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
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
