SUSE-RU-2024:0792-2: moderate: Recommended update for timezone

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# Recommended update for timezone

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2024:0792-2  
Rating: moderate  
References:

  
Affected Products:

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

  
  
An update that can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for timezone fixes the following issues:

  * Update to version 2024a
  * Kazakhstan unifies on UTC+5
  * Palestine springs forward a week later than previously predicted in 2024 and
    2025
  * Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh's 1955-07-01 transition occurred at 01:00 not 00:00
  * From 1947 through 1949, Toronto's transitions occurred at 02:00 not 00:00
  * In 1911 Miquelon adopted standard time on June 15, not May 15
  * The FROM and TO columns of Rule lines can no longer be "minimum"
  * localtime no longer mishandle some timestamps
  * strftime %s now uses tm_gmtoff if available
  * Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland changes time zones on 2024-03-31
  * Vostok, Antarctica changed time zones on 2023-12-18
  * Casey, Antarctica changed time zones five times since 2020
  * Code and data fixes for Palestine timestamps starting in 2072
  * A new data file zonenow.tab for timestamps starting now
  * Much of Greenland changed its standard time from -03 to -02 on 2023-03-25
  * localtime.c no longer mishandles TZif files that contain a single transition
    into a DST regime
  * tzselect no longer creates temporary files
  * tzselect no longer mishandles the following:
  * Spaces and most other special characters in BUGEMAIL, PACKAGE, TZDIR, and
    VERSION.
  * TZ strings when using mawk 1.4.3, which mishandles regular expressions of
    the form /X{2,}/
  * ISO 6709 coordinates when using an awk that lacks the GNU extension of
    newlines in -v option-arguments
  * Non UTF-8 locales when using an iconv command that lacks the GNU //TRANSLIT
    extension
  * zic no longer mishandles data for Palestine after the year 2075

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".  
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2024-792=1

## Package List:

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * timezone-debuginfo-2024a-150000.75.28.1
    * timezone-2024a-150000.75.28.1
    * timezone-debugsource-2024a-150000.75.28.1

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