Bug 1318309 - zdump complains about new timezone abbreviation format
Summary: zdump complains about new timezone abbreviation format
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: glibc
Version: 7.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: glibc team
QA Contact: qe-baseos-tools-bugs
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Reported: 2016-03-16 13:27 UTC by Karel Volný
Modified: 2020-07-16 08:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-06-22 18:14:16 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1317708 1 None None None 2021-01-20 06:05:38 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1318308 0 unspecified CLOSED zdump complains about new timezone abbreviation format 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

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Description Karel Volný 2016-03-16 13:27:00 UTC 
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-2.17-106.el7_2.4

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)

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