News for the tz database
Release 2013g - 2013-09-30 21:08:26 -0700
Changes affecting current and near-future time stamps
Morocco now observes DST from the last Sunday in March to the last
Sunday in October, not April to September respectively. (Thanks
to Steffen Thorsen.)
Changes affecting 'zic'
'zic' now runs on platforms that lack both hard links and symlinks.
(Thanks to Theo Veenker for reporting the problem, for MinGW.)
Also, fix some bugs on platforms that lack hard links but have symlinks.
'zic -v' again warns that Asia/Tehran has no POSIX environment variable
to predict the far future, fixing a bug introduced in 2013e.
Changes affecting the build procedure
The 'leapseconds' file is again put into the tzdata tarball.
Also, 'leapseconds.awk', so tzdata is self-contained. (Thanks to
Matt Burgess and Ian Abbott.) The timestamps of these and other
dependent files in tarballs are adjusted more consistently.
Changes affecting documentation and commentary
The README file is now part of the data tarball as well as the code.
It now states that files are public domain unless otherwise specified.
(Thanks to Andrew Main (Zefram) for asking for clarifications.)
Its details about the 1989 release moved to a place of honor near
the end of NEWS.
Release 2013f - 2013-09-24 23:37:36 -0700
Changes affecting near-future time stamps
Tocantins will very likely not observe DST starting this spring.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Jordan will likely stay at UTC+3 indefinitely, and will not fall
back this fall.
Palestine will fall back at 00:00, not 01:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Changes affecting API
The types of the global variables 'timezone' and 'altzone' (if present)
have been changed back to 'long'. This is required for 'timezone'
by POSIX, and for 'altzone' by common practice, e.g., Solaris 11.
These variables were originally 'long' in the tz code, but were
mistakenly changed to 'time_t' in 1987; nobody reported the
incompatibility until now. The difference matters on x32, where
'long' is 32 bits and 'time_t' is 64. (Thanks to Elliott Hughes.)
Changes affecting the build procedure
Avoid long strings in leapseconds.awk to work around a mawk bug.
(Thanks to Cyril Baurand.)
Changes affecting documentation and commentary
New file 'NEWS' that contains release notes like this one.
Paraguay's law does not specify DST transition time; 00:00 is customary.
(Thanks to Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo.)
Minor capitalization fixes.
Changes affecting version-control only
The experimental github repository now contains annotated and
signed tags for recent releases, e.g., '2013e' for Release 2013e.
Releases are tagged starting with 2012e; earlier releases were
done differently, and tags would either not have a simple name or
not exactly match what was released.
'make set-timestamps' is now simpler and a bit more portable.
Release 2013e - 2013-09-19 23:50:04 -0700
Changes affecting near-future time stamps
This year Fiji will start DST on October 27, not October 20.
(Thanks to David Wheeler for the heads-up.) For now, guess that
Fiji will continue to spring forward the Sunday before the fourth
Monday in October.
Changes affecting current and future time zone abbreviations
Use WIB/WITA/WIT rather than WIT/CIT/EIT for alphabetic Indonesian
time zone abbreviations since 1932. (Thanks to George Ziegler,
Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo, Zakaria, Jason Grimes, Martin Pitt, and
Benny Lin.) This affects Asia/Dili, Asia/Jakarta, Asia/Jayapura,
Asia/Makassar, and Asia/Pontianak.
Use ART (UTC-3, standard time), rather than WARST (also UTC-3, but
daylight saving time) for San Luis, Argentina since 2009.
Changes affecting Godthab time stamps after 2037 if version mismatch
Allow POSIX-like TZ strings where the transition time's hour can
range from -167 through 167, instead of the POSIX-required 0
through 24. E.g., TZ='FJT-12FJST,M10.3.1/146,M1.3.4/75' for the
new Fiji rules. This is a more-compact way to represent
far-future time stamps for America/Godthab, America/Santiago,
Antarctica/Palmer, Asia/Gaza, Asia/Hebron, Asia/Jerusalem,
Pacific/Easter, and Pacific/Fiji. Other zones are unaffected by
this change. (Derived from a suggestion by Arthur David Olson.)
Allow POSIX-like TZ strings where daylight saving time is in
effect all year. E.g., TZ='WART4WARST,J1/0,J365/25' for Western
Argentina Summer Time all year. This supports a more-compact way
to represent the 2013d data for America/Argentina/San_Luis.
Because of the change for San Luis noted above this change does not
affect the current data. (Thanks to Andrew Main (Zefram) for
suggestions that improved this change.)
Where these two TZ changes take effect, there is a minor extension
to the tz file format in that it allows new values for the
embedded TZ-format string, and the tz file format version number
has therefore been increased from 2 to 3 as a precaution.
Version-2-based client code should continue to work as before for
all time stamps before 2038. Existing version-2-based client code
(tzcode, GNU/Linux, Solaris) has been tested on version-3-format
files, and typically works in practice even for time stamps after
2037; the only known exception is America/Godthab.
Changes affecting time stamps before 1970
Pacific/Johnston is now a link to Pacific/Honolulu. This corrects
some errors before 1947.
Some zones have been turned into links, when they differ from
existing zones only in older data that was likely invented or that
differs only in LMT or transition from LMT. These changes affect
only time stamps before 1943. The affected zones are:
Africa/Juba, America/Anguilla, America/Aruba, America/Dominica,
America/Grenada, America/Guadeloupe, America/Marigot,
America/Montserrat, America/St_Barthelemy, America/St_Kitts,
America/St_Lucia, America/St_Thomas, America/St_Vincent,
America/Tortola, and Europe/Vaduz. (Thanks to Alois Treindl for
confirming that the old Europe/Vaduz zone was wrong and the new
link is better for WWII-era times.)
Change Kingston Mean Time from -5:07:12 to -5:07:11. This affects
America/Cayman, America/Jamaica and America/Grand_Turk time stamps
from 1890 to 1912.
Change the UT offset of Bern Mean Time from 0:29:44 to 0:29:46.
This affects Europe/Zurich time stamps from 1853 to 1894. (Thanks
to Alois Treindl).
Change the date of the circa-1850 Zurich transition from 1849-09-12
to 1853-07-16, overriding Shanks with data from Messerli about
postal and telegraph time in Switzerland.
Changes affecting time zone abbreviations before 1970
For Asia/Jakarta, use BMT (not JMT) for mean time from 1923 to 1932,
as Jakarta was called Batavia back then.
Changes affecting API
The 'zic' command now outputs a dummy transition when far-future
data can't be summarized using a TZ string, and uses a 402-year
window rather than a 400-year window. For the current data, this
affects only the Asia/Tehran file. It does not affect any of the
time stamps that this file represents, so zdump outputs the same
information as before. (Thanks to Andrew Main (Zefram).)
The 'date' command has a new '-r' option, which lets you specify
the integer time to display, a la FreeBSD.
The 'tzselect' command has two new options '-c' and '-n', which lets you
select a zone based on latitude and longitude.
The 'zic' command's '-v' option now warns about constructs that
require the new version-3 binary file format. (Thanks to Arthur
David Olson for the suggestion.)
Support for floating-point time_t has been removed.
It was always dicey, and POSIX no longer requires it.
