The 2016g release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects the
following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list
or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes:
Changes to future time stamps
Turkey switched from EET/EEST (+02/+03) to permanent +03,
effective 2016-09-07. (Thanks to Burak AYDIN.) Use "+03" rather
than an invented abbreviation for the new time.
New leap second 2016-12-31 23:59:60 UTC as per IERS Bulletin C 52.
(Thanks to Tim Parenti.)
Changes to past time stamps
For America/Los_Angeles, spring-forward transition times have been
corrected from 02:00 to 02:01 in 1948, and from 02:00 to 01:00 in
1950-1966.
For zones using Soviet time on 1919-07-01, transitions to UT-based
time were at 00:00 UT, not at 02:00 local time. The affected
zones are Europe/Kirov, Europe/Moscow, Europe/Samara, and
Europe/Ulyanovsk. (Thanks to Alexander Belopolsky.)
Changes to past and future time zone abbreviations
The Factory zone now uses the time zone abbreviation -00 instead
of a long English-language string, as -00 is now the normal way to
represent an undefined time zone.
Several zones in Antarctica and the former Soviet Union, along
with zones intended for ships at sea that cannot use POSIX TZ
strings, now use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of
invented or obsolete alphanumeric abbreviations. The affected
zones are Antarctica/Casey, Antarctica/Davis,
Antarctica/DumontDUrville, Antarctica/Mawson, Antarctica/Rothera,
Antarctica/Syowa, Antarctica/Troll, Antarctica/Vostok,
Asia/Anadyr, Asia/Ashgabat, Asia/Baku, Asia/Bishkek, Asia/Chita,
Asia/Dushanbe, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Kamchatka, Asia/Khandyga,
Asia/Krasnoyarsk, Asia/Magadan, Asia/Omsk, Asia/Sakhalin,
Asia/Samarkand, Asia/Srednekolymsk, Asia/Tashkent, Asia/Tbilisi,
Asia/Ust-Nera, Asia/Vladivostok, Asia/Yakutsk, Asia/Yekaterinburg,
Asia/Yerevan, Etc/GMT-14, Etc/GMT-13, Etc/GMT-12, Etc/GMT-11,
Etc/GMT-10, Etc/GMT-9, Etc/GMT-8, Etc/GMT-7, Etc/GMT-6, Etc/GMT-5,
Etc/GMT-4, Etc/GMT-3, Etc/GMT-2, Etc/GMT-1, Etc/GMT+1, Etc/GMT+2,
Etc/GMT+3, Etc/GMT+4, Etc/GMT+5, Etc/GMT+6, Etc/GMT+7, Etc/GMT+8,
Etc/GMT+9, Etc/GMT+10, Etc/GMT+11, Etc/GMT+12, Europe/Kaliningrad,
Europe/Minsk, Europe/Samara, Europe/Volgograd, and
Indian/Kerguelen. For Europe/Moscow the invented abbreviation MSM
was replaced by +05, whereas MSK and MSD were kept as they are not
our invention and are widely used.
Changes to zone names
Rename Asia/Rangoon to Asia/Yangon, with a backward compatibility link.
(Thanks to David Massoud.)
Test: Ran CTS modules CtsLibcoreTestCases and CtsBionicTestCases.
Bug: 31848040
Change-Id: I1e652ce2e428d44ba143e4ca9630fd2dc46087e4
The 2016f release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects the
following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list
or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes:
Changes affecting future time stamps
The Egyptian government changed its mind on short notice, and
Africa/Cairo will not introduce DST starting 2016-07-07 after all.
(Thanks to Mina Samuel.)
Asia/Novosibirsk switches from +06 to +07 on 2016-07-24 at 02:00.
(Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)
Changes to past and future time stamps
Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk now use numeric time zone
abbreviations instead of invented ones.
Changes affecting past time stamps
Europe/Minsk's 1992-03-29 spring-forward transition was at 02:00
not 00:00.
(Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)
Note: Paul Eggert changed the key used to sign the tzdata bundle and
the new public key cannot be found. The changes to the data since
2016e have been verified visually.
