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Description of problem:
tzdata upstream has decided to use UTC offsets for timezones instead of classic abbreviations - for example, "CEST" (= Central European Summer Time) would become "+02"
(so far this hasn't been applied for already existing zones like the above example, just for newly created, see below for one of them)
unfortunately, such naming is unexpected by many tools, zdump being one of them
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-common-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7
How reproducible:
always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. update to tzdata-2016b
2. zdump -v Europe/Astrakhan >/dev/null
Actual results:
zdump: warning: zone "Europe/Astrakhan" abbreviation "+03" lacks alphabetic at start
Expected results:
(no output)
Additional info:
Given that we are in production phase 3 with rhel-6.10, and this is only a warning from zdump, I am closing this issue as CLOSED/WONTFIX. We are not considering this issue because of the low severity.