Bug#869770: tzdata: Incorrect timezone names for Argentina

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

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 

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