Bug ID 621957: Timezone data on AOM not syncing with host

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.2 HF1

Opened: Oct 11, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Updating the timezone on the host does not sync to the AOM, because certain tzdata files are placed in the wrong directories.

Impact

Time on the AOM is incorrect.

Conditions

A system using tzdata version v2016i-1 may encounter this problem. If the following files exist: /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/zoneinfo/posix/F5zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/zoneinfo/right/F5zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo/zoneinfo/F5zone.tab then the system has this problem.

Workaround

If the following files exist: /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/zoneinfo/posix/F5zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/zoneinfo/right/F5zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo/zoneinfo/F5zone.tab move them to: /usr/share/zoneinfo/F5zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/F5zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/F5zone.tab

Fix Information

Timezone data on AOM now syncs correctly with host again

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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