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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2769
2008-03-26 16:52:57
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Name : tzdata
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 2008b
Release : 1.fc7
URL :
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
Summary : Timezone data
Description :
This package contains data files with rules for various timezones around
the world.
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Update Information:
- DST changes for Syria, Cuba; Iraq abandons DST - Saigon zone renamed
Ho_Chi_Minh; backward link provided - Add America/Argentina/San_Luis
information
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Mar 26 2008 Petr Machata <pmachata(a)redhat.com> - 2008b-1
- Upstream 2008b
- DST changes for Syria, Cuba; Iraq abandons DST
- Saigon zone renamed Ho_Chi_Minh; backward link provided
- Add America/Argentina/San_Luis information
* Tue Mar 4 2008 Petr Machata <pmachata(a)redhat.com> - 2007k-2
- Chile moves DST to 29/Mar
- Related: #435959
* Thu Jan 3 2008 Petr Machata <pmachata(a)redhat.com> - 2007k-1
- Upstream 2007k
- Argentina readopted the daylight saving time
* Tue Dec 4 2007 Petr Machata <pmachata(a)redhat.com> - 2007j-1
- Upstream 2007j
- New links America/St_Barthelemy and America/Marigot
- Venezuela is changing their clocks on December 9 at 03:00
* Tue Nov 6 2007 Petr Machata <pmachata(a)redhat.com> - 2007i-1
- Upstream 2007i
- Syria DST will take place at Midnight between Thursday and Friday.
- Cuba will end DST on the last Sunday of October.
- Update tst-timezone.c from glibc CVS
* Mon Oct 1 2007 Petr Machata <pmachata(a)redhat.com> - 2007h-1
- Upstream 2007h
- Brazil will observe DST from 2007-10-14 to 2008-02-17
- Egypt and Gaza switched earlier than we expected
- Iran will resume DST next year
- Venezuela is scheduled to change TZ to -4:30 on January 1
* Thu Aug 23 2007 Petr Machata <pmachata(a)redhat.com> - 2007g-1
- Fix licensing tag.
- Upstream 2007g
- Egypt switches the September 7, not September 28
- Daviess, Dubous, Knox, Martin, and Pike Counties, Indiana, switch
from central to eastern time in November
- South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Lord Howe
Island are changing their DST rules effective next year
- Sync several Antarctic station's rules with the New Zealand
- leapseconds contain changes from the most recent IERS bulletin
* Wed May 9 2007 Petr Machata <pmachata(a)redhat.com> - 2007f-1
- Upstream 2007f
- New Zealand is extending DST, starting later this year.
- Haiti no longer observes DST.
- The Turks and Caicos switch at 02:00, not at 00:00, and have
adopted US DST rules.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update tzdata' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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