Feb. 6, 2019
4:55 p.m.
* Steve Allen:
If I understood who was asking questions then the meeting today also revealed that the yum updates from RedHat use IANA tz, but only the rearguard form of data, and not the current code.
Yes, we ship the rearguard format because of compatibility requirements. We tried to change the format in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, but we could not do so because too much software was negatively impacted (some of which we could not fix). My understanding is that the necessary API change for Java has yet to happen, for example. We will update the public kbase article on tzdata development to reflect the change of plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (although the wording is technically still accurate). Thanks, Florian