From 2ea20576530f98f7cf085083fcc10fd70e66e68d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 22:56:31 -0500 Subject: [PROPOSED] Fix commentary in previous change * NEWS: Put post-2022c changes into new section, where they belong. * backzone: Add commentary pointing to resolutions. --- NEWS | 19 +++++++++++++------ backzone | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 126822e..7dc8812 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,18 @@ News for the tz database +Unreleased, experimental changes + + Briefly: + Simplify three Ukraine zones into one. + + Changes to past timestamps + + Simplify three Ukraine zones to one, since the post-1970 + differences seem to have been imaginary. Move Europe/Uzhgorod and + Europe/Zaporozhye to 'backzone'; backward-compatibility links + still work, albeit with different timestamps before October 1991. + + Release 2022c - 2022-08-15 17:47:18 -0700 Briefly: @@ -30,7 +43,6 @@ Release 2022b - 2022-08-10 15:38:32 -0700 Chile's DST is delayed by a week in September 2022. Iran no longer observes DST after 2022. Rename Europe/Kiev to Europe/Kyiv. - Simplify three Ukraine zones into one. New zic -R option Vanguard form now uses %z. Finish moving duplicate-since-1970 zones to 'backzone'. @@ -47,11 +59,6 @@ Release 2022b - 2022-08-10 15:38:32 -0700 Changes to past timestamps - Simplify three Ukraine zones to one, since the post-1970 - differences seem to have been imaginary. Move Europe/Uzhgorod and - Europe/Zaporozhye to 'backzone'; backward-compatibility links - still work, albeit with different timestamps before October 1991. - Finish moving to 'backzone' the location-based zones whose timestamps since 1970 are duplicates; adjust links accordingly. This change ordinarily affects only pre-1970 timestamps, and with diff --git a/backzone b/backzone index 929031f..2a4c970 100644 --- a/backzone +++ b/backzone @@ -1484,6 +1484,7 @@ Zone Europe/Tiraspol 1:58:32 - LMT 1880 # # Although Shanks & Pottenger say Transcarpathia used CET 1990/1991, # this unreliable source contradicts contemporaneous government resolutions +# (see the commentary for Ukraine in the 'europe' file) # so for now this dubious zone is in 'backzone'. # "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Rusyn/Ukrainian pronunciation, but # "Uzhgorod" was a common English spelling when this dubious zone was @@ -1526,7 +1527,8 @@ Zone Europe/Zagreb 1:03:52 - LMT 1884 # Although Shanks & Pottenger say Zaporizhzhia and eastern Lugansk # observed DST 1990/1991, this unreliable source contradicts contemporaneous -# government resolutions so for now this dubious zone is in 'backzone'. +# government resolutions (see the commentary for Ukraine in the 'europe' file) +# so for now this dubious zone is in 'backzone'. # "Zaporizhzhia" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but # "Zaporozhye" was a common English spelling when this dubious zone was # added to TZDB in 1999. -- 2.37.2