Change-Id: I11b49d9916e67313978fd893acf091e9f99f6d33
Test: Ran CTS/android.core.tests.libcore.package.harmony_java_util
Test: Ran CTS/android.core.tests.libcore.package.harmony_java_text
Test: Ran CTS/android.core.tests.libcore.package.libcore
Bug: 29991153
Changes affecting future time stamps
Africa/Cairo observes DST in 2016 from July 7 to the end of October.
Guess October 27 and 24:00 transitions. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
For future years, guess April's last Thursday to October's last
Thursday except for Ramadan.
Changes affecting past time stamps
Locations while uninhabited now use '-00', not 'zzz', as a
placeholder time zone abbreviation. This is inspired by Internet
RFC 3339 and is more consistent with numeric time zone
abbreviations already used elsewhere. The change affects several
arctic and antarctic locations, e.g., America/Cambridge_Bay before
1920 and Antarctica/Troll before 2005.
Asia/Baku's 1992-09-27 transition from +04 (DST) to +04 (non-DST) was
at 03:00, not 23:00 the previous day. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.)
Bug: 29354265
Test: Ran CTS/android.core.tests.libcore.package.harmony_java_util
Test: Ran CTS/android.core.tests.libcore.package.harmony_java_text
Test: Ran CTS/android.core.tests.libcore.package.libcore
(cherry picked from commit 1b0ee2041c)
Change-Id: I00b892b160769faae6fc8e0df2a58211a43bc1a0
Changes affecting future time stamps
America/Caracas switches from -0430 to -04 on 2016-05-01 at 02:30.
(Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev for the heads-up.)
Asia/Magadan switches from +10 to +11 on 2016-04-24 at 02:00.
(Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev and Matt Johnson.)
New zone Asia/Tomsk, split off from Asia/Novosibirsk. It covers
Tomsk Oblast, Russia, which switches from +06 to +07 on 2016-05-29
at 02:00. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)
Changes affecting past time stamps
New zone Europe/Kirov, split off from Europe/Volgograd. It covers
Kirov Oblast, Russia, which switched from +04/+05 to +03/+04 on
1989-03-26 at 02:00, roughly a year after Europe/Volgograd made
the same change. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)
Russia and nearby locations had daylight-saving transitions on
1992-03-29 at 02:00 and 1992-09-27 at 03:00, instead of on
1992-03-28 at 23:00 and 1992-09-26 at 23:00. (Thanks to Stepan
Golosunov.)
Many corrections to historical time in Kazakhstan from 1991
through 2005. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.) Replace Kazakhstan's
invented time zone abbreviations with numeric abbreviations.
Bug: 28240832
(cherry picked from commit f3158b94ab)
Change-Id: If3b7189b4c60d8dfd0859b6e009461324a6a5bb2
Changes affecting future time stamps
Azerbaijan no longer observes DST. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Chile reverts from permanent to seasonal DST. (Thanks to Juan
Correa for the heads-up, and to Tim Parenti for corrections.)
Guess that future transitions are August's and May's second
Saturdays at 24:00 mainland time. Also, call the period from
2014-09-07 through 2016-05-14 daylight saving time instead of
standard time, as that seems more appropriate now.
Changes affecting past time stamps
Europe/Kaliningrad and Europe/Vilnius changed from +03/+04 to
+02/+03 on 1989-03-26, not 1991-03-31. Europe/Volgograd changed
from +04/+05 to +03/+04 on 1988-03-27, not 1989-03-26.
(Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)
Bug: 27826144
(cherry picked from commit 28a63edc68)
Change-Id: I81d3c858eaae1329d16663df14c18ca3623f7cf8
Changes affecting future time stamps
New zones Europe/Astrakhan and Europe/Ulyanovsk for Astrakhan and
Ulyanovsk Oblasts, Russia, both of which will switch from +03 to +04 on
2016-03-27 at 02:00 local time. They need distinct zones since their
post-1970 histories disagree. New zone Asia/Barnaul for Altai Krai and
Altai Republic, Russia, which will switch from +06 to +07 on the same date
and local time. Also, Asia/Sakhalin moves from +10 to +11 on 2016-03-27
at 02:00. (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev for the heads-up, and to
Matt Johnson and Stepan Golosunov for followup.)
As a trial of a new system that needs less information to be made up,
the new zones use numeric time zone abbreviations like "+04"
instead of invented abbreviations like "ASTT".
