Recommended update for timezone

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:0790-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for timezone fixes the following issues:

timezone was updated 2019a:

  • Palestine "springs forward" on 2019-03-30 instead of 2019-03-23
  • Metlakatla "fell back" to rejoin Alaska Time on 2019-01-20 at 02:00
  • Israel observed DST in 1980 (08-02/09-13) and 1984 (05-05/08-25)
  • zic now has an -r option to limit the time range of output data

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-790=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • timezone-debuginfo-2019a-3.17.1
    • timezone-2019a-3.17.1
    • timezone-debugsource-2019a-3.17.1
  • Basesystem Module 15 (noarch)
    • timezone-java-2019a-3.17.1

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