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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-64941

QTimeZone parses zone.tab, which is for backwards compatibility

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P3: Somewhat important
    • None
    • 5.9.3, 6.5.0
    • Core: Date/Time, Core: Locales (i18n)
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    Description

      Hi,

      QTimeZone is parsing /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab [1] which is only there for backwards compatibility. The file itself states that:

      # tz zone descriptions (deprecated version)
#
# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
#
# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-31):
# This file is intended as a backward-compatibility aid for older programs.
# New programs should use zone1970.tab.  This file is like zone1970.tab (see
# zone1970.tab's comments), but with the following additional restrictions:
# ...

      zone1970.tab should be used instead.

      [1] http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/src/corelib/tools/qtimezoneprivate_tz.cpp#n73

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