2018f tzdb released with bug
A/C Mr. Paul Eggert Hi, After several years, the DST start time was changed in Brazil. Until the last year, it was set to start in the 3rd weekend of October. In this year, it will start on November 4th. So, we were instructing our customers to run the tzupdater tool , from oracle, that relies on the "tzdata-latest.tar.gz" file from IANA. However, when the customers are trying to update java, they are getting the following error: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/projects/JDK/issues/JDK-8212684?filter=allopen... Failed: java.lang.Exception: Failed while parsing file 'C:\Users\ME928~1.SYR\AppData\Local\Temp\tz.tmp_5\asia' on line 1655 'Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 25:00 0 S' java.lang.Exception: Failed while parsing file 'C:\Users\ME928~1.SYR\AppData\Local\Temp\tz.tmp_5\asia' on line 1655 'Rule Japan 1948 1951 - S Sat>=8 25:00 0 S' So it seems to be a problem with 2018f version of the tzdb file... It seems the 2018e version is working fine. Not sure if someone from Brazil or any other country already have contacted you... Since this is a very critical problem, we hope this to be fixed asap. Thank you in advance. Best Regards, Leandro Laurenti Support Engineer CA Technologies | Av. Dr. Chucri Zaidan, 1240 26º e 27º andares, Golden Tower | Sao Paulo, SP 04711-130 Office: +80353 | Leandro.Laurenti@ca.com <mailto:Leandro.Laurenti@ca.com>[CA]<http://www.ca.com/us/default.aspx>[Twitter]<http://twitter.com/CAInc>[Slideshare]<http://www.slideshare.net/cainc>[Facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/CATechnologies>[YouTube]<http://www.youtube.com/user/catechnologies>[LinkedIn]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/1372?goback=.cps_1244823420724_1>[Google+]<https://plus.google.com/+CATechnologies>[Google+]<http://www.ca.com/us/rss.aspx?intcmp=footernav>
On 10/22/18 9:11 AM, Laurenti, Leandro wrote:
So it seems to be a problem with 2018f version of the tzdb file… It seems the 2018e version is working fine.
As a temporary workaround, tzdb 2018e should work fine for Brazil (though 2018e is missing some updates for other locations that you probably don't care about). The underlying problem is that the Oracle tool doesn't grok timestamps like "25:00" in zic input files. We're looking into ways of fixing this in a better way for the next release.
Hi Paul, Thanks for the response... Yes, we are using 2018e as a workaround. Just for curiosity.. Is there any ETA for the next version? Thanks, Leandro -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 1:51 PM To: Laurenti, Leandro <Leandro.Laurenti@ca.com>; Time Zone Mailing List <tz@iana.org> Cc: Okamoto, Silvio <Silvio.Okamoto@ca.com>; Júnior Didoné <jdidone@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tz] 2018f tzdb released with bug CAUTION: This email originated from outside of CA. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. On 10/22/18 9:11 AM, Laurenti, Leandro wrote:
So it seems to be a problem with 2018f version of the tzdb file… It seems the 2018e version is working fine.
As a temporary workaround, tzdb 2018e should work fine for Brazil (though 2018e is missing some updates for other locations that you probably don't care about). The underlying problem is that the Oracle tool doesn't grok timestamps like "25:00" in zic input files. We're looking into ways of fixing this in a better way for the next release.
Ah, OK, thanks for the clarification! Good to know you are a volunteer... Thanks for your service. So let's wait for the fix. Do you think it would be possible to remove 2018f and point tzdata-latest.tar.gz to 2018e? My last question, I promise... 😊 -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 3:21 PM To: Laurenti, Leandro <Leandro.Laurenti@ca.com>; Time Zone Mailing List <tz@iana.org> Cc: Okamoto, Silvio <Silvio.Okamoto@ca.com>; Júnior Didoné <jdidone@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tz] 2018f tzdb released with bug CAUTION: This email originated from outside of CA. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. On 10/23/18 10:31 AM, Laurenti, Leandro wrote:
Is there any ETA for the next version?
No, as a general rule I don't have ETAs. It's one of the luxuries of being a volunteer.
On 10/23/18 12:01 PM, Laurenti, Leandro wrote:
Do you think it would be possible to remove 2018f and point tzdata-latest.tar.gz to 2018e?
Hmm, well, 2018e is not the latest, so that doesn't sound like the right thing to do. Since the problem does not occur with tzdb code we'll more likely create some other link once we figure out what should go into it, and this will occur in some later release.
Perfect, no more questions. Best regards, Leandro -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:10 PM To: Laurenti, Leandro <Leandro.Laurenti@ca.com>; Time Zone Mailing List <tz@iana.org> Cc: Okamoto, Silvio <Silvio.Okamoto@ca.com>; Júnior Didoné <jdidone@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tz] 2018f tzdb released with bug CAUTION: This email originated from outside of CA. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. On 10/23/18 12:01 PM, Laurenti, Leandro wrote:
Do you think it would be possible to remove 2018f and point tzdata-latest.tar.gz to 2018e?
Hmm, well, 2018e is not the latest, so that doesn't sound like the right thing to do. Since the problem does not occur with tzdb code we'll more likely create some other link once we figure out what should go into it, and this will occur in some later release.
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