Hi Tim, thanks a lot for the information! good to know there are people who are so much on the lookout for these changes!
Unfortunately, downstream maintainers can often be slow to pick up on these changes. We suggest working with the maintainers of these systems to pick up and distribute our latest release to your users.
It seems this is totally a thing about version release schedules. It was way too soon to declare a change like that on my country's part. Thanks a lot and your work maintaining this is highly appreciated :) Cheers, Martin Vuyk L. El lun, 24 mar 2025 a la(s) 2:57 p.m., Tim Parenti (tim@timtimeonline.com) escribió:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 13:38, Martin Vuyk via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
A lot of systems went crazy [in Paraguay] because some changed the timezone [this past Saturday evening] and some didn't. I have some headaches at work already on a Sunday (yay). AFAIK this database is the source of truth for most systems. But I don't know how fast you could change this and it getting pushed to all devices.
All— The recent change for Paraguay (staying on -03 and no longer falling back to -04 from 2025-03-22 24:00) was made to our development repository in the following commits dated 2024-10-05 and 2024-10-15:
https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/636e6f983bca35e6f945e092ffdc315ae3e5dd9e
https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/486e1e890e68d52f9236b2b354484463f57ec692
These changes were included in version 2025a of tzdata, released 2025-01-16, and remain available in version 2025b released this past weekend.
Unfortunately, downstream maintainers can often be slow to pick up on these changes. We suggest working with the maintainers of these systems to pick up and distribute our latest release to your users.
-- Tim Parenti