As these changes come into effect in each country, failure to implement the listed updates may cause inaccurate date and time which could lead to unpredictable results, depending upon usage.

February 8, 2007 - Mongolia has chosen not to move to Summer Time (Daylight Saving Time) commencing 2007. Previously, each year the clock advanced one hour earlier during the summer.

March 11, 2007 - Pulaski County, Indiana, is switching from CST/CDT to EST/EDT which means a 2-hour change on March 11 2007. This requires a new Zone: America/Indiana/Winamac.

April 30, 2007 - New Zealand has decided to extend the daylight savings period to 27 weeks. Clocks will go forward an hour a week earlier than usual - on the last Sunday in September - and back an hour on the first Sunday in April instead of the third Sunday in March. Daylight saving for 2007-08 will start at 2a.m. on 30 September 2007 and end at 3a.m. on 6 April 2008.

BugID CR 6597032: Update zoneinfo timezones to 2007g (South Australia, Indiana, Egypt)
- Egypt has changed the ending date of DST. DST ended on September 7 in 2007.

- Daviess, Dubous, Knox, Martin, and Pike Counties, Indiana, switch from central to eastern time in November. This results in a  zone split, and a new entry America/Tell_City is created for Perry County, which does not switch zones in November.

- South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales are changing their DST rules effective in 2008. DST will end the first Sunday in April at 03:00 and start the first Sunday in October at 03:00.  Lord Howe Island has a similar change.

BugID CR 6606060: Update zoneinfo timezones 2007h (Brazil, Egypt, Iran, Gaza, Venezuela)
- Brazil observes DST from 2007-10-14 00:00 to 2008-02-17 00:00.
- Iran will resume DST from 2008.
- Venezuela is currently planning to change time zones on January 1 2008, to 04:30.

BugID CR 6636785: Update zoneinfo timezones to 2007j (Venezuela, Cuba, Syria)
- Venezuela had decided to change their clocks on December 9 at 03:00, instead of January 1 at 00:00 as first thought.
- Cuba will end DST one week earlier - on the last Sunday of October.
- Syria winter local time will be observed at midnight on Thursday November 1 2007, and the clocks will be put back 1 hour.

BugID CR 6645893: Update zoneinfo timezones to 2007k (Argentina, Jan Mayen)
- Argentina re-adoption of daylight saving time to commence at the start of the day Sunday December 30, and finishing at the start of the day Sunday March 16.

BugID CR 6674462: Update zoneinfo timezones 2008b (Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Iraq, Syria)
- Chile extends Daylight Time in three weeks. DST starts at Saturday, March 29 (24:00 in America/Santiago, 22:00 in Pacific/Easter)
- The Province of San Luis in Argentina decided to go back to UTC-3 effective midnight Jan 20th 2008
- Cuba (from 2008 forward) starts DST at the third Sunday in March.
- Iraq abandons DST.
- Syria switched (from 2008 forward) to start DST at the start of the first Friday in April and end DST at the start of Oct 1.

BugID CR 6706537: Update zoneinfo timezones to 2008c (Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan)
- Choibalsan in Mongolia is now 8 hours off UCT.
- Morocco observes DST in 2008.
- Pakistan observes DST in 2008.

BugID CR 6723137: Update zoneinfo timezones to 2008e (Brazil, Mauritius, Argentina)
- Mauritius observes DST 2008-2009.
- Changes to reflect Brazilian time zone realignments

BugID CR 6757452: zoneinfo timezones 2008h (Brazil, Argentina, Palastine, Pakistan, etc.)
- Reflecting changes in Mauritius DST rule.
- Morocco changes DST rules.
- Gaza changes DST rules.
- Pakistan changes the end of 2008 DST from Sep 1st to Nov 1st.
- Argentina starts 2008 DST from 3rd Sunday.
- Brazil starts 2008 DST from 2nd Sunday.
- Update in the Maurituis DST transition hours.
- Syria ends DST on Nov 1st.

BugID CR 6764127: update zoneinfo timezones to 2008i (Argentina)
- Changes to reflect the latest Argentina DST rules.

BugID CR 6798406: update zoneinfo timezones to 2009c
- Cuba started Daylight Saving Time beginning March 8th in 2009.

BugID CR 6821000: update zoneinfo timezones to 2009d (Argentina, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria)
- The Province of San Luis (Argentina) started DST from March 15th until the second Saturday in October.
- Tunisia will not observe DST this year.
- Morocco will observe DST from 2009-06-01 to 2009-08-21.
- Syria will start DST on 2009-03-27 00:00 this year.

BugID CR 6826916: update zoneinfo timezones to 2009e (Jordan, Palestine)
- Palestinian government decided to start Daylight Time on Thursday night March 26 and continue until the night of 27 September 2009.
- Jordan is going to daylight saving time on the last Friday in March since 2002.

BugID CR 6828929: update zoneinfo timezones to 2009f (Pakistan)
- Pakistan plans to introduce DST from April 15, 2009

BugID CR 6832623: update zoneinfo timezones to 2009g (Egypt)
- Egypt ends DST on the last Thursday in September from 2009 and forward.

BugID CR 6843121: update zoneinfo timezones to 2009h (Jordan)
 - The start of DST in Jordan from 2002 forward is changed from 0:00 on the last Friday of the month to 24:00 on the last Thursday.
 
BugID CR 6847404: update zoneinfo timezones to 2009i (Bangladesh)
- Bangladesh introduces daylight savings this year which will start from June 19 midnight. The clock will go ahead 1 hour at that time.

BugID CR 6850807: update zoneinfo timezones to 2009j (Bangladesh DST starts earlier)
- Bangladesh started DST one hour eariler than expected in the BugID/CR 6847404.

These issues can occur in the following releases:

Systems will experience incorrect system time or date after timezone changes go into effect.

These issues are addressed in the following releases:

Solution for the latest changes (BugID/CR 6872051, 6877621, 6891724, 6893824 and 6896172) are not included in the above patches (Please see the "Workaround" section).

Note: The READMEs of Solaris 8 patches developed on or after 1 April 2009 are available to all customers. However, Solaris 8 entered EOSL Phase 2 on April 1, 2009 and thus entitlement for these patches, including those that fix security vulnerabilities, requires the purchase of the Solaris 8 Vintage Patch Service. More information about the Solaris 8 Vintage Patch Service is available at:  http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/Solaris8.html

Solution for the changes below are not included in the above Solaris 8 patches. BugID/CRs 6847404, 6850807, 6862458, 6872051, 6877621, 6891724, 6893824, 6896172.

Note 1: Once these patches are applied, at(1) jobs may not be scheduled correctly.

This will happen if both the following conditions are present:

at(1) jobs which meet these two conditions can be scheduled one hour later or earlier. Please run atq(1) to see if jobs are scheduled correctly after patch installation.

If there are discrepancies, remove jobs using atrm(1) and resubmit the jobs.

Note 2: Once these patches are applied and the system rebooted, to complete the installation of these changes, systems which are running CDE calendar manager [dtcm(1)] or the CDE calendar server daemon [rpc.cmsd] will find that some scheduled events in the extended/changed DST period are incorrect by one hour.

This will happen under the following conditions:

To address this issue, recreate all single events in the affected time period and all recurring events for which the first instance of the event is in the affected time period.

Note 3: Those systems which are not in one of the affected timezones and not using any programs which switch to using one of the affected timezones will not need these patches.

Note 4:  Information on previous daylight saving and timezone changes for Solaris can be found in Sun Alert 200097 (formerly Sun Alert 102775):