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<h1>Recommended update for timezone</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-RU-2026:21730-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2026-05-21T12:27:26Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>important</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264965">bsc#1264965</a>
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</ul>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Micro 6.0</li>
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<p>An update that has one fix can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for timezone fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Update to 2026b:<ul>
<li>British Columbia moved to permanent -07 on 2026-03-09. (bsc#1264965)</li>
<li>Some more overflow bugs have been fixed in zic.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Update to 2026a:<ul>
<li>Moldova has used EU transition times since 2022.</li>
<li>The "right" TZif files are no longer installed by default.</li>
<li>-DTZ_RUNTIME_LEAPS=0 disables runtime support for leap seconds.</li>
<li>TZif files are no longer limited to 50 bytes of abbreviations.</li>
<li>zic is no longer limited to 50 leap seconds.</li>
<li>Several integer overflow bugs have been fixed.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Update to 2025c:<ul>
<li>Update Baja California DST rules in 1953, 1961-1975</li>
<li>An unset TZ is no longer invalid when /etc/localtime is
missing, and is abbreviated "UTC" not "-00". This reverts to 2024b behavior</li>
<li>tzset etc. are now more cautious about questionable TZ settings.</li>
<li>tzset etc. now treat ' ' like '_' in time zone abbreviations</li>
<li>tzfree now preserves errno, consistently with POSIX.1-2024 "free".</li>
<li>zic has new options inspired by FreeBSD.</li>
<li>multiple changes visible to developers</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Use "REDO=posix_right" to keep installing "right" TZif files.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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SUSE Linux Micro 6.0
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<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-724=1</code>
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<h2>Package List:</h2>
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<li>
SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>timezone-2026b-1.1</li>
<li>timezone-debuginfo-2026b-1.1</li>
<li>timezone-debugsource-2026b-1.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264965">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264965</a>
</li>
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