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diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/NEWS b/contrib/tzdata/NEWS index 9d0e9c0ee3fa..8b05f8f13084 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/NEWS +++ b/contrib/tzdata/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,100 @@ News for the tz database -Release 20198 - 2019-03-25 22:01:33 -0700 +Release 2019b - 2019-07-01 00:09:53 -0700 + + Briefly: + Brazil no longer observes DST. + 'zic -b slim' outputs smaller TZif files; please try it out. + Palestine's 2019 spring-forward transition was on 03-29, not 03-30. + + Changes to future timestamps + + Brazil has canceled DST and will stay on standard time indefinitely. + (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen, Marcus Diniz, and Daniel Soares de + Oliveira.) + + Predictions for Morocco now go through 2087 instead of 2037, to + work around a problem on newlib when using TZif files output by + zic 2019a or earlier. (Problem reported by David Gauchard.) + + Changes to past and future timestamps + + Palestine's 2019 spring transition was 03-29 at 00:00, not 03-30 + at 01:00. (Thanks to Sharef Mustafa and Even Scharning.) Guess + future transitions to be March's last Friday at 00:00. + + Changes to past timestamps + + Hong Kong's 1941-06-15 spring-forward transition was at 03:00, not + 03:30. Its 1945 transition from JST to HKT was on 11-18 at 02:00, + not 09-15 at 00:00. In 1946 its spring-forward transition was on + 04-21 at 00:00, not the previous day at 03:30. From 1946 through + 1952 its fall-back transitions occurred at 04:30, not at 03:30. + In 1947 its fall-back transition was on 11-30, not 12-30. + (Thanks to P Chan.) + + Changes to past time zone abbreviations + + Italy's 1866 transition to Rome Mean Time was on December 12, not + September 22. This affects only the time zone abbreviation for + Europe/Rome between those dates. (Thanks to Stephen Trainor and + Luigi Rosa.) + + Changes affecting metadata only + + Add info about the Crimea situation in zone1970.tab and zone.tab. + (Problem reported by Serhii Demediuk.) + + Changes to code + + zic's new -b option supports a way to control data bloat and to + test for year-2038 bugs in software that reads TZif files. + 'zic -b fat' and 'zic -b slim' generate larger and smaller output; + for example, changing from fat to slim shrinks the Europe/London + file from 3648 to 1599 bytes, saving about 56%. Fat and slim + files represent the same set of timestamps and use the same TZif + format as documented in tzfile(5) and in Internet RFC 8536. + Fat format attempts to work around bugs or incompatibilities in + older software, notably software that mishandles 64-bit TZif data + or uses obsolete TZ strings like "EET-2EEST" that lack DST rules. + Slim format is more efficient and does not work around 64-bit bugs + or obsolete TZ strings. Currently zic defaults to fat format + unless you compile with -DZIC_BLOAT_DEFAULT=\"slim\"; this + out-of-the-box default is intended to change in future releases + as the buggy software often mishandles timestamps anyway. + + zic no longer treats a set of rules ending in 2037 specially. + Previously, zic assumed that such a ruleset meant that future + timestamps could not be predicted, and therefore omitted a + POSIX-like TZ string in the TZif output. The old behavior is no + longer needed for current tzdata, and caused problems with newlib + when used with older tzdata (reported by David Gauchard). + + zic no longer generates some artifact transitions. For example, + Europe/London no longer has a no-op transition in January 1996. + + Changes to build procedure + + tzdata.zi now assumes zic 2017c or later. This shrinks tzdata.zi + by a percent or so. + + Changes to documentation and commentary + + The Makefile now documents the POSIXRULES macro as being obsolete, + and similarly, zic's -p POSIXRULES option is now documented as + being obsolete. Although the POSIXRULES feature still exists and + works as before, in practice it is rarely used for its intended + purpose, and it does not work either in the default reference + implementation (for timestamps after 2037) or in common + implementations such as GNU/Linux (for contemporary timestamps). + Since POSIXRULES was designed primarily as a temporary transition + facility for System V platforms that died off decades ago, it is + being decommissioned rather than institutionalized. + + New info on Bonin Islands and Marcus (thanks to Wakaba and Phake Nick). + + +Release 2019a - 2019-03-25 22:01:33 -0700 Briefly: Palestine "springs forward" on 2019-03-30 instead of 2019-03-23. @@ -481,7 +575,7 @@ Release 2018d - 2018-03-22 07:05:46 -0700 The code is a bit more portable to MS-Windows. Installers can compile with -DRESERVE_STD_EXT_IDS on MS-Windows platforms that reserve identifiers like 'localtime'. (Thanks to Manuela - Friedrich). + Friedrich.) Changes to documentation and commentary @@ -2276,7 +2370,7 @@ Release 2014f - 2014-08-05 17:42:36 -0700 warlord Jin Shuren in the data. Commentary about the coverage of each Russian zone has been standardized. - (Thanks to Tim Parenti). + (Thanks to Tim Parenti.) There is new commentary about contemporary timekeeping in Ethiopia. @@ -2724,7 +2818,7 @@ Release 2013e - 2013-09-19 23:50:04 -0700 Change the UT offset of Bern Mean Time from 0:29:44 to 0:29:46. This affects Europe/Zurich timestamps from 1853 to 1894. (Thanks - to Alois Treindl). + to Alois Treindl.) Change the date of the circa-1850 Zurich transition from 1849-09-12 to 1853-07-16, overriding Shanks with data from Messerli about @@ -3034,7 +3128,7 @@ Release 2013a - 2013-02-27 09:20:35 -0800 (Thanks to Arthur David Olson.) Improve the commentary about which districts observe what times - in Russia. (Thanks to Oscar van Vlijmen and Arthur David Olson). + in Russia. (Thanks to Oscar van Vlijmen and Arthur David Olson.) Add web page links to tz.js. |