diff --git a/package/zic/0001-remove-dependency-check-on-version-file.patch b/package/zic/0001-remove-dependency-check-on-version-file.patch
index cba7ed679e..1eb1074c31 100644
--- a/package/zic/0001-remove-dependency-check-on-version-file.patch
+++ b/package/zic/0001-remove-dependency-check-on-version-file.patch
@@ -15,18 +15,18 @@ Signed-off-by: Martin Bark <martin@barkynet.com>
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
 diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index 1b714a8..00d2c09 100644
+index 0087b459..4773a977 100644
 --- a/Makefile
 +++ b/Makefile
-@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ INSTALL:	ALL install date.1
+@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ INSTALL:	ALL install date.1
  # Otherwise, use $(VERSION) unless it is "unknown" and there is already
  # a 'version' file, in which case reuse the existing 'version' contents
  # and append "-dirty" if the contents do not already end in "-dirty".
 -version:	$(VERSION_DEPS)
 +version:
  		{ (type git) >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
- 		  V=`git describe --match '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][a-z]*' \
- 				--abbrev=7 --dirty` || \
+ 		  V=$$(git describe --match '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][a-z]*' \
+ 				--abbrev=7 --dirty) || \
 -- 
 2.7.4
 
diff --git a/package/zic/zic.hash b/package/zic/zic.hash
index 80c96ed793..124b724e6e 100644
--- a/package/zic/zic.hash
+++ b/package/zic/zic.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2024-February/000081.html
-sha512  46da8bfa762c7d109db93e5c060789097fc0e1e38bdad5bb8fec886ef47f138bd03b913a743cd5f7e23dc359a72bfd63e7ffc0de199d2b51e6a174361dbdc43c  tzcode2024a.tar.gz
+# https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz-announce@iana.org/thread/IZ7AO6WRE3W3TWBL5IR6PMQUL433BQIE/
+sha512  0e4e872d6c6d9e2ce8c4e567fcbb7658942b8544157d1e48673d9cb989f3af3379fa58e7a71ab98f4a8f2ac6727de1f8c4cd1981053409ebd8989345dc640026  tzcode2024b.tar.gz
 # Locally computed:
 sha256  0613408568889f5739e5ae252b722a2659c02002839ad970a63dc5e9174b27cf  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/zic/zic.mk b/package/zic/zic.mk
index 8abcec9360..9382fa4187 100644
--- a/package/zic/zic.mk
+++ b/package/zic/zic.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ZIC_VERSION = 2024a
+ZIC_VERSION = 2024b
 ZIC_SOURCE = tzcode$(ZIC_VERSION).tar.gz
 ZIC_SITE = https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases
 ZIC_STRIP_COMPONENTS = 0