A tzdata enhancement, with updates for Venezuela, Indiana, Egypt, Gaza,
South Australia, Antarctica, Brazil, and Iran is now available.
The tzdata package contains data files with information regarding and rules
for daylight saving times in various timezones around the world.
The updated package contains up to date rules for the following timezones:
* Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, and Pike Counties, Indiana, switch from
Central Standard Time(CST) to Eastern Standard Time(EST) in November.
* South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales are changing
the Daylight Savings Time rules for next year.
* Several Antarctic stations rules were not properly updated to account for
this year's change to the New Zealand daylight saving rules.
* Brazil will observe Daylight Savings Time from October 14 2007 to
February 17 2008.
* Egypt and Gaza switched to Daylight Savings Time on September 7 not
September 24.
* Iran resumes Daylight Savings Time next year.
* Venezuela is scheduled to change time zone to -4:30 on January 1.
Users in affected locales or who have dealings with affected locales should
upgrade to this updated package.
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188
266901 - DST Changes in Egypt, Indiana/U.S., Australia
266921 - DST Changes in Egypt, Indiana/U.S., Australia
298391 - Venezuela to change time zone by 30 min in Sept
298401 - Venezuela to change time zone by 30 min in Sept
300451 - Venezuela to change time zone by 30 min in Sept
300461 - Venezuela to change time zone by 30 min in Sept
300481 - DST Changes in Egypt, Indiana/U.S., Australia
300501 - DST Changes in Egypt, Indiana/U.S., Australia
tzdata enhancement update