The Time Zone Database Package (tzdata) Review For 2023
Red Hat News, Friday, December 1,2023
The Time Zone Database Package (tzdata) provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with the time zone information needed for all applications or runtimes in the operating system to print local time correctly.
The GNU C Library (glibc) uses the tzdata package, so APIs like strftime() work correctly, while applications such as /usr/bin/date use this information to print the local date.
The tzdata package contains the data files describing current and historic transitions for various time zones worldwide. This data represents changes required by local governments, time zone boundary changes, UTC offsets and daylight saving time (DST).
tzdata has not seen any significant time zone changes since March, but this year began with three updates from the upstream project in one week.