Bug 1377407

Summary: Daylight savings time to be permanent in Turkey
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Kevin Clevenger <kcleveng>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Patsy Griffin <pfrankli>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.11CC: b24warbaby, burak.yilmaz, canerargun, james.hofmeister, kdemirca, martin.moore, mkolaja, pfrankli, qe-baseos-daemons, srandhaw
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Clone Of: 1374238 Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-10-03 15:13:30 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1374238    
Bug Blocks: 1374778    

Description Kevin Clevenger 2016-09-19 15:19:41 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1374238 +++

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

--- Additional comment from RHEL Product and Program Management on 2016-09-08 03:24:13 PDT ---

Since this bug report was entered in bugzilla, the release flag has been
set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release.
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2016-09-26 18:12:09 UTC 
This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 4 Marcel Kolaja 2016-09-27 12:17:52 UTC 
This bug seems to be a DUPLICATE of bug #1377711, so it should be CLOSED as such.
Comment 5 b24warbaby 2016-09-27 17:57:31 UTC 
A workaround use : 

Time zone:  Europe Eastern Moscow
            (Europe/Moscow)
UTC offset: +0300 (UTC plus 3 hours)