Haiti will not observe DST in 2016. (Thanks to Jean Antoine via
Steffen Thorsen.)
Palestine's spring-forward transition on 2016-03-26 is at 01:00, not 00:00.
(Thanks to Hannah Kreitem.) Guess future transitions will be March's last
Saturday at 01:00, not March's last Friday at 24:00.
Changes affecting past time stamps
Europe/Chisinau observed DST during 1990, and switched from +04 to
+03 at 1990-05-06 02:00, instead of switching from +03 to +02.
(Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)
1991 abbreviations in Europe/Samara should be SAMT/SAMST, not
KUYT/KUYST. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)
The update produced (apparently benign) warnings from zic as suggested here:
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2016-March/000036.html
Bug: 27656428
(cherry picked from commit 4fc72e0230)
Change-Id: I3492fcacf2771d6cc194e4ff155a04c3817ae336
Changes affecting future time stamps
America/Cayman will not observe daylight saving this year after all.
Revert our guess that it would. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.)
Asia/Chita switches from +0800 to +0900 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00.
(Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
Asia/Tehran now has DST predictions for the year 2038 and later,
to be March 21 00:00 to September 21 00:00. This is likely better
than predicting no DST, albeit off by a day every now and then.
Changes affecting past and future time stamps
America/Metlakatla switched from PST all year to AKST/AKDT on
2015-11-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
America/Santa_Isabel has been removed, and replaced with a
backward compatibility link to America/Tijuana. Its contents were
apparently based on a misreading of Mexican legislation.
Changes affecting past time stamps
Asia/Karachi's two transition times in 2002 were off by a minute.
(Thanks to Matt Johnson.)
Bug: 26833368
(cherry-picked from commit 5408d8f39a)
Change-Id: I568ae45e0b38382507db3c244392ccc2edff29d3
Changes affecting future time stamps
Turkey's 2015 fall-back transition is scheduled for Nov. 8, not Oct. 25.
(Thanks to Fatih.)
Norfolk moves from +1130 to +1100 on 2015-10-04 at 02:00 local time.
(Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
Fiji's 2016 fall-back transition is scheduled for January 17, not 24.
(Thanks to Ken Rylander.)
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. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.)
Changes affecting past time stamps
Norfolk observed DST from 1974-10-27 02:00 to 1975-03-02 02:00.
Bug: 24595281
Change-Id: I7e4e4c53b4843110540f573ba82d3761c871c096
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.)
Bug: 23480367
Change-Id: I6a46b79be3a547d4af5f3f7ca1452640ed764e1c
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.
Bug: 21836574
Change-Id: I6eda60c220d5c55d2aa0934544866ec0f1ce62ab
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.)
Changes affecting past time stamps
America/Whitehorse switched from UTC-9 to UTC-8 on 1967-05-28, not
1966-07-01. Also, Yukon's time zone history is documented better.
(Thanks to Brian Inglis and Dennis Ferguson.)
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.
Bug: 20551453
Change-Id: I02364f15ca4ae20ed1a3b327f8517214bee938e5
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.)
Changes affecting past time stamps
The following changes affect some pre-1991 Chile-related time stamps
in America/Santiago, Antarctica/Palmer, and Pacific/Easter.
The 1910 transition was January 10, not January 1.
The 1918 transition was September 10, not September 1.
The UTC-4 time observed from 1932 to 1942 is now considered to be
standard time, not year-round DST.
Santiago observed DST (UTC-3) from 1946-07-15 through 1946-08-31,
then reverted to standard time, then switched its time zone to
UTC-5 on 1947-04-01.
Assume transitions before 1968 were at 00:00, since we have no data
saying otherwise.
The spring 1988 transition was 1988-10-09, not 1988-10-02.
The fall 1990 transition was 1990-03-11, not 1990-03-18.
Assume no UTC offset change for Pacific/Easter on 1890-01-01,
and omit all transitions on Pacific/Easter from 1942 through 1946
since we have no data suggesting that they existed.
One more zone has been turned into a link, as it differed
from an existing zone only for older time stamps. As usual,
this change affects UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only.
The zone's old contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file.
The affected zone is America/Montreal.
