On Dec 12, 2024, at 8:46 AM, Brian Park via tz wrote:
> One thing rarely mentioned in these discussions is the millions of electronic
> devices (e.g. timers, clocks, watches, thermostats, etc) which are hardcoded
> to handle DST using the current US/Canada rules (i.e. first Sunday in Nov,
> se
On Dec 12, 2024, at 9:27 AM, Dale Ghent via tz wrote:
> All this foo about DST in the US
Foo about DST in the US back in the 1980s was the original provocation for
creating the tzdb in the first place.
But the goal was more than "yet another tweak", so they ended up creating
something that di
On Jan 20, 2025, at 3:53 PM, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
>> From: Patrick BENNY
>> Date: Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
>
>> The Asia/Tokyo time zone seems to have been linked with Australia, probably
>> by mistake.
...
>> The Eyre Bird Observatory should probably be linked with an Austra
On Jan 20, 2025, at 7:17 PM, Patrick BENNY via tz wrote:
> I understood now that the data is as intended, and the comment does help to
> understand the reason. I was first alerted about this because a reverse
> lookup of the Asia/Tokyo timezone until now returned only Japan, but started
> eval
On Mar 22, 2025, at 8:53 PM, Hugo Ortiz via tz wrote:
> The local goberment of Paraguay stabloshed the GMT-3 time zone for paraguay
> without no more changes on timezone.
And the IANA database maintainers released the 2025a release on 2025-01-16;
that release updates the rules for Paraguay to
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On Mar 23, 2025, at 7:59 AM, milciades meza via tz wrote:
> Dear Time Zone Database Maintenance Team,
>
> My name is Milciades Meza, and I would like to request an update to the IANA
> time zone database regarding Paraguay.
>
> The Government of Para
On Apr 4, 2025, at 2:36 PM, Brian Inglis via tz wrote:
> On 2025-04-04 00:48, Sahil Sharma D via tz wrote:
>> Could you please share the SBOM for tzdata2025b and tzcode2025b?
>
> If you download the public domain source, it is up to you to document the
> tools you use to render the code and dat
On Mar 27, 2025, at 4:50 AM, John Haxby via tz wrote:
>> On 25 Mar 2025, at 04:18, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
>>
>> Of these Ubuntu is best known, and it has several downstream distros that I
>> assume are also affected. So Ubuntu may be the most important laggard for
>> Paraguay.
>
> Canonic
On Mar 4, 2025, at 10:12 PM, Evgeniy Gorbanev via tz wrote:
> I found that if I run zic to create a link on another device, the buffer
> overflow in zip.c:1422 in version 2025a will occur. In this line i == 0.
I.e., if "target" is an empty string, it won't work.
On Mar 5, 2025, at 11:34 AM, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
> On 2025-03-04 22:12, Evgeniy Gorbanev via tz wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I found that if I run zic to create a link on another device, the buffer
>> overflow in zip.c:1422 in version 2025a will occur. In this line i == 0.
>>
>> The command to
On Feb 20, 2025, at 11:26 AM, Tom Lane via tz wrote:
> I take the OP's point to be that if we're keeping it around for
> System V compatibility, it ought to continue to mean what it meant
> on System V, whether that corresponds to any physical location or
> not.
I don't remember whether the tz c
On Feb 20, 2025, at 12:37 PM, Brooks Harris via tz wrote:
> On 2025-02-20 02:45 PM, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
>
>> In other words, users don't really want true System V compatibility. They
>> just want to keep using the same name for US eastern time.
>
> That's true for most users. But not ne
On Feb 20, 2025, at 2:08 PM, Brooks Harris wrote:
> Right. My mistake, I meant EST5 and the like.
...which, as noted, don't have tzdb files, they work because of the way the tz
code works (providing compatibility support for SV/POSIX TZ settings).
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