Today I received a question from a very experienced Oracle ACS engineer whether the PDB$SEED get time zone patched or not when a time zone patch gets applied. I’d say spontaneously “Of course, it does” but after thinking for a few seconds I started having doubts. Question is: Does the PDB$SEED get “time zone” patched or not?

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Time zone scripts are in ?/rdbms/admin since Oracle 18c
First of all, since Oracle Database 18c the scripts to adjust time zone settings of the database are in ?/rdbms/admin
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