[El-errata] ELEA-2017-3052 Oracle Linux 6 tzdata enhancement update

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Wed Oct 25 09:35:16 PDT 2017


Oracle Linux Enhancement Advisory ELEA-2017-3052

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELEA-2017-3052.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
tzdata-2017c-1.el6.noarch.rpm
tzdata-java-2017c-1.el6.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
tzdata-2017c-1.el6.noarch.rpm
tzdata-java-2017c-1.el6.noarch.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/tzdata-2017c-1.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2017c-1]
- Rebase to tzdata-2017c.
   - Northern Cyprus will revert to using EQ rules on October 29, 2017.
   - Sudan will switch from +03 to +02 on November 1, 2017.
   - Tonga will not change it's clocks on Novemeber 5, 2017 ending it's
     experiment with DST.
   - Fiji DST will end on January 14, 2018 rather than January 21, 2018.
   - Namibia - starting September 3, 2017 switches from +)1 with DST to
     +02 all year.  This change takes effect April 1, 2018.
   - Turks & Caicos changes from -04 all year to -05 with US DST starting
     on March 11, 2018.  Effective change date is November 4, 2018.
   - tzdata now includes two text versions of the time zone data - tzdata.zi
     and leapseconds.





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