From eggert at cs.ucla.edu Tue Jun 14 16:13:15 2016 From: eggert at cs.ucla.edu (Paul Eggert) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:13:15 -0700 Subject: [tz-announce] 2016e release of tz code and data available Message-ID: <57602D1B.3020400@cs.ucla.edu> The 2016e release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects the following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes: Changes affecting future time stamps Africa/Cairo observes DST in 2016 from July 7 to the end of October. Guess October 27 and 24:00 transitions. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) For future years, guess April's last Thursday to October's last Thursday except for Ramadan. Changes affecting past time stamps Locations while uninhabited now use '-00', not 'zzz', as a placeholder time zone abbreviation. This is inspired by Internet RFC 3339 and is more consistent with numeric time zone abbreviations already used elsewhere. The change affects several arctic and antarctic locations, e.g., America/Cambridge_Bay before 1920 and Antarctica/Troll before 2005. Asia/Baku's 1992-09-27 transition from +04 (DST) to +04 (non-DST) was at 03:00, not 23:00 the previous day. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) Changes to code zic now outputs a dummy transition at time 2**31 - 1 in zones whose POSIX-style TZ strings contain a '<'. This mostly works around Qt bug 53071 . (Thanks to Zhanibek Adilbekov for reporting the Qt bug.) Changes affecting documentation and commentary tz-link.htm says why governments should give plenty of notice for time zone or DST changes, and refers to Matt Johnson's blog post. tz-link.htm mentions Tzdata for Elixir. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.) Here are links to the release files: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016e.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016e.tar.gz The files are also available via HTTP as follows: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2016e.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016e.tar.gz As usual, links to the latest release files are here: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzcode-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdata-latest.tar.gz Each release file has a GPG signature, which can be retrieved by appending ".asc" to the above URLs. Copies of these signatures are appended to this message. This release corresponds to ddb14859b156e72bb2daff70ff2fe59d6d82d545 dated 2016-06-14 08:46:16 -0700 and tagged '2016e' in the experimental github repository at . Here are the SHA-512 checksums for the release files: dcaf615ada96920e60ffb336253f53541861153decc156d41661f43e0bfb128c6c231b0b776bbe3f2176549346275fc5a879074f4977d5141228e58cb33a41c6 tzcode2016e.tar.gz dace0f6fc87a73879ca3a1b143d7dcf9c50803e23e6b8c91f83711704e28129af776676c547c42f14dee7f1e8e285ce25296e53a52d11f4c8f155b5f80f4beb3 tzdata2016e.tar.gz Here are the GPG checksums for the release files: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJXYCdTAAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40EK8P/iKELbSZ0ZbgcqAkWRuh8OeG v/T8qkbK3pHeHi9+eELqR24ZODPe/KIORFZxXaxsn+JBUo8QdAlgyZc/5/MkISV1 AvJlk3SAe5TgyKRIQfmVeLpjPHx8w1fcHU3yc7ssMqcv8vhPXXZHGWhmoDoiJOwW ocnToizAWdjNQlqK29Ra33qCEYZuTjLg/a+gvJGqMV9d3zEtA4qOZNSyl9h8pKZo lUYIk+Vj56QSqw3iwZ83MrwhXw7/R8NpfjqAgXw3Au04CRYscvVLlKutdp3+B515 bjnX0ghtgvzolVQLRIPXLjDKXx5FduvW83yTfqFk8gPRgcCplE4mC1zZKfv8CXs9 tR4F+in7iLr23+7o4wjD3yolI9hgY0D8/XTuXs7XWzAaHjCcKAwT460AVmY3MkaL 130TQonnLuWPdfg6EWJHRxHr4du3s6Sg8aMO6tZiSf9eL2oOGPq7A0Yl3XkR01pb 9UEuVEsA0w1MxDl6jAIBZq9vZkbj5vehPD5yzmrXQbgMEeongY5eun0UYIJH8M/X P05+DnpnG9u88/U+yzZmOWLYL97JA2SQal/nfL8lIFkRnmVQnSlHzvi2MGkuYPcz jnhNQOkOGxTiZ5TTNqDPOe1wJ7nVfNJoaIoklnQXLES0necZDQJJ354+EjzzC+jK GuWBNHojTrArRXSkITEK =1NuU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJXYCdYAAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40yasP/18erUr4JDpff6WZWh/YN5uo 6D6aoDIvjgeC1L+OeUX4jEO2Iinc04rP4atMHqHueXYdSYhz9fJpRF+MawUP2Crf ccZEqN+zd4/x9M8JC7QjDFlYJQa7Z4O5YcAN69vGE6PBKLyc3C2oX5mh/OG5bQTR VfocXsCcCW5EJz8jVfQt+uEd8ZZPyVIDyNJG0eTXNupwTqYpErpj5LrpsHycEMRj iIDaSQMmHI30HJI/O5MGOWVZXUt9zkaXNVTy/O1T0Bg0/k2+1/zGynNyxTP88vlv qvHihVHr2E7cFTSka3pVnwF2lmQVuOmf3/Z2aj2c9ldgQCkmVYdnmiIk6ysvv1Lv qTh0680vdY++lVg8zhd59589lHMf4DZF0rve5hQjUU/E6Vh6cUPBHiQ3a/2yO0Y0 McHebPpGmho2p33Cx4xNE7jhcwcFNTbD2HV6P/gVCkteF3yvpjQHIdD+pZZj50mt FjH2+JMegXpaTNN/B0uk1krgguUf3LSyV3IpReg25ISE2giRNgciOePm/72/333r BKTKZPzEiHo/Ey6levNHkrhAKg0oaaaohw88AqGBO2OkCqfWrzdJL4kWi6I68UBE E/5y9fxdjInGKK7hbYGha+pQluLVF3AFY1dqn3JoGgYp0zKh8+kUy5vcEheCmJpu FUU381uQENicZ9FsYL+e =T1kv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----