Recommended update for timezone

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2016:1792-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Cloud 5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS 11-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 2.1

An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

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

  • Egypt (Africa/Cairo) DST change 2016-07-07 cancelled (bsc#982833, bsc#987720)
  • Asia/Novosibirsk switches from +06 to +07 on 2016-07-24 02:00
  • Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk now use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones
  • Europe/Minsk's 1992-03-29 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 not 00:00

Changes from timezone update 2016e are also included: - Changes affecting past timestamps in arctic and antarctic locations while uninhabited - Adjust Asia/Baku's 1992 DST transition - zic now outputs a dummy transition at time 2**31 - 1 in zones whose POSIX-style TZ strings contain a '<', working around Qt bug 53071

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch sdksp4-timezone-12647=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS 11-SP2
    zypper in -t patch slessp2-timezone-12647=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3
    zypper in -t patch slessp3-timezone-12647=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-timezone-12647=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-timezone-12647=1
  • SUSE Cloud 5
    zypper in -t patch sleclo50sp3-timezone-12647=1
  • SUSE Manager Server 2.1
    zypper in -t patch sleman21-timezone-12647=1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1
    zypper in -t patch slemap21-timezone-12647=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS 11-SP2 (s390x x86_64 i586)
    • timezone-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS 11-SP2 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (s390x x86_64 i586)
    • timezone-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • timezone-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2016f-0.29.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
    • timezone-2016f-0.29.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Cloud 5 (x86_64)
    • timezone-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Cloud 5 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 2.1 (s390x x86_64)
    • timezone-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 2.1 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1 (x86_64)
    • timezone-2016f-0.29.1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2016f-0.29.1

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