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A tzdata bug fix update has been released for Oracle Linux 6.



El-errata: ELBA-2021-9479 Oracle Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) tzdata bug fix update


Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2021-9479

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2021-9479.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
tzdata-2021c-1.el6.noarch.rpm
tzdata-java-2021c-1.el6.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
tzdata-2021c-1.el6.noarch.rpm
tzdata-java-2021c-1.el6.noarch.rpm



Description of changes:

[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.