[tz] zdump --version reports "unknown" on OpenSuse 15.1 [2020a]

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sun May 24 17:19:58 UTC 2020


On 5/24/20 4:38 AM, listclient at hayo.de wrote:
> sudo zdump --version
> zdump (tzcode) unknown
> 
> Installed package:
> timezone - Time Zone Descriptions
> 
> Is this a defect of the OpenSuse package or of the IANA code distribution?

If you aren't sure, then the answer is "OpenSuse". :-)

I suggest filing a bug report with the OpenSuse folks. For what it's worth, on
Ubuntu 18.04.4 'zdump --version' outputs "zdump (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)
2.27" and on Fedora 31 it outputs "zdump (GNU libc) 2.30".


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