Bug 2178569

Summary: Update tzdata: tzdata-2023a for Palestine, Morocco, and Egypt
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Juan Manuel Santos <jsantos>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Patsy Griffin <pfrankli>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Michal Kolar <mkolar>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.9CC: ffotorel, imranatif, kpfleming, kurian.francis, mcermak, pfrankli, qe-baseos-tools-bugs, sipoyare
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Triaged
Target Release: ---Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: tzdata-2023a-1.el7 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Clone Of: 2178546 Environment:
Last Closed: 2023-03-28 10:50:32 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 2178546, 2180130    
Bug Blocks: 2178567    

Description Juan Manuel Santos 2023-03-15 09:49:39 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 5 NN_kurian.francis 2023-03-24 08:49:36 UTC 
Is this rpm available,
Comment 6 Michal Kolar 2023-03-24 13:12:11 UTC 
Verified with tzdata-2023a-1.el7.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2023-03-28 10:50:32 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 (tzdata bug fix and enhancement update), 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-2023:1491
Comment 9 imranatif 2023-03-29 11:22:47 UTC 
Is this Package available for download ?
If yes, can anyone share the link please. Thanks
Comment 10 Patsy Griffin 2023-03-29 15:30:47 UTC 
(In reply to imranatif from comment #9)
> Is this Package available for download ?
> If yes, can anyone share the link please. Thanks

Please see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Timezone Data (tzdata) - Development Status Page for more info : https://access.redhat.com/articles/1187353

Thank you!