Update to tzdata2015g:
Turkey's 2015 fall-back transition is scheduled for Nov. 8, not Oct. 25.
Norfolk moves from +1130 to +1100 on 2015-10-04 at 02:00 local time.
Fiji's 2016 fall-back transition is scheduled for January 17, not 24.
Fort Nelson, British Columbia will not fall back on 2015-11-01. It has
effectively been on MST (-0700) since it advanced its clocks on 2015-03-08.
New zone America/Fort_Nelson.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Update to tzdata2015f:
Changes affecting future time stamps
North Korea switches to +0830 on 2015-08-15. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
The abbreviation remains "KST". (Thanks to Robert Elz.)
Uruguay no longer observes DST. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen and Pablo Camargo.)
Changes affecting past and future time stamps
Moldova starts and ends DST at 00:00 UTC, not at 01:00 UTC. (Thanks to Roman Tudos.)
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Update to tzdata2015e:
Changes affecting future time stamps
Morocco will suspend DST from 2015-06-14 03:00 through 2015-07-19 02:00,
not 06-13 and 07-18 as we had guessed. (Thanks to Milamber.)
Assume Cayman Islands will observe DST starting next year, using US rules.
Although it isn't guaranteed, it is the most likely.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Update to tzdata2015d:
Release 2015d - 2015-04-24 08:09:46 -0700
Changes affecting future time stamps
Egypt will not observe DST in 2015 and will consider canceling it
permanently. For now, assume no DST indefinitely.
(Thanks to Ahmed Nazmy and Tim Parenti.)
Change affecting past and future time zone abbreviations
The abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian standard and daylight times
have been changed from HAST/HADT to HST/HDT, as per US Government
Printing Office style. This affects only America/Adak since 1983,
as America/Honolulu was already using the new style.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Update to tzdata2015c:
Release 2015c - 2015-04-11 08:55:55 -0700
Changes affecting future time stamps
Egypt's spring-forward transition is at 24:00 on April's last Thursday,
not 00:00 on April's last Friday. 2015's transition will therefore be on
Thursday, April 30 at 24:00, not Friday, April 24 at 00:00. Similar fixes
apply to 2026, 2037, 2043, etc. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Release 2015b - 2015-03-19 23:28:11 -0700
Changes affecting future time stamps
Mongolia will start observing DST again this year, from the last
Saturday in March at 02:00 to the last Saturday in September at 00:00.
(Thanks to Ganbold Tsagaankhuu.)
Palestine will start DST on March 28, not March 27. Also,
correct the fall 2014 transition from September 26 to October 24.
Adjust future predictions accordingly. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Changes affecting past time stamps
The 1982 zone shift in Pacific/Easter has been corrected, fixing a 2015a
regression. (Thanks to Stuart Bishop for reporting the problem.)
Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed
from existing zones only for older time stamps. As usual,
these changes affect UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only.
Their old contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file.
The affected zones are: America/Antigua, America/Cayman,
Pacific/Midway, and Pacific/Saipan.
Changes affecting time zone abbreviations
Correct the 1992-2010 DST abbreviation in Volgograd from "MSK" to "MSD".
(Thanks to Hank W.)
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
hanges affecting future time stamps
The Mexican state of Quintana Roo, represented by America/Cancun,
will shift from Central Time with DST to Eastern Time without DST
on 2015-02-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen and Gwillim Law.)
Chile will not change clocks in April or thereafter; its new standard time
will be its old daylight saving time. This affects America/Santiago,
Pacific/Easter, and Antarctica/Palmer. (Thanks to Juan Correa.)
New leap second 2015-06-30 23:59:60 UTC as per IERS Bulletin C 49.
(Thanks to Tim Parenti.)
Changes affecting past time stamps
Iceland observed DST in 1919 and 1921, and its 1939 fallback
transition was Oct. 29, not Nov. 29. Remove incorrect data from
Shanks about time in Iceland between 1837 and 1908.
Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed
from existing zones only for older time stamps. As usual,
these changes affect UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only.
Their old contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file.
The affected zones are: Asia/Aden, Asia/Bahrain, Asia/Kuwait,
and Asia/Muscat.
Release 2014j - 2014-11-10 17:37:11 -0800
Changes affecting current and future time stamps
Turks & Caicos' switch from US eastern time to UTC-4 year-round
did not occur on 2014-11-02 at 02:00. It's currently scheduled
for 2015-11-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Chris Walton.)
