-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello, Thanks to all the folks whom have maintained and contributed to this vital database over the for years. Has the format changed somehow? If this and future database files were to break backwards-compatibility arbitrarily, it would be an unwelcome, breaking change for potentially tens- to hundreds-of-thousands of deployed endpoints and would an expensive burden and require lots of system software providers to repackage and push new software to untold millions to billions of endpoints, some of which are for-all-practical-purposes immutable (such as embedded systems / SCADA). In short: it would make a lot of people mad because it would be very expensive and time-consuming to change. For example, here's just one error from a wide-deployed utility (TZUpdater 2.1) which worked using tzdata2016f, but not with tzdata-latest nor tzdata2016g: $ java -jar tzupdater.jar -l https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz Using https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz as source for tzdata bundle. Source directory does not contain file: VERSION $ $ java -jar tzupdater.jar -l https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016f.tar.gz Using https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016f.tar.gz as source for tzdata bundle. JRE has the same version as the tzupdater provided one (tzdata2016f). $ If I might humbly suggest continuing using what was a de-facto standard for stability and least-surprise, where at all possible. Thanks, Barry Allard PS: I saw a related past discussion but can't respond to it right now. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Mailvelope v1.5.2 Comment: https://www.mailvelope.com wsFcBAEBCAAQBQJX7i2oCRAUysGWoSICbAAAR4QP/1MoTcbGQC7IfGNOZ1z3 nwl4FQIqJc7sECdA57AgGfjMQvweR2QZkayFEvQEgiCZ+0QinRfS03EQtY+r XJzmdRarJprfDq4b91Bp5LITT0bwKIAcHsqdvHs/BSlBUP2JgwLi7DHui/kP J9YMMI2nczoQx3ozXFGo3hWWV580dnHVdm4kyvtMGkJ1DCG+uhTmePzyH/Yz Zign0qsVKuse5PBwYsqqmgCCNO8smi2XwM0jGSr7jjoYd/We7ySzgq0vdMdt 0CQ3G2sR/DeyGBvsXDEVZ8LVCaTkevmVe8X8Ky9Z+U25CYV7ZoqTWNX6TBS4 cjGMfbxdBOCXRNRyOUkYLPEeeLmrsKl76bq1nGqY00NNrinjkPdxmxrDp8OP tiw1xKQM5j67Dkm6cbVhSPAyhIKcrGfGiahNMOILYnuEx/TJDQXFBQKBWIqc aamL404CRIWlpy4URDKGIFNOblaX6v1pTgIXe60GOjbNT4iIfSA7sFBMJrWw 7gvlnn4/X4pl7LegwRAMt87ikxom7nd8IBN6VZx0MyFRKPWKVvrFkmR5ZQ5Q R5zDGFLztRACyJruktM/LTfOa/RZYn1B4pqh3Ns7VE+zrMYEjTDix79RC2Au n8eCFIgsYVVpkTQ5RrTFp4BatUsV+LG9RROwq2om83VeXJIGYiVrCrviT+ia CyJF =XmoD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----