Ubuntu
tzdata package

  1. Bug #868395
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 868395

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In , Andreas Schwab (schwab-linux-m68k) wrote :

The difference between America/New_York and Asia/Shanghai is that the former has transitions until far in the future, whereas the last transition of the latter was 1991, and later timestamps are computed from the embedded POSIX TZ string.