Changes affecting past time stamps
Many pre-1989 time stamps have been corrected for Asia/Seoul and
Asia/Pyongyang, based on sources for the Korean-language Wikipedia
entry for time in Korea. (Thanks to Sanghyuk Jung.) Also, no
longer guess that Pyongyang mimicked Seoul time after World War II,
as this is politically implausible.
Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed
from existing zones only for older time stamps. As usual,
these changes affect UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only.
Their old contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file.
The affected zones are: Africa/Addis_Ababa, Africa/Asmara,
Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, Africa/Djibouti, Africa/Kampala,
Africa/Mogadishu, Indian/Antananarivo, Indian/Comoro, and
Indian/Mayotte.
Changes affecting commentary
The commentary is less enthusiastic about Shanks as a source,
and is more careful to distinguish UT from UTC.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Lots of historical data
Pacific/Fiji will go into DST from 2014-11-02 to 2015-01-18
Pacific/Bougainville will go from UTC+10 to UTC+11.
Europe/Minsk will go from FET to MSK.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
- Russia time zone changes.
- New zones: Asia/Chita and Asia/Srednekolymsk.
- Lots of changes wrt. time zone abbreviations and historical data.
- New zone tab data format.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Fix historical data for Egypt.
Better prediction for future Egypt / Morocco changes.
Update to Cocos / Cook islands.
Fix historical data for Russia.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
- Update antartica.
- Comments about historical data for Hawaii.
- Update details for Crimea on 30 March
- Move location data Simferopol.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
- Fix historical info about asia/Zion, Ukraine
- Fiji starts DST at 02:00 instead of 03:00
- Turkey will move to DST at 31 March this year.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Removed support for solar-time-based time zones
Jordan stays at summer time this year.
Fix historical data for Cuba
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
- Libya didn't go back to DST.
- Fix Morocco 2038 issue.
- Brazil/Acre and ?Western Amazonas are chaning timezones.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Jordan goes to winter time on the last Friday in October.
Tocantins in Brazil will not go into summer time in October.
Indonesian time zones renames.
Lots of cleanups in with regarding to links and historical data.
- Morocco:
announced that the year's Ramadan daylight-savings transitions
would be 2013-07-07 and 2013-08-10.
- Israel:
As of 2013, DST starts at 02:00 on the Friday before the last
Sunday in March. DST ends at 02:00 on the first Sunday after
October 1, unless it occurs on the second day of the Jewish Rosh
Hashana holiday, in which case DST ends a day later (i.e. at 02:00
the first Monday after October 2). [Rosh Hashana holidays are
factored in until 2100.]
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
- antarctica: AusAQ and ATAQ have been removed.
- Antarctica/Macquarie has been moved to australasia file and AU.
- Asia/Hebron, Palestine updated for 2013.
- Paraguay stays with DST for the whole year.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Lots of historical data added.
Morocco: add DST rules for the coming years
Cuba: Doing DST in 2013.
Chili: Will do DST in 2013 as it seems.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
- Bahia no longer has DST.
- Tocantins has DST.
- Israel has new DST rules next year.
- Jordan stays on DST this winter.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/release
- Fix end of DST in Gaza and Hebron
- Western Samoa: DST start at 30 Septembet 2012 and finished at 7 April 2013.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
- Pacific/Fiji will go into DST from 21 October 2012 till 20 January 2013.
- Fix offset for Pacific/Tokelau.
- Gaza and West Bank had DST from 29 March to 28 September 2012.
- Syria has DST from April till October
- Morocco had DST from April to September 2012 except for 20 July to 20 August.
- Cuba changed to DST from 1 April 2012 only.
- Haiti has DST between 8 March and 1 November in 2012.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Update to 2012a
- Updates to various locations in Antarctica.
- Armenia will abolish DST this year.
- Not only Samoa has moved to UTC+14, also Fakaofo did.
- There will be a leap second in 30 June 2012.
- Historical updates of 1918 to Canada, Winn, Regina, Edm, Vanc, Creston.
- Chili stays on DST until 28 April 2012
- The Falkland islands will stay on DST this year.
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
- Fiji will end DST on 22 January 2012.
- Moldova split into two timezones has been cancelled.
- Cuba will end DST on 13 November 2011
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
Europe:
- Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR, also known as
"Pridnestrovie") has abolished seasonal clock change (no transition
to the Winter Time).
- The recent change to the Ukranian time zone (Europe/Kiev) to
introduce permanent daylight saving time (similar to Russia) was
reverted.
South America:
- Bahia: The President signed a decree that includes Bahia in summer
time.
zone.tab:
- Add Europe/Tiraspol Pridnestrovie
Obtained from: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/
