Stephen can confirm it, but I built all versions since 2018 using JSR-310 a few months and the result was correct. On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 21:55 Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is> wrote:
On 2019-02-21 16:31:39 (+0900), Ankur Rana wrote:
While doing tzdata upgrade to version 2018f
Note that you should really be upgrading to 2018i, which is the latest version.
java.lang.Exception: Failed while parsing file '/tmp/tz.tmp/asia' on line 1842 'Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 25:00 0 S'
Java is known to be broken with respect to the last ten years or so of changes to the tzdb data format. You'll need to generate "rearguard" format data to feed to the Java updater.
Paul also helpfully provides rearguard tarballs on his webpage https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/tz/release/.
You can easily generate those yourself by running make rearguard_tarballs on the distribution from iana.org.
To avoid any reoccurrence of same, would it be possible to prevent the tzdata version 2018f from downloading on iana site?
It seems silly to pull one release from an archive going back to 1993 because one third-party implementation (even if it's a popular one) cannot cope with the data format.
Philip
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