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09/10/2019

What is tzdata package?

What is tzdata package?

The tzdata package contains data files with rules for various time zones around the world. This document captures Red Hat engineering’s tentative plans, progress and status as upstream tzdata releases are packaged and released to Red Hat’s customers and partners in Red Hat Enterprise Linux asynchronous errata.

What is tzdata in Linux?

The Time Zone Database ( tzdata ) provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with data that is specific to the local time zone. This data represents changes required by local government bodies or by time zone boundary changes, as well as changes to coordinated universal time (UTC) offsets and daylight saving time (DST).

Is tzdata installed?

The tzdata package will be installed without asking for any user input.

What is tzdata in Ubuntu?

The public-domain time zone database contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. Other versions of ‘tzdata’ in untrusted archives.

What is Tzdata Java?

As per Google, tzdata rpm controls the timezone applied at system level while tzdata-java controls the timezone for java oriented applications such as openJDK, JRE.

How big is Tzdata?

Download tzdata

Architecture Package Size Installed Size
all 280.3 kB 3,341.0 kB

What is TZ environment variable?

TZ and the Time and Date Seen by Users – The TZ variable helps keep the user’s local time correct while keeping management of timezones and Daylight Saving Time in the hands of the operating system. This affects the time that Cache’ uses as well. For an example, I decided to change my timezone to that for Honolulu.

How do I stop tzdata configuring?

To avoid this data-enter request, especially when such build is running on CI like Jenkins – you can configure tzdata directly in the Dockerfile so it will be set during the docker build .

What is Tzupdater jar?

Introduction. The TZUpdater tool is provided to allow you to update installed Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) software with more recent timezone data, to accommodate daylight saving time (DST) changes in different countries.