[tz] [tz-announce] tzcode2013e and tzdata2013e available
Carlos Raúl Perasso
crperasso at gmail.com
Sat Sep 21 19:48:12 UTC 2013
Hi Waldemar,
The rules established by D10780 were incorporated into release 2013c of the
TZ database (the current is 2013e).
Rule Para 2010 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
and
Rule Para 2013 max - Mar Sun>=22 0:00 0 -
are active since then.
Un abrazo,
Carlos Perasso
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo <
wvenialbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Please take note:
>
> America/Paraguay will start DST on October 6, 2013.
>
> The current rules are established by the Presidence Decree # 10780 given
> on 2013 March 15. Local Standard Time (LST) begins on the fourth Sunday of
> March, and Daylight Saving Time (DST) on the first Sunday of October.
>
> No time of the day is established for the adjustment, so people normally
> adjust their clocks at 0 hour of the given dates.
>
> These rules are not established on a basis of natural daylight duration,
> but on basis of statistics of electric power consumption. So these rules
> often change.
>
> Greetings.
>
> Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo
> Paraguayan Astronomical Almanac - Editor
>
>
> 2013/9/20 Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
>
>> The 2013e release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects
>> the following changes circulated on the tz mailing list:
>>
>> Changes affecting near-future time stamps
>>
>> This year Fiji will start DST on October 27, not October 20.
>> (Thanks to David Wheeler for the heads-up.) For now, guess that
>> Fiji will continue to spring forward the Sunday before the fourth
>> Monday in October.
>>
>> Changes affecting current and future time zone abbreviations
>>
>> Use WIB/WITA/WIT rather than WIT/CIT/EIT for alphabetic Indonesian
>> time zone abbreviations since 1932. (Thanks to George Ziegler,
>> Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo, Zakaria, Jason Grimes, Martin Pitt, and
>> Benny Lin.) This affects Asia/Dili, Asia/Jakarta, Asia/Jayapura,
>> Asia/Makassar, and Asia/Pontianak.
>>
>> Use ART (UTC-3, standard time), rather than WARST (also UTC-3, but
>> daylight saving time) for San Luis, Argentina since 2009.
>>
>> Changes affecting Godthab time stamps after 2037 if version mismatch
>>
>> Allow POSIX-like TZ strings where the transition time's hour can
>> range from -167 through 167, instead of the POSIX-required 0
>> through 24. E.g., TZ='FJT-12FJST,M10.3.1/146,M1.3.4/75' for the
>> new Fiji rules. This is a more-compact way to represent
>> far-future time stamps for America/Godthab, America/Santiago,
>> Antarctica/Palmer, Asia/Gaza, Asia/Hebron, Asia/Jerusalem,
>> Pacific/Easter, and Pacific/Fiji. Other zones are unaffected by
>> this change. (Derived from a suggestion by Arthur David Olson.)
>>
>> Allow POSIX-like TZ strings where daylight saving time is in
>> effect all year. E.g., TZ='WART4WARST,J1/0,J365/25' for Western
>> Argentina Summer Time all year. This supports a more-compact way
>> to represent the 2013d data for America/Argentina/San_Luis.
>> Because of the change for San Luis noted above this change does not
>> affect the current data. (Thanks to Andrew Main (Zefram) for
>> suggestions that improved this change.)
>>
>> Where these two TZ changes take effect, there is a minor extension
>> to the tz file format in that it allows new values for the
>> embedded TZ-format string, and the tz file format version number
>> has therefore been increased from 2 to 3 as a precaution.
>> Version-2-based client code should continue to work as before for
>> all time stamps before 2038. Existing version-2-based client code
>> (tzcode, GNU/Linux, Solaris) has been tested on version-3-format
>> files, and typically works in practice even for time stamps after
>> 2037; the only known exception is America/Godthab.
>>
>> Changes affecting time stamps before 1970
>>
>> Pacific/Johnston is now a link to Pacific/Honolulu. This corrects
>> some errors before 1947.
>>
>> Some zones have been turned into links, when they differ from
>> existing zones only in older data that was likely invented or that
>> differs only in LMT or transition from LMT. These changes affect
>> only time stamps before 1943. The affected zones are:
>> Africa/Juba, America/Anguilla, America/Aruba, America/Dominica,
>> America/Grenada, America/Guadeloupe, America/Marigot,
>> America/Montserrat, America/St_Barthelemy, America/St_Kitts,
>> America/St_Lucia, America/St_Thomas, America/St_Vincent,
>> America/Tortola, and Europe/Vaduz. (Thanks to Alois Treindl for
>> confirming that the old Europe/Vaduz zone was wrong and the new
>> link is better for WWII-era times.)
>>
>> Change Kingston Mean Time from -5:07:12 to -5:07:11. This affects
>> America/Cayman, America/Jamaica and America/Grand_Turk time stamps
>> from 1890 to 1912.
>>
>> Change the UT offset of Bern Mean Time from 0:29:44 to 0:29:46.
>> This affects Europe/Zurich time stamps from 1853 to 1894. (Thanks
>> to Alois Treindl).
>>
>> Change the date of the circa-1850 Zurich transition from 1849-09-12
>> to 1853-07-16, overriding Shanks with data from Messerli about
>> postal and telegraph time in Switzerland.
>>
>> Changes affecting time zone abbreviations before 1970
>>
>> For Asia/Jakarta, use BMT (not JMT) for mean time from 1923 to 1932,
>> as Jakarta was called Batavia back then.
>>
>> Changes affecting API
>>
>> The 'zic' command now outputs a dummy transition when far-future
>> data can't be summarized using a TZ string, and uses a 402-year
>> window rather than a 400-year window. For the current data, this
>> affects only the Asia/Tehran file. It does not affect any of the
>> time stamps that this file represents, so zdump outputs the same
>> information as before. (Thanks to Andrew Main (Zefram).)
