"Missing" entries in timezone tables
Hi,
I have an issue with some missing entries in the zoneinfo files in
tzdata that I need to resolve.
I maintain two packages, python-pytz and python-xarray.
python-tz provides a python interface to timezone data;in Debian its
patched to read from zoneinfo rather tha ship its own copy of the data.
python-xarray has in 2025.03.1 now got a unit test that fails because
"US/Pacific" is not present.
Now in python-tz 2025.2 it has changed its build procedure
dramatically; the top-level Makefile pulls down zoneinfo via rsync (ugh)
in build and edits it. In -1 I bypass this as we still apply our patch
to use the official zoneinfo.
But ./gen_tzinfo.py in python-tz adds extra timezones it believes should
be present, including some backwards-compatible entries such as
"US/Pacific". Adding these timezones is possible, but I am loath to
diverge from tzdata..
Any opinions or recommendations?
Regards
Alastair
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