Re: tzdata-2024b chaos

Yao Zi <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:21:04 +0000
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.distributions
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 01:17:17AM +0100, Sam James wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> There's two issues with the latest tzdata-2024b release.
> 
> 1) "Apr" vs "April" which has confused some broken parsers;
> there's a patch for this post-release [0].
> 
> 2) Both libc++ and libstdc++ appear broken with a separate problem
> [1][2][3].
> 
> This manifests in Waybar, for example [4].
> 
> It's not clear to me if libc++ is broken or not, as people in the bug
> may have been testing a clang configured to use libstdc++ (the default),
> and I don't have a system to test it on to hand.

libc++ 18, the latest stable release, seems not to support these
timezone related functions yet.

Best regards,
Yao Zi