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commit d1537afe3e6e3fe279dbee6d505292d6e38fef5f
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sat Oct 28 15:54:40 2023 +0000
First released in: 17.0, 11.22, 12.17, 13.13, 14.10, 15.5, 16.1
Remove PHOT from our default timezone abbreviations list.
Debian recently decided to split out a bunch of "obsolete" timezone
names into a new tzdata-legacy package, which isn't installed by
default. One of these zone names is Pacific/Enderbury, and that
breaks our regression tests (on --with-system-tzdata builds)
because our default timezone abbreviations list defines PHOT as
Pacific/Enderbury.
Pacific/Enderbury got renamed to Pacific/Kanton in tzdata 2021b,
so that in distros that still have this entry it's just a symlink
to Pacific/Kanton anyway. So one answer would be to redefine PHOT
as Pacific/Kanton. However, then things would fail if the
installed tzdata predates 2021b, which is recent enough that that
seems like a real problem.
Instead, let's just remove PHOT from the default list. That seems
likely to affect nobody in the real world, because (a) it was an
abbreviation that the tzdb crew made up in the first place, with
no evidence of real-world usage, and (b) the total human population
of the Phoenix Islands is less than two dozen persons, per Wikipedia.
If anyone does use this zone abbreviation they can easily put it back
via a custom abbreviations file.
We'll keep PHOT in the Pacific.txt reference file, but change it
to Pacific/Kanton there, as that definition seems more likely to
be useful to future readers of that file.
Per report from Victor Wagner. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231027152049.4b5c8044@wagner.wagner.home
src/timezone/tznames/Default | 1 -
src/timezone/tznames/Pacific.txt | 2 +-
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/timezone/tznames/Default b/src/timezone/tznames/Default
index 8a4dc59f886..563a125353b 100644
--- a/src/timezone/tznames/Default
+++ b/src/timezone/tznames/Default
@@ -618,7 +618,6 @@ NZST 43200 # New Zealand Standard Time
# (Antarctica/McMurdo)
# (Pacific/Auckland)
PGT 36000 # Papua New Guinea Time (obsolete)
-PHOT Pacific/Enderbury # Phoenix Islands Time (Kiribati) (obsolete)
PONT 39600 # Ponape Time (Micronesia) (obsolete)
PWT 32400 # Palau Time (obsolete)
TAHT -36000 # Tahiti Time (obsolete)
diff --git a/src/timezone/tznames/Pacific.txt b/src/timezone/tznames/Pacific.txt
index c30008cb049..556a370af58 100644
--- a/src/timezone/tznames/Pacific.txt
+++ b/src/timezone/tznames/Pacific.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ NZST 43200 # New Zealand Standard Time
# (Antarctica/McMurdo)
# (Pacific/Auckland)
PGT 36000 # Papua New Guinea Time (obsolete)
-PHOT Pacific/Enderbury # Phoenix Islands Time (Kiribati) (obsolete)
+PHOT Pacific/Kanton # Phoenix Islands Time (Kiribati) (obsolete)
PONT 39600 # Ponape Time (Micronesia) (obsolete)
# CONFLICT! PST is not unique
# Other timezones:
[parent: 924e0e2ee058]