Why date command shows different values after tzdata update to 'tzdata-2016g-2.el6.noarch'
Issue
- Tzdata has been updated on the system and after update date command is showing different output which is causing application failure.
- Before update
# rpm -q tzdata
tzdata-2016f-1.el6.noarch
# TZ=Etc/GMT-1 date
Wed May 31 14:40:35 GMT-1 2017
- After update
# rpm -q tzdata
tzdata-2016g-2.el6.noarch
# TZ=Etc/GMT-1 date
Wed May 31 14:41:35 +01 2017
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- tzdata tzdata-2016g-2.el6.noarch
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