Bug 698397

Summary: Timezone update - DST cancelled in Egypt
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Abdelrahman Hassan <aehassan>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority: high    
Version: 5.6CC: mnewsome, vvijayan
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 5.6   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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: 698611 698612 698613 (view as bug list) Environment:
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Bug Blocks: 698611, 698612, 698613    
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removes DST in Egypt starting 2011 none

Description Abdelrahman Hassan 2011-04-20 19:42:56 UTC
Created attachment 493602 [details]
removes DST in Egypt starting 2011

Description of problem:
Egypt's interim government have cancelled DST.  Current version of timezone files would incorrectly switch to EEST at the end of this month.  Patch attached.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.TZ=Africa/Cairo date -d "next month"
  
Actual results:
Time given in EEST


Expected results:
Time should be in EET

Additional info:

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-06 08:35:28 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-2011-0493.html