Nodejs does not recognize the changes to Africa/Cairo timezone changes

[abumostafa]

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 2023

How 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

No response

[mscdex]

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]

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.

Thanks @mscdex. an upgrade was possible.

[bnoordhuis]

Good to hear. I'll close this out.