfo-2016a-0.29.1
      • timezone-debugsource-2016a-0.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 (noarch):
      • timezone-java-2016a-0.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64):
      • timezone-2016a-0.29.1
      • timezone-debuginfo-2016a-0.29.1
      • timezone-debugsource-2016a-0.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (noarch):
      • timezone-java-2016a-0.29.1

    References: