That is correct. Unfortunately the CDN cache was not purged at the time of deployment, as is usual practice. I apologize for the confusion.

Kind regards,

James Mitchell
IANA

From: Brian Inglis via tz <tz@iana.org>
Organization: Systematic Software
Reply-To: "tz@iana.org" <tz@iana.org>, "brian.inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca" <brian.inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca>
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024 at 4:47 PM
To: "tz@iana.org" <tz@iana.org>
Subject: [tz] Re: Weird time delay in data.iana.org 2024b update

On 2024-09-06 16:42, Kerry Shetline via tz wrote:

It appears to me that where on network you access data.iana.org

<https://data.iana.org/time-zones/releases/> from might make a difference in

what content you get at a given time. Are there mirrored servers that perhaps

get delayed updates?

I have an automated process that looks for new tzdata releases by periodically

checking https://data.iana.org/time-zones/releases/

<https://data.iana.org/time-zones/releases/>. I had received the mailing from

this list that 2024b had been released, but had no sign from my automated

process that the update had occurred. My polling interval is 30 minutes, so

detection should be fairly fast.

If used my own web browser at home to access

https://data.iana.org/time-zones/releases/

<https://data.iana.org/time-zones/releases/> I could see 2024b. Oddly enough,

however, when I SSHed the remote server where my process runs, and used curl at

the command line to check https://data.iana.org/time-zones/releases/

<https://data.iana.org/time-zones/releases/>, 2024b wasn’t there yet. I wondered

if my server had simply cached old data, but after a reboot of the server the

same stale data came through without 2024b being shown as available.

It was at least a full day, maybe more, before 2024b was visible from that

remote server.

Is this perhaps deliberate, to prevent too many people trying to access updated

timezone data all at once?

More likely that server or org network access is front-ended by a proxy server

that has to scan everything before it caches it and/or allows anyone to access it.

--

Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut

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