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@@ -1,5 +1,169 @@ News for the tz database +Release 2017c - 2017-10-20 14:49:34 -0700 + + Briefly: + Northern Cyprus switches from +03 to +02/+03 on 2017-10-29. + Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14, not 2018-01-21. + Namibia switches from +01/+02 to +02 on 2018-04-01. + Sudan switches from +03 to +02 on 2017-11-01. + Tonga likely switches from +13/+14 to +13 on 2017-11-05. + Turks & Caicos switches from -04 to -05/-04 on 2018-11-04. + A new file tzdata.zi now holds a small text copy of all data. + The zic input format has been regularized slightly. + + Changes to future time stamps + + Northern Cyprus has decided to resume EU rules starting + 2017-10-29, thus reinstituting winter time. + + Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14 instead of the 2018-01-21 previously + predicted. (Thanks to Dominic Fok.) Adjust future predictions + accordingly. + + Namibia will switch from +01 with DST to +02 all year on + 2017-09-03 at 02:00. This affects UT offsets starting 2018-04-01 + at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) + + Sudan will switch from +03 to +02 on 2017-11-01. (Thanks to Ahmed + Atyya and Yahia Abdalla.) South Sudan is not switching, so + Africa/Juba is no longer a link to Africa/Khartoum. + + Tonga has likely ended its experiment with DST, and will not + adjust its clocks on 2017-11-05. Although Tonga has not announced + whether it will continue to observe DST, the IATA is assuming that + it will not. (Thanks to David Wade.) + + Turks & Caicos will switch from -04 all year to -05 with US DST on + 2018-03-11 at 03:00. This affects UT offsets starting 2018-11-04 + at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) + + Changes to past time stamps + + Namibia switched from +02 to +01 on 1994-03-21, not 1994-04-03. + (Thanks to Arthur David Olson.) + + Detroit did not observe DST in 1967. + + Use railway time for Asia/Kolkata before 1941, by switching to + Madras local time (UT +052110) in 1870, then to IST (UT +0530) in + 1906. Also, treat 1941-2's +0630 as DST, like 1942-5. + + Europe/Dublin's 1946 and 1947 fallback transitions occurred at + 02:00 standard time, not 02:00 DST. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) + + Pacific/Apia and Pacific/Pago_Pago switched from Antipodean to + American time in 1892, not 1879. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) + + Adjust the 1867 transition in Alaska to better reflect the + historical record, by changing it to occur on 1867-10-18 at 15:30 + Sitka time rather than at the start of 1867-10-17 local time. + Although strictly speaking this is accurate only for Sitka, + the rest of Alaska's blanks need to be filled in somehow. + + Fix off-by-one errors in UT offsets for Adak and Nome before 1867. + (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) + + Add 7 s to the UT offset in Asia/Yangon before 1920. + + Changes to zone names + + Remove Canada/East-Saskatchewan from the 'backward' file, as it + exceeded the 14-character limit and was an unused misnomer anyway. + + Changes to build procedure + + To support applications that prefer to read time zone data in text + form, two zic input files tzdata.zi and leapseconds are now + installed by default. The commands 'zic tzdata.zi' and 'zic -L + leapseconds tzdata.zi' can reproduce the tzdata binary files + without and with leap seconds, respectively. To prevent these two + new files from being installed, use 'make TZDATA_TEXT=', and to + suppress leap seconds from the tzdata text installation, use 'make + TZDATA_TEXT=tzdata.zi'. + + 'make BACKWARD=' now suppresses backward-compatibility names + like 'US/Pacific' that are defined in the 'backward' and + 'pacificnew' files. + + 'make check' now works on systems that lack a UTF-8 locale, + or that lack the nsgmls program. Set UTF8_LOCALE to configure + the name of a UTF-8 locale, if you have one. + + Y2K runtime checks are no longer enabled by default. Add + -DDEPRECATE_TWO_DIGIT_YEARS to CFLAGS to enable them, instead of + adding -DNO_RUN_TIME_WARNINGS_ABOUT_YEAR_2000_PROBLEMS_THANK_YOU + to disable them. (New name suggested by Brian Inglis.) + + The build procedure for zdump now works on AIX 7.1. + (Problem reported by Kees Dekker.) + + Changes to code + + zic and the reference runtime now reject multiple leap seconds + within 28 days of each other, or leap seconds