GNU/Linux distros lagging on yesterday's Paraguay change
Most GNU/Linux distributions, Android, iOS, macOS and Microsoft Windows all have at least version 2025a of TZDB, so properly-updated installations should be working correctly after Paraguay's rule change yesterday. However, Repology reports[1] that the latest stable versions of the following GNU/Linux distributions are still based on TZDB 2024b and thus presumably are misbehaving in Paraguay: Apertis, nixpkgs, OpenWrt, Pardus, Rosa, Trisquel, Ubuntu Of these Ubuntu is best known, and it has several downstream distros that I assume are also affected. So Ubuntu may be the most important laggard for Paraguay. In the list above, I omitted distros like Adélie that use TZDB versions that predate 2024b. I assume these distros are not intended to be up-to-date, are no longer maintained, have distro-specific patches, or aren't tracked accurately by repology. Many other systems also may be out of date for Paraguay; see the first paragraph of the section "The tz database"[2] for a partial list. I haven't tried to track them all. [1]: https://repology.org/project/tzdata/versions [2]: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html#tzdb
On 25 Mar 2025, at 04:18, Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
Of these Ubuntu is best known, and it has several downstream distros that I assume are also affected. So Ubuntu may be the most important laggard for Paraguay.
Canonical took the hint. This morning, my Ubuntu 24.10 got an updated tzdata :) jch
On Mar 27, 2025, at 4:50 AM, John Haxby via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
On 25 Mar 2025, at 04:18, Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
Of these Ubuntu is best known, and it has several downstream distros that I assume are also affected. So Ubuntu may be the most important laggard for Paraguay.
Canonical took the hint. This morning, my Ubuntu 24.10 got an updated tzdata :)
My Ubuntu 24.04 (the latest long-term support version) VM, which, as I remember, I updated yesterday or perhaps earlier, also appears to report the right time for Paraguay. (As does the macOS 13.7.4 host on which it's running; Apple has, as I remember somebody indicating, a separate update mechanism for data updates such as tzdb updates, so they may just happen quietly in the background. Unfortunately, the mechanism they use to provoke processes into loading a different tz file, to handle the case of a mobile machine moving across time zone boundaries, isn't, as far as I know, used ro provoke processes into reloading the *current* tz file when it's updated.)
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