[tz] Announcing global-tz - 2022ag (beta)

[Stephen Colebourne]

My understanding is that tzdb will need to use za, zb, zc after z, because
otherwise the versions don't have the correct alphabetical sort order which
I believe downstream systems see as an important property of the naming
scheme. Is this documented somewhere? I don't see it in theory.

I know there is some resistance to names with characters other than a-z, so
I wouldn't want to choose -g as a suffix.
Thanks
Stephen


On Fri, 18 Mar 2022, 16:47 Paul Eggert, <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 3/18/22 09:00, Stephen Colebourne via tz wrote:
> > 2022ag-beta1, which will become the
> > final 2022ag release tomorrow if there are no major issues or
> > objections.
>
> That naming convention would collide with tzdb's already-existing naming
> convention, if we are unlucky to have 33 or more releases this year. A
> name like '2022a-g' would avoid any such collision.
>
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