Recommended update for timezone

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for timezone
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2016:0445-1
Rating: low
References: #963921
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2

  • 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 Software Development Kit 11-SP4:
      zypper in -t patch sdksp4-timezone-12401=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:
      zypper in -t patch slessp4-timezone-12401=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:
      zypper in -t patch slessp3-timezone-12401=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS:
      zypper in -t patch slessp2-timezone-12401=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4:
      zypper in -t patch sledsp4-timezone-12401=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:
      zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-timezone-12401=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:
      zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-timezone-12401=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2:
      zypper in -t patch dbgsp2-timezone-12401=1

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

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4 (noarch):
      • timezone-java-2016a-0.14.3
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
      • timezone-2016a-0.14.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 (noarch):
      • timezone-java-2016a-0.14.3
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):
      • timezone-2016a-0.14.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS (noarch):
      • timezone-java-2016a-0.14.3
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):
      • timezone-2016a-0.14.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS (noarch):
      • timezone-java-2016a-0.14.3
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 (i586 x86_64):
      • timezone-2016a-0.14.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 (noarch):
      • timezone-java-2016a-0.14.3
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
      • timezone-debuginfo-2016a-0.14.2
      • timezone-debugsource-2016a-0.14.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 (i586 s390x x86_64):
      • timezone-debuginfo-2016a-0.14.2
      • timezone-debugsource-2016a-0.14.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2 (i586 s390x x86_64):
      • timezone-debuginfo-2016a-0.14.2
      • timezone-debugsource-2016a-0.14.2

    References: