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@@ -1,5 +1,80 @@ News for the tz database +Release 2019c - 2019-09-11 08:59:48 -0700 + + Briefly: + Fiji observes DST from 2019-11-10 to 2020-01-12. + Norfolk Island starts observing Australian-style DST. + + Changes to future timestamps + + Fiji's next DST transitions will be 2019-11-10 and 2020-01-12 + instead of 2019-11-03 and 2020-01-19. (Thanks to Raymond Kumar.) + Adjust future guesses accordingly. + + Norfolk Island will observe Australian-style DST starting in + spring 2019. The first transition is on 2019-10-06. (Thanks to + Kyle Czech and Michael Deckers.) + + Changes to past timestamps + + Many corrections to time in Turkey from 1940 through 1985. + (Thanks to Oya Vulaş via Alois Treindl, and to Kıvanç Yazan.) + + The Norfolk Island 1975-03-02 transition was at 02:00 standard + time, not 02:00 DST. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) + + South Korea observed DST from 1948 through 1951. Although this + info was supposed to appear in release 2014j, a typo inadvertently + suppressed the change. (Thanks to Alois Treindl.) + + Detroit observed DST in 1967 and 1968 following the US DST rules, + except that its 1967 DST began on June 14 at 00:01. (Thanks to + Alois Treindl for pointing out that the old data entries were + probably wrong.) + + Fix several errors in pre-1970 transitions in Perry County, IN. + (Thanks to Alois Triendl for pointing out the 1967/9 errors.) + + Edmonton did not observe DST in 1967 or 1969. In 1946 Vancouver + ended DST on 09-29 not 10-13, and Vienna ended DST on 10-07 not + 10-06. In 1945 Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) switched from +01/+02 + to +02/+03 on 04-10 not 01-01, and its +02/+03 is abbreviated + EET/EEST, not CET/CEST. (Thanks to Alois Triendl.) In 1946 + Königsberg switched to +03 on 04-07 not 01-01. + + In 1946 Louisville switched from CST to CDT on 04-28 at 00:01, not + 01-01 at 00:00. (Thanks to Alois Treindl and Michael Deckers.) + Also, it switched from CST to CDT on 1950-04-30, not 1947-04-27. + + The 1892-05-01 transition in Brussels was at 00:17:30, not at noon. + (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) + + Changes to past time zone abbreviations and DST flags + + Hong Kong Winter Time, observed from 1941-10-01 to 1941-12-25, + is now flagged as DST and is abbreviated HKWT not HKT. + + Changes to code + + leapseconds.awk now relies only on its input data, rather than + also relying on its comments. (Inspired by code from Dennis + Ferguson and Chris Woodbury.) + + The code now defends against CRLFs in leap-seconds.list. + (Thanks to Brian Inglis and Chris Woodbury.) + + Changes to documentation and commentary + + theory.html discusses leap seconds. (Thanks to Steve Summit.) + + Nashville's newspapers dueled about the time of day in the 1950s. + (Thanks to John Seigenthaler.) + + Liechtenstein observed Swiss DST in 1941/2. + (Thanks to Alois Treindl.) + + Release 2019b - 2019-07-01 00:09:53 -0700 Briefly: |