- Morocco will offically go into DST at the last Sunday of April.
- Palestina will go into DST on 29 March
- Syria will go into DST on the first Friday in April.
- Haiti will go into DST at the second Sunday of March in 2012.
Feature safe: yes
- 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.
Feature safe: yes
No PORTREVISION bump, because it's unlikely that anyone relies on package builds for this
PR: ports/162993
Submitted by: Alexey Markov <redrat@mail.ru>
Approved by: maintainer timeout (edwin, >2 months)
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
- 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/.
- 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.
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.
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.
Obtained from: 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- Bangladesh cancels DST.
- Palestine goes into DST one day later than expected.
- Russian timezones update:
Europe/Samara goes to Moscow time.
Asia/Kamchatka goes to Moscow+8 time.
Asia/Anadyr goes to Moscow+8 time.
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.
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.
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).
- 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.
