Bug 462707

Summary: [RHEL 5] tzdata updates needed for upcoming DST in Brazil and Argentina
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 5.0CC: hrm, ivanfmartinez, jrfuller, mgiles, mnewsome, ralph, tao
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Bug Blocks: 462708, 462709, 462710, 465459    

Description Petr Machata 2008-09-18 14:19:38 UTC
Description of problem:

  - Argentina will start DST on Sunday October 19, 2008
    [formerly scheduled to October 5]

  - Brazil will start DST on 2008-10-19
    [formerly scheduled to October 12]
    This affects Brazil's federal district, Rio Grande Do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul (our zones America/Sao_Paulo, America/Campo_Grande and America/Cuiaba).

tzdata 2008f have the right dates in.

Comment 6 Ivan Martinez 2008-10-03 19:09:57 UTC
As Argentina will change this weekend and Brazil will not change in next Week. This report must be changed to High Priority or we will have to manualy change the dates.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2008-10-08 13:18:53 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2008-0941.html