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 2015a - 2015-01-29
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.
- 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.
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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.
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- Libya didn't go back to DST.
- Fix Morocco 2038 issue.
- Brazil/Acre and Western Amazonas are chaning timezones.