Bug: 20287125
Change-Id: I8512c4e9ab09725395b256aba59ca34a23d1c995
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.)
Bug: 19887183
Change-Id: I1b4bdc5ae5cf778908a77893d7f8db8a4117e1e1
Time Zone Data v. 2015a (Released 2015-01-29)
http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2015a.tar.gz
Information from NEWS:
Release 2015a - 2015-01-29 22:35:20 -0800
Changes 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.
Bug: 19212588
(cherry-picked from commit 700eb048fb)
Change-Id: I23d94982f634889ab9dcef28cf4a8853224bfd9c
From the release notes:
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.
Bug: 18330681
Change-Id: I4b6939b4dcf08c47df5595ae445b6f44f4a03418
From the release notes:
Changes affecting future time stamps
Pacific/Fiji will observe DST from 2014-11-02 02:00 to
2015-01-18 03:00. (Thanks to Ken Rylander for the heads-up.)
Guess that future years will use a similar pattern.
A new Zone Pacific/Bougainville, for the part of Papua New
Guinea that plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11 on
2014-12-28 at 02:00. (Thanks to Kiley Walbom for the
heads-up.)
Changes affecting time zone abbreviations
Since Belarus is not changing its clocks even though Moscow
is, the time zone abbreviation in Europe/Minsk is changing
from FET to its more-traditional value MSK on 2014-10-26 at
01:00. (Thanks to Alexander Bokovoy for the heads-up about
Belarus.)
The new abbreviation IDT stands for the pre-1976 use of UT+8
in Indochina, to distinguish it better from ICT (UT+7).
Changes affecting past time stamps
Many time stamps have been corrected for Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
before 1976 (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân for an indirect pointer
to Trần Tiến Bình's authoritative book). Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh has
been added to zone1970.tab, to give tzselect users in Vietnam
two choices, since north and south Vietnam disagreed after our
1970 cutoff.
Asia/Phnom_Penh and Asia/Vientiane have been turned into
links, as they differed from existing zones only for older
time stamps. As usual, these changes affect pre-1970 time
stamps only. Their old contents have been moved to the
'backzone' file.
Bug: 18085936
Change-Id: I89c065b4788b10ed7530cc4e8cfbc1b65c05c1b7
From the release notes:
Changes affecting past time stamps
America/Jamaica's 1974 spring-forward transition was Jan. 6, not Apr. 28.
Shanks says Asia/Novokuznetsk switched from LMT (not "NMT") on 1924-05-01,
not 1920-01-06. The old entry was based on a misinterpretation of Shanks.
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/Blantyre, Africa/Bujumbura,
Africa/Gaborone, Africa/Harare, Africa/Kigali, Africa/Lubumbashi,
Africa/Lusaka, Africa/Maseru, and Africa/Mbabane.
Bug: 17731498
Change-Id: If65b740d4e3a67075cca770655a1df17952c3da0
From the release notes:
Changes affecting future time stamps
Turks & Caicos is switching from US eastern time to UTC-4 year-round,
modeled as a switch from EST/EDT to AST on 2014-11-02 at 02:00.
Changes affecting past time stamps
Time in Russia or the USSR before 1926 or so has been corrected by
a few seconds in the following zones: Asia/Irkutsk,
Asia/Krasnoyarsk, Asia/Omsk, Asia/Samarkand, Asia/Tbilisi,
Asia/Vladivostok, Asia/Yakutsk, Europe/Riga, Europe/Samara. For
Asia/Yekaterinburg the correction is a few minutes. (Thanks to
Vladimir Karpinsky.)
The Portuguese decree of 1911-05-26 took effect on 1912-01-01.
This affects 1911 time stamps in Africa/Bissau, Africa/Luanda,
Atlantic/Azores, and Atlantic/Madeira. Also, Lisbon's pre-1912
GMT offset was -0:36:45 (rounded from -0:36:44.68), not -0:36:32.
(Thanks to Stephen Colebourne for pointing to the decree.)
Asia/Dhaka ended DST on 2009-12-31 at 24:00, not 23:59.
A new file 'backzone' contains data which may appeal to
connoisseurs of old time stamps, although it is out of scope for
the tz database, is often poorly sourced, and contains some data
that is known to be incorrect. The new file is not recommended
for ordinary use and its entries are not installed by default.
