Bug 1065926

Summary: Turkey delays DST start by one day
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Martin Poole <mpoole>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Patsy Griffin <pfrankli>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 6.6CC: ctrianta, mdshaikh, mtessun, orhan.biyiklioglu, pfrankli, rbors, sashaikh
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: 1065928 1065930 1065931 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-03-14 14:49:11 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Martin Poole 2014-02-17 10:02:11 UTC
Description of problem:

According to Turkish government decision, there will be one-day delay in the start of DST.
DST start time will be "2014 Monday, 31 March" instead of "2014 Sunday, 30 March"



As noted in

   http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/turkey-starts-dst-2014.html

and officially (apparently) as

  http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/main.aspx?home=http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2014/02/20140216.htm&main=http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2014/02/20140216.htm

Comment 5 Orhan Biyiklioglu 2014-03-10 12:54:26 UTC
tzdata 2014a version is released on March 9th and contains this change.
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2014-March/000018.html

Update of the tzdata packages should solve the problem.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2014-03-14 14:49:11 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-0295.html