Unable to add a RHEL 6 host to a RHEV environment during New Zealand Daylight Savings Time

Issue

• Adding a RHEL-based Hypervisor to RHEV Manager fails with the event log entry:

  Host lab2.example.com installation failed. Please refer to log files for further details..
  

• /var/log/rhevm/rhevm.log contains the error:

  2012-10-03 11:51:32,879 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.hostinstall.MinaInstallWrapper] (pool-19-thread-50) return true
  2012-10-03 11:51:32,879 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VdsInstaller] (pool-19-thread-50)  DownloadCertificateRequest ended:true
  2012-10-03 11:51:32,879 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VdsInstaller] (pool-19-thread-50) Installation of 172.31.20.102. Executing installation stage. (Stage: Sign certificate request and generate certificate)
  2012-10-03 11:51:33,890 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.hostinstall.OpenSslCAWrapper] (pool-19-thread-50) Sign Certificate request failed with exit code 1
  2012-10-03 11:51:33,890 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.hostinstall.OpenSslCAWrapper] (pool-19-thread-50) Sign Certificate request script errors:
  nullnullUsing configuration from openssl.conf
  start date is invalid, it should be YYMMDDHHMMSSZ or YYYYMMDDHHMMSSZ
  140587576137544:error:0E06D06C:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no value:conf_lib.c:335:group=CA_default name=email_in_dn
  unable to write 'random state'
  
  2012-10-03 11:51:33,890 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VdsInstaller] (pool-19-thread-50)  SignCertificateRequest ended:false
  2012-10-03 11:51:33,890 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VdsInstaller] (pool-19-thread-50) Error signing certificate request
  2012-10-03 11:51:33,890 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VdsInstaller] (pool-19-thread-50) Installation of 172.31.20.102. Operation failure. (Stage: Sign certificate request and generate certificate)