Someone I know linked me to this mailing list archive thread:

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/thread.html#30503

Seems like they're fucking around with timezone data, but he says it's mostly for muh diversity reasons, but I'm too stupid to follow this thread.

It looks like a sane person is trying to fork the modified time DB away into a separate project and leaving the original alone but I'm having a hard time following this entire thread. Anyone know of what's going on?