[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8339637: (tz) Update Timezone Data to 2024b

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:02:03 GMT, Dmitry Cherepanov <dcherepanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Backport of tzdata2024b
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> - generated rearguard version using the steps `cd tzdb-2024b && make rearguard_tarballs` and applied the rearguard version to `make/jdk` & `jdk/test`
> - backported test changes, changes in TestZoneInfo310.java didn’t apply cleanly due to `gmt` tzdata removed in 11u (by [JDK-8212970](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8212970)) but existing in 8u
> 
> Testing: all relevant tests passed - jdk/test/java/time jdk/test/java/text/Format jdk/test/java/util/TimeZone jdk/test/sun/util/calendar jdk/test/sun/util/resources

Can we move this to openjdk/jdk8u? I think this & 2025a really need to make the April release.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/631#issuecomment-2695868553