[tz] Issue in tz America/Santiago

[Paul Eggert]

On 4/4/19 7:51 AM, Alberto Jose Rivera Rojas wrote:
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>  Before install the time change patch tzdata2019a the date command
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> Thu Apr  4 11:07:36 CLST 2019
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> After installing the time change patch tzdata2019a the date command
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> Thu Apr  4 11:07:36 -03 2019
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We changed the abbreviations to -04 and -03 in tzdata 2017a because the
alphabetic abbreviations were something we invented and didn't seem to
be used much in English. To get abbreviations in suitable for your
locale, you might look into CLDR. For more, please see:

https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html#notation

which also should help to explain why applications should not rely on
alphabetic abbreviations.