Bug 1555932

Summary: glibc: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019 [rhel-5-els]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Component: glibcAssignee: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Sergey Kolosov <skolosov>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 5.11CC: ahogbin, ashankar, bgollahe, chorn, codonell, dj, eng-i18n-bugs, fweimer, glibc-bugzilla, kkohata, mcermak, mfabian, mnewsome, nyamashi, petersen, pfrankli, qe-baseos-tools-bugs, skolosov, toneata, yogsawan, yoguma
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: i18n
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Fixed In Version: glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.5 Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
The GNU C Library now provides correct Japanese era name formatting for the REIWA era starting May 1st, 2019. The time handling API data has been updated including the data used by strftime and strptime. All APIs will correctly print the REIWA era including when strftime is used along with one of the era conversion specifiers e.g. %EC, %EY, or %Ey.
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Clone Of: 1555189
: 1693128 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-04-09 16:36:03 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1555930, 1688569, 1693128, 1693133, 1693135    

Comment 1 Carlos O'Donell 2018-03-14 21:25:13 UTC
The Japanese era name will be changed on May 1, 2019. According to the Japanese government, they are considering preliminary announcement around the spring/summer of 2018.

The glibc ja_JP locale must be updated to include the new era name for strptime/strftime support.

Comment 2 Christian Horn 2019-03-08 09:07:06 UTC
Is there anything preventing dev_ack here?
It is clear that the information
- which kanji
- and which name
will become the new era name have to be known.  dev_ack has been set for the 
rhel7 and rhel8 glibc bz, and would express that we think we can fix this bz.
Our partners are also asking for z-stream errata.  With the dev_ack, we can 
approach PM and ask for chances for the z-stream fixes.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2019-04-09 16:36:03 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.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0724