My understanding is that tzdb will need to use za, zb, zc after z, because otherwise the versions don't have the correct alphabetical sort order which I believe downstream systems see as an important property of the naming scheme. Is this documented somewhere? I don't see it in theory.

I know there is some resistance to names with characters other than a-z, so I wouldn't want to choose -g as a suffix.

Thanks

Stephen

On Fri, 18 Mar 2022, 16:47 Paul Eggert, <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

On 3/18/22 09:00, Stephen Colebourne via tz wrote:
> 2022ag-beta1, which will become the
> final 2022ag release tomorrow if there are no major issues or
> objections.

That naming convention would collide with tzdb's already-existing naming
convention, if we are unlucky to have 33 or more releases this year. A
name like '2022a-g' would avoid any such collision.