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Nodejs does not recognize the changes to Africa/Cairo timezone changes #47818
Description
Version
18.6.0
Platform
Linux 86892fc3d811 5.15.49-linuxkit #1 SMP Tue Sep 13 07:51:46 UTC 2022 x86_64 Linux
Subsystem
No response
What steps will reproduce the bug?
On 28th of April, there was a decision to use the DST in Egypt. However, Nodejs did not recognize the change
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/egypt
Nodejs time
Welcome to Node.js v18.16.0.
Type ".help" for more information.
> new Date().toLocaleString('en-US', { timeZone: "Africa/Cairo" })
# '5/2/2023, 1:34:31 PM'
>Machine time
TZ=Africa/Cairo date
# Tue May 2 14:35:06 EEST 2023How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?
No response
What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?
there must be an update to the date library to recognize the recent changes
What do you see instead?
time without DST
Additional information
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Activity
mscdex commentedon May 2, 2023
The change is in version 2023a of the timezone database, which has yet to land in v18.x. However, v20.x includes 2023c if using v20.x is an option for you.
abumostafa commentedon May 2, 2023
Thanks @mscdex. an upgrade was possible.
bnoordhuis commentedon May 3, 2023
Good to hear. I'll close this out.