tzdata-2024b chaos

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

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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.

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Paul Eggert, the tzdata maintainer, notes on the ML in one of the
threads discussing this that rolling back to 2024a is a reasonable
workaround for now, as there's no critical data changes in 2024b [5].

[0] https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/926b507fa5c3192b1b68fab5910cbd3ba9377c97
[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/107779
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/PR116657
[3] https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/message/TECYKLZV3BBPYEJ73YWRQWFCKN62P67Z/
[4] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/3575
[5] https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/message/HSKHZBRALUYDSSSQQ73E5VMJMEWEI4OO/

thanks,
sam

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