[tz-announce] 2014b release of tz code and data available

[Paul Eggert]

The 2014b 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 near-future time stamps

     Crimea switches to Moscow time on 2014-03-30 at 02:00 local time.
     (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)  Move its zone.tab entry from UA
     to RU.

     New entry for Troll station, Antarctica.  (Thanks to Paul-Inge
     Flakstad and Bengt-Inge Larsson.)  This is currently an
     approximation; a better version will require the zic and localtime
     fixes mentioned below, and the plan is to wait for a while until at
     least the zic fixes propagate.

   Changes affecting code

     'zic' and 'localtime' no longer reject locations needing four
     transitions per year for the forseeable future.  (Thanks to Andrew
     Main (Zefram).)  Also, 'zic' avoids some unlikely failures due to
     integer overflow.

   Changes affecting build procedure

     'make check' now detects Rule lines defined but never used.
     The NZAQ rules, an instance of this problem, have been removed.

   Changes affecting commentary and documentation

     Fix Tuesday/Thursday typo in description of time in Israel.
     (Thanks to Bert Katz via Pavel Kharitonov and Mike Frysinger.)

     Microsoft Windows 8.1 doesn't support tz database names.  (Thanks
     to Donald MacQueen.)  Instead, the Microsoft Windows Store app
     library supports them.

     Add comments about Johnston Island time in the 1960s.
     (Thanks to Lyle McElhaney.)

     Morocco's 2014 DST start will be as predicted.
     (Thanks to Sebastien Willemijns.)

Here are links to the release files:

   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2014b.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2014b.tar.gz

The files are also available via HTTP as follows:

   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2014b.tar.gz
   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2014b.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.

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

This release corresponds to commit 
ea08a2f6ef6b2cfe07ea2b3c570e59c9d8e9bd61 dated Mon Mar 24 21:28:50 2014 
-0700 and tagged '2014b' in the unofficial github repository at 
<https://github.com/eggert/tz>.

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