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  • Bug#869770: tzdata: Incorrect timezone names for Argentina

    From nyuszika7h@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 26 13:30:01 2017
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    Package: tzdata
    Version: 2017b-1
    Severity: minor
    Tags: upstream

    Dear Maintainer,

    For a while, `date '+%Z'` displayed 'ART' for America/Argentina/* timezones. Now it just displays '-03' for some reason. I'm not sure when this issue started occurring, it was sometime back with jessie. It seems to be an upstream issue, though.

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 9.0
    APT prefers stable
    APT policy: (500, 'stable')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
    Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

    Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
    ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61

    tzdata recommends no packages.

    tzdata suggests no packages.

    -- debconf information:
    tzdata/Zones/Indian:
    tzdata/Zones/Australia:
    tzdata/Zones/Europe:
    * tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC
    tzdata/Zones/Antarctica:
    tzdata/Zones/Pacific:
    tzdata/Zones/Asia:
    * tzdata/Areas: Etc
    tzdata/Zones/Atlantic:
    tzdata/Zones/US:
    tzdata/Zones/America:
    tzdata/Zones/Africa:
    tzdata/Zones/Arctic:
    tzdata/Zones/SystemV:

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  • From Aurelien Jarno@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 27 00:40:02 2017
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    On 2017-07-26 12:21, nyuszika7h wrote:
    Package: tzdata
    Version: 2017b-1
    Severity: minor
    Tags: upstream

    Dear Maintainer,

    For a while, `date '+%Z'` displayed 'ART' for America/Argentina/* timezones. Now it just displays '-03' for some reason. I'm not sure when this issue started occurring, it was sometime back with jessie. It seems to be an upstream
    issue, though.

    This is indeed an upstream change, but actually not a bug. ART is an
    invented timezone name, and upstream started to remove all invented
    timezone names from tzdata, as they are not used outside of tzdata and
    often conflict with each other.

    In the case of South-American timezones, see this commit for more
    details:

    https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/c9e6ef07cc6f1062ddd032c96c5172f403c0058f

    --
    Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net

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