openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for timezone ______________________________________________________________________________

Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2017:0650-1 Rating: low References: #1024676 #1024677 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 openSUSE Leap 42.1 ______________________________________________________________________________

An update that has two recommended fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update provides the latest timezone information (2017a) for your system, including the following changes:

- Mongolia no longer observes DST. (bsc#1024676) - Chile's Region of Magallanes moves from -04/-03 to -03 year-round starting 2017-05-13 23:00. Split from America/Santiago creating a new zone America/Punta_Arenas. Also affects Antarctica/Palmer. (bsc#1024677) - Fixes to historical time stamps: Spain, Ecuador, Atyrau, Oral. - Switch to numeric, or commonly used time zone abbreviations. - zic(8) no longer mishandles some transitions in January 2038. - date and strftime now cause %z to generate "-0000" instead of "+0000" when the UT offset is zero and the time zone abbreviation begins with "-".

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-320=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-320=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

timezone-2017a-37.1 timezone-debuginfo-2017a-37.1 timezone-debugsource-2017a-37.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

timezone-java-2017a-0.37.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

timezone-2017a-37.1 timezone-debuginfo-2017a-37.1 timezone-debugsource-2017a-37.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

timezone-java-2017a-0.37.1

References:

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1024676 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1024677