Julien Riou

The "CET" time zone has vanished between Debian 12 and 13.

For good reasons. This is not a time zone but a time zone abbreviation. We should use "Europe/Paris" instead.

Now we have a crisis meeting because it's a major breaking change that can't be fixed because nobody knows how to set the time zone to a different value in the application 🤦‍♂️

https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata/-/commit/42c0008f86a5a53e1a37fefa93fdd3685313e86f

#postgresql #debian #tzdata

Move CET, CST6CDT, EET, EST*, HST, MET, MST*, PST8PDT, WET to legacy (42c0008f) · Commits · GNU Libc Maintainers / tzdata · GitLab

time zone and daylight-saving time data

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Feb 26 at 11:44amWeb
Show threadJulien RiouFeb 26

Problem solved:

```
apt install tzdata-legacy
```

But this is ugly.

Show threadsocFeb 26

@jriou The TZDB drama has to be the absolute dumbest thing that has happened in this decade.

(Ok, second to AI, probably.)

Show threadcaravantravellers 🌈Feb 26

@jriou

It's not even a timezone abbreviation, it's a name for the offset of 1 hour to UTC. In summer, many countries stay in their timezone while the offset changes from CET to CEST (UTC+2).

Don't confuse timezones with UTC offsets.

Show threadDmitry TantsurFeb 28
@jriou it's a perfect example of decisions that are technically sound but ignore the reality of humans using software. CET is too imprecise, so I'm supposed to say I'm in Paris or Berlin 🤷
Show threadJulien RiouFeb 28
@creepy_owlet Or Europe/Brussels https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata/-/commit/42c0008f86a5a53e1a37fefa93fdd3685313e86f#ed4d557c32ab5f765814467852628efaa7a58f51_149_149
Move CET, CST6CDT, EET, EST*, HST, MET, MST*, PST8PDT, WET to legacy (42c0008f) · Commits · GNU Libc Maintainers / tzdata · GitLab

time zone and daylight-saving time data

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