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@@ -1,5 +1,116 @@ News for the tz database +Release 2022b - 2022-08-10 15:38:32 -0700 + + Briefly: + Chile's DST is delayed by a week in September 2022. + Iran no longer observes DST after 2022. + Rename Europe/Kiev to Europe/Kyiv. + New zic -R option + Vanguard form now uses %z. + Finish moving duplicate-since-1970 zones to 'backzone'. + New build option PACKRATLIST + New tailored_tarballs target, replacing rearguard_tarballs + + Changes to future timestamps + + Chile's 2022 DST start is delayed from September 4 to September 11. + (Thanks to Juan Correa.) + + Iran plans to stop observing DST permanently, after it falls back + on 2022-09-21. (Thanks to Ali Mirjamali.) + + Changes to past timestamps + + Finish moving to 'backzone' the location-based zones whose + timestamps since 1970 are duplicates; adjust links accordingly. + This change ordinarily affects only pre-1970 timestamps, and with + the new PACKRATLIST option it does not affect any timestamps. + In this round the affected zones are Antarctica/Vostok, + Asia/Brunei, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, Atlantic/Reykjavik, + Europe/Amsterdam, Europe/Copenhagen, Europe/Luxembourg, + Europe/Monaco, Europe/Oslo, Europe/Stockholm, Indian/Christmas, + Indian/Cocos, Indian/Kerguelen, Indian/Mahe, Indian/Reunion, + Pacific/Chuuk, Pacific/Funafuti, Pacific/Majuro, Pacific/Pohnpei, + Pacific/Wake and Pacific/Wallis, and the affected links are + Arctic/Longyearbyen, Atlantic/Jan_Mayen, Iceland, Pacific/Ponape, + Pacific/Truk, and Pacific/Yap. + + From fall 1994 through fall 1995, Shanks wrote that Crimea's + DST transitions were at 02:00 standard time, not at 00:00. + (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) + + Iran adopted standard time in 1935, not 1946. In 1977 it observed + DST from 03-21 23:00 to 10-20 24:00; its 1978 transitions were on + 03-24 and 08-05, not 03-20 and 10-20; and its spring 1979 + transition was on 05-27, not 03-21. + (Thanks to Roozbeh Pournader and Francis Santoni.) + + Chile's observance of -04 from 1946-08-29 through 1947-03-31 was + considered DST, not standard time. Santiago and environs had moved + their clocks back to rejoin the rest of mainland Chile; put this + change at the end of 1946-08-28. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) + + Some old, small clock transitions have been removed, as people at + the time did not change their clocks. This affects Asia/Hong_Kong + in 1904, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh in 1906, and Europe/Dublin in 1880. + + Changes to zone name + + Rename Europe/Kiev to Europe/Kyiv, as "Kyiv" is more common in + English now. Spelling of other names in Ukraine has not yet + demonstrably changed in common English practice so for now these + names retain old spellings, as in other countries (e.g., + Europe/Prague not "Praha", and Europe/Sofia not "Sofiya"). + + Changes to code + + zic has a new option '-R @N' to output explicit transitions < N. + (Need suggested by Almaz Mingaleev.) + + 'zic -r @N' no longer outputs bad data when N < first transition. + (Problem introduced in 2021d and reported by Peter Krefting.) + + zic now checks its input for NUL bytes and unterminated lines, and + now supports input line lengths up to 2048 (not 512) bytes. + + gmtime and related code now use the abbreviation "UTC" not "GMT". + POSIX is being revised to require this. + + When tzset and related functions set vestigial static variables + like tzname, they now prefer specified timestamps to unspecified ones. + (Problem reported by Almaz Mingaleev.) + + zic no longer complains "can't determine time zone abbreviation to + use just after until time" when a transition to a new standard + time occurs simultanously with the first DST fallback transition. + + Changes to build procedure + + Source data in vanguard form now uses the %z notation, introduced + in release 2015f. For example, for America/Sao_Paulo vanguard + form contains the zone continuation line "-3:00 Brazil %z", which + is simpler and more reliable than the line "-3:00 Brazil -03/-02" + used in main and rearguard forms. The plan is for the main form + to use %z eventually; in the meantime maintainers of zi parsers + are encouraged to test the parsers on vanguard.zi. + + The Makefile has a new PACKRATLIST option to select a subset of + 'backzone'. For example, 'make PACKRATDATA=backzone + PACKRATLIST=zone.tab' now generates TZif files identical to those + of the global-tz project. + + The Makefile has a new tailored_tarballs target for generating + special-purpose tarballs. It generalizes and replaces the + rearguard_tarballs target and related targets and macros, which + are now obsolescent. + + 'make install' now defaults LOCALTIME to Factory not GMT, + which means the default abbreviation is now "-00" not "GMT". + + Remove the posix_packrat target, marked obsolescent in 2016a. + + Release 2022a - 2022-03-15 23:02:01 -0700 Briefly: @@ -161,7 +272,7 @@ Release 2021b - 2021-09-24 16:23:00 -0700 Rename Pacific/Enderbury to Pacific/Kanton. When we added Enderbury in 1993, we did not know that it is uninhabited and that Kanton (population two dozen) is the only inhabited location in - that timezone. The old name is now a backward-compatility link. + that timezone. The old name is now a backward-compatibility link. Changes to past timestamps @@ -1315,7 +1426,7 @@ Release 2018b - 2018-01-17 23:24:48 -0800 Changes to build procedure The distribution now contains the file 'pacificnew' again. - This file was inadvertantly omitted in the 2018a distribution. + This file was inadvertently omitted in the 2018a distribution. (Problem reported by Matias Fonzo.) @@ -4387,7 +4498,7 @@ Release 2007a - 2007-01-08 12:28:29 -0500 changes by Paul Eggert - Derick Rethan's Asmara change + Derick Rethans's Asmara change Oscar van Vlijmen's Easter Island local mean time change |