Fixed
Created: Oct 30, 2016
Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Nov 10, 2016
Found In Version: 8.0
Fix Version: 8.0.0.12
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace
The 2016h release of the tz code and data is available. Its primary motivation is to update to the new rules for Palestine, where 2016g becomes incorrect starting about four hours from now (sorry, we didn't get much notice). More generally, the 2016h release reflects the following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes:
Changes to future time stamps
Asia/Gaza and Asia/Hebron end DST on 2016-10-29 at 01:00, not
2016-10-21 at 00:00. Predict that
future fall transitions will be on the last Saturday of October
at 01:00, which is consistent with predicted spring transitions
on the last Saturday of March.
Changes to past time stamps
In Turkey, transitions in 1986-1990 were at 01:00 standard time
not at 02:00, and the spring 1994 transition was on March 20, not
March 27.
Changes to past and future time zone abbreviations
Asia/Colombo now uses numeric time zone abbreviations like "+0530"
instead of alphabetic ones like "IST" and "LKT". Various
English-language sources use "IST", "LKT" and "SLST", with no
working consensus.
Changes to code
zic no longer mishandles relativizing file names when creating
symbolic links like /etc/localtime, when these symbolic links
are outside the usual directory hierarchy. This fixes a bug
introduced in 2016g.
Changes to build procedure
New rules 'traditional_tarballs' and 'traditional_signatures' for
building just the traditional-format distribution.
The file 'version' is now put into the tzdata tarball too.
Changes to documentation and commentary
The 'Theory' file now has a section on interface stability.
It also mentions features like
tm_zone and localtime_rz that have long been supported by the
reference code.
tz-link.htm has improved coverage of time zone boundaries suitable
for geolocation.
The US commentary now mentions Allen and the "day of two noons".
The Fiji commentary mentions the government's 2016-10-03 press
release.
