[tz-announce] 2023d release of tz code and data available
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Dec 22 18:47:16 UTC 2023
The 2023d release of the tz code and data is available.
This release contains the following changes:
Briefly:
Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland changes time zones on 2024-03-31.
Vostok, Antarctica changed time zones on 2023-12-18.
Casey, Antarctica changed time zones five times since 2020.
Code and data fixes for Palestine timestamps starting in 2072.
A new data file zonenow.tab for timestamps starting now.
Changes to future timestamps
Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland (America/Scoresbysund) joins most of
the rest of Greenland's timekeeping practice on 2024-03-31, by
changing its time zone from -01/+00 to -02/-01 at the same moment
as the spring-forward transition. Its clocks will therefore not
spring forward as previously scheduled. The time zone change
reverts to its common practice before 1981.
Fix predictions for DST transitions in Palestine in 2072-2075,
correcting a typo introduced in 2023a.
Changes to past and future timestamps
Vostok, Antarctica changed to +05 on 2023-12-18. It had been at
+07 (not +06) for years. (Thanks to Zakhary V. Akulov.)
Change data for Casey, Antarctica to agree with timeanddate.com,
by adding five time zone changes since 2020. Casey is now at +08
instead of +11.
Changes to past tm_isdst flags
Much of Greenland, represented by America/Nuuk, changed its
standard time from -03 to -02 on 2023-03-25, not on 2023-10-28.
This does not affect UTC offsets, only the tm_isdst flag.
(Thanks to Thomas M. Steenholdt.)
New data file
A new data file zonenow.tab helps configure applications that use
timestamps dated from now on. This simplifies configuration,
since users choose from a smaller Zone set. The file's format is
experimental and subject to change.
Changes to code
localtime.c no longer mishandles TZif files that contain a single
transition into a DST regime. Previously, it incorrectly assumed
DST was in effect before the transition too. (Thanks to Alois
Treindl for debugging help.)
localtime.c's timeoff no longer collides with OpenBSD 7.4.
The C code now uses _Generic only if __STDC_VERSION__ says the
compiler is C11 or later.
tzselect now optionally reads zonenow.tab, to simplify when
configuring only for timestamps dated from now on.
tzselect no longer creates temporary files.
tzselect no longer mishandles the following:
Spaces and most other special characters in BUGEMAIL, PACKAGE,
TZDIR, and VERSION.
TZ strings when using mawk 1.4.3, which mishandles regular
expressions of the form /X{2,}/.
ISO 6709 coordinates when using an awk that lacks the GNU
extension of newlines in -v option-arguments.
Non UTF-8 locales when using an iconv command that lacks the GNU
//TRANSLIT extension.
zic no longer mishandles data for Palestine after the year 2075.
Previously, it incorrectly omitted post-2075 transitions that are
predicted for just before and just after Ramadan. (Thanks to Ken
Murchison for debugging help.)
zic now works again on Linux 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 (2006).
(Problem reported by Rune Torgersen.)
Changes to build procedure
The Makefile is now more compatible with POSIX:
* It no longer defines AR, CC, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and SHELL.
* It no longer uses its own 'cc' in place of CC.
* It now uses ARFLAGS, with default specified by POSIX.
* It does not use LFLAGS incompatibly with POSIX.
* It uses the special .POSIX target.
* It quotes special characters more carefully.
* It no longer mishandles builds in an ISO 8859 locale.
Due to the CC changes, TZDIR is now #defined in a file tzfile.h
built by 'make', not in a $(CC) -D option. Also, TZDEFAULT is
now treated like TZDIR as they have similar roles.
Changes to commentary
Limitations and hazards of the optional support for obsolescent
C89 platforms are documented better, along with a tentative
schedule for removing this support.
Here are links to the release files:
https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2023d.tar.gz
https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2023d.tar.gz
https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2023d.tar.lz
The following convenience links are also available, although they may
point to the previous release until the relevant caches are refreshed:
https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz
https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz
https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdb-latest.tar.lz
Links are also available via plain HTTP, and via FTP from
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases with the same basenames as above.
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
cc48c2dfa2f3c21d25ab108bba978b0307ecf0e8 dated 2023-12-21 20:02:24 -0800
and tagged '2023d' in the development GitHub repository at
<https://github.com/eggert/tz>.
Here are the SHA-512 checksums for the release files:
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