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Bug#1056908: tzdata: Support IANA time zones



On 12/4/23 10:13 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
Hi,

On Sun, 2023-11-26 at 09:23 -0500, John Clark wrote:
Package: tzdata
Version: 2023c-8

The 12 well-known US time zones have been dropped from Debian tzdata as
of 2023c-8:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1451157/accepted-tzdata-2023c-8-source-into-unstable

These time zones are still officially recognized and fully supported by
IANA.

IANA Timezone Database:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Alaska
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Aleutian
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Arizona
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/East-Indiana
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Hawaii
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Indiana-Starke
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Michigan
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Samoa


Their removal appears to be related to this request:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1040997

This request does not provide any support as to why Debian should
deviate from IANA standards.

Requesting that Debian again adopt international time zone standards and
support these well known IANA time zones as it does in Bookworm.
These timezones are considered legacy by the upstream tz project. These
timezones were not removed but moved to tzdata-legacy. So please install
tzdata-legacy if you want to use them:

sudo apt install tzdata-legacy

I looked for deprecations in the upstream project but did not find any.  Can you cite any IANA deprecation references?


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