(Thanks to Eric Blake for suggesting to the POSIX committee to
remove it, and thanks to Alan Barrett, Clive D.W. Feather, Andy
Heninger, Arthur David Olson, and Alois Treindl, for reporting
bugs and elucidating some of the corners of the old floating-point
implementation.)
The signatures of 'offtime', 'timeoff', and 'gtime' have been
changed back to the old practice of using 'long' to represent UT
offsets. This had been inadvertently and mistakenly changed to
'int_fast32_t'. (Thanks to Christos Zoulos.)
The code avoids undefined behavior on integer overflow in some
more places, including gmtime, localtime, mktime and zdump.
Changes affecting the zdump utility
zdump now outputs "UT" when referring to Universal Time, not "UTC".
"UTC" does not make sense for time stamps that predate the introduction
of UTC, whereas "UT", a more-generic term, does. (Thanks to Steve Allen
for clarifying UT vs UTC.)
Data changes affecting behavior of tzselect and similar programs
Country code BQ is now called the more-common name "Caribbean Netherlands"
rather than the more-official "Bonaire, St Eustatius & Saba".
Remove from zone.tab the names America/Montreal, America/Shiprock,
and Antarctica/South_Pole, as they are equivalent to existing
same-country-code zones for post-1970 time stamps. The data for
these names are unchanged, so the names continue to work as before.
Changes affecting code internals
zic -c now runs way faster on 64-bit hosts when given large numbers.
zic now uses vfprintf to avoid allocating and freeing some memory.
tzselect now computes the list of continents from the data,
rather than have it hard-coded.
Minor changes pacify GCC 4.7.3 and GCC 4.8.1.
Changes affecting the build procedure
The 'leapseconds' file is now generated automatically from a
new file 'leap-seconds.list', which is a copy of
<ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list>.
A new source file 'leapseconds.awk' implements this.
The goal is simplification of the future maintenance of 'leapseconds'.
When building the 'posix' or 'right' subdirectories, if the
subdirectory would be a copy of the default subdirectory, it is
now made a symbolic link if that is supported. This saves about
2 MB of file system space.
The links America/Shiprock and Antarctica/South_Pole have been
moved to the 'backward' file. This affects only nondefault builds
that omit 'backward'.
Changes affecting version-control only
.gitignore now ignores 'date'.
Changes affecting documentation and commentary
Changes to the 'tzfile' man page
It now mentions that the binary file format may be extended in
future versions by appending data.
It now refers to the 'zdump' and 'zic' man pages.
Changes to the 'zic' man page
It lists conditions that elicit a warning with '-v'.
It says that the behavior is unspecified when duplicate names
are given, or if the source of one link is the target of another.
Its examples are updated to match the latest data.
The definition of white space has been clarified slightly.
(Thanks to Michael Deckers.)
Changes to the 'Theory' file
There is a new section about the accuracy of the tz database,
describing the many ways that errors can creep in, and
explaining why so many of the pre-1970 time stamps are wrong or
misleading (thanks to Steve Allen, Lester Caine, and Garrett
Wollman for discussions that contributed to this).
The 'Theory' file describes LMT better (this follows a
suggestion by Guy Harris).
It refers to the 2013 edition of POSIX rather than the 2004 edition.
It's mentioned that excluding 'backward' should not affect the
other data, and it suggests at least one zone.tab name per
inhabited country (thanks to Stephen Colebourne).
Some longstanding restrictions on names are documented, e.g.,
'America/New_York' precludes 'America/New_York/Bronx'.
It gives more reasons for the 1970 cutoff.
It now mentions which time_t variants are supported, such as
signed integer time_t. (Thanks to Paul Goyette for reporting
typos in an experimental version of this change.)
(Thanks to Philip Newton for correcting typos in these changes.)
Documentation and commentary is more careful to distinguish UT in
general from UTC in particular. (Thanks to Steve Allen.)
Add a better source for the Zurich 1894 transition.
(Thanks to Pierre-Yves Berger.)
Update shapefile citations in tz-link.htm. (Thanks to Guy Harris.)
Release 2013d - 2013-07-05 07:38:01 -0700
Changes affecting future time stamps:
Morocco's midsummer transitions this year are July 7 and August 10,
not July 9 and August 8. (Thanks to Andrew Paprocki.)
Israel now falls back on the last Sunday of October.
(Thanks to Ephraim Silverberg.)
Changes affecting past time stamps:
Specify Jerusalem's location more precisely; this changes the pre-1880
times by 2 s.
Changing affecting metadata only:
Fix typos in the entries for country codes BQ and SX.
Changes affecting code:
Rework the code to fix a bug with handling Australia/Macquarie on
32-bit hosts (thanks to Arthur David Olson).
Port to platforms like NetBSD, where time_t can be wider than long.
Add support for testing time_t types other than the system's.
Run 'make check_time_t_alternatives' to try this out.
Currently, the tests fail for unsigned time_t;
this should get fixed at some point.
Changes affecting documentation and commentary:
Deemphasize the significance of national borders.
Update the zdump man page.
Remove obsolete NOID comment (thanks to Denis Excoffier).
Update several URLs and comments in the web pages.
Spelling fixes (thanks to Kevin Lyda and Jonathan Leffler).
Update URL for CLDR Zone->Tzid table (thanks to Yoshito Umaoka).
Release 2013c - 2013-04-19 16:17:40 -0700
Changes affecting current and future time stamps:
Palestine observed DST starting March 29, 2013. (Thanks to
Steffen Thorsen.) From 2013 on, Gaza and Hebron both observe DST,
with the predicted rules being the last Thursday in March at 24:00
to the first Friday on or after September 21 at 01:00.
Assume that the recent change to Paraguay's DST rules is permanent,
by moving the end of DST to the 4th Sunday in March every year.
(Thanks to Carlos Raul Perasso.)
Changes affecting past time stamps:
Fix some historical data for Palestine to agree with that of
timeanddate.com, as follows:
The spring 2008 change in Gaza and Hebron was on 00:00 Mar 28, not
00:00 Apr 1.
The fall 2009 change in Gaza and Hebron on Sep 4 was at 01:00, not
02:00.
The spring 2010 change in Hebron was 00:00 Mar 26, not 00:01 Mar 27.
The spring 2011 change in Gaza was 00:01 Apr 1, not 12:01 Apr 2.
The spring 2011 change in Hebron on Apr 1 was at 00:01, not 12:01.
The fall 2011 change in Hebron on Sep 30 was at 00:00, not 03:00.
Fix times of habitation for Macquarie to agree with the Tasmania
Parks & Wildlife Service history, which indicates that permanent
habitation was 1899-1919 and 1948 on.
Changing affecting metadata only:
Macquarie Island is politically part of Australia, not Antarctica.
(Thanks to Tobias Conradi.)
Sort Macquarie more-consistently with other parts of Australia.
(Thanks to Tim Parenti.)
Release 2013b - 2013-03-10 22:33:40 -0700
Changes affecting current and future time stamps:
Haiti uses US daylight-saving rules this year, and presumably future years.
This changes time stamps starting today. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Paraguay will end DST on March 24 this year.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) For now, assume it's just this year.
Morocco does not observe DST during Ramadan;
try to predict Ramadan in Morocco as best we can.
(Thanks to Erik Homoet for the heads-up.)
Changes affecting commentary:
Update URLs in tz-link page. Add URLs for webOS, BB10, iOS.
Update URL for Solaris. Mention Internet RFC 6557.
