- 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.
Edwin Groothuis [Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:03:22 +0000 (02:03 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2012a
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.
Edwin Groothuis [Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:48:45 +0000 (21:48 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2011m
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.
Edwin Groothuis [Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:36:17 +0000 (06:36 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2011l:
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/.
Change for Africa/Casablanca:
- The 3rd april 2011 at 00:00:00, [it] will be 3rd april 1:00:00
- The 31th july 2011 at 00:59:59, [it] will be 31th July 00:00:00
Update for SouthAmerica/Chili:
- Chile's clocks will go back an hour this year on the 7th of May instead
of this Saturday. They will go forward again the 3rd Saturday in
August, not in October as they have since 1968. This is a pilot plan
which will be reevaluated in 2012.
Edwin Groothuis [Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:07:08 +0000 (03:07 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2011d:
- 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.
Edwin Groothuis [Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:06:17 +0000 (21:06 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2011c
- 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.
Edwin Groothuis [Sun, 1 Aug 2010 08:53:44 +0000 (08:53 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2010k
- 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)
Edwin Groothuis [Mon, 10 May 2010 20:56:09 +0000 (20:56 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2010j
- 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).
- Marocca will have DST this year between May and August
- Historical data for Taiwan
- No more DST for the Argentinian province/state San Luis this year.
Edwin Groothuis [Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:25:08 +0000 (21:25 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2010f:
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.
Edwin Groothuis [Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:13:28 +0000 (21:13 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2010e (tzdata2010d was immidaiately superseeded)
- 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.
Edwin Groothuis [Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:58:58 +0000 (10:58 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2010b:
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.
Edwin Groothuis [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:44:37 +0000 (20:44 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2009r:
- Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone:
Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11
Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5
Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5
The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times).
Edwin Groothuis [Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:39:45 +0000 (21:39 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2009q:
- New region: Asia/Novokuznetsk
- Kemerovo oblast' (Kemerovo region) in Russia will change current
time zone on 29 March 2010
- Add historical data for Hongkong 1941 - 1980
- Syria will go to winter time in the last weekend of October 2009.
- Jordan went into DST in the last Thursday in March instead of the
last Friday in March.
- Palestine has extended the DST time with one week before and one
month after.
Edwin Groothuis [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:47:53 +0000 (10:47 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2009d
- Morocco will observe DST from 2009-06-01 00:00 to 2009-08-21 00:00
- Tunisia will not observe DST this year.
- Syria will start DST on 2009-03-27 00:00 this year
- the Province of San Luis will go to utc-04:00
Edwin Groothuis [Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:21:03 +0000 (11:21 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2009a:
- Asia/Katmandu -> Asia/Kathmandu
- Fix historical references to DST in Switzerland
- Correct rules for America/Resolute (Nunavut)
- Cuba didn't have DST in 2005.
Edwin Groothuis [Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:21:36 +0000 (03:21 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2008h.
- Minor update for Mauritius (which I don't understand)
- Syria goes to DST at 1 November instead of 1 October.
- Niue is now located at the right side of the equator.
Edwin Groothuis [Fri, 8 Aug 2008 03:56:52 +0000 (03:56 +0000)]
Vendor import of tzdata2008d
- 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
Edwin Groothuis [Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:31:13 +0000 (21:31 +0000)]
Import of timezone database from Arthur Olson et al.
Timezone data changes in the following locations:
- Egypt (push possible DST ending one year ahead)
- Iran gets DST again in 2008.
- Palestine DST time for this year fixed.
- Brasils DST rule change in 2008
- Venezuela time moves half an hour back at the end of this year.
Garrett Wollman [Mon, 21 May 2007 04:15:32 +0000 (04:15 +0000)]
Long-delayed import of timezone database from Arthur Olson et al.
Timezone data changes in the following locations:
Antarctica
Bahamas
Chile (past timestamps only)
Cuba
Eritrea (Africa/Asmara renamed to Africa/Asmera)
Haiti
Honduras
Indonesia (past timestamps only)
Mongolia
New Zealand (future timestamps only)
Nunavut
Pulaski County, Indiana
Syria
Turkey
Turks & Caicos
Western Australia
Garrett Wollman [Thu, 11 May 2006 04:28:59 +0000 (04:28 +0000)]
Vendor import tzdata2006g. Too many changes to summarize here; of
particular importance to those living in the Western Hemisphere as
many non-U.S. zones will be changing DST rules next year to match the
U.S.
Obtained from: Arthur David Olson, ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/
Garrett Wollman [Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:52:05 +0000 (19:52 +0000)]
No sooner did I make noises about seeing the last timezone update of
2005 when another one comes out. This one, even ADO hopes will be the
last of the year.
Obtained from: Arthur Olson, ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2005r.tar.gz
Garrett Wollman [Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:01:51 +0000 (17:01 +0000)]
Update to tzdata2005m release from Arthur Olson. Only updates are to
commentary and to "Link" directives, but the latter should fix
reported problems with clean installs (by no longer installing those
links).
Garrett Wollman [Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:59:32 +0000 (22:59 +0000)]
Latest timezone data update from Arthur Olson. Most changes are to
commentary; only significant change is Cuba, which did not fall back
this year due to an energy shortage.
Garrett Wollman [Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:55:07 +0000 (23:55 +0000)]
Latest timezone database from Arthur Olson. Updates in this round:
Current or prospective timestamps: Georgia, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil
Historial timestamps and/or commentary: Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore,
Peru, Russua, Israel, United States, Canada
Changes in Argentina and Brazil have created several new time zone regions.
Users are encouraged to rerun tzsetup(8), even if current times appear
correct, to ensure that future times will be interepreted correctly.
Obtained from: Arthur Olson, ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2004e.tar.gz
Garrett Wollman [Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:01:01 +0000 (21:01 +0000)]
Update timezone data from Arthur Olson. Principal changes are more accurate
data for Canada and Chatham Island, and the latest Brazilian government
decree.
New timezone data files from Arthur Olson. These files are in
the public domain. More descriptions will follow when they are merged
onto the main branch.