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by WorldMaker 96 days ago
Right, browsers own it instead of websites needing to rebuild Moment.js bundles. Additionally, most browsers pass the ownership further to the user's OS as the IANA timezone database is a useful system-level service and best updated at the cadence of OS "required" updates.
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I believe V8 / chrome bundles IANA time zones into the zoneinfo64 resource bundle. I'm not actually sure they hit the system tzdb at all.