Update Internet RFCs 2445->5545, 2822->5322.
Switch from FTP to HTTP for Internet RFCs.
Release 2013a - 2013-02-27 09:20:35 -0800
Change affecting binary data format:
The zone offset at the end of version-2-format zone files is now
allowed to be 24:00, as per POSIX.1-2008. (Thanks to Arthor David Olson.)
Changes affecting current and future time stamps:
Chile's 2013 rules, and we guess rules for 2014 and later, will be
the same as 2012, namely Apr Sun>=23 03:00 UTC to Sep Sun>=2 04:00 UTC.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen and Robert Elz.)
New Zones Asia/Khandyga, Asia/Ust-Nera, Europe/Busingen.
(Thanks to Tobias Conradi and Arthur David Olson.)
Many changes affect historical time stamps before 1940.
These were deduced from: Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899
Feb;13(2):173-94 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.
Changes affecting the code:
Fix zic bug that mishandled Egypt's 2010 changes (this also affected
the data). (Thanks to Arthur David Olson.)
Fix localtime bug when time_t is unsigned and data files were generated
by a signed time_t system. (Thanks to Doug Bailey for reporting and
to Arthur David Olson for fixing.)
Allow the email address for bug reports to be set by the packager.
The default is tz@iana.org, as before. (Thanks to Joseph S. Myers.)
Update HTML checking to be compatible with Ubuntu 12.10.
Check that files are a safe subset of ASCII. At some point we may
relax this requirement to a safe subset of UTF-8. Without the
check, some non-UTF-8 encodings were leaking into the distribution.
Commentary changes:
Restore a comment about copyright notices that was inadvertently deleted.
(Thanks to Arthur David Olson.)
Improve the commentary about which districts observe what times
in Russia. (Thanks to Oscar van Vlijmen and Arthur David Olson).
Add web page links to tz.js.
Add "Run by the Monkeys" to tz-art. (Thanks to Arthur David Olson.)
Release 2012j - 2012-11-12 18:34:49 -0800
Libya moved to CET this weekend, but with DST planned next year.
(Thanks to Even Scharning, Steffen Thorsen, and Tim Parenti.)
Signatures now have the extension .asc, not .sign, as that's more
standard. (Thanks to Phil Pennock.)
The output of 'zdump --version', and of 'zic --version', now
uses a format that is more typical for --version.
(Thanks to Joseph S. Myers.)
The output of 'tzselect --help', 'zdump --help', and 'zic --help'
now uses tz@iana.org rather than the old elsie address.
zic -v now complains about abbreviations that are less than 3
or more than 6 characters, as per Posix. Formerly, it checked
for abbreviations that were more than 3.
'make public' no longer puts its temporary directory under /tmp,
and uses the just-built zic rather than the system zic.
Various fixes to documentation and commentary.
Release 2012i - 2012-11-03 12:57:09 -0700
Cuba switches from DST tomorrow at 01:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Linker flags can now be specified via LDFLAGS.
AWK now defaults to 'awk', not 'nawk'.
The shell in tzselect now defaults to /bin/bash, but this can
be overridden by specifying KSHELL.
The main web page now mentions the unofficial github repository.
(Thanks to Mike Frysinger.)
Tarball signatures can now be built by running 'make signatures'.
There are also new makefile rules 'tarballs', 'check_public', and
separate makefile rules for each tarball and signature file.
A few makefile rules are now more portable to strict POSIX.
The main web page now lists the canonical IANA URL.
Release 2012h - 2012-10-26 22:49:10 -0700
Bahia no longer has DST. (Thanks to Kelley Cook.)
Tocantins has DST. (Thanks to Rodrigo Severo.)
Israel has new DST rules next year. (Thanks to Ephraim Silverberg.)
Jordan stays on DST this winter. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Web page updates.
More C modernization, except that at Arthur David Olson's suggestion
the instances of 'register' were kept.
Release 2012g - 2012-10-17 20:59:45 -0700
Samoa fall 2012 and later. (Thanks to Nicholas Pereira and Robert Elz.)
Palestine fall 2012. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Assume C89.
To attack the version-number problem, this release ships the file
'Makefile' (which contains the release number) in both the tzcode and
the tzdata tarballs. The two Makefiles are identical, and should be
identical in any matching pair of tarballs, so it shouldn't matter
which order you extract the tarballs. Perhaps we can come up with a
better version-number scheme at some point; this scheme does have the
virtue of not adding more files.
Release 2012f - 2012-09-12 23:17:03 -0700
* australasia (Pacific/Fiji): Fiji DST is October 21 through January
20 this year. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Release 2012e - 2012-08-02 20:44:55 -0700
* australasia (Pacific/Fakaofo): Tokelau is UTC+13, not UTC+14.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
* Use a single version number for both code and data.
* .gitignore: New file.
* Remove trailing white space.
Release code2012c-data2012d - 2012-07-19 16:35:33 -0700
Changes for Morocco's time stamps, which take effect in a couple of
hours, along with infrastructure changes to accommodate how the tz
code and data are released on IANA.
Release data2012c - 2012-03-27 12:17:25 -0400
africa
Summer time changes for Morocco (to start late April 2012)
asia
Changes for 2012 for Gaza & the West Bank (Hebron) and Syria
northamerica
Haiti following US/Canada rules for 2012 (and we're assuming,
for now anyway, for the future).
Release 2012b - 2012-03-02 12:29:15 +0700
There is just one change to tzcode2012b (compared with 2012a):
the Makefile that was accidentally included with 2012a has been
replaced with the version that should have been there, which is
identical with the previous version (from tzcode2011i).
There are just two changes in tzdata2012b compared with 2012a.
Most significantly, summer time in Cuba has been delayed 3 weeks
(now starts April 1 rather than March 11). Since Mar 11 (the old start
date, as listed in 2012a) is just a little over a week away, this
change is urgent.
Less importantly, an excess tab in one of the changes in zone.tab
in 2012a has been removed.
Release 2012a - 2012-03-01 18:28:10 +0700
The changes in tzcode2012a (compared to the previous version, 2011i)
are entirely to the README and tz-art.htm and tz-link.htm files, if
none of those concern you, you can ignore the code update. The changes
reflect the changed addresses for the mailing list and the code and
data distribution points & methods (and a link to DateTime::TimeZone::Tzfile
has been added to tz-link.htm).
In tzdata2012a (compared to the previous release, which was 2011n)
the major changes are:
Chile 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 summer time date adjustments.
Falkland Islands onto permanent summer time (we're assuming for the
foreseeable future, though 2012 is all we're fairly certain of.)
Armenia has abolished Summer Time.
Tokelau jumped the International Date Line back last December
(just the same as their near neighbour, Samoa).
America/Creston is a new zone for a small area of British Columbia
There will be a leapsecond 2012-06-30 23:59:60 UTC.
Other minor changes are:
Corrections to 1918 Canadian summer time end dates.
Updated URL for UK timezone history (in comments)
A few typos in Le Corre's list of free French place names (comments)
Release data2011n - 2011-10-30 14:57:54 +0700
There are three changes of note - most urgently, Cuba (America/Havana)
has extended summer time by two weeks, now to end on Nov 13, rather than
the (already past) Oct 30. Second, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
(Europe/Tiraspol) decided not to split from the rest of Moldova after
all, and consequently that zone has been removed (again) and reinstated
in the "backward" file as a link to Europe/Chisinau. And third, the
end date for Fiji's summer time this summer was moved forward from the
earlier planned Feb 26, to Jan 22.
