ELBA-2022-9247

ELBA-2022-9247 - tzdata bug fix update

Type:	BUG
Severity:	NA
Release Date:	2022-03-24

Description

[2022a-1]
- Rebase to tzdata-2022a
- Palestine springs forward on 2022-03-27, not -03-26.
- zdump -v now outputs better failure information
- fixes for code that reads corrupted TZif data

[2021e-1]
- Rebase to tzdata-2021e - supersedes tzdata-2021d
- Pacific/Fiji suspended DST for the 2021/2022 season.
- 'zic -r' now marks unspecified timestamps with '-00'.
- Palestine will fall back 2021-10-29 at 01:00, rather
than the predicted 2021-10-30.

[2021d-1]
- Rebase to tzdata-2021d
- Pacific/Fiji suspended DST for the 2021/2022 season.
- 'zic -r' now marks unspecified timestamps with '-00'.

[2021c-1]
- Rebase to tzdata-2021c
- Revert most of 2021b changes to 'backward'.
- Fix 'zic -b fat' bug in pre-1970 32-bit data.
- Fix two Link line typos.
- Distribute SECURITY file.

[2021b-2]
- Bump the release and rebuild.

[2021b-1]
- Rebase to tzdata-2021b
- Innclude patch for Mayen
- Jordan now starts DST on February's last Thursday.
- Samoa no longer observes DST.
- Merge more location-based Zones whose timestamps agree since 1970.
- Move some backward-compatibility links to 'backward'.
- Rename Pacific/Enderbury to Pacific/Kanton.
- Correct many pre-1993 transitions in Malawi, Portugal, etc.
- zic now creates each output file or link atomically.
- zic -L no longer omits the POSIX TZ string in its output.
- zic fixes for truncation and leap second table expiration.
- zic now follows POSIX for TZ strings using all-year DST.
- Fix some localtime crashes and bugs in obscure cases.
- zdump -v now outputs more-useful boundary cases.
- tzfile.5 better matches a draft successor to RFC 8536.

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	MD5sum	Superseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 6 (i386)	tzdata-2022a-1.el6.src.rpm	69ae3bc7d87a2761207f9781360190f9	-
	tzdata-2022a-1.el6.noarch.rpm	4c702bac23ae0f66e99903c38bfa6473	-
	tzdata-java-2022a-1.el6.noarch.rpm	a0487dcb0f1955b884c60f270e0e0fa6	-
Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64)	tzdata-2022a-1.el6.src.rpm	69ae3bc7d87a2761207f9781360190f9	-
	tzdata-2022a-1.el6.noarch.rpm	4c702bac23ae0f66e99903c38bfa6473	-
	tzdata-java-2022a-1.el6.noarch.rpm	a0487dcb0f1955b884c60f270e0e0fa6	-

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