Date:         Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:15:13 -0500
Reply-To:     Troy Dawson 
Sender:       Security Errata for Scientific Linux
              
From:         Troy Dawson 
Subject:      Security ERRATA for tzdata on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov

Synopsis:    Low: tzdata update
Issue date:    2007-10-26

A tzdata enhancement, with updates for Venezuela, Indiana, Egypt, Gaza,
South Australia, Antarctica, Brazil, and Iran is now available.

The tzdata package contains data files with information regarding and rules
for daylight saving times in various timezones around the world.

The updated package contains up to date rules for the following timezones:

* Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, and Pike Counties, Indiana, switch from
Central Standard Time(CST) to Eastern Standard Time(EST) in November.

* South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales are changing
the Daylight Savings Time rules for next year.

* Several Antarctic stations rules were not properly updated to account for
this year's change to the New Zealand daylight saving rules.

* Brazil will observe Daylight Savings Time from October 14 2007 to
February 17 2008.

* Egypt and Gaza switched to Daylight Savings Time on September 7 not
September 24.

* Iran resumes Daylight Savings Time next year.

* Venezuela is scheduled to change time zone to -4:30 on January 1.

SL 4.x

   SRPMS:
tzdata-2007h-1.el4.src.rpm
   i386:
tzdata-2007h-1.el4.noarch.rpm
   x86_64:
tzdata-2007h-1.el4.noarch.rpm

SL 5.x

   SRPMS:
tzdata-2007h-1.el5.src.rpm
   i386:
tzdata-2007h-1.el5.noarch.rpm
   x86_64:
tzdata-2007h-1.el5.noarch.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson