Issued:

2014-06-20

Updated:

2014-06-20

RHEA-2014:0774 - tzdata enhancement update

Synopsis

tzdata enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated tzdata packages that add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Description

The tzdata packages contain data files with rules for various time zones.

The following two changes are included in this update:

• Based on the official government announcement, Egypt's 2014 Ramadan-based transitions were updated to June 26 and July 31 at 24:00.
• Morocco's Ramadan transitions were also updated to June 28 at 03:00 and August 2 at 02:00.

(BZ#1104977, BZ#1104979, BZ#1104982, BZ#1104980)

All users of tzdata are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add these enhancements.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• tzdata-2014e-1.el4.noarch.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
• tzdata-java-2014e-1.el5.i386.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el5.i386.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el7.noarch.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el6.noarch.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el5.ppc.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el5.ia64.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el5.src.rpm
• tzdata-java-2014e-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
• tzdata-java-2014e-1.el6.noarch.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el5.s390x.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el6.src.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el4.src.rpm
• tzdata-java-2014e-1.el7.noarch.rpm
• tzdata-2014e-1.el7.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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