(Thanks to Lester Caine for the high-quality Jersey, Guernsey, and
Isle of Man entries.)
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/Bangui, Africa/Brazzaville,
Africa/Douala, Africa/Kinshasa, Africa/Libreville, Africa/Luanda,
Africa/Malabo, Africa/Niamey, and Africa/Porto-Novo.
Bug: 17277574
Change-Id: Idff4a68e927d49bef1e787af534e1b23b5b8a7fb
From the release notes:
Changes affecting future time stamps
Russia will subtract an hour from most of its time zones on
2014-10-26 at 02:00 local time. (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
There are a few exceptions: Magadan Oblast (Asia/Magadan) and
Zabaykalsky Krai are subtracting two hours; conversely, Chukotka
Autonomous Okrug (Asia/Anadyr), Kamchatka Krai (Asia/Kamchatka),
Kemerovo Oblast (Asia/Novokuznetsk), and the Samara Oblast and the
Udmurt Republic (Europe/Samara) are not changing their clocks. The
changed zones are Europe/Kaliningrad, Europe/Moscow,
Europe/Simferopol, Europe/Volgograd, Asia/Yekaterinburg, Asia/Omsk,
Asia/Novosibirsk, Asia/Krasnoyarsk, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Yakutsk,
Asia/Vladivostok, Asia/Khandyga, Asia/Sakhalin, and Asia/Ust-Nera;
Asia/Magadan will have two hours subtracted; and Asia/Novokuznetsk's
time zone abbreviation is affected, but not its UTC offset. Two
zones are added: Asia/Chita (split from Asia/Yakutsk, and also with
two hours subtracted) and Asia/Srednekolymsk (split from
Asia/Magadan, but with only one hour subtracted). (Thanks to Tim
Parenti for much of the above.)
Changes affecting past time stamps
China's five zones have been simplified to two, since the post-1970
differences in the other three seem to have been imaginary. The
zones Asia/Harbin, Asia/Chongqing, and Asia/Kashgar have been
removed; backwards-compatibility links still work, albeit with
different behaviors for time stamps before May 1980. Asia/Urumqi's
1980 transition to UTC+8 has been removed, so that it is now at
UTC+6 and not UTC+8. (Thanks to Luther Ma and to Alois Treindl;
Treindl sent helpful translations of two papers by Guo Qingsheng.)
Some zones have been turned into links, when they differed from
existing zones only for older UTC offsets where the data were likely
invented. These changes affect UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps
only. This is similar to the change in release 2013e, except this
time for western Africa. The affected zones are: Africa/Bamako,
Africa/Banjul, Africa/Conakry, Africa/Dakar, Africa/Freetown,
Africa/Lome, Africa/Nouakchott, Africa/Ouagadougou, Africa/Sao_Tome,
and Atlantic/St_Helena. This also affects the
backwards-compatibility link Africa/Timbuktu. (Thanks to Alan
Barrett, Stephen Colebourne, Tim Parenti, and David Patte for
reporting problems in earlier versions of this change.)
Asia/Shanghai's pre-standard-time UT offset has been changed from
8:05:57 to 8:05:43, the location of Xujiahui Observatory. Its
transition to standard time has been changed from 1928 to 1901.
Asia/Taipei switched to JWST on 1896-01-01, then to JST on
1937-10-01, then to CST on 1945-09-21 at 01:00, and did not observe
DST in 1945. In 1946 it observed DST from 05-15 through 09-30; in
1947 from 04-15 through 10-31; and in 1979 from 07-01 through 09-30.
(Thanks to Yu-Cheng Chuang.)
Asia/Riyadh's transition to standard time is now 1947-03-14, not
1950.
Europe/Helsinki's 1942 fall-back transition was 10-04 at 01:00, not
10-03 at 00:00. (Thanks to Konstantin Hyppönen.)
Pacific/Pago_Pago has been changed from UTC-11:30 to UTC-11 for the
period from 1911 to 1950.
Pacific/Chatham has been changed to New Zealand standard time plus
45 minutes for the period before 1957, reflecting a 1956 remark in
the New Zealand parliament.
