cli: warn the user if the time zone database is unavailable #38197
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Fixes #23828.
(The part in that issue about the database not being up to date cannot be fixed using the Go standard library - this does not give access to the search path and the version number. A comprehensive fix needs to wait for #36864.)
Release note (cli change): CockroachDB will now print out an error
message and an informative hint if the time zone database is unusable.