Issued:

2011-12-06

Updated:

2011-12-06

RHEA-2011:1560 - perl-Date-Manip enhancement update

Synopsis

perl-Date-Manip enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated perl-Date-Manip package that upgrades the Date::Manip module to upstream version 6.24 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Date::Manip module provides a mechanism for Perl scripts to perform common date or time operations, such as comparing two timestamps or parsing international times.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• Among other flaws, the previous version of the perl-Date-Manip package included outdated time zone definitions and an old API that is now considered deprecated. This update upgrades the perl-Date-Manip package to upstream version 6.24, which provides up-to-date time zone definitions and version 6 of the API. Users are still able to use the old API version 5 by explicitly using the Date::Manip::DM5 module. (BZ#672934)

All users of perl-Date-Manip are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

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 This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm
• perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 672934

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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