Europe/Budapest has several pre-1946 corrections: in 1918 the
transition out of DST was on 09-16, not 09-29; in 1919 it was on
11-24, not 09-15; in 1945 it was on 11-01, not 11-03; in 1941 the
transition to DST was 04-08 not 04-06 at 02:00; and there was no DST
in 1920.
Africa/Accra is now assumed to have observed DST from 1920 through
1935.
Time in Russia before 1927 or so has been corrected by a few seconds
in the following zones: Europe/Moscow, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Tbilisi,
Asia/Tashkent, Asia/Vladivostok, Asia/Yekaterinburg,
Europe/Helsinki, and Europe/Riga. Also, Moscow's location has been
changed to its Kilometer 0 point. (Thanks to Vladimir Karpinsky for
the Moscow changes.)
(cherry-pick of 0dc2c1db6fc84b4526f2a5f8d73e1187500f2300.)
Bug: 16168653
Change-Id: I23827254bcf50dd07a2192ed34b02224d73e07a0
From the release notes:
Changes affecting near-future time stamps
Egypt's 2014 Ramadan-based transitions are June 26 and July 31 at 24:00.
(Thanks to Imed Chihi.) Guess that from 2015 on Egypt will temporarily
switch to standard time at 24:00 the last Thursday before Ramadan, and
back to DST at 00:00 the first Friday after Ramadan.
Similarly, Morocco's are June 28 at 03:00 and August 2 at 02:00. (Thanks
to Milamber Space Network.) Guess that from 2015 on Morocco will
temporarily switch to standard time at 03:00 the last Saturday before
Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Saturday after Ramadan.
Changes affecting past time stamps
The abbreviation "MSM" (Moscow Midsummer Time) is now used instead of
"MSD" for Moscow's double daylight time in summer 1921. Also, a typo
"VLASST" has been repaired to be "VLAST" for Vladivostok summer time
in 1991. (Thanks to Hank W. for reporting the problems.)
Change-Id: Iaca5e8c2d572559b464b10d24f4315405e413ada
There are no substantive changes to the data in this release. I'm applying
this just for completeness.
Change-Id: Ibe953969cb16db4d8d1ddb7dd3c943316e6e46b4
From the release notes:
Changes affecting near-future time stamps
Egypt observes DST starting 2014-05-15 at 24:00.
(Thanks to Ahmad El-Dardiry and Gunther Vermier.)
Details have not been announced, except that DST will not be
observed during Ramadan. Guess that DST will stop during the same
Ramadan dates as Morocco, and that Egypt's future spring and fall
transitions will be the same as 2010 when it last observed DST,
namely April's last Friday at 00:00 to September's last Thursday at
23:00 standard time. Also, guess that Ramadan transitions will be
at 00:00 standard time.
Change-Id: I6a20cae02a314871acbd52cb90fcbebd37625810
From the release notes:
Changes affecting near-future time stamps
Crimea switches to Moscow time on 2014-03-30 at 02:00 local time.
(Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.) Move its zone.tab entry from UA
to RU.
New entry for Troll station, Antarctica. (Thanks to Paul-Inge
Flakstad and Bengt-Inge Larsson.) This is currently an
approximation; a better version will require the zic and localtime
fixes mentioned [in the full release notes], and the plan is to wait
for a while until at least the zic fixes propagate.
Change-Id: Ib00f6cbc7b92e26822792b45e53a5f5381e0f6bf
From the release notes:
Changes affecting near-future time stamps
Turkey begins DST on 2014-03-31, not 03-30. (Thanks to Faruk Pasin
for the heads-up, and to Tim Parenti for simplifying the update.)
Changes affecting past time stamps
Fiji ended DST on 2014-01-19 at 02:00, not the previously-scheduled
03:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Ukraine switched from Moscow to Eastern European time on 1990-07-01
(not 1992-01-01), and observed DST during the entire next winter.
(Thanks to Vladimir in Moscow via Alois Treindl.)
In 1988 Israel observed DST from 04-10 to 09-04, not 04-09 to
09-03. (Thanks to Avigdor Finkelstein.)
Bug: 13193205
Change-Id: Ie2e4fd48491315f3e97befff0c8ea797a766c676
From the release notes:
Changes affecting near-future time stamps:
Jordan switches back to standard time at 00:00 on December 20, 2013.
