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@@ -1,5 +1,109 @@ News for the tz database +Release 2023d - 2023-12-21 20:02:24 -0800 + + Briefly: + Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland changes time zones on 2024-03-31. + Vostok, Antarctica changed time zones on 2023-12-18. + Casey, Antarctica changed time zones five times since 2020. + Code and data fixes for Palestine timestamps starting in 2072. + A new data file zonenow.tab for timestamps starting now. + + Changes to future timestamps + + Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland (America/Scoresbysund) joins most of + the rest of Greenland's timekeeping practice on 2024-03-31, by + changing its time zone from -01/+00 to -02/-01 at the same moment + as the spring-forward transition. Its clocks will therefore not + spring forward as previously scheduled. The time zone change + reverts to its common practice before 1981. + + Fix predictions for DST transitions in Palestine in 2072-2075, + correcting a typo introduced in 2023a. + + Changes to past and future timestamps + + Vostok, Antarctica changed to +05 on 2023-12-18. It had been at + +07 (not +06) for years. (Thanks to Zakhary V. Akulov.) + + Change data for Casey, Antarctica to agree with timeanddate.com, + by adding five time zone changes since 2020. Casey is now at +08 + instead of +11. + + Changes to past tm_isdst flags + + Much of Greenland, represented by America/Nuuk, changed its + standard time from -03 to -02 on 2023-03-25, not on 2023-10-28. + This does not affect UTC offsets, only the tm_isdst flag. + (Thanks to Thomas M. Steenholdt.) + + New data file + + A new data file zonenow.tab helps configure applications that use + timestamps dated from now on. This simplifies configuration, + since users choose from a smaller Zone set. The file's format is + experimental and subject to change. + + Changes to code + + localtime.c no longer mishandles TZif files that contain a single + transition into a DST regime. Previously, it incorrectly assumed + DST was in effect before the transition too. (Thanks to Alois + Treindl for debugging help.) + + localtime.c's timeoff no longer collides with OpenBSD 7.4. + + The C code now uses _Generic only if __STDC_VERSION__ says the + compiler is C11 or later. + + tzselect now optionally reads zonenow.tab, to simplify when + configuring only for timestamps dated from now on. + + tzselect no longer creates temporary files. + + tzselect no longer mishandles the following: + + Spaces and most other special characters in BUGEMAIL, PACKAGE, + TZDIR, and VERSION. + + TZ strings when using mawk 1.4.3, which mishandles regular + expressions of the form /X{2,}/. + + ISO 6709 coordinates when using an awk that lacks the GNU + extension of newlines in -v option-arguments. + + Non UTF-8 locales when using an iconv command that lacks the GNU + //TRANSLIT extension. + + zic no longer mishandles data for Palestine after the year 2075. + Previously, it incorrectly omitted post-2075 transitions that are + predicted for just before and just after Ramadan. (Thanks to Ken + Murchison for debugging help.) + + zic now works again on Linux 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 (2006). + (Problem reported by Rune Torgersen.) + + Changes to build procedure + + The Makefile is now more compatible with POSIX: + * It no longer defines AR, CC, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and SHELL. + * It no longer uses its own 'cc' in place of CC. + * It now uses ARFLAGS, with default specified by POSIX. + * It does not use LFLAGS incompatibly with POSIX. + * It uses the special .POSIX target. + * It quotes special characters more carefully. + * It no longer mishandles builds in an ISO 8859 locale. + Due to the CC changes, TZDIR is now #defined in a file tzfile.h + built by 'make', not in a $(CC) -D option. Also, TZDEFAULT is + now treated like TZDIR as they have similar roles. + + Changes to commentary + + Limitations and hazards of the optional support for obsolescent + C89 platforms are documented better, along with a tentative + schedule for removing this support. + + Release 2023c - 2023-03-28 12:42:14 -0700 Changes to past and future timestamps @@ -76,11 +180,14 @@ Release 2023a - 2023-03-22 12:39:33 -0700 platform dependent and abbreviations were silently truncated to 16 bytes even when the limit was greater than 16. - The code by default is now designed for C99 or later. To build in - a C89 environment, compile with -DPORT_TO_C89. To support C89 - callers of the tzcode library, compile with -DSUPPORT_C89. The - two new macros are transitional aids planned to be removed in a - future version, when C99 or later will be required. + The code by default is now designed for C99 or later. To build on + a mostly-C89 platform, compile with -DPORT_TO_C89; this should + work on C89 platforms that also support C99 'long long' and + perhaps a few other extensions to C89. To support C89 callers of + tzcode's library, compile with -DSUPPORT_C89; however, this could + trigger latent bugs in C99-or-later callers. The two new macros + are transitional aids planned to be removed in a future version + (say, in 2029), when C99 or later will be required. The code now builds again on pre-C99 platforms, if you compile with -DPORT_TO_C89. This fixes a bug introduced in 2022f. @@ -723,6 +830,8 @@ Release 2021b - 2021-09-24 16:23:00 -0700 them, set the EXPIRES_LINE Makefile variable. If a TZif file uses this new feature it is marked with a new TZif version number 4, a format intended to be documented in a successor to RFC 8536. + The old-format "#expires" comments are now treated solely as + comments and have no effect on the TZif files. zic -L LEAPFILE -r @LO no longer generates an invalid TZif file that omits leap second information for the range LO..B when LO @@ -4302,7 +4411,7 @@ Release 2012j - 2012-11-12 18:34:49 -0800 now uses tz@iana.org rather than the old elsie address. zic -v now complains about abbreviations that are less than 3 - or more than 6 characters, as per Posix. Formerly, it checked + or more than 6 characters, as per POSIX. Formerly, it checked for abbreviations that were more than 3. 'make public' no longer puts its temporary directory under /tmp, @@ -4467,8 +4576,8 @@ Release data2011m - 2011-10-24 21:42:16 +0700 In particular, the typos in comments in the data (2011-11-17 should have been 2011-10-17 as Alan Barrett noted, and spelling of Tiraspol that Tim Parenti noted) have been fixed, and the change for Ukraine has been - made in all 4 Ukrainian zones, rather than just Kiev (again, thanks to - Tim Parenti, and also Denys Gavrysh) + made in all 4 Ukrainian zones, rather than just Europe/Kiev + (again, thanks to Tim Parenti, and also Denys Gavrysh). In addition, I added Europe/Tiraspol to zone.tab. |