- Updates for Argentina: Drop DST in zones America/Argentina/Jujuy,
La_Rioja, San_Juan, Catamarca, Mendoza, Rio_Gallegos, Ushuaia; new zone
America/Argentina/Salta (for provinces SA, LP, NQ, RN).
- Changes for Mauritius (extends DST to years to come)
- Palestine changes clocks for the duration of Ramadan
- Argentina will start DST on Sunday October 19, 2008
- Brazil will start DST on 2008-10-19
- Drop Pakistan and Morocco patches
- Drop obsolete patches
- Mongolia changes zone
- Pakistan DST is scheduled until Sep/1, instead of Aug/31
- Drop Morocco and Pakistan patches that are superseded by upstream
- Fix a typo in Java subpackage name
- Brazil will observe DST from 2007-10-14 to 2008-02-17
- Egypt and Gaza switched earlier than we expected
- Iran will resume DST next year
- Venezuela is scheduled to change TZ to -4:30 on January 1
- Egypt switches the September 7, not September 28
- Daviess, Dubous, Knox, Martin, and Pike Counties, Indiana, switch from
central to eastern time in November
- South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Lord Howe Island
are changing their DST rules effective next year
- Sync several Antarctic station's rules with the New Zealand
- leapseconds contain changes from the most recent IERS bulletin
- New Zealand is extending DST, starting later this year.
- Haiti no longer observes DST.
- The Turks and Caicos switch at 02:00, not at 00:00, and have adopted US
DST rules.
- Mongolia has abolished DST.
- Turkey will use EU rules this year, changing at 01:00 UTC rather than
01:00 standard time.
- Cuba observed DST starting Sunday.
- Resolute, Nunavut switched from Central to Eastern time last November.
- Pulaski County, Indiana, switched back to eastern time.
- Turkey switches at 01:00 standard time, not at 01:00 UTC.
- Upstream 2007b
- Changes to the commentary in "leapseconds".
- Updates to Bahamas, they will be in sync with 2007 US DST change
- New zone Australia/Eucla
- Africa/Asmera renamed to Africa/Asmara, link created
- Atlantic/Faeroe renamed to Atlantic/Faroe, link created
- Packaging
- Adding BuildRequires: glibc-common >= 2.5.90-7 to build tzdata with
extended 64-bit format necessary for dates beyond 2037
- Jordan will switch to winter time on October 27, not September 29
- Brazil's DST this year is the first Sunday in November to the last Sunday
in February. (Thanks to Frederico A. C. Neves.)
- ISO 3166 codes for Serbia and Montenegro, zone Europe/Podgorica
- Commentary and past timestamps changes Resolves: #210058
- Honduras stopped observing DST on Monday at 00:00
- America/Bermuda will follow the US's lead next year
- America/Moncton will use US-style rules next year
- New Zone America/Blanc-Sablon, for Canadians who observe AST all year
- New zone: America/Atikokan instead of America/Coral_Harbour
- New zones: Europe/Jersey, Europe/Guernsey, Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Historical changes
- Commentary updates
- Upstream 2006i
- localtime.c fixes
- Upstream 2006h
- zic leapsecond fix
- using tz64code version, as 32 is legacy according to tzdata ML
- new manual pages for ctime, strftime, tzset
- some source code reorganizations
- no timezone/dst rule updates
- private.h(scheck): changing char* to char const*
- Rule changes for Palestine, zone changes for Indiana/US, both changes for
Canada.
- Many related doc changes.
- Naming scheme in spec file doesn't use %%{name}, but tzdata.
