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@@ -1,5 +1,40 @@ News for the tz database +Release 2018g - 2018-10-26 22:22:45 -0700 + + Briefly: + Morocco switches to permanent +01 on 2018-10-27. + + Changes to future timestamps + + Morocco switches from +00/+01 to permanent +01 effective 2018-10-27, + so its clocks will not fall back on 2018-10-28 as previously scheduled. + (Thanks to Mohamed Essedik Najd and Brian Inglis.) + + Changes to code + + When generating TZif files with leap seconds, zic no longer uses a + format that trips up older 32-bit clients, fixing a bug introduced + in 2018f. (Reported by Daniel Fischer.) Also, the zic workaround + for QTBUG-53071 now also works for TZif files with leap seconds. + + The translator to rearguard format now rewrites the line + "Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 25:00 0 S" to + "Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sun>=9 1:00 0 S". + This caters to zic before 2007 and to Oracle TZUpdater 2.2.0 + and earlier. (Reported by Christos Zoulas.) + + Changes to past time zone abbreviations + + Change HDT to HWT/HPT for WWII-era abbreviations in Hawaii. + This reverts to 2011h, as the abbreviation change in 2011i was + likely inadvertent. + + Changes to documentation + + tzfile.5 has new sections on interoperability issues. + + Release 2018f - 2018-10-18 00:14:18 -0700 Briefly: |