Ubuntu
tzdata package

Alphabetic time zone abbreviation not being returned for Asia/Bangkok

Bug #1731815 reported by Mark White
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Bug Description

Since upgrade "tzdata:amd64 (2016j-0ubuntu0.16.04, 2017c-0ubuntu0.16.04)"

Output of:

date +%Z

is:

"+07"

Expected value is:

"ICT"

Where:

"more /etc/timezone"

is:

"Asia/Bangkok"

See original description
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I can reproduce with tzdata 2022g-1ubuntu1 on the latest Ubuntu development release by running:

TZ='Asia/Bangkok' date +%Z

It returns "+07".

description: updated
Changed in tzdata (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

/usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata.zi says:

```
Z Asia/Bangkok 6:42:4 - LMT 1880
6:42:4 - BMT 1920 Ap
7 - +07
```

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

The change was intentional made upstream: https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/1b99dcde6342dd10969041b32b00b813d4f4a36e ("Remove many invented abbreviations in 'asia'"). The upstream maintainer invented ICT: https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/1b99dcde6342dd10969041b32b00b813d4f4a36e#commitcomment-22025554

I am marking this bug as Won't Fix. If you want to get ICT back, this needs to be done upstream on the <email address hidden> mailing list.

Changed in tzdata (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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