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Is Linux /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Platform Agnostic?

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Is Linux /usr/share/zoneinfo Platform Agnostic?

I am working with an embedded Linux (ARM/busybox) system. It has systemd and the timedatectl system executable, but it does not have /etc/timezone, /usr/share/zoneinfo, nor the zic timezone data compiler program.

I have plenty of system diskspace on this embedded system.

Is it possible to copy the /usr/share/zoneinfo contents from an amd64 Linux implementation to my embedded ARM Linux implementation "as-is" to get access to the timezone functionality that timedatectl provides?

Thanks for your help.