Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones

Hang on a second, "(...) in 2023. US/* was moved to tzdata-legacy (...)"

US/* was moved to 'backward' (the file for backward compatibility) in the tz database in 1993(!) and as such was essentially marked as deprecated long enough. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/backward

You're telling me you didn't notice ? It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

> You're telling me you didn't notice ? It was...

In a large fraction of cases in the FOSS world, it comes across that the developers really do want to communicate this sort of thing, but there's no clarity on where or how they should do so. See for example various deprecations in Python packaging tools (and standards).

In this case, they did communicate it, and the aforegiven Vogon reference is a mischaracterization. The naming convention is in the current IANA doco and Eggert copy.

* https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html#tzdb

* https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/tz/tz-link.htm#tzdb

Paul Eggert explained the continent/ocean plus largest city naming convention on a WWW page almost a quarter of a century ago. The WWW page was so well publicized that you can find its URL baked into at least four of the O'Reilly animal-cover books from the early 2000s.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20011023074744/http://www.twinsu...

It was explained on Usenet and on mailing lists prior to that.