Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) Instructions as Turkey Continues on Daylight Savings Time From 2016 (Doc ID 2197140.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 01, 2023

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Goal

As proper due to important national events, countries may choose to delay or alter timezone definitions at any time outside the the normal IT timezone patch building cycles.
Therefore it is important to be aware of these Timezone changes which can impact all levels of the IT stack including agents, Clients, servers and time dependent data.

This document describes procedures for updating timezone changes using provided definitions for Turkey DST 2016 which recently announced it will remain on the +03:00 Offset indefinitely.
As the ODA and many other products are on fixed patching cycles, alternative steps to update timezone settings may be required IF you are impacted by the recent 2016 announcement by Turkey that they will remain at UTC +3:00.

This note will also suggest manual steps as an alternative to waiting for ODA impacted patches allowing users to alter Timezone settings which may fall out of the normal timezone patch update cycles of once or twice a year.

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