[Bug 1795651] Re: ICU data package is grossly outdated

[Steven R. Loomis]

Hi. ICU tz data is kept available such as https://github.com/unicode-org
/icu-data/tree/master/tzdata/icunew/2018e/44 ( look in the le / be / ee
for different endianness, ee is ebcdic ) . It could be rebuilt into an
updated icu package.  Or, it could be side loaded (as a separate data
file loaded at runtime).

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Title:
  ICU data package is grossly outdated

Status in icu package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The data package compiled into supplied ICU libs is extremely out of date.
  I.e. the timezone information in libicu52 (Ubuntu 14) is as old as 2013g.
  The "newest" shipped tzdata in Bionic is 2017c, which is about as "new" as the one in Trusty.
  Means, pretty much rotten by now.

  It wouldn't be so hard to override it with env. vars, if not for
  applications, which intentionally clear environments at startup. F.e.
  PHP FPM.

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