Apart from that, Moldova (MD) returns to a single entry in zone.tab
(and the incorrect syntax that was in the 2011m version of that file
is so fixed - it would have been fixed in a different way had this
change not happened - that's the "missing" sccs version id).
Release data2011m - 2011-10-24 21:42:16 +0700
In particular, the typos in comments in the data (2011-11-17 should have
been 2011-10-17 as Alan Barrett noted, and spelling of Tiraspol that
Tim Parenti noted) have been fixed, and the change for Ukraine has been
made in all 4 Ukrainian zones, rather than just Kiev (again, thanks to
Tim Parenti, and also Denys Gavrysh)
In addition, I added Europe/Tiraspol to zone.tab.
This time, all the files have new version numbers... (including the files
otherwise unchanged in 2011m that were changed in 2011l but didn't get new
version numbers there...)
Release data2011l - 2011-10-10 11:15:43 +0700
There are just 2 changes that cause different generated tzdata files from
zic, to Asia/Hebron and Pacific/Fiji - the possible change for Bahia, Brazil
is included, but commented out. Compared with the diff I sent out last week,
this version also includes attributions for the sources for the changes
(in much the same format as ado used, but the html tags have not been
checked, verified, or used in any way at all, so if there are errors there,
please let me know.)
Release data2011k - 2011-09-20 17:54:03 -0400
[not summarized]
Release data2011j - 2011-09-12 09:22:49 -0400
(contemporary changes for Samoa; past changes for Kenya, Uganda, and
Tanzania); there are also two spelling corrections to comments in
the australasia file (with thanks to Christos Zoulas).
Release 2011i - 2011-08-29 05:56:32 -0400
[not summarized]
Release data2011h - 2011-06-15 18:41:48 -0400
Russia and Curacao changes
Release 2011g - 2011-04-25 09:07:22 -0400
update the rules for Egypt to reflect its abandonment of DST this year
Release 2011f - 2011-04-06 17:14:53 -0400
[not summarized]
Release 2011e - 2011-03-31 16:04:38 -0400
Morocco, Chile, and tz-link changes
Release 2011d - 2011-03-14 09:18:01 -0400
changes that impact present-day time stamps in Cuba, Samoa, and Turkey
Release 2011c - 2011-03-07 09:30:09 -0500
These do affect current time stamps in Chile and Annette Island, Canada.
Release 2011b - 2011-02-07 08:44:50 -0500
[not summarized]
Release 2011a - 2011-01-24 10:30:16 -0500
[not summarized]
Release data2010o - 2010-11-01 09:18:23 -0400
change to the end of DST in Fiji in 2011
Release 2010n - 2010-10-25 08:19:17 -0400
[not summarized]
Release 2010m - 2010-09-27 09:24:48 -0400
Hong Kong, Vostok, and zic.c changes
Release 2010l - 2010-08-16 06:57:25 -0400
[not summarized]
Release 2010k - 2010-07-26 10:42:27 -0400
[not summarized]
Release 2010j - 2010-05-10 09:07:48 -0400
changes for Bahia de Banderas and for version naming
Release data2010i - 2010-04-16 18:50:45 -0400
the end of DST in Morocco on 2010-08-08
Release data2010h - 2010-04-05 09:58:56 -0400
[not summarized]
Release data2010g - 2010-03-24 11:14:53 -0400
[not summarized]
Release 2010f - 2010-03-22 09:45:46 -0400
[not summarized]
Release data2010e - 2010-03-08 14:24:27 -0500
corrects the Dhaka bug found by Danvin Ruangchan
Release data2010d - 2010-03-06 07:26:01 -0500
[not summarized]
Release 2010c - 2010-03-01 09:20:58 -0500
changes including KRE's suggestion for earlier initialization of
"goahead" and "goback" structure elements
Release code2010a - 2010-02-16 10:40:04 -0500
[not summarized]
Release data2010b - 2010-01-20 12:37:01 -0500
Mexico changes
Release data2010a - 2010-01-18 08:30:04 -0500
changes to Dhaka
Release data2009u - 2009-12-26 08:32:28 -0500
changes to DST in Bangladesh
Release 2009t - 2009-12-21 13:24:27 -0500
[not summarized]
Release data2009s - 2009-11-14 10:26:32 -0500
(cosmetic) Antarctica change and the DST-in-Fiji-in-2009-and-2010 change
Release 2009r - 2009-11-09 10:10:31 -0500
"antarctica" and "tz-link.htm" changes
Release 2009q - 2009-11-02 09:12:40 -0500
with two corrections as reported by Eric Muller and Philip Newton
Release data2009p - 2009-10-23 15:05:27 -0400
Argentina (including San Luis) changes (with the correction from
Mariano Absatz)
Release data2009o - 2009-10-14 16:49:38 -0400
Samoa (commentary only), Pakistan, and Bangladesh changes
Release data2009n - 2009-09-22 15:13:38 -0400
added commentary for Argentina and a change to the end of DST in
2009 in Pakistan
Release data2009m - 2009-09-03 10:23:43 -0400
Samoa and Palestine changes
Release data2009l - 2009-08-14 09:13:07 -0400
Samao (comments only) and Egypt
Release 2009k - 2009-07-20 09:46:08 -0400
[not summarized]
Release data2009j - 2009-06-15 06:43:59 -0400
Bangladesh change (with a short turnaround since the DST change is
impending)
Release 2009i - 2009-06-08 09:21:22 -0400
updating for DST in Bangladesh this year
Release 2009h - 2009-05-26 09:19:14 -0400
[not summarized]
Release data2009g - 2009-04-20 16:34:07 -0400
Cairo
Release data2009f - 2009-04-10 11:00:52 -0400
correct DST in Pakistan
Release 2009e - 2009-04-06 09:08:11 -0400
[not summarized]
Release 2009d - 2009-03-23 09:38:12 -0400
Morocco, Tunisia, Argentina, and American Astronomical Society changes
Release data2009c - 2009-03-16 09:47:51 -0400
change to the start of Cuban DST
Release 2009b - 2009-02-09 11:15:22 -0500
[not summarized]
Release 2009a - 2009-01-21 10:09:39 -0500
[not summarized]
Release data2008i - 2008-10-21 12:10:25 -0400
southamerica and zone.tab files, with Argentina DST rule changes and
United States zone reordering and recommenting
Release 2008h - 2008-10-13 07:33:56 -0400
[not summarized]
Release 2008g - 2008-10-06 09:03:18 -0400
Fix a broken HTML anchor and update Brazil's DST transitions;
there's also a slight reordering of information in tz-art.htm.
