[tz-announce] 2016c release of tz code and data available

Wed Mar 23 22:37:37 UTC 2016

The 2016c release of the tz code and data is available. Its most urgent 
change is for Asia/Baku, where the update takes effect this weekend.

This release 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

     Azerbaijan no longer observes DST.  (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)

     Chile reverts from permanent to seasonal DST.  (Thanks to Juan
     Correa for the heads-up, and to Tim Parenti for corrections.)
     Guess that future transitions are August's and May's second
     Saturdays at 24:00 mainland time.  Also, call the period from
     2014-09-07 through 2016-05-14 daylight saving time instead of
     standard time, as that seems more appropriate now.

   Changes affecting past time stamps

     Europe/Kaliningrad and Europe/Vilnius changed from +03/+04 to
     +02/+03 on 1989-03-26, not 1991-03-31.  Europe/Volgograd changed
     from +04/+05 to +03/+04 on 1988-03-27, not 1989-03-26.
     (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)

   Changes to commentary

     Several updates and URLs for historical and proposed Russian changes.
     (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov, Matt Johnson, and Alexander Krivenyshev.)

Here are links to the release files:

   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016c.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016c.tar.gz

The files are also available via HTTP as follows:

http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2016c.tar.gz
http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016c.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 
1284afb4bdc70f97f265ac2f49188217778413ef dated Wed Mar 23 00:51:27 2016 
-0700 and tagged '2016c' in the experimental github repository at 
<https://github.com/eggert/tz>.

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

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tzcode2016c.tar.gz
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tzdata2016c.tar.gz

Here are the GPG checksums for the release files: