Bug 1693135

Summary:	glibc: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019 [rhel-6.6.z]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Oneata Mircea Teodor <toneata>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Sergey Kolosov <skolosov>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.6	CC:	amike, ashankar, chorn, codonell, dj, eng-i18n-bugs, fweimer, glibc-bugzilla, joedward, kkohata, mcermak, mfabian, mnewsome, nyamashi, petersen, pfrankli, qe-baseos-tools-bugs, skolosov, toneata, yogsawan, yoguma
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	i18n
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.13	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.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1555930	Environment:
Last Closed:	2019-04-10 21:19:06 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1555930, 1555932, 1693128
Bug Blocks:	1688569, 1693133

Comment 3 Sergey Kolosov 2019-04-05 08:01:11 UTC

Verified,
glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.13 has new Japanise Era support

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2019-04-10 21:19:06 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-2019:0743