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https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata/-/commit/42c0008f86a5a53e1a37fefa93fdd3685313e86f

Julien Riou @[email protected] · 2026-02-26 · 11:44 UTC

The "CET" time zone has vanished between Debian 12 and 13.

For good reasons. This is not a time zone but a time zone abbreviation. We should use "Europe/Paris" instead.

Now we have a crisis meeting because it's a major breaking change that can't be fixed because nobody knows how to set the time zone to a different value in the application 🤦‍♂️

https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata/-/commit/42c0008f86a5a53e1a37fefa93fdd3685313e86f

Julien Riou @jriou · 2026-02-26 · 11:44 UTC

The "CET" time zone has vanished between Debian 12 and 13.

For good reasons. This is not a time zone but a time zone abbreviation. We should use "Europe/Paris" instead.

Now we have a crisis meeting because it's a major breaking change that can't be fixed because nobody knows how to set the time zone to a different value in the application 🤦‍♂️

https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata/-/commit/42c0008f86a5a53e1a37fefa93fdd3685313e86f

Julien Riou @[email protected] · 2026-02-26 · 11:44 UTC

The "CET" time zone has vanished between Debian 12 and 13.

For good reasons. This is not a time zone but a time zone abbreviation. We should use "Europe/Paris" instead.

Now we have a crisis meeting because it's a major breaking change that can't be fixed because nobody knows how to set the time zone to a different value in the application 🤦‍♂️

https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata/-/commit/42c0008f86a5a53e1a37fefa93fdd3685313e86f

#tzdata #debian #postgresql

Julien Riou @[email protected] · 2026-02-26 · 11:44 UTC

The "CET" time zone has vanished between Debian 12 and 13.

For good reasons. This is not a time zone but a time zone abbreviation. We should use "Europe/Paris" instead.

Now we have a crisis meeting because it's a major breaking change that can't be fixed because nobody knows how to set the time zone to a different value in the application 🤦‍♂️

Klaus Frank @[email protected] · 2026-01-28 · 08:15 UTC

Do I even want to know what the difference between these two timezones is?

Central European Time (Europe/Amsterdam)
Central European Time (Europe/Berlin)

#tzdata #timezone #timezones #wtf

Klaus Frank @[email protected] · 2026-01-28 · 08:15 UTC

Do I even want to know what the difference between these two timezones is?

Central European Time (Europe/Amsterdam)
Central European Time (Europe/Berlin)

#tzdata #timezone #timezones #wtf

Klaus Frank @[email protected] · 2026-01-28 · 08:15 UTC

Do I even want to know what the difference between these two timezones is?

Central European Time (Europe/Amsterdam)
Central European Time (Europe/Berlin)

#tzdata #timezone #timezones #wtf

Klaus Frank @[email protected] · 2026-01-28 · 08:15 UTC

Do I even want to know what the difference between these two timezones is?

Central European Time (Europe/Amsterdam)
Central European Time (Europe/Berlin)

#wtf #timezones #timezone #tzdata

Klaus Frank @[email protected] · 2026-01-28 · 08:15 UTC

Do I even want to know what the difference between these two timezones is?

Central European Time (Europe/Amsterdam)
Central European Time (Europe/Berlin)

#tzdata #timezone #timezones #wtf

Timo Tijhof @krinkle · 2025-09-14 · 00:45 UTC

This "deprecation" was never visible at any level, there's no discovery path for anyone that found or otherwise used these and stuck with it.

But none of that matters: The most recent Debian 12 installer still unavoidably selects US/Pacific for people living there, today.

#tzdata #timezones #datetime #Postgres #PostgreSQL #RachelByTheBay

Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/okz9ir/debian_12_installer_promotes_us_time

#tzdata #timezones #datetime #postgres #postgresql #rachelbythebay

Timo Tijhof @[email protected] · 2025-09-14 · 00:45 UTC

This "deprecation" was never visible at any level, there's no discovery path for anyone that found or otherwise used these and stuck with it.

But none of that matters: The most recent Debian 12 installer still unavoidably selects US/Pacific for people living there, today.

#tzdata #timezones #datetime #Postgres #PostgreSQL #RachelByTheBay

Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/okz9ir/debian_12_installer_promotes_us_time

#tzdata #timezones #datetime #postgres #postgresql #rachelbythebay

Timo Tijhof @[email protected] · 2025-09-14 · 00:45 UTC

This "deprecation" was never visible at any level, there's no discovery path for anyone that found or otherwise used these and stuck with it.

But none of that matters: The most recent Debian 12 installer still unavoidably selects US/Pacific for people living there, today.

#tzdata #timezones #datetime #Postgres #PostgreSQL #RachelByTheBay

Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/okz9ir/debian_12_installer_promotes_us_time

#tzdata #timezones #datetime #postgres #postgresql #rachelbythebay

Timo Tijhof @[email protected] · 2025-09-14 · 00:45 UTC

This "deprecation" was never visible at any level, there's no discovery path for anyone that found or otherwise used these and stuck with it.

But none of that matters: The most recent Debian 12 installer still unavoidably selects US/Pacific for people living there, today.

#tzdata #timezones #datetime #Postgres #PostgreSQL #RachelByTheBay

Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/okz9ir/debian_12_installer_promotes_us_time

#rachelbythebay #postgresql #postgres #datetime #timezones #tzdata

Timo Tijhof @[email protected] · 2025-09-14 · 00:45 UTC

This "deprecation" was never visible at any level, there's no discovery path for anyone that found or otherwise used these and stuck with it.

But none of that matters: The most recent Debian 12 installer still unavoidably selects US/Pacific for people living there, today.