Release data2008f - 2008-09-09 22:33:26 -0400
[not summarized]
Release 2008e - 2008-07-28 14:11:17 -0400
changes by Arthur David Olson and Jesper Norgaard Welen
Release data2008d - 2008-07-07 09:51:38 -0400
changes by Arthur David Olson, Paul Eggert, and Rodrigo Severo
Release data2008c - 2008-05-19 17:48:03 -0400
Pakistan, Morocco, and Mongolia
Release data2008b - 2008-03-24 08:30:59 -0400
including renaming Asia/Calcutta to Asia/Kolkata, with a backward
link provided
Release 2008a - 2008-03-08 05:42:16 -0500
[not summarized]
Release 2007k - 2007-12-31 10:25:22 -0500
most importantly, changes to the "southamerica" file based on
Argentina's readoption of daylight saving time
Release 2007j - 2007-12-03 09:51:01 -0500
1. eliminate the "P" (parameter) macro;
2. the "noncontroversial" changes circulated on the time zone
mailing list (less the changes to "logwtmp.c");
3. eliminate "too many transition" errors when "min" is used in time
zone rules;
4. changes by Paul Eggert (including updated information for Venezuela).
Release data2007i - 2007-10-30 10:28:11 -0400
changes for Cuba and Syria
Release 2007h - 2007-10-01 10:05:51 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert, as well as an updated link to the ICU
project in tz-link.htm
Release 2007g - 2007-08-20 10:47:59 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
The "leapseconds" file has been updated to incorporate the most
recent International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
(IERS) bulletin.
There's an addition to tz-art.htm regarding the television show "Medium".
Release 2007f - 2007-05-07 10:46:46 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert (including Haiti, Turks and Caicos, and New
Zealand)
changes to zic.c to allow hour values greater than 24 (along with
Paul's improved time value overflow checking)
Release 2007e - 2007-04-02 10:11:52 -0400
Syria and Honduras changes by Paul Eggert
zic.c variable renaming changes by Arthur David Olson
Release 2007d - 2007-03-20 08:48:30 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
the elimination of white space at the ends of lines
Release 2007c - 2007-02-26 09:09:37 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
Release 2007b - 2007-02-12 09:34:20 -0500
Paul Eggert's proposed change to the quotation handling logic in zic.c.
changes to the commentary in "leapseconds" reflecting the IERS
announcement that there is to be no positive leap second at the end
of June 2007.
Release 2007a - 2007-01-08 12:28:29 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
Derick Rethan's Asmara change
Oscar van Vlijmen's Easter Island local mean time change
symbolic link changes
Release 2006p - 2006-11-27 08:54:27 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
Release 2006o - 2006-11-06 09:18:07 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
Release 2006n - 2006-10-10 11:32:06 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
Release 2006m - 2006-10-02 15:32:35 -0400
changes for Uruguay, Palestine, and Egypt by Paul Eggert
(minimalist) changes to zic.8 to clarify "until" information
Release data2006l - 2006-09-18 12:58:11 -0400
Paul's best-effort work on this coming weekend's Egypt time change
Release 2006k - 2006-08-28 12:19:09 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
Release 2006j - 2006-08-21 09:56:32 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
Release code2006i - 2006-08-07 12:30:55 -0400
localtime.c fixes
Ken Pizzini's conversion script
Release code2006h - 2006-07-24 09:19:37 -0400
adds public domain notices to four files
includes a fix for transition times being off by a second
adds a new recording to the "arts" file (information courtesy Colin Bowern)
Release 2006g - 2006-05-08 17:18:09 -0400
northamerica changes by Paul Eggert
Release 2006f - 2006-05-01 11:46:00 -0400
a missing version number problem is fixed (with thanks to Bradley
White for catching the problem)
Release 2006d - 2006-04-17 14:33:43 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
added new items to tz-arts.htm that were found by Paul
Release 2006c - 2006-04-03 10:09:32 -0400
two sets of data changes by Paul Eggert
a fencepost error fix in zic.c
changes to zic.c and the "europe" file to minimize differences
between output produced by the old 32-bit zic and the new 64-bit
version
Release 2006b - 2006-02-20 10:08:18 -0500
[tz32code2006b + tz64code2006b + tzdata2006b]
64-bit code
All SCCS IDs were bumped to "8.1" for this release.
Release 2006a - 2006-01-30 08:59:31 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert (in particular, Indiana time zone moves)
an addition to the zic manual page to describe how special-case
transitions are handled
Release 2005r - 2005-12-27 09:27:13 -0500
Canadian changes by Paul Eggert
They also add "<pre>" directives to time zone data files and reflect
changes to warning message logic in "zdump.c" (but with calls to
"gettext" kept unbundled at the suggestion of Ken Pizzini).
Release 2005q - 2005-12-13 09:17:09 -0500
Nothing earth-shaking here:
1. Electronic mail addresses have been removed.
2. Casts of the return value of exit have been removed.
3. Casts of the argument of is.* macros have been added.
4. Indentation in one section of zic.c has been fixed.
5. References to dead URLs in the data files have been dealt with.
Release 2005p - 2005-12-05 10:30:53 -0500
"systemv", "tz-link.htm", and "zdump.c" changes
(less the casts of arguments to the is* macros)
Release 2005o - 2005-11-28 10:55:26 -0500
Georgia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Jordan changes by Paul Eggert
zdump.c lint fixes by Arthur David Olson
Release 2005n - 2005-10-03 09:44:09 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert (both the Uruguary changes and the Kyrgyzstan
et al. changes)
Release 2005m - 2005-08-29 12:15:40 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert (with a small tweak to the tz-art change)
a declaration of an unused variable has been removed from zdump.c
Release 2005l - 2005-08-22 12:06:39 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
overflow/underflow checks by Arthur David Olson, minus changes to
the "Theory" file about the pending addition of 64-bit data (I grow
less confident of the changes being accepted with each passing day,
and the changes no longer increase the data files nine-fold--there's
less than a doubling in size by my local Sun's reckoning)
Release 2005k - 2005-07-14 14:14:24 -0400
The "leapseconds" file has been edited to reflect the recently
announced leap second at the end of 2005.
I've also deleted electronic mail addresses from the files as an
anti-spam measure.
Release 2005j - 2005-06-13 14:34:13 -0400
These reflect changes to limit the length of time zone abbreviations
and the characters used in those abbreviations.
There are also changes to handle POSIX-style "quoted" time zone
environment variables.
The changes were circulated on the time zone mailing list; the only
change since then was the removal of a couple of minimum-length of
abbreviation checks.
Release data2005i - 2005-04-21 15:04:16 -0400
changes (most importantly to Nicaragua and Haiti) by Paul Eggert
Release 2005h - 2005-04-04 11:24:47 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
minor changes to Makefile and zdump.c to produce more useful output
when doing a "make typecheck"
Release 2005g - 2005-03-14 10:11:21 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert (a change to current DST rules in Uruguay and
an update to a link to time zone software)
Release 2005f - 2005-03-01 08:45:32 -0500
data and documentation changes by Paul Eggert
Release 2005e - 2005-02-10 15:59:44 -0500
[not summarized]
Release code2005d - 2005-01-31 09:21:47 -0500
make zic complain about links to links if the -v flag is used
have "make public" do more code checking
add an include to "localtime.c" for the benefit of gcc systems
Release 2005c - 2005-01-17 18:36:29 -0500
get better results when mktime runs on a system where time_t is double
changes to the data files (most importantly to Paraguay)
Release 2005b - 2005-01-10 09:19:54 -0500
Get localtime and gmtime working on systems with exotic time_t types.
Update the leap second commentary in the "leapseconds" file.
Release 2005a - 2005-01-01 13:13:44 -0500
[not summarized]
Release code2004i - 2004-12-14 13:42:58 -0500
Deal with systems where time_t is unsigned.
