On 2017-07-26 12:21, nyuszika7h wrote: > Package: tzdata > Version: 2017b-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > For a while, `date '+%Z'` displayed 'ART' for America/Argentina/* timezones. > Now it just displays '-03' for some reason. I'm not sure when this issue > started occurring, it was sometime back with jessie. It seems to be an > upstream > issue, though.
This is indeed an upstream change, but actually not a bug. ART is an invented timezone name, and upstream started to remove all invented timezone names from tzdata, as they are not used outside of tzdata and often conflict with each other. In the case of South-American timezones, see this commit for more details: https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/c9e6ef07cc6f1062ddd032c96c5172f403c0058f -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
