openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for timezone ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2016:0895-1 Rating: low References: #971377 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: This update provides the latest timezone information (2016b) for your system, including the following changes: - New zones Europe/Astrakhan and Europe/Ulyanovsk for Astrakhan and Ulyanovsk Oblasts, Russia, both of which will switch from +03 to +04 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00 local time. - New zone Asia/Barnaul for Altai Krai and Altai Republic, Russia, which will switch from +06 to +07 on the same date and local time. - Asia/Sakhalin moves from +10 to +11 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00. - As a trial of a new system that needs less information to be made up, the new zones use numeric time zone abbreviations like "+04" instead of invented abbreviations like "ASTT". - Haiti will not observe DST in 2016. - Palestine's spring-forward transition on 2016-03-26 is at 01:00, not 00:00. - tzselect's diagnostics and checking, and checktab.awk's checking, have been improved. - tzselect now tests Julian-date TZ settings more accurately. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 13.1: zypper in -t patch 2016-403=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64): timezone-2016b-46.1 timezone-debuginfo-2016b-46.1 timezone-debugsource-2016b-46.1 - openSUSE 13.1 (noarch): timezone-java-2016b-46.1 References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/971377