On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:23 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 05/22/2018 05:06 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> The old format was nicely documented in tzfile(5):
>
>
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/tzfile.5.html
>
> Through this it kinda has become API. Which doesn't mean it can't be
> changed, but can we please make sure that the new format is as well
> documented as the old one, i.e. please update that man page along with
> this new feature.
>
My understanding is that the format (as documented) hasn't actually
changed, but the data provided in the tzdata package now contains negative
DST offsets for the first time, something that certain implementations are
not prepared to deal with.
Correct! Thanks for clarifying this Florian!