Bug 1329799

Summary:	[RHEL6.7] Venezuela - Time zone change
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Muhammad Azhar Shaikh <mdshaikh>
Component:	tzdata	Assignee:	Patsy Griffin <pfrankli>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.7
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	6.7
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	tzdata-2016d-1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Muhammad Azhar Shaikh 2016-04-23 07:37:11 UTC

From May 1st 2016 Venezuela's time zone will change from GMT -4.5 to GMT -4.

References:


http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/venezuela/caracas

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/15/venezuela-half-hour-time-change-energy-consumption

http://www.news18.com/news/tech/venezuela-shifts-time-zone-forward-30-minutes-to-save-electricity-1230794.html


Is there any need to update "tzdata" packages?

Will Red Hat release an update to handle that change?

Comment 2 Patsy Griffin 2016-04-24 02:56:58 UTC

This change was included in the recent update to tzdata-2016d:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2016-0683.html