Fixed
Created: Jun 14, 2016
Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jul 14, 2016
Found In Version: 8.0
Fix Version: 8.0.0.8
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace
The 2016e release of the tz code and data is available. It 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
Africa/Cairo observes DST in 2016 from July 7 to the end of October.
Guess October 27 and 24:00 transitions.
For future years, guess April's last Thursday to October's last
Thursday except for Ramadan.
Changes affecting past time stamps
Locations while uninhabited now use '-00', not 'zzz', as a
placeholder time zone abbreviation. This is inspired by Internet
RFC 3339 and is more consistent with numeric time zone
abbreviations already used elsewhere. The change affects several
arctic and antarctic locations, e.g., America/Cambridge_Bay before
1920 and Antarctica/Troll before 2005.
Asia/Baku's 1992-09-27 transition from +04 (DST) to +04 (non-DST) was
at 03:00, not 23:00 the previous day.
Changes to code
zic now outputs a dummy transition at time 2**31 - 1 in zones
whose POSIX-style TZ strings contain a '<'. This mostly works
around Qt bug 53071 <https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-53071>.
Changes affecting documentation and commentary
tz-link.htm says why governments should give plenty of notice for
time zone or DST changes, and refers to Matt Johnson's blog post.
tz-link.htm mentions Tzdata for Elixir.
Here are links to the release files:
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016e.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016e.tar.gz
