Questions tagged [tzdata]
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American time zones like CT, give error: ZoneInfoNotFoundError: 'No time zone found with key CT'
Python 3.9 introduced the zoneinfo module:
The zoneinfo module provides a concrete time zone implementation to support the IANA time zone database as originally specified in PEP 615. By default, zoneinfo uses the system’s time zone data if…

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how to use "tzdata" file with pyarrow.compute.assume_timezone
Im trying to use the method pyarrow.compute.assume_timezone but i get the error:
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: Cannot locate timezone 'UTC': Unable to get Timezone database version from C:\Users\Nick\Downloads\tzdata\
I tried download the db from…

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Docker tzdata install stuck in gitlab cicd
While trying to install tzdata into an ubuntu docker image the job would get stuck at this stage.
Unpacking tzdata (2022a-0ubuntu0.18.04) ...
Setting up tzdata (2022a-0ubuntu0.18.04) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf:…

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In my "small" python exe GUI program the tcl folder has 820 files (mostly tzdata). Any chance of reducing this number?
As stated in the title:; I have a "small" python exe GUI program generated by pyinstaller which creates a tcl folder that has 820 files (mostly tzdata). Any chance of reducing this number?
It takes a long time to copy the program because of all the…

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C++ Time Library and Octave .oct files
I am trying to write an Octave C++ .oct function that uses the linasm-1.13 library but I cannot seem to get even basic loading of tzdata from /usr/share/zoneinfo/ to work. My simple test function so far is
#include
#include …

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Is there any REST API where I can get IANA Timezone releases updates?
I have been searching for it, however I have only found a paid Microsoft one.
I need to know when a new version is released and the only source of that information seems to be this non restful url that returns an html.
Is there any endpoint/library…

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How to update time zone file tzdata on Android 8
Many countries don't go by daylight saving anymore such as Chile and Lebanon. How do I update the tzdata file in /system/usr/share/zoneinfo? I need to compile it using the NDK and replace any existing files related to time zone.
I tried downloading…
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Retrieve DST date and time for IANA tzdata in Phyton
I am looking for a python or java script to get the DST date and time for a specific IANA time zone and year.
In the end it should look like something like this

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tzset() from time.h sets tzname[0] as CET for TZ=Europe/Lisbon
I/m using glibc 2.31, the standard time for Europe/Lisbon is WET. In a C program where I'm trying to change the timezone to Europe/Lisbon. First I'm setting the env variable TZ="Europe/Lisbon" then I call tzset() function. When I print tzname[0]…
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How often timezone database is updated in EC2 Amazon Linux 2
I have a scheduling use case that deals with end user local time.
I couldn’t find information on how EC2/Amazon Linux 2 updates its timezone database. (Most likely based on IANA one)
Does Amazon Linux 2 guarantee that timezone (TZ) changes (ex:…

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Getting TimeZone code from TZDATA in nodejs
I am creating logger.js to make some clean logs. However I'm struggling to get the time zone in the expected format. I have it format Continent/Zone from process.env.TZ(Unix TZDATA) but would like it in format 000x
This is what I have so far:
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ZoneId Europe/Berlin NullPointerException
I wrote a DateUtil class that converts java.time.LocalDateTime to java.util.Date and backwards. When trying to get the system-Default TimeZone or a specific TimeZone (Europe/Berlin) I get an exception.
I checked that the JVM TimeZone is correctly…

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Usage of tzdata and tzdata-java rpm
As per Google, tzdata rpm controls the timezone applied at system level while tzdata-java controls the timezone for java oriented applications such as openJDK, JRE.
My confusion is.. Why java applications do not use system level related data that is…

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Changing timezone in Asp.Net Core container
I am running my app in a container with the following base image:
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/aspnet:2.2-stretch-slim AS base
When I publish the app, container timezone is Greenwich Mean Time and therefore my NLog entries in the database off…

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ets.lookup is still returning old data for :tzdata_current_release, :release_version from 2019a tzdata file even though 2019b is released
I'm getting error messages on a bunch of installed Elixir servers because we are downloading the 2019b tzdata but the code to check the released version is still reporting 2019a released. What triggers the updates to…

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