- Rebase to 2015d
- Egypt will not observe DST in 2015 and will consider canceling it
permanently. For now, assume no DST indefinitely.
- 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.
- Rebase to tzdata-2015c
- 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.
- Rebase javazic tool to match latest upstream OpenJDK version
- 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.
- 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.
- New leap second 2015-06-30 23:59:60 UTC as per IERS Bulletin C 49.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rebase to 2014j
- 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.
- Pacific/Fiji will observe DST from 2014-11-02 02:00 to 2015-01-18 03:00.
- 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
Rebase to 2014g
- 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.
- Morrocco suspends DTS for Ramadan
June 28 at 03:00 and August 2 at 02:00
- Egypt suspends DTS for Ramadan
June 26 and July 31 at 24:00
-Additional edit to support OpenJDK8. (#1091029)
- Lybia switched to using UTC+2 without DST
- Western Sahara (Africa/ElAaiun) uses Morocco's DST rules
- Acres and Amazon swithc to UTC-4 and UTC-5 on 2013-11-10
- Add entries for DST transition in Morocco in the year 2038
- Update descriptions in iso3166.tab; make Jerusalem coordinates in
zone.tab more precise
(0001-Adjust-commentary-to-try-to-defuse-recent-issues-som.patch)
- Update local mean time for Jerusalem to match more-precise longitude
(0002-asia-Asia-Jerusalem-Fix-LMT-to-match-more-precise-lo.patch)
- Move Morocco's midsummer 2013 transitions
(0003-Move-Morocco-s-midsummer-2013-transitions.patch)
- Israel now falls back on the last Sunday of October
(0004-Israel-now-falls-back-on-the-last-Sunday-of-October.patch)
- Resolves: #980807
- Sync past stamps for Palestine and West Bank with timeanddate.com
- Assume that the recent change to Paraguay's DST rules is permanent
- Macquarie was uninhabited between 1919 and 1948. It's also part
of Australia (update in zone.tab).
changed zones:
share/zoneinfo/Africa/Tripoli
Introduced CET (UTC+1, std) 10th (2nd Sat) Nov 2012 00:00
Introduced CET (UTC+1, std) last Fri Oct 00:00: 2013-2037
Introduced CEST (UTC+2, dst) last Fri Mar 00:00: 2013-2037
Moved EET-2 to CET-1CEST,M3.5.5/1,M10.5.5: after last transition
share/zoneinfo/Libya
Introduced CET (UTC+1, std) 10th (2nd Sat) Nov 2012 00:00
Introduced CET (UTC+1, std) last Fri Oct 00:00: 2013-2037
Introduced CEST (UTC+2, dst) last Fri Mar 00:00: 2013-2037
Moved EET-2 to CET-1CEST,M3.5.5/1,M10.5.5: after last transition
changed zones:
share/zoneinfo/America/Havana
Moved CST (UTC-5, std) from last Sun Oct 05:00 to 1st Sun Nov: 2012-2037
Moved CST5CDT,M3.2.0/0,M10.5.0/1 to CST5CDT,M3.2.0/0,M11.1.0/1: after last transition
share/zoneinfo/Cuba
Moved CST (UTC-5, std) from last Sun Oct 05:00 to 1st Sun Nov: 2012-2037
Moved CST5CDT,M3.2.0/0,M10.5.0/1 to CST5CDT,M3.2.0/0,M11.1.0/1: after last transition
- Changes to zones for Antarctica stations
- Armenia abolished DST in 2012 and forward
- Cuba enters DST on 31st March
- Falkland Islands will stay on permanent Summer Time
- New zone for Creston Valley, Canada, which differs from Dawson
Creek in past stamps. Changes to historical stamps in Canada.
- Last year, Tokelau skipped over the date line together with Samoa
