Bug 618593
| Summary: | DST changes in Egypt | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Issue Tracker <tao> | |
| Component: | tzdata | Assignee: | Andreas Schwab <schwab> | |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons | |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | urgent | |||
| Version: | 5.5 | CC: | herrold, jakub, jan.kratochvil, mpoole, skakar, tao | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | |||
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | All | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | tzdata-2010k-1.el5 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
During Ramadan, that is, during the period between 2010-08-11 and 2010-09-08, Egypt will suspend DST. The DST period will be officially restored on 2010-09-09.
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Story Points: | --- | |
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| : | 618597 618599 618600 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-08-09 10:36:46 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 618597, 618599, 618600 | |||
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Description
Issue Tracker
2010-07-27 10:43:59 UTC
Event posted on 2010-07-27 08:27 BST by gvenugop Description of problem: The DST time change is to happen in Egypt, Egypt has announed DST off on Tuesday 10 August. Please note that DST off is for brief Ramadan period, After that DST will be again on for some time (back to normal). Ref: http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/ Olson data is now posted on ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2010k.tar.gz NOTE: He needs this for RHEL3, RHEL4 and RHEL5 How reproducible: Check with command 'zdump -v Egypt |grep 2010'. Steps to Reproduce: As above. Expected results: tzdata should be patched as per the new DST for Egypt. This event sent from IssueTracker by mpoole [SEG - Base OS] issue 1188633 Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: During Ramadan, that is, during the period between 2010-08-11 and 2010-09-08, Egypt will suspend DST. The DST period will be officially restored on 2010-09-09. 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-2010-0609.html |