[tz] zoneinfo version?

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Sep 20 21:16:56 UTC 2019


On 9/20/19 12:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin via tz wrote:
> No such file on Linux where I had looked
> for "2019c" that I expected.

Different distros do this differently. In the reference installation, you can 
find the version number in a comment in /usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata.zi, and this 
file is available in Fedora 30. However, Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (an older release) 
lacks /usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata.zi, I assume because Debian's installation 
procedure predates the addition of tzdata.zi (first available in tzdb 2017c). I 
have filed a bug report with Debian about that.

If it doesn't already, macOS should also distribute tzdata.zi; perhaps a reader 
who uses macOS can file a bug report about this.


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