On Thu, 23 Sep 2021, Almaz Mingaleev via tz wrote:
For Android having 2021a1 and 2021b would be inconvenient. Because there are hardcoded places which expect that tzdata version is exactly 5 characters. And we can't update that code along with time zone files.
If so, you already have a potential problem, since in a busy year of changes we would have ..., 2021y, 2021z, 2021za, 2021zb, ... +--------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired) | FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul@whooppee.com | | Software Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette@netbsd.org | | | | pgoyette99@gmail.com | +--------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+