New Zealand Daylight Saving Time (DST) changing in 2007 and its impact on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise products

Document ID:3108797
Creation Date:26-Mar-2008
Modified Date:27-Apr-2012
- Micro Focus Products:
  Open Enterprise Server
- SUSE Products:
  SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Environment

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
Novell Open Enterprise Server (Linux based)
Novell Linux Desktop 9

Situation

The New Zealand government decided to extend the daylight saving period, starting September 2007. Due to this change, service packs or maintenance updates are required for several Novell Linux based software products.

Resolution

Updates have been released to address this change for several Novell Linux products.

Code 10 products: SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (Desktop and Server)
(Last updated: 2008-05-21)

Core timezone package: Changes are included as of version 2.4-31.35 from zypp patch number 4130.
Sun Java: Changes are included as of java-1_4_2-sun-1.4.2.15-2.1 from zypp patch number 3844.
IBM Java: Changes are included as of java-1_5_0-ibm-1.5.0_sr5-1.4 from zypp patch number 3891.
Evolution: Changes are included as of evolution-data-server-1.6.0-43.61 from zypp patch number 4438.

All these changes are included in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2.

Code 9 products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, Open Enterprise Server (Linux based), Novell Linux Desktop
(Last updated: 2008-03-18)

Core timezone package: Changes are included as of version 2.3.3-98.86.3 from patch-11766.
Sun Java: Changes are included upstream as of Sun Java 1.4.2 update 15 which is included as of patch-11567.
IBM Java 2: Changes are included for x86_64 as of version 1.4.2-0.98 from patch-11950; for other architectures as of version 1.4.2-0.92.5 from patch-11918.
IBM Java 5: Changes are included as of version 1.5.0-0.15 from patch-12063.

Older products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
(Last updated: 2007-08-30)

Core timezone package: Changes are included as ofversion 2.2.5-252 from patch-11729.
Sun Java: Changes are included upstream as of Sun Java 1.3.1 update 20 which is included as of patch-11567.
IBM Java: Changes are included upstream as of 1.3.1 SR10-1 which is included as of patch-11570.

Additional Information

For general information on Daylight Saving Time handling on Linux, please seeTID 3655154 - Daylight Saving Time (DST) Handling in Linux. This TID also explains how to validate the DST settings.