Sept. 29, 2019
4:29 p.m.
On 9/20/19 4:16 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (an older release) lacks /usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata.zi, I assume because Debian's installation procedure predates the addition of tzdata.zi (first available in tzdb 2017c). I have filed a bug report with Debian about that.
If it doesn't already, macOS should also distribute tzdata.zi; perhaps a reader who uses macOS can file a bug report about this.
The Debian problem has been fixed as part of Debian tzdata 2019c-2, as reported here: https://bugs.debian.org/940852 Debian is upstream from Ubuntu and other distros so the fix should eventually propagate there too. I hope macOS follows suit eventually, but that's a different process that I'm not familiar with.