The 2006-2011 transition schedule is planned to resume in 2014.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Changes affecting past time stamps:
In 2004, Cuba began DST on March 28, not April 4.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Change-Id: I8f26cc50f6b571804a18ff2113b4a47a22bc56dd
From the release notes:
Changes affecting current and future time stamps:
Libya has switched its time zone back to UTC+2 without DST,
instead of UTC+1 with DST. (Thanks to Even Scharning.)
Western Sahara (Africa/El_Aaiun) uses Morocco's DST rules.
(Thanks to Gwillim Law.)
Changes affecting future time stamps:
Acre and (we guess) western Amazonas will switch from UTC-4 to UTC-5
on 2013-11-10. This affects America/Rio_Branco and America/Eirunepe.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Add entries for DST transitions in Morocco in the year 2038.
This avoids some year-2038 glitches introduced in 2013g.
(Thanks to Yoshito Umaoka for reporting the problem.)
Change-Id: Ic855df19773e3fbf13b941b5bfa91dcee9e181e1
From the release notes:
Changes affecting current and near-future time stamps
Morocco now observes DST from the last Sunday in March to the last
Sunday in October, not April to September respectively. (Thanks
to Steffen Thorsen.)
Change-Id: I9a657a1b819ce17bb424474d4bcdae093f4c4dca
From the release notes:
Changes affecting near-future time stamps
Tocantins will very likely not observe DST starting this spring.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Jordan will likely stay at UTC+3 indefinitely, and will not fall
back this fall.
Palestine will fall back at 00:00, not 01:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Change-Id: Iccee57578eef2ab51c519a23f151bc1963262ffe
From the release notes:
Changes affecting near-future time stamps
This year Fiji will start DST on October 27, not October 20.
(Thanks to David Wheeler for the heads-up.) For now, guess that
Fiji will continue to spring forward the Sunday before the fourth
Monday in October.
Changes affecting time stamps before 1970
Pacific/Johnston is now a link to Pacific/Honolulu. This corrects
some errors before 1947.
Some zones have been turned into links, when they differ from
existing zones only in older data that was likely invented or that
differs only in LMT or transition from LMT. These changes affect
only time stamps before 1943. The affected zones are:
Africa/Juba, America/Anguilla, America/Aruba, America/Dominica,
America/Grenada, America/Guadeloupe, America/Marigot,
America/Montserrat, America/St_Barthelemy, America/St_Kitts,
America/St_Lucia, America/St_Thomas, America/St_Vincent,
America/Tortola, and Europe/Vaduz. (Thanks to Alois Treindl for
confirming that the old Europe/Vaduz zone was wrong and the new
link is better for WWII-era times.)
Change Kingston Mean Time from -5:07:12 to -5:07:11. This affects
America/Cayman, America/Jamaica and America/Grand_Turk time stamps
from 1890 to 1912.
Change the UT offset of Bern Mean Time from 0:29:44 to 0:29:46.
This affects Europe/Zurich time stamps from 1853 to 1894. (Thanks
to Alois Treindl).
Change the date of the circa-1850 Zurich transition from 1849-09-12
to 1853-07-16, overriding Shanks with data from Messerli about
postal and telegraph time in Switzerland.
Data changes affecting behavior of tzselect and similar programs
Country code BQ is now called the more-common name "Caribbean Netherlands"
rather than the more-official "Bonaire, St Eustatius & Saba".
Remove from zone.tab the names America/Montreal, America/Shiprock,
and Antarctica/South_Pole, as they are equivalent to existing
same-country-code zones for post-1970 time stamps. The data for
these names are unchanged, so the names continue to work as before.
Change-Id: If78a517687532afcc0b22c7df664b5955f6e1564
From the release notes:
Changes affecting future time stamps:
Morocco's midsummer transitions this year are July 7 and August 10,
not July 9 and August 8. (Thanks to Andrew Paprocki.)
Israel now falls back on the last Sunday of October.
(Thanks to Ephraim Silverberg.)
Changes affecting past time stamps:
Specify Jerusalem's location more precisely; this changes the pre-1880
times by 2 s.
Changing affecting metadata only:
Fix typos in the entries for country codes BQ and SX.
