On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 09:01:29PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > tzdata (2023d-1) unstable; urgency=medium > > From 2023c-8 on the tzdata package ships only timezones that follow the > current rules of geographical region (continent or ocean) and city name. > All legacy timezone symlinks (old or merged timezones mentioned in the > upstream backward file) were moved to tzdata-legacy. This includes the > US/* timezones.
Wow. I am not a fan of that change. It's good to have advance warning that it's coming, though. > What's wrong with NTP, too simple? NTP and tzdata have nothing to do with each other. NTP keeps your system clock in sync with sources across a network. tzdata allows conversion of the system clock into local time representation strings.