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/
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.
iso3166tab;
- 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/
- No leapsecond in June 2011
- Add and update timezones for America/Juneau, America/Sitka,
America/Metlakatla
- Change of Summer time to Winter time in Chili happens in April
2011, not in March 2011.
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
- Daylight Saving Time will not be used in Egypt during Ramadan this year.
- 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)
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
- Bahia de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit) changed time zone
UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to share the same
time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco).
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for
northern Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving
schedule as the United States.
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
- 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
- Asia/Katmandu -> Asia/Kathmandu
- Fix historical references to DST in Switzerland
- Correct rules for America/Resolute (Nunavut)
- Cuba didn't have DST in 2005.
- 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
