On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:23 AM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/22/2018 05:06 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>
>> The old format was nicely documented in tzfile(5):
>>
>> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/tzfile.5.html
>>
>> Through this it kinda has become API. Which doesn't mean it can't be
>> changed, but can we please make sure that the new format is as well
>> documented as the old one, i.e. please update that man page along with
>> this new feature.
>>
>
> My understanding is that the format (as documented) hasn't actually
> changed, but the data provided in the tzdata package now contains negative
> DST offsets for the first time, something that certain implementations are
> not prepared to deal with.
>
>
Correct!  Thanks for clarifying this Florian!
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