There was no wheel to reinvent here, the tzinfo data files could have been installed on Windows. They didn't reinvent a wheel, they built a jalopy when there w

There was no wheel to reinvent here, the tzinfo data files could have been installed on Windows. They didn't reinvent a wheel, they built a jalopy when there was a perfectly usable high speed rail going to their destination already available. Really, the tzinfo files could have been distributed with Java, and then linux packages could have removed them and symlinked the paths where java expects them to where they are actually installed.