- Fix coordinates of Africa/Gaborone, Pacific/Noumea, Pacific/Tongatapu,
Europe/Vatican
- Fix URLs (=3D -> = etc)
- Jordan doesn't go at last Friday of March 00:00 but no last
Thursday of March 24:00
- Specifically state license for the data: public domain
MFC after: 1 week
- Mauritius will have a DST experiment between 2008-11-01 and 2009-03-31.
- Add/Fix historical data for C-Eur, the SovietZone, Germany,
Bahamas, San Luis.
- Add information about West Para (America/Santarem)
- America/Eirunepe and America/Rio_Branco go to UTC-4
Approved by: bde (mentor, implicit), des
MFC after: 1 week
Timezone data changes in the following locations:
- Egypt
- Australia (new DST rules for 2008 and following)
- Perry County, Indiana
- America/Indiana/Tell_City
- Pike County, Indiana
Also:
- City coordinates corrected.
- Layout of leapseconds is updated
PR: conf/115706
Approved by: re (bmah@)
Timezone data changes in the following locations:
Antarctica
Bahamas
Chile (past timestamps only)
Cuba
Eritrea (Africa/Asmara renamed to Africa/Asmera)
Haiti
Honduras
Indonesia (past timestamps only)
Mongolia
New Zealand (future timestamps only)
Nunavut
Pulaski County, Indiana
Syria
Turkey
Turks & Caicos
Western Australia
Also: some city coordinates corrected.
PR: conf/109418
Updates to historic rules only for: part of Alaska, Algeria, Bulgaria,
Colombia, Easter Island, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Montserrat,
Puerto Rico, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, part of North Dakota,
United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan
Updates to current and future rules for: Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras,
part of Indiana, Iran, Nicaragua, Palestinian Territories, Sri Lanka,
Tunisia,
Updates to future rules only for: Canada, Thule AFB in Greenland
particular importance to those living in the Western Hemisphere as
many non-U.S. zones will be changing DST rules next year to match the
U.S.
Obtained from: Arthur David Olson, ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/
2005 when another one comes out. This one, even ADO hopes will be the
last of the year.
Obtained from: Arthur Olson, ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2005r.tar.gz
Changes to historical dates in: Azerbaijan, B.I.O.T., China, Denmark,
Libya, and Poland.
Changes to current dates in: East Timor, Haiti, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Nicaragua, Paraguay, Samoa, Tunisia, Uruguay
Changes to future dates in: Australia, Iran, United States
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2005l.tar.gz
to the following locations:
Antarctica
Australia (additional historical comments)
Bangladesh (new spelling of Dhaka)
Brazil (multiple changes; America/Porto_Acre renamed America/Rio_Branco)
CNMI
Canada
Chile
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Falkland Islands
Fiji
France (additional history)
Guam
Israel (additional historical comments)
Latvia
Mexico
Moldova (Europe/Tiraspol removed)
Netherlands (additional history)
Paraguay
Philippines (additional history)
Tonga
United States (additional historical comments)
Obtained from: Arthur Olson; <ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2001b.tar.gz>
Correct the date on which DST begins in Victoria and New South Wales
in the year 2000: as the result of some local function in Sydney, DST
will begin on Sunday, 27 August instead of Sunday, 29 Cotober.
This change had already been made, but the date was incorrectly
specified as (Saturday) 26 August.
Submitted by: Howard Lowndes <lannet@lannet.com.au>
of important changes to European and South and Central American countries
which should be back-ported to 3.x.
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1999a.tar.gz
now identical with the distributed versions, which may cause some
abbreviations to change for people in obscure zones. (The abbreviations
can be changed again if need be.) It also changes the abbreviation
of Central European Time to `CET' from its previous value of `MET'
(a curious German-English hybrid). Finally, we have finally rid
ourselves of those nasty ZONE-DESCR comments, which were a maintenance
nightmare, in favor of the new zone.tab file. We are not using the
distribution's iso3166.tab file because we have our own list.
Obtained from: Arthur David Olson; ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov
