TechOps via tz wrote:
Metlakatla has voted to reverse their prior decision. The community will be changing back on the 20th of this month and are hopeful the tz db can be updated for them. -Ryan
Article: https://www.krbd.org/2018/12/12/metlakatla-to-follow-alaska-standard-time-al... Thanks, but I don't see anything in that article (which is currently inaccessible to me but is archived at <https://web.archive.org/web/20181214091305/http://www.krbd.org/2018/12/12/me...>) saying that they'll change back on January 20. Instead, the article quotes the mayor as saying "I think what we’re going to do is we’re going to maintain our time until they ‘spring forward,’ and then we’ll align with the state at that time". That's what I installed into tzdb here:
https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/18755931c8bac2ac2539211e83b82ada0ee4ba5e and that's what been in tzdb since 2018h. If the Metlakatla folks have changed their minds yet again, and are now planning for a transition on January 20, please let us know the time of the change, and we need to have a source for all this.