On 11/11/2018 00:10, John Reiser wrote:
The sole purpose of this thread is to bring attention to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646930
No doubt some of the delay is due to compatibility issues with other packages that consume timezone data. Upstream changed the data format: ===== $ rpm -q --changelog tzdata-2018e-1.fc*.noarch
- Wed May 16 2018 [tzdata-owner@fedoraproject.org] - 2018e-1
- Rebase to tzdata-2018e
- North Korea changed from UTC+8:30 to UTC+9 on May 5, 2018. - In this update, the upstream project now defaults to using the "vanguard" data implementation which includes negative DST offsets. However, we are continuing to provide the "rearguard" format for data which does not use negative DST offsets to provide better compatibility with existing tools. We intend to transition to the "vanguard" data implementation in the future. =====
Fedora had already switched to the new format for F29:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/TZDATA-VANGUARD
That bug is asking for 2018g - we already have 2018e where the format changed.
Tom