[tz-announce] 2015d release of tz code and data available

Fri Apr 24 15:35:27 UTC 2015

The 2015d 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

     Egypt will not observe DST in 2015 and will consider canceling it
     permanently.  For now, assume no DST indefinitely.
     (Thanks to Ahmed Nazmy and Tim Parenti.)

   Changes affecting past time stamps

     America/Whitehorse switched from UTC-9 to UTC-8 on 1967-05-28, not
     1966-07-01.  Also, Yukon's time zone history is documented better.
     (Thanks to Brian Inglis and Dennis Ferguson.)

   Change affecting past and future time zone abbreviations

     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.

   Changes affecting code

    zic has some minor performance improvements.

Here are links to the release files:

   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2015d.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2015d.tar.gz

The files are also available via HTTP as follows:

   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2015d.tar.gz
   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2015d.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 commit 6b36adfdd6baf6e4724bf19fcb090a43722a2522 
dated Fri Apr 24 08:09:46 2015 -0700 and tagged '2015d' in the experimental 
github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>.

Here are the SHA-512 checksums for the release files:

2cb4faced839d02e6313a7aacca4d2dfe6454186d9864ee4aa034f7280442e6a751cec2285bde2d5712962b733e107a46f2282469f6510b42d93972d6c34424a 
  tzcode2015d.tar.gz
37b5aa3c5e0d601c8b20fac08d7267c398a836e4190ef85625d5e86a806ba1baceb2315ba81a9a6c854eae4fce40e9c8f90cf5adade3f48ad443f77c221d8983 
  tzdata2015d.tar.gz

Here are the GPG checksums for the release files: