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| author | Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@canonical.com> | 2020-12-25 07:42:52 +1100 |
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| committer | Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@canonical.com> | 2020-12-25 07:42:52 +1100 |
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@@ -1,5 +1,51 @@ News for the tz database +Release 2020e - 2020-12-22 15:14:34 -0800 + + Briefly: + Volgograd switches to Moscow time on 2020-12-27 at 02:00. + + Changes to future timestamps + + Volgograd changes time zone from +04 to +03 on 2020-12-27 at 02:00. + (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev and Stepan Golosunov.) + + Changes to past timestamps + + Correct many pre-1986 transitions, fixing entries originally + derived from Shanks. The fixes include: + - Australia: several 1917 through 1971 transitions + - Bahamas: several 1941 through 1945 transitions + - Bermuda: several 1917 through 1956 transitions + - Belize: several 1942 through 1968 transitions + - Ghana: several 1915 through 1956 transitions + - Israel and Palestine: several 1940 through 1985 transitions + - Kenya and adjacent: several 1908 through 1960 transitions + - Nigeria and adjacent: correcting LMT in Lagos, and several 1905 + through 1919 transitions + - Seychelles: the introduction of standard time in 1907, not 1906 + - Vanuatu: DST in 1973-1974, and a corrected 1984 transition + (Thanks to P Chan.) + + Because of the Australia change, Australia/Currie (King Island) is + no longer needed, as it is identical to Australia/Hobart for all + timestamps since 1970 and was therefore created by mistake. + Australia/Currie has been moved to the 'backward' file and its + corrected data moved to the 'backzone' file. + + Changes to past time zone abbreviations and DST flags + + To better match legislation in Turks and Caicos, the 2015 shift to + year-round observance of -04 is now modeled as AST throughout before + returning to Eastern Time with US DST in 2018, rather than as + maintaining EDT until 2015-11-01. (Thanks to P Chan.) + + Changes to documentation + + The zic man page now documents zic's coalescing of transitions + when a zone falls back just before DST springs forward. + + Release 2020d - 2020-10-21 11:24:13 -0700 Briefly: |