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<patchinfo incident="32265">
  <packager>dspinella</packager>
  <rating>moderate</rating>
  <category>recommended</category>
  <summary>Recommended update for timezone</summary>
  <description>This update for timezone fixes the following issues:

- Update to version 2024a
- Kazakhstan unifies on UTC+5
- Palestine springs forward a week later than previously predicted in 2024 and 2025
- Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh's 1955-07-01 transition occurred at 01:00 not 00:00
- From 1947 through 1949, Toronto's transitions occurred at 02:00 not 00:00
- In 1911 Miquelon adopted standard time on June 15, not May 15
- The FROM and TO columns of Rule lines can no longer be "minimum"
- localtime no longer mishandle some timestamps
- strftime %s now uses tm_gmtoff if available
- Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland changes time zones on 2024-03-31
- Vostok, Antarctica changed time zones on 2023-12-18
- Casey, Antarctica changed time zones five times since 2020
- Code and data fixes for Palestine timestamps starting in 2072
- A new data file zonenow.tab for timestamps starting now
- Much of Greenland changed its standard time from -03 to -02 on 2023-03-25
- localtime.c no longer mishandles TZif files that contain a single transition into a DST regime
- tzselect no longer creates temporary files
- tzselect no longer mishandles the following:
  * Spaces and most other special characters in BUGEMAIL, PACKAGE, TZDIR, and VERSION.
  * TZ strings when using mawk 1.4.3, which mishandles regular expressions of the form /X{2,}/
  * ISO 6709 coordinates when using an awk that lacks the GNU extension of newlines in -v option-arguments
  * Non UTF-8 locales when using an iconv command that lacks the GNU //TRANSLIT extension
  * zic no longer mishandles data for Palestine after the year 2075
</description>
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