Timezone data changes in the following locations:
- Egypt (push possible DST ending one year ahead)
- Iran gets DST again in 2008.
- Palestine DST time for this year fixed.
- Brasils DST rule change in 2008
- Venezuela time moves half an hour back at the end of this year.
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
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
commentary and to "Link" directives, but the latter should fix
reported problems with clean installs (by no longer installing those
links).
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2005m.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
Current or prospective timestamps: Georgia, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil
Historial timestamps and/or commentary: Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore,
Peru, Russua, Israel, United States, Canada
Changes in Argentina and Brazil have created several new time zone regions.
Users are encouraged to rerun tzsetup(8), even if current times appear
correct, to ensure that future times will be interepreted correctly.
Obtained from: Arthur Olson, ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2004e.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>