Release code2004h - 2004-12-07 11:40:18 -0500
64-bit-time_t changes
Release 2004g - 2004-11-02 09:06:01 -0500
update to Cuba (taking effect this weekend)
other changes by Paul Eggert
correction of the spelling of Oslo
changed versions of difftime.c and private.h
Release code2004f - 2004-10-21 10:25:22 -0400
Cope with wide-ranging tm_year values.
Release 2004e - 2004-10-11 14:47:21 -0400
Brazil/Argentina/Israel changes by Paul Eggert
changes to tz-link.htm by Paul
one small fix to Makefile
Release 2004d - 2004-09-22 08:27:29 -0400
Avoid overflow problems when TM_YEAR_BASE is added to an integer.
Release 2004c - 2004-08-11 12:06:26 -0400
asctime-related changes
(variants of) some of the documentation changes suggested by Paul Eggert
Release 2004b - 2004-07-19 14:33:35 -0400
data changes by Paul Eggert--most importantly, updates for Argentina
Release 2004a - 2004-05-27 12:00:47 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
Handle DST transitions that occur at the end of a month in some
years but at the start of the following month in other years.
Add a copy of the correspondence that's the basis for claims about
DST in the Navajo Nation.
Release 2003e - 2003-12-15 09:36:47 -0500
changes by Arthur David Olson (primarily code changes)
changes by Paul Eggert (primarily data changes)
minor changes to "Makefile" and "northamerica" (in the latter case,
optimization of the "Toronto" rules)
Release 2003d - 2003-10-06 09:34:44 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
Release 2003c - 2003-09-16 10:47:05 -0400
Fix bad returns in zic.c's inleap function.
Thanks to Bradley White for catching the problem!
Release 2003b - 2003-09-16 07:13:44 -0400
Add a "--version" option (and documentation) to the zic and zdump commands.
changes to overflow/underflow checking in zic
a localtime typo fix.
Update the leapseconds and tz-art.htm files.
Release 2003a - 2003-03-24 09:30:54 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
a few additions and modifications to the tz-art.htm file
Release 2002d - 2002-10-15 13:12:42 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert, less the "Britain (UK)" change in iso3166.tab
There's also a new time zone quote in "tz-art.htm".
Release 2002c - 2002-04-04 11:55:20 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
Change zic.c to avoid creating symlinks to files that don't exist.
Release 2002b - 2002-01-28 12:56:03 -0500
[These change notes are for Release 2002a, which was corrupted.
2002b was a corrected version of 2002a.]
changes by Paul Eggert
Update the "leapseconds" file to note that there'll be no leap
second at the end of June, 2002.
Change "zic.c" to deal with a problem in handling the "Asia/Bishkek" zone.
Change to "difftime.c" to avoid sizeof problems.
Release 2001d - 2001-10-09 13:31:32 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
Release 2001c - 2001-06-05 13:59:55 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert and Andrew Brown
Release 2001b - 2001-04-05 16:44:38 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert (modulo jnorgard's typo fix)
tz-art.htm has been htmlified.
Release 2001a - 2001-03-13 12:57:44 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
An addition to the "leapseconds" file: comments with the text of the
latest IERS leap second notice.
Trailing white space has been removed from data file lines, and
repeated spaces in "Rule Jordan" lines in the "asia" file have been
converted to tabs.
Release 2000h - 2000-12-14 15:33:38 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
one typo fix in the "art" file
With providence, this is the last update of the millenium.
Release 2000g - 2000-10-10 11:35:22 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
correction of John Mackin's name submitted by Robert Elz
Garry Shandling's Daylight Saving Time joke (!?!) from the recent
Emmy Awards broadcast.
Release 2000f - 2000-08-10 09:31:58 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
Added information in "tz-art.htm" on a Seinfeld reference to DST.
Error checking and messages in the "yearistype" script have been
improved.
Release 2000e - 2000-07-31 09:27:54 -0400
data changes by Paul Eggert
a change to the default value of the defined constant HAVE_STRERROR
the addition of a Dave Barry quote on DST to the tz-arts file
Release 2000d - 2000-04-20 15:43:04 -0400
changes to the documentation and code of strftime for C99 conformance
a bug fix for date.c
These are based on (though modified from) changes by Paul Eggert.
Release 2000c - 2000-03-04 10:31:43 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
Release 2000b - 2000-02-21 12:16:29 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert and Joseph Myers
modest tweaks to the tz-art.htm and tz-link.htm files
Release 2000a - 2000-01-18 09:21:26 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
The two hypertext documents have also been renamed.
Release code1999i-data1999j - 1999-11-15 18:43:22 -0500
Paul Eggert's changes
additions to the "zic" manual page and the "Arts.htm" file
Release code1999h-data1999i - 1999-11-08 14:55:21 -0500
[not summarized]
Release data1999h - 1999-10-07 03:50:29 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert to "europe" (most importantly, fixing
Lithuania and Estonia)
Release 1999g - 1999-09-28 11:06:18 -0400
data changes by Paul Eggert (most importantly, the change for
Lebanon that buys correctness for this coming Sunday)
The "code" file contains changes to "Makefile" and "checktab.awk" to
allow better checking of time zone files before they are published.
Release 1999f - 1999-09-23 09:48:14 -0400
changes by Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert
Release 1999e - 1999-08-17 15:20:54 -0400
changes circulated by Paul Eggert, although the change to handling
of DST-specifying time zone names has been commented out for now
(search for "XXX" in "localtime.c" for details). These files also
do not make any changes to the start of DST in Brazil.
In addition to Paul's changes, there are updates to "Arts.htm" and
cleanups of URLs.
Release 1999d - 1999-03-30 11:31:07 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
The Makefile's "make public" rule has also been changed to do a test
compile of each individual time zone data file (which should help
avoid problems such as the one we had with Nicosia).
Release 1999c - 1999-03-25 09:47:47 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert, most importantly the change for Chile.
Release 1999b - 1999-02-01 17:51:44 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
code changes (suggested by Mani Varadarajan, mani at be.com) for
correct handling of symbolic links when building using a relative directory
code changes to generate correct messages for failed links
updates to the URLs in Arts.htm
Release 1999a - 1999-01-19 16:20:29 -0500
error message internationalizations and corrections in zic.c and
zdump.c (as suggested by Vladimir Michl, vladimir.michl at upol.cz,
to whom thanks!)
Release code1998h-data1998i - 1998-10-01 09:56:10 -0400
changes for Brazil, Chile, and Germany
support for use of "24:00" in the input files for the time zone compiler
Release code1998g-data1998h - 1998-09-24 10:50:28 -0400
changes by Paul Eggert
correction to a define in the "private.h" file
Release data1998g - 1998-08-11 03:28:35 -0000
[tzdata1998g.tar.gz is missing!]
Lithuanian change provided by mgedmin at pub.osf.it
Move creation of the GMT link with Etc/GMT to "etcetera" (from
"backward") to ensure that the GMT file is created even where folks
don't want the "backward" links (as suggested by Paul Eggert).
Release data1998f - 1998-07-20 13:50:00 -0000
[tzdata1998f.tar.gz is missing!]
Update the "leapseconds" file to include the newly-announced
insertion at the end of 1998.
Release code1998f - 1998-06-01 10:18:31 -0400
addition to localtime.c by Guy Harris
Release 1998e - 1998-05-28 09:56:26 -0400
The Makefile is changed to produce zoneinfo-posix rather than
zoneinfo/posix, and to produce zoneinfo-leaps rather than
zoneinfo/right.
data changes by Paul Eggert
changes from Guy Harris to provide asctime_r and ctime_r
A usno1998 file (substantially identical to usno1997) has been added.
Release 1998d - 1998-05-14 11:58:34 -0400
changes to comments (in particular, elimination of references to CIA maps).
"Arts.htm", "WWW.htm", "asia", and "australasia" are the only places
where changes occur.
Release 1998c - 1998-02-28 12:32:26 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert (save the "French correction," on which I'll
wait for the dust to settle)
symlink changes
changes and additions to Arts.htm
Release 1998b - 1998-01-17 14:31:51 -0500
URL cleanups and additions
Release 1998a - 1998-01-13 12:37:35 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert
Release code1997i-data1997k - 1997-12-29 09:53:41 -0500
changes by Paul Eggert, with minor modifications from Arthur David
Olson to make the files more browser friendly
Release code1997h-data1997j - 1997-12-18 17:47:35 -0500
minor changes to put "TZif" at the start of each time zone information file
a rule has also been added to the Makefile so you can
make zones
to just recompile the zone information files (rather than doing a
full "make install" with its other effects).
Release data1997i - 1997-10-07 08:45:38 -0400
changes to Africa by Paul Eggert
Release code1997g-data1997h - 1997-09-04 16:56:54 -0400
corrections for Uruguay (and other locations)
Arthur David Olson's simple-minded fix allowing mktime to both
correctly handle leap seconds and correctly handle tm_sec values
upon which arithmetic has been performed.
Release code1997f-data1997g - 1997-07-19 13:15:02 -0400
Paul Eggert's updates
a small change to a function prototype;
"Music" has been renamed "Arts.htm", htmlified, and augmented to
include information on Around the World in Eighty Days.
Release code1997e-data1997f - 1997-05-03 18:52:34 -0400
fixes to zic's error handling
changes inspired by the item circulated on Slovenia
The description of Web resources has been htmlified for browsing
convenience.
A new piece of tz-related music has been added to the "Music" file.
Release code1997d-data1997e - 1997-03-29 12:48:52 -0500
Paul Eggert's latest suggestions
Release code1997c-data1997d - 1997-03-07 20:37:54 -0500
changes to "zic.c" to correct performance of the "-s" option
a new file "usno1997"
Release data1997c - 1997-03-04 09:58:18 -0500
changes in Israel
Release 1997b - 1997-02-27 18:34:19 -0500
The data file incorporates the 1997 leap second.
The code file incorporates Arthur David Olson's take on the
zic/multiprocessor/directory-creation situation.
Release 1997a - 1997-01-21 09:11:10 -0500
Paul Eggert's Antarctica (and other changes)
Arthur David Olson finessed the "getopt" issue by checking against
both -1 and EOF (regardless of POSIX, SunOS 4.1.1's manual says -1
is returned while SunOS 5.5's manual says EOF is returned).
Release code1996o-data1996n - 1996-12-27 21:42:05 -0500
Paul Eggert's latest changes
Release code1996n - 1996-12-16 09:42:02 -0500
link snapping fix from Bruce Evans (via Garrett Wollman)
Release data1996m - 1996-11-24 02:37:34 -0000
[tzdata1996m.tar.gz is missing!]
Paul Eggert's batch of changes
Release code1996m-data1996l - 1996-11-05 14:00:12 -0500
No functional changes here; the files have simply been changed to
make more use of ISO style dates in comments. The names of the above
files now include the year in full.
Release code96l - 1996-09-08 17:12:20 -0400
tzcode96k was missing a couple of pieces.
Release 96k - 1996-09-08 16:06:22 -0400
the latest round of changes from Paul Eggert
the recent Year 2000 material
Release code96j - 1996-07-30 13:18:53 -0400
Set sp->typecnt as suggested by Timothy Patrick Murphy.
Release code96i - 1996-07-27 20:11:35 -0400
Paul's suggested patch for strftime %V week numbers
Release data96i - 1996-07-01 18:13:04 -0400
"northamerica" and "europe" changes by Paul Eggert
Release code96h - 1996-06-05 08:02:21 -0400
fix for handling transitions specified in Universal Time
Some "public domain" notices have also been added.
Release code96g - 1996-05-16 14:00:26 -0400
fix for the simultaneous-DST-and-zone-change challenge
Release data96h - 1996-05-09 17:40:51-0400
changes by Paul Eggert
Release code96f-data96g - 1996-05-03 03:09:59 -0000
[tzcode96f.tar.gz + tzdata96g.tar.gz are both missing!]
The changes get us some of the way to fixing the problems noted in Paul
Eggert's letter yesterday (in addition to a few others). The approach
has been to make zic a bit smarter about figuring out what time zone
abbreviations apply just after the time specified in the "UNTIL" part
of a zone line. Putting the smarts in zic means avoiding having
transition times show up in both "Zone" lines and "Rule" lines, which
in turn avoids multiple transition time entries in time zone files.
(This also makes the zic input files such as "europe" a bit shorter and
should ease maintenance.)
Release data96f - 1996-04-19 19:20:03 -0000
[tzdata96f.tar.gz is missing!]
The only changes are to the "northamerica" file; the time zone
abbreviation for Denver is corrected to MST (and MDT), and the
comments for Mexico have been updated.
Release data96e - 1996-03-19 17:37:26 -0500
Proposals by Paul Eggert, in particular the Portugal change that
comes into play at the end of this month.
Release data96d - 1996-03-18 20:49:39 -0500
[not summarized]
Release code96e - 1996-02-29 15:43:27 -0000
[tzcode96e.tar.gz is missing!]
internationalization changes and the fix to the documentation for strftime
Release code96d-data96c - 1996-02-12 11:05:27 -0500
The "code" file simply updates Bob Kridle's electronic address.
The "data" file updates rules for Mexico.
Release data96b - 1996-01-27 15:44:42 -0500
Kiribati change
Release code96c - 1996-01-16 16:58:15-0500
leap-year streamlining and binary-search changes
fix to newctime.3
Release code96b - 1996-01-10 20:42:39 -0500
fixes and enhancements from Paul Eggert, including code that
emulates the behavior of recent versions of the SunOS "date"
command.
Release 96a - 1996-01-06 09:08:24 -0500
Israel updates
fixes to strftime.c for correct ISO 8601 week number generation,
plus support for two new formats ('G' and 'g') to give ISO 8601 year
numbers (which are not necessarily the same as calendar year numbers)
Release code95i-data95m - 1995-12-21 12:46:47 -0500
The latest revisions from Paul Eggert are included, the usno1995
file has been updated, and a new file ("WWW") covering useful URLs
has been added.
Release code95h-data95l - 1995-12-19 18:10:12 -0500
A simplification of a macro definition, a change to data for Sudan,
and (for last minute shoppers) notes in the "Music" file on the CD
"Old Man Time".
Release code95g-data95k - 1995-10-30 10:32:47 -0500
(slightly reformatted) 8-bit-clean proposed patch
minor patch: US/Eastern -> America/New_York
snapshot of the USNO's latest data ("usno1995")
some other minor cleanups
Release code95f-data95j - 1995-10-28 21:01:34 -0000
[tzcode95f.tar.gz + tzdata95j.tar.gz are both missing!]
