Is there a separate PR to add it as a dependency in the deb/rpm packages? It's a runtime dependency irrespective of whether we're running any tests (and arguably we should write an integration test to make sure this actually works when a user installs our packages)

Is there a separate PR to add it as a dependency in the deb/rpm packages? It's a runtime dependency irrespective of whether we're running any tests (and arguably we should write an integration test to make sure this actually works when a user installs our packages)

Do we have a clear set of guidelines for when we do or don't enforce package dependencies? We don't enforce e.g. the JRE dependency today, but we do enforce rsyslog, so I'm wondering what the guiding principle is here for adding a tzdata dependency. Is it required for OOTB default behavior to work correctly, for instance?

It looks like non-UTC time zone parsing is covered by the TestCustomLogFormat integration test.

Re @jefferbrecht @quentinmit, I will merge this PR and we can followup discussion in b/435664151.