On 2026-07-08 12:02, Fabio Brandão wrote:
The *version* file inside *tzdata-latest.tar.gz* for the latest version (
*2026c*) is *incorrect*. The content is *2026b* instead of *2026c*.
I'm not seeing that; see transcript below. Most likely this is related
to the following text in the release announcement: "The following
convenience links are also available, although they may
point to the previous release until the relevant caches are refreshed".
$ wget https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz
--2026-07-08 12:23:24--
https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz
Resolving www.iana.org (www.iana.org)... 104.18.24.232, 104.18.25.232,
2606:4700::6812:19e8, ...
Connecting to www.iana.org (www.iana.org)|104.18.24.232|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdata-latest.tar.gz [following]
--2026-07-08 12:23:24--
https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdata-latest.tar.gz
Resolving data.iana.org (data.iana.org)... 104.18.25.232, 104.18.24.232,
2606:4700::6812:18e8, ...
Connecting to data.iana.org (data.iana.org)|104.18.25.232|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 475694 (465K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘tzdata-latest.tar.gz’
tzdata-latest.tar.g 100%[===================>] 464.54K --.-KB/s in
0.01s
2026-07-08 12:23:25 (46.3 MB/s) - ‘tzdata-latest.tar.gz’ saved
[475694/475694]
$ tar xf tzdata-latest.tar.gz
$ cat version
2026c
