Update to tzdata-2024b
- Improve historical data for Mexico, Mongolia, and Portugal.
- System V names are now obsolescent.
- The main data form now uses %z.
- The code now conforms to RFC 8536 for early timestamps.
- Support POSIX.1-2024, which removes asctime_r and ctime_r.
- Assume POSIX.2-1992 or later for shell scripts.
- SUPPORT_C89 now defaults to 1.
- Include two upstream patches for month names as in April vs Apr.
Rebase to tzdata-2024a
- Kazakhstan will transition from UTC+6 to UTC+5 on 2024-03-01.
- Palestine will spring forward a week later than previously
predicted.
Rebase to tzdata-2023d
- Include time zone changes for Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland
and Vostok, Antarctica.
- Update the expiration date for the leap-seconds.list file.
No new leap seconds were added.
Rebase to tzdata-2023a
- Egypt reintroduced DST, from April through October.
- Morocco springs forward April 23, not April 30.
- Palestine delayed the start of DST this year.
Rebase to tzdata-2022g
- The northern edge of the Mexican state of Chihuahua will
change time zone to agree with nearby US locations on
2022-11-30.
- Added a new Zone America/Ciudad_Juarez that splits from
America/Ojinaga.
Rebase to tzdata-2022f
- Mexico will stop observing DST except near the US border.
- Chihuahua moved to -06 year round starting on 2022-10-30.
- Fiji no longer observes DST.
Rebase to tzdata-2022d
- Palestine's DST transition will be on October 29, 2022,
not October 28, 2022.
- Europe/Uzhgorod and Europe/Zaporozhye are moved to 'backzone'.
Rebase to tzdata-2022c - supersedes tzdata-2022b
- Add a work-around for an awk bug in FreeBSD, macOS, etc.
- Improve tzselect with respect to intercontinental Zones.
Rebase to tzdata-2022b
- Chile transitions to DST on 2022-09-11, not 2022-09-04
- 'make install' now defaults LOCALTIME to Factory rather than GMT
- More zones that are the same since 1970 have been moved to backzone.
- Include patch for awk workaround.
- Rebase to tzdata-2022a
- Palestine springs forward on 2022-03-27, not -03-26.
- zdump -v now outputs better failure information
- fixes for code that reads corrupted TZif data
- Rebase to tzdata-2021e - supersedes tzdata-2021d
- Pacific/Fiji suspended DST for the 2021/2022 season.
- 'zic -r' now marks unspecified timestamps with "-00".
- Palestine will fall back 2021-10-29 at 01:00, rather
than the predicted 2021-10-30.
Rebase to tzdata-2021c - supersedes tzdata-2021b
- Revert most of 2021b changes to 'backward'.
- Fix 'zic -b fat' bug in pre-1970 32-bit data.
- Fix two Link line typos.
- Distribute SECURITY file.
- Includes changes in tzdata-2021b:
- Jordan now starts DST on February's last Thursday.
- Samoa no longer observes DST.
- Merge more location-based Zones whose timestamps agree since 1970.
- Move some backward-compatibility links to 'backward'.
- Rename Pacific/Enderbury to Pacific/Kanton.
- Correct many pre-1993 transitions in Malawi, Portugal, etc.
- zic now creates each output file or link atomically.
- zic -L no longer omits the POSIX TZ string in its output.
- zic fixes for truncation and leap second table expiration.
- zic now follows POSIX for TZ strings using all-year DST.
- Fix some localtime crashes and bugs in obscure cases.
- zdump -v now outputs more-useful boundary cases.
- tzfile.5 better matches a draft successor to RFC 8536.
