RHEA-2007:0928 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A tzdata enhancement, with updates for Venezuela, Indiana, Egypt, Gaza,
South Australia, Antarctica, Brazil, and Iran is now available.

Description

The tzdata package contains data files with information regarding and rules
for daylight saving times in various timezones around the world.

The updated package contains up to date rules for the following timezones:

• Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, and Pike Counties, Indiana, switch from

Central Standard Time(CST) to Eastern Standard Time(EST) in November.

• South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales are changing

the Daylight Savings Time rules for next year.

• Several Antarctic stations rules were not properly updated to account for

this year's change to the New Zealand daylight saving rules.

• Brazil will observe Daylight Savings Time from October 14 2007 to

February 17 2008.

• Egypt and Gaza switched to Daylight Savings Time on September 7 not

September 24.

• Iran resumes Daylight Savings Time next year.
• Venezuela is scheduled to change time zone to -4:30 on January 1.

Users in affected locales or who have dealings with affected locales should
upgrade to this updated package.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• 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 Server 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 2 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 2 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 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 Workstation 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 2 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 2 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• 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 IBM z Systems 3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 266901 - DST Changes in Egypt, Indiana/U.S., Australia
• BZ - 266921 - DST Changes in Egypt, Indiana/U.S., Australia
• BZ - 298391 - Venezuela to change time zone by 30 min in Sept
• BZ - 298401 - Venezuela to change time zone by 30 min in Sept
• BZ - 300451 - Venezuela to change time zone by 30 min in Sept
• BZ - 300461 - Venezuela to change time zone by 30 min in Sept
• BZ - 300481 - DST Changes in Egypt, Indiana/U.S., Australia
• BZ - 300501 - DST Changes in Egypt, Indiana/U.S., Australia

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)