before the Epoch. + As a result, support for double leap seconds, which was + obsolescent and undocumented, has been removed. Double leap + seconds were an error in the C89 standard; they have never existed + in civil timekeeping. (Thanks to Robert Elz and Bradley White for + noticing glitches in the code that uncovered this problem.) + + zic now warns about use of the obsolescent and undocumented -y + option, and about use of the obsolescent TYPE field of Rule lines. + + zic now allows unambiguous abbreviations like "Sa" and "Su" for + weekdays; formerly it rejected them due to a bug. Conversely, zic + no longer considers non-prefixes to be abbreviations; for example, + it no longer accepts "lF" as an abbreviation for "lastFriday". + Also, zic warns about the undocumented usage with a "last-" + prefix, e.g., "last-Fri". + + Similarly, zic now accepts the unambiguous abbreviation "L" for + "Link" in ordinary context and for "Leap" in leap-second context. + Conversely, zic no longer accepts non-prefixes such as "La" as + abbreviations for words like "Leap". + + zic no longer accepts leap second lines in ordinary input, or + ordinary lines in leap second input. Formerly, zic sometimes + warned about this undocumented usage and handled it incorrectly. + + The new macro HAVE_TZNAME governs whether the tzname external + variable is exported, instead of USG_COMPAT. USG_COMPAT now + governs only the external variables "timezone" and "daylight". + This change is needed because the three variables are not in the + same category: although POSIX requires tzname, it specifies the + other two variables as optional. Also, USG_COMPAT is now 1 or 0: + if not defined, the code attempts to guess it from other macros. + + localtime.c and difftime.c no longer require stdio.h, and .c files + other than zic.c no longer require sys/wait.h. + + zdump.c no longer assumes snprintf. (Reported by Jonathan Leffler.) + + Calculation of time_t extrema works around a bug in GCC 4.8.4 + (Reported by Stan Shebs and Joseph Myers.) + + zic.c no longer mistranslates formats of line numbers in non-English + locales. (Problem reported by Benno Schulenberg.) + + Several minor changes have been made to the code to make it a + bit easier to port to MS-Windows and Solaris. (Thanks to Kees + Dekker for reporting the problems.) + + Changes to documentation and commentary + + The two new files 'theory.html' and 'calendars' contain the + contents of the removed file 'Theory'. The goal is to document + tzdb theory more accessibly. + + The zic man page now documents abbreviation rules. + + tz-link.htm now covers how to apply tzdata changes to clients. + (Thanks to Jorge Fábregas for the AIX link.) It also mentions MySQL. + + The leap-seconds.list URL has been updated to something that is + more reliable for tzdb. (Thanks to Tim Parenti and Brian Inglis.) + Release 2017b - 2017-03-17 07:30:38 -0700 Briefly: Haiti has resumed DST. @@ -15,6 +179,16 @@ Release 2017b - 2017-03-17 07:30:38 -0700 Use "MMT" to abbreviate Liberia's time zone before 1972, as "-004430" is one byte over the POSIX limit. (Problem reported by Derick Rethans.) + Changes to code + + The reference localtime implementation now falls back on the + current US daylight-saving transition rules rather than the + 1987-2006 rules. This fallback occurs only when (1) the TZ + environment variable's value has a name like "AST4ADT" that asks + for daylight saving time but does not specify the rules, (2) there + is no file by that name, and (3) the TZDEFRULES file cannot be + loaded. (Thanks to Tom Lane.) + Release 2017a - 2017-02-28 00:05:36 -0800 @@ -1981,7 +2155,7 @@ Release 2013e - 2013-09-19 23:50:04 -0700 The 'leapseconds' file is now generated automatically from a new file 'leap-seconds.list', which is a copy of - <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list>. + <ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list> A new source file 'leapseconds.awk' implements this. The goal is simplification of the future maintenance of 'leapseconds'. @@ -2187,7 +2361,7 @@ Release 2013a - 2013-02-27 09:20:35 -0800 Many changes affect historical timestamps before 1940. These were deduced from: Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 - Feb;13(2):173-94 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. + Feb;13(2):173-94 <https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. Changes affecting the code: |