RHEA-2005:656 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated tzdata package that adds daylight savings rule enhancements for
various countries is now available.

Description

The tzdata package contains data files with rules for various timezones
around the world.

This update adjusts timezone files for USA, Australia, Haiti, Nicaragua,
Kazakhstan, Tunisia, and Uruguay where daylight savings rules have recently
changed or are going to change in the near future. This update
provides corrections for daylight saving rules for Iran, historical rules
corrections for Japan, Poland, Northern Ireland and Mali and timezone name
change for East Timor.

Users in the specified countries should upgrade to this updated
package and rerun system-config-date to update the local timezone in
/etc/localtime. Upgrading this package is optional for users not in the
specified countries.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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