Change-Id: I87f992e4c406d4f254dc274f206536e9484024a2
From the release notes:
Changes affecting current and future time stamps:
Palestine observed DST starting March 29, 2013. (Thanks to
Steffen Thorsen.) From 2013 on, Gaza and Hebron both observe DST,
with the predicted rules being the last Thursday in March at 24:00
to the first Friday on or after September 21 at 01:00.
Assume that the recent change to Paraguay's DST rules is permanent,
by moving the end of DST to the 4th Sunday in March every year.
(Thanks to Carlos Raúl Perasso.)
Changes affecting past time stamps:
Fix some historical data for Palestine to agree with that of
timeanddate.com, as follows:
The spring 2008 change in Gaza and Hebron was on 00:00 Mar 28, not
00:00 Apr 1.
The fall 2009 change in Gaza and Hebron on Sep 4 was at 01:00, not
02:00.
The spring 2010 change in Hebron was 00:00 Mar 26, not 00:01 Mar 27.
The spring 2011 change in Gaza was 00:01 Apr 1, not 12:01 Apr 2.
The spring 2011 change in Hebron on Apr 1 was at 00:01, not 12:01.
The fall 2011 change in Hebron on Sep 30 was at 00:00, not 03:00.
Fix times of habitation for Macquarie to agree with the Tasmania
Parks & Wildlife Service history, which indicates that permanent
habitation was 1899-1919 and 1948 on.
Changing affecting metadata only:
Macquarie Island is politically part of Australia, not Antarctica.
(Thanks to Tobias Conradi.)
Sort Macquarie more-consistently with other parts of Australia.
(Thanks to Tim Parenti.)
Change-Id: I3df146d046eda26dbc6ce2a0a26ad9214ec4eaca
From the release notes:
Changes affecting current and future time stamps:
Haiti uses US daylight-saving rules this year, and presumably future years.
This changes time stamps starting today. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Paraguay will end DST on March 24 this year.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) For now, assume it's just this year.
Morocco does not observe DST during Ramadan;
try to predict Ramadan in Morocco as best we can.
(Thanks to Erik Homoet for the heads-up.)
Change-Id: I98d5290ea5a1d9fb1eeddab1c9e72135dc9e4bd1
From the release notes:
Chile's 2013 rules, and we guess rules for 2014 and later, will be
the same as 2012, namely Apr Sun>=23 03:00 UTC to Sep Sun>=2 04:00 UTC.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen and Robert Elz.)
New Zones Asia/Khandyga, Asia/Ust-Nera, Europe/Busingen.
(Thanks to Tobias Conradi and Arthur David Olson.)
Change-Id: I351e04b3348420ad7df7c648963c235b534033d2
This reflects the following changes recently circulated on the tz mailing list:
Libya moved to CET [2012-11-11], but with DST planned [2013].
(Thanks to Even Scharning, Steffen Thorsen, and Tim Parenti.)
I also had to change the script to cope with:
Signatures now have the extension .asc, not .sign, as that's more
standard. (Thanks to Phil Pennock.)
Change-Id: Ie9711c5c796b3c122daea9690929edcc3ddd32da
Also support GPG signature verification of updates, and fix remaining
pylint complaints.
The 2012i release of the tz data reflects the following changes recently
circulated on the tz mailing list:
* Cuba switches from DST [2012-11-04] at 01:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Change-Id: Ie81d395afa40aa217a0196aad8ca1f9a870bbc31
The 2012h release reflects the following changes recently circulated
on the tz mailing list:
[Brazil] Bahia no longer has DST. (Thanks to Kelley Cook.)
[Brazil] Tocantins has DST. (Thanks to Rodrigo Severo.)
[Israel] Israel has new DST rules next year. (Thanks to Ephraim Silverberg.)
[Jordan] Jordan stays on DST this winter. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
Bug: 7429010
Change-Id: I0ec5fb72343e42f3f79490dfdea5f7f1946ae76f
I'll come back and remove the separate files (and change the regular 'generate'
script) when the separate files are obsolete, but in the interim period, it's
easier to have both old and new files available.
Bug: 7012465
Change-Id: I36e2fd49c08ff79ded6eca1c5bc4c08837cc490a
