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.)
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.
Upgrade to 2014i
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.
- 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.
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/
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- 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.
tzdata2013h
- Libya didn't go back to DST.
- Fix Morocco 2038 issue.
- Brazil/Acre and Western Amazonas are chaning timezones.
- 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.]
- 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.
- 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/
- 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.
- 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/
Changes in 2011i:
Africa
- Added South Sudan: Africa/Juba
Australasia:
- Samoa will go forward 24 hours at 30 December 2011 to better match
the day of the week with its neighbours.
Europe:
- Europe/Kaliningrad will have the timezone KALT.
North America:
- Updates to Metlakatla historical data
- Newfoundland, Labrador and Resolute will do something which I
can't figure out.
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- Add SS for South Sudan.
Changes in 2011j:
- Samoa will go from 29 December 23:59:59 to 31 December 00:00:00.
- Samoa DST will end on 1 April 2012
Changes in 2011k:
- Gaza / West Bank goes back to standard time on 02 August 2011.
- West Bank went bac kto DST on 30 August 2011.
- Lots of changes in Minsk (GMT+3 without DST) and other Russian
regions. A new timezone has been created for them, FET: Further-eastern
European Time aka GMT+3.
- Add Asian/Hebron to the zone.tab file.
Changes in 2011l:
- West Bank came out of DST on 30 September 2011.
- Fiji will g oin DST on 23 October and out of it on 26 Februari
- State Bahia might go back to DST in 16 October 2011
Due to legal problems, ado and Paul Eggert have to temporary suspend
their work on the timezone database
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4133). Their work has
been continued by volunteers on the tz community and the hosting
of the data files is done by Robert Elz at ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/.
Obtained from: ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub, ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
- Pacific/Apia will have DST on 2 April instead of 3 April in 2011.
- Turkye will go to DST on 28 April instead of 27 April in 2011.
- Cuba will go to DST on 20 April in 2011.
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
- Daylight Saving Time will not be used in Egypt during Ramadan.
- Proper names for Pacific/Pohnpei and Pacific/Chuuk
- Fix historical information for Finland for 1981 and 1982
- No leap-second for December 2010.
- Fix historical information for Ontario (Canada)
The Australian Antartic Division:
- Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and not switch back from DST.
- Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010.
- Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010
- Mawson station stays on UTC+5.
Syria will start DST on Thursday 1 April 2010 at midnight.
Correct Samao DST start date (26 Sep vs 24 Oct)
- Adjust beginning / end of DST in Bangladesh (minimal impact)
- Fiji ends DST one month earlier to last Sunday of March
- Samoa changes
- Chile extends DST until 3 April this year.