European cleanups
support for 64-bit time_t's
optimization in localtime.c
Release code95e - 1995-10-13 13:23:57 -0400
the mktime change to scan from future to past when trying to find time zone
offsets
Release data95i - 1995-09-26 10:43:26 -0400
For Canada/Central, guess that the Sun customer's ``one week too
early'' was just a approximation, and the true error is one month
too early. This is consistent with the rest of Canada.
Release data95h - 1995-09-21 11:26:48 -0400
latest changes from Paul Eggert
Release code95d - 1995-09-14 11:14:45 -0400
the addition of a "Music" file, which documents four recorded
versions of the tune "Save That Time".
Release data95g - 1995-09-01 17:21:36 -0400
"yearistype" correction
Release data95f - 1995-08-28 20:46:56 -0400
Paul Eggert's change to the australasia file
Release data95e - 1995-07-08 18:02:34 -0400
The only change is a leap second at the end of this year.
Thanks to Bradley White for forwarding news on the leap second.
Release data95d - 1995-07-03 13:26:22 -0400
Paul Eggert's changes
Release data95c - 1995-07-02 19:19:28 -0400
changes to "asia", "backward", "europe", and "southamerica"
(read: northamericacentrics need not apply)
Release code95c - 1995-03-13 14:00:46 -0500
one-line fix for sign extension problems in detzcode
Release 95b - 1995-03-04 11:22:38 -0500
Minor changes in both:
The "code" file contains a workaround for the lack of "unistd.h" in
Microsoft C++ version 7.
The "data" file contains a fixed "Link" for America/Shiprock.
Release 94h - 1994-12-10 12:51:14 -0500
The files:
* incorporate the changes to "zdump" and "date" to make changes to
the "TZ" environment variable permanent;
* incorporate the table changes by Paul Eggert;
* include (and document) support for universal time specifications in
data files--but do not (yet) include use of this feature in the
data files.
Think of this as "TZ Classic"--the software has been set up not to break if
universal time shows up in its input, and the data has been left as is so as
not to break existing implementations.
Release data94f - 1994-08-20 12:56:09 -0400
(with thanks!) the latest data updates from Paul Eggert
Release data94e - 1994-06-04 13:13:53 -0400
[not summarized]
Release code94g - 1994-05-05 12:14:07 -0400
fix missing "optind.c" and a reference to it in the Makefile
Release code94f - 1994-05-05 13:00:33 -0000
[tzcode94f.tar.gz is missing!]
changes to avoid overflow in difftime, as well as changes to cope
with the 52/53 challenge in strftime
Release code94e - 1994-03-30 23:32:59 -0500
change for the benefit of PCTS
Release 94d - 1994-02-24 15:42:25 -0500
Avoid clashes with POSIX semantics for zones such as GMT+4.
Some other very minor housekeeping is also present.
Release code94c - 1994-02-10 08:52:40 -0500
Fix bug where mkdirs was broken unless you compile with
-fwritable-strings (which is generally losing to do).
Release 94b - 1994-02-07 10:04:33 -0500
work by Paul Eggert who notes:
I found another book of time zone histories by E W Whitman; it's not
as extensive as Shanks but has a few goodies of its own. I used it
to update the tables. I also fixed some more as a result of
correspondence with Adam David and Peter Ilieve, and move some stray
links from `europe' to `backward'. I corrected some scanning errors
in usno1989.
As far as the code goes, I fixed zic to allow years in the range
INT_MIN to INT_MAX; this fixed a few boundary conditions around 1900.
And I cleaned up the zic documentation a little bit.
Release data94a - 1994-02-03 08:58:54 -0500
It simply incorporates the recently announced leap second into the
"leapseconds" file.
Release 93g - 1993-11-22 17:28:27 -0500
Paul Eggert has provided a good deal of historic information (based
on Shanks), and there are some code changes to deal with the buglets
that crawled out in dealing with the new information.
Release 93f - 1993-10-15 12:27:46 -0400
Paul Eggert's changes
Release 93e - 1993-09-05 21:21:44 -0400
There's updated data for Israel, England, and Kwajalein; there's
also an update to "zdump" to cope with Kwajalein's 24-hour jump.
Thanks to Paul Eggert and Peter Ilieve for the changes.
Release 93d - 1993-06-17 23:34:17 -0400
new fix and new data on Israel
Release 93c - 1993-06-06 19:31:55 -0400
[not summarized]
Release 93b - 1993-02-02 14:53:58 -0500
updated "leapseconds" file
Release 93 - 1993-01-08 07:01:06 -0500
At kre's suggestion, the package has been split in two--a code piece
(which also includes documentation) that's only of use to folks who
want to recompile things and a data piece useful to anyone who can
run "zic".
The new version has a few changes to the data files, a few
portability changes, and an off-by-one fix (with thanks to
Tom-Karzes at deshaw.com for providing a description and a
solution).
Release 92c - 1992-11-21 17:35:36 -0000
[tz92c.tar.Z is missing!]
The fallout from the latest round of DST transitions.
There are changes for Portugal, Saskatchewan, and "Pacific-New";
there's also a change to "zic.c" that makes it portable to more systems.
Release 92 - 1992-04-25 18:17:03 -0000
[tz92.tar.Z is missing!]
By popular demand (well, at any rate, following a request by kre at munnari)
The 1989 update of the time zone package featured:
* POSIXization (including interpretation of POSIX-style TZ environment
variables, provided by Guy Harris),
* ANSIfication (including versions of "mktime" and "difftime"),
* SVIDulation (an "altzone" variable)
* MACHination (the "gtime" function)
* corrections to some time zone data (including corrections to the rules
for Great Britain and New Zealand)
* reference data from the United States Naval Observatory for folks who
want to do additional time zones
* and the 1989 data for Saudi Arabia.
(Since this code will be treated as "part of the implementation" in some
places and as "part of the application" in others, there's no good way to
name functions, such as timegm, that are not part of the proposed ANSI C
standard; such functions have kept their old, underscore-free names in this
update.)
And the "dysize" function has disappeared; it was present to allow
compilation of the "date" command on old BSD systems, and a version of "date"
is now provided in the package. The "date" command is not created when you
"make all" since it may lack options provided by the version distributed with
your operating system, or may not interact with the system in the same way
the native version does.
Since POSIX frowns on correct leap second handling, the default behavior of
the "zic" command (in the absence of a "-L" option) has been changed to omit
leap second information from its output files.
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Notes
This file contains copies of the part of each release announcement
that talks about the changes in that release. The text has been
adapted and reformatted for the purposes of this file.
Typically a release R consists of a pair of tarball files,
tzcodeR.tar.gz and tzdataR.tar.gz. However, some releases (e.g.,
code2010a, data2012c) consist of just one or the other tarball, and a
few (e.g., code2012c-data2012d) have tarballs with mixed version
numbers.
Release time stamps are taken from the release's commit (for newer,
git releases), from the newest file in the tarball (for older
releases, where this info is available) or from the email announcing
the release (if all else fails; these are marked with a timezone of
-0000 and an "is missing!" comment).
Earlier versions of the code and data were not announced on the tz
list and are not summarized here.
This file is in the public domain.