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@@ -1,5 +1,114 @@ News for the tz database +Release 2020d - 2020-10-21 11:24:13 -0700 + + Briefly: + Palestine ends DST earlier than predicted, on 2020-10-24. + + Changes to past and future timestamps + + Palestine ends DST on 2020-10-24 at 01:00, instead of 2020-10-31 + as previously predicted (thanks to Sharef Mustafa.) Its + 2019-10-26 fall-back was at 00:00, not 01:00 (thanks to Steffen + Thorsen.) Its 2015-10-23 transition was at 01:00 not 00:00, and + its spring 2020 transition was on March 28 at 00:00, not March 27 + (thanks to Pierre Cashon.) This affects Asia/Gaza and + Asia/Hebron. Assume future spring and fall transitions will be on + the Saturday preceding the last Sunday of March and October, + respectively. + + +Release 2020c - 2020-10-16 11:15:53 -0700 + + Briefly: + Fiji starts DST later than usual, on 2020-12-20. + + Changes to future timestamps + + Fiji will start DST on 2020-12-20, instead of 2020-11-08 as + previously predicted. DST will still end on 2021-01-17. + (Thanks to Raymond Kumar and Alan Mintz.) Assume for now that + the later-than-usual start date is a one-time departure from the + recent pattern. + + Changes to build procedure + + Rearguard tarballs now contain an empty file pacificnew. + Some older downstream software expects this file to exist. + (Problem reported by Mike Cullinan.) + + +Release 2020b - 2020-10-06 18:35:04 -0700 + + Briefly: + Revised predictions for Morocco's changes starting in 2023. + Canada's Yukon changes to -07 on 2020-11-01, not 2020-03-08. + Macquarie Island has stayed in sync with Tasmania since 2011. + Casey, Antarctica is at +08 in winter and +11 in summer. + zic no longer supports -y, nor the TYPE field of Rules. + + Changes to future timestamps + + Morocco's spring-forward after Ramadan is now predicted to occur + no sooner than two days after Ramadan, instead of one day. + (Thanks to Milamber.) The first altered prediction is for 2023, + now predicted to spring-forward on April 30 instead of April 23. + + Changes to past and future timestamps + + Casey Station, Antarctica has been using +08 in winter and +11 in + summer since 2018. The most recent transition from +08 to +11 was + 2020-10-04 00:01. Also, Macquarie Island has been staying in + sync with Tasmania since 2011. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) + + Changes to past and future time zone abbreviations and DST flags + + Canada's Yukon, represented by America/Whitehorse and + America/Dawson, changes its time zone rules from -08/-07 to + permanent -07 on 2020-11-01, not on 2020-03-08 as 2020a had it. + This change affects only the time zone abbreviation (MST vs PDT) + and daylight saving flag for the period between the two dates. + (Thanks to Andrew G. Smith.) + + Changes to past timestamps + + Correct several transitions for Hungary for 1918/1983. + For example, the 1983-09-25 fall-back was at 01:00, not 03:00. + (Thanks to Géza Nyáry.) Also, the 1890 transition to standard + time was on 11-01, not 10-01 (thanks to Michael Deckers). + + The 1891 French transition was on March 16, not March 15. The + 1911-03-11 French transition was at midnight, not a minute later. + Monaco's transitions were on 1892-06-01 and 1911-03-29, not + 1891-03-15 and 1911-03-11. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) + + Changes to code + + Support for zic's long-obsolete '-y YEARISTYPE' option has been + removed and, with it, so has support for the TYPE field in Rule + lines, which is now reserved for compatibility with earlier zic. + These features were previously deprecated in release 2015f. + (Thanks to Tim Parenti.) + + zic now defaults to '-b slim' instead of to '-b fat'. + + zic's new '-l -' and '-p -' options uninstall any existing + localtime and posixrules files, respectively. + + The undocumented and ineffective tzsetwall function has been + removed. + + Changes to build procedure + + The Makefile now defaults POSIXRULES to '-', so the posixrules + feature (obsolete as of 2019b) is no longer installed by default. + + Changes to documentation and commentary + + The long-obsolete files pacificnew, systemv, and yearistype.sh have + been removed from the distribution. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.) + + Release 2020a - 2020-04-23 16:03:47 -0700 Briefly: |