On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 09:14 +0000, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> Tl;DR:
> 
>   Upstream timezone-data-2020b changed the way /usr/share/zoneinfo
>   files are generated by default. Gentoo does NOT enable this new
>   default to keep existing software running (so far).
> 
>   You can enable new default explicitly with USE=zic-slim switch.
> 
>   Libraries and tools that parse /usr/share/zoneinfo will break in trivial
>   (crashes) or very obscure ways (DST time switch will not happen and
>   will report wrong time).

Does this mean we won't learn whether it works until 6 months from now?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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