> Are you sure about this? There is no Debian or Ubuntu host I have
> access to that has a /usr/share/zoneinfo/ that contains more than
> 4MiB of data.
FWIW:
% du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo/.
5.1M /usr/share/zoneinfo/.
0%
This is on a "bog standard" Debian i386 testing (with incremental
updates for the last 17 years or so).
> For yours to have 256 times this much is quite an aberration.
Quite definitely.
Stefan