Bug 1374238

Summary: Daylight savings time to be permanent in Turkey
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Kaan Demircan <kdemirca>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Patsy Griffin <pfrankli>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 7.3CC: b24warbaby, burak.yilmaz, canerargun, ekin.meroglu, james.hofmeister, kdemirca, kvolny, mkolaja, mmezynsk, pfrankli, sabitnumanari, srandhaw, tlavigne, tolun.ardahanli
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Last Closed: 2016-10-12 17:48:56 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Kaan Demircan 2016-09-08 10:05:06 UTC 
Description of problem:

The Turkish government has announced today that the daylight savings time will be permanent from now on.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

All RHEL.

Expected results:

tzdata and tzdata-java packages should be updated.

Additional info:

Turkish official parliament newspaper update:
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2016/09/20160908-2.pdf

English news article (from the media):
http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/09/08/turkey-opts-for-daylight-saving-time-throughout-the-year
Comment 2 Ekin Meroglu 2016-09-20 19:44:13 UTC 
It seems the tzdata update (2016g) from icann is ready but not officially released yet:

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-September/024111.html
Comment 3 b24warbaby 2016-09-23 16:47:36 UTC 
Will be available to RH 5 too ?
Comment 11 Tolun ARDAHANLI 2016-09-30 07:45:20 UTC 
(In reply to Ekin Meroglu from comment #2)
> It seems the tzdata update (2016g) from icann is ready but not officially
> released yet:
> 
> https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-September/024111.html

Hi Mr. Ekin;

It has been released on 2016-09-28 @ https://www.iana.org/time-zones

Sincerely,