This won't solve the issue for now because:
- the market share for Oreo 8.1 in Morocco is still below 4%: http://gs.statcounter.com/android-version-market-share/mobile-tablet/morocco/#monthly-201807-201810

- it's disabled by default, and the OEMs have to enable it and prepare the Data App. Time only will tell, but I don't think that many OEMs will use this.

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018, 18:46 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu wrote:
On 11/1/18 7:41 AM, Dave DeLong wrote:
> iOS devices do OTA updates of the tzdb

Android 8.1 added something similar; see
<https://source.android.com/devices/tech/config/timezone-rules>. Like
iOS, the update mechanism requires a device restart, which is a real
pain for users; unlike iOS, it requires coordination between Google and
OEMs, a pain for the OEMs.

Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc. do not require reboots on tzdata updates, though
there is a downside: currently-running processes that have loaded some
tzdata will  cache it by default, so you may need to restart the processes.