[tz] Fiji DST Oct 26
Tim Parenti
tim at timtimeonline.com
Wed Oct 15 02:03:13 UTC 2014
Speaking of Belarus's time zone abbreviation change, attached is a small
patch to NEWS for more consistency with recent release notes dealing
with changes to time zone abbreviations, specifically 2014f and 2013e,
since that change doesn't affect timestamps per se.
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Tim Parenti
On 14 Oct 2014 21:42, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Paul_Koning at dell.com wrote:
>> I don’t know what the TZ maintainers think is a reasonable minimum
>
> We can typically turn it around in a day or two for the tz database
> itself, but as you say it can take quite some time for this info to
> filter through all the channels, channels that we have no control over.
>
> As Fiji has observed DST for five years running, it was plausible to
> guess DST this year too. However, it appears that Ken is guessing
> Fiji won't have DST this year, and he's closer to the ground and more
> likely to guess correctly than the rest of us, so I'm inclined to
> apply the attached proposed patch and publish a new tz version in the
> next week or so. We need a new version anyway for Belarus's time zone
> abbreviation change October 26.
>
> Ken, please let us know of any further info you get about this. That
> way, if we get better information before next week we can revert this
> patch before publishing the next tz release. Thanks.
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From af59980dab34dea6fd8621b280794b68cc5f6fd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Parenti <tim at timtimeonline.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:00:32 -0400
Subject: * NEWS: Adds missing subheading.
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NEWS | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5986f6d..3c32f0c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
that plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11 on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.
(Thanks to Kiley Walbom for the heads-up.)
+ Changes affecting time zone abbreviations
+
Since Belarus is not changing its clocks even though Moscow is,
the time zone abbreviation in Europe/Minsk is changing from FET
to its more-traditional value MSK on 2014-10-26 at 01:00.
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