>>
>> The 'date' command has a new '-r' option, which lets you specify
>> the integer time to display, a la FreeBSD.
>>
>> The 'tzselect' command has two new options '-c' and '-n', which lets
>> you
>> select a zone based on latitude and longitude.
>>
>> The 'zic' command's '-v' option now warns about constructs that
>> require the new version-3 binary file format. (Thanks to Arthur
>> David Olson for the suggestion.)
>>
>> Support for floating-point time_t has been removed.
>> It was always dicey, and POSIX no longer requires it.
>> (Thanks to Eric Blake for suggesting to the POSIX committee to
>> remove it, and thanks to Alan Barrett, Clive D.W. Feather, Andy
>> Heninger, Arthur David Olson, and Alois Treindl, for reporting
>> bugs and elucidating some of the corners of the old floating-point
>> implementation.)
>>
>> The signatures of 'offtime', 'timeoff', and 'gtime' have been
>> changed back to the old practice of using 'long' to represent UT
>> offsets. This had been inadvertently and mistakenly changed to
>> 'int_fast32_t'. (Thanks to Christos Zoulos.)
>>
>> The code avoids undefined behavior on integer overflow in some
>> more places, including gmtime, localtime, mktime and zdump.
>>
>> Changes affecting the zdump utility
>>
>> zdump now outputs "UT" when referring to Universal Time, not "UTC".
>> "UTC" does not make sense for time stamps that predate the
>> introduction
>> of UTC, whereas "UT", a more-generic term, does. (Thanks to Steve
>> Allen
>> for clarifying UT vs UTC.)
>>
>> Data changes affecting behavior of tzselect and similar programs
>>
>> Country code BQ is now called the more-common name "Caribbean
>> Netherlands"
>> rather than the more-official "Bonaire, St Eustatius & Saba".
>>
>> Remove from zone.tab the names America/Montreal, America/Shiprock,
>> and Antarctica/South_Pole, as they are equivalent to existing
>> same-country-code zones for post-1970 time stamps. The data for
>> these names are unchanged, so the names continue to work as before.
>>
>> Changes affecting code internals
>>
>> zic -c now runs way faster on 64-bit hosts when given large numbers.
>>
>> zic now uses vfprintf to avoid allocating and freeing some memory.
>>
>> tzselect now computes the list of continents from the data,
>> rather than have it hard-coded.
>>
>> Minor changes pacify GCC 4.7.3 and GCC 4.8.1.
>>
>> Changes affecting the build procedure
>>
>> The 'leapseconds' file is now generated automatically from a
>> new file 'leap-seconds.list', which is a copy of
>> <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list>.
>> A new source file 'leapseconds.awk' implements this.
>> The goal is simplification of the future maintenance of 'leapseconds'.
>>
>> When building the 'posix' or 'right' subdirectories, if the
>> subdirectory would be a copy of the default subdirectory, it is
>> now made a symbolic link if that is supported. This saves about
>> 2 MB of file system space.
>>
>> The links America/Shiprock and Antarctica/South_Pole have been
>> moved to the 'backward' file. This affects only nondefault builds
>> that omit 'backward'.
>>
>> Changes affecting version-control only
>>
>> .gitignore now ignores 'date'.
>>
>> Changes affecting documentation and commentary
>>
>> Changes to the 'tzfile' man page
>>
>> It now mentions that the binary file format may be extended in
>> future versions by appending data.
>>
>> It now refers to the 'zdump' and 'zic' man pages.
>>
>> Changes to the 'zic' man page
>>
>> It lists conditions that elicit a warning with '-v'.
>>
>> It says that the behavior is unspecified when duplicate names
>> are given, or if the source of one link is the target of another.
>>
>> Its examples are updated to match the latest data.
>>
>> The definition of white space has been clarified slightly.
>> (Thanks to Michael Deckers.)
>>
>> Changes to the 'Theory' file
>>
>> There is a new section about the accuracy of the tz database,
>> describing the many ways that errors can creep in, and
>> explaining why so many of the pre-1970 time stamps are wrong or
>> misleading (thanks to Steve Allen, Lester Caine, and Garrett
>> Wollman for discussions that contributed to this).
>>
>> The 'Theory' file describes LMT better (this follows a
>> suggestion by Guy Harris).
>>
>> It refers to the 2013 edition of POSIX rather than the 2004 edition.
>>
>> It's mentioned that excluding 'backward' should not affect the
>> other data, and it suggests at least one zone.tab name per
>> inhabited country (thanks to Stephen Colebourne).
>>
>> Some longstanding restrictions on names are documented, e.g.,
>> 'America/New_York' precludes 'America/New_York/Bronx'.
>>
>> It gives more reasons for the 1970 cutoff.
>>
>> It now mentions which time_t variants are supported, such as
>> signed integer time_t. (Thanks to Paul Goyette for reporting
>> typos in an experimental version of this change.)
>>
>> (Thanks to Philip Newton for correcting typos in these changes.)
>>
>> Documentation and commentary is more careful to distinguish UT in
>> general from UTC in particular. (Thanks to Steve Allen.)
>>
>> Add a better source for the Zurich 1894 transition.
>> (Thanks to Pierre-Yves Berger.)
>>
>> Update shapefile citations in tz-link.htm. (Thanks to Guy Harris.)
>>
>>
>> Here are links to the release files:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2013e.tar.gz
>> ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2013e.tar.gz
>>
>> The files are also available via HTTP as follows:
>>
>> http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2013e.tar.gz
>> http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2013e.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
>> db6270a00d1a364865f3080ac41d8d6d42f5c833
>> dated Thu Sep 19 23:50:04 2013 -0700
>> in the unofficial github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>.
>>
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