Document tzdata
as a dependency
#4433
Labels
C-doc-improvement
O-external
Origin: Issue comes from external users.
P-1
High priority; must be done this release
T-missing-info
Milestone
Certain features of CockroachDB require the
tzdata
package (sometimes calledzoneinfo
) to be installed (specifically, the ability to use place names as time zone identifiers). We had thought this was installed by default in all major linux distributions but in cockroachdb/cockroach#32415 (comment) an ubuntu user reported that it was missing. We should document this dependency (and recommend that it be kept up to date, since the time zone/DST rules change several times a year).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: