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

[Vladimir]

Hello.
Unfortunately, these are completely different time zones.
1. As i see America/Indiana/Indianapolis has DST.
2. Time zones tied to a location can change their time zone according to the decision of the authorities.
For use cases on servers, these are quite significant differences.

>From my point of view, the script should not automatically convert common timezones (UTC, EST, GMT+0, Greenwich, ...) into geographic ones.
But we can ask the user in interactive tui if he wants to perform such a conversion.

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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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