Comment by creatonez

Right, we have the capability to update timezone definitions in a standardized automatable way right now, but 14 hours is the furthest timezone offset a political timezone has ever had. The distant future will require the offset to drift by multiple earth rotations, which puts a wrench in the flexibility of existing systems even if the tzdata database compiles properly. For example, this would break Java's ZonedDateTime as it only supports offsets up to 18 hours.