Bug 2178567

Summary:	Update tzdata: tzdata-2023a for Palestine, Morocco, and Egypt
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Juan Manuel Santos <jsantos>
Component:	tzdata	Assignee:	Patsy Griffin <pfrankli>
Status:	VERIFIED ---	QA Contact:	Michal Kolar <mkolar>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	8.7	CC:	codonell, ffotorel, mcermak, mharbi, pfrankli, qe-baseos-tools-bugs, sipoyare, toneata
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged, ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	tzdata-2023a-1.el8	Doc Type:	No Doc Update
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	2178546
Clones:	2181013 2181014 2181015 2181016 2181017 2181018 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:		Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	2178546, 2178569, 2180130
Bug Blocks:	2181013, 2181014, 2181015, 2181016, 2181017, 2181018
Deadline:	2023-04-03

Description Juan Manuel Santos 2023-03-15 09:47:58 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2178546 +++

Description of problem:
Egypt has announced that it will reintroduce DST on April 28th (local time)

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # zdump -v Africa/Cairo|grep 2023
2.
3.

Actual results:
No DST changes are displayed

Expected results:
Thu Apr 27 21:59:59 2023 UT = Thu Apr 27 23:59:59 2023 EET
Thu Apr 27 22:00:00 2023 UT = Fri Apr 28 01:00:00 2023 EEST
Thu Oct 26 20:59:59 2023 UT = Thu Oct 26 23:59:59 2023 EEST
Thu Oct 26 21:00:00 2023 UT = Thu Oct 26 23:00:00 2023 EET
Thu Apr 25 21:59:59 2024 UT = Thu Apr 25 23:59:59 2024 EET
Thu Apr 25 22:00:00 2024 UT = Fri Apr 26 01:00:00 2024 EEST
Thu Oct 31 20:59:59 2024 UT = Thu Oct 31 23:59:59 2024 EEST
Thu Oct 31 21:00:00 2024 UT = Thu Oct 31 23:00:00 2024 EET

Additional info:
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2023-March/032598.html
https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/dst-egypt-2023.html
https://www.mena.org.eg/ar/news/dbcall/table/textnews/id/10044253

Comment 6 Michal Kolar 2023-03-24 13:12:13 UTC

Verified with tzdata-2023a-1.el8.