[Bug 2055718] Re: timezone changed unexpectedly from EST to America/Adak or America/Indiana/Indianapolis

[Benjamin Drung]

Commit eee799c9b97512f29eb5854ff965dbad79424242 ("Get rid of old SystemV
timezones, as this has been fully removed upstream. Convert existing
configuration to the "new" America/* names.") changed the mapping of EST
from SystemV/EST5 to America/Indianapolis in 2020b-1. Therefore Ubuntu
20.04 "jammy" and newer are affected.

Vladimir, would updating EST to America/Indiana/Indianapolis be okay?

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Title:
  timezone changed unexpectedly from EST to America/Adak or
  America/Indiana/Indianapolis

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  A user reported this regression on
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/2052739:

  UPDATE: I don't think it's a regression anymore, see comment #5

  """
  Hello.
  After automatic upgrade of tzdata from 2023c-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 to 2024a-0ubuntu0.22.04
  the previously set EST time zone was automatically changed to "America/Adak" or "America/Indiana/Indianapolis" on all our servers (50+).
  Look like a bug in tzdata configure script.
  """

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