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Pacific vs. Pacific-New

Posted by christian on
While configuring tzdata, the debconf dialog asked: 
 Please select the city or region corresponding to your time zone.
 Time zone: 
   [...]
   Mountain
   Pacific
   Pacific-New
   [...]
Huh? WTF is Pacific-New? Looking around one can find #524046 from 2009, where the "pacificnew" zonefile got included without any debate. In fact, the zonefiles appear to be equal in every detail: 
$ ls -ligo /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific-New
352130 -rw-r--r-- 2 2819 Oct 31 15:49 /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific
352130 -rw-r--r-- 2 2819 Oct 31 15:49 /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific-New
And even their checksums match. That being established, I think it's safe to just choose "Pacific" and be done with it. Who knows when they will remove the Pacific-New zonefile again...