Hi,

On Sun, 2023-11-26 at 09:23 -0500, John Clark wrote:
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2023c-8
> 
> The 12 well-known US time zones have been dropped from Debian tzdata as 
> of 2023c-8:
> https://tracker.debian.org/news/1451157/accepted-tzdata-2023c-8-source-into-unstable
> 
> These time zones are still officially recognized and fully supported by 
> IANA.
> 
> IANA Timezone Database:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
> 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Alaska
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Aleutian
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Arizona
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/East-Indiana
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Hawaii
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Indiana-Starke
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Michigan
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Samoa
> 
> 
> Their removal appears to be related to this request: 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1040997
> 
> This request does not provide any support as to why Debian should 
> deviate from IANA standards.
> 
> Requesting that Debian again adopt international time zone standards and 
> support these well known IANA time zones as it does in Bookworm.

These timezones are considered legacy by the upstream tz project. These
timezones were not removed but moved to tzdata-legacy. So please install
tzdata-legacy if you want to use them:

sudo apt install tzdata-legacy

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer

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