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LIN6-10759 : CLONE - [tz-announce] 2016a release of tz code and data available

Created: Jan 27, 2016    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Mar 3, 2016
Found In Version: 6.0
Fix Version: 6.0.0.29
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Userspace

Description

The 2016a 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

    America/Cayman will not observe daylight saving this year after all.
    Revert our guess that it would.  

    Asia/Chita switches from +0800 to +0900 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00.
    

    Asia/Tehran now has DST predictions for the year 2038 and later,
    to be March 21 00:00 to September 21 00:00.  This is likely better
    than predicting no DST, albeit off by a day every now and then.

  Changes affecting past and future time stamps

    America/Metlakatla switched from PST all year to AKST/AKDT on
    2015-11-01 at 02:00.  

    America/Santa_Isabel has been removed, and replaced with a
    backward compatibility link to America/Tijuana.  Its contents were
    apparently based on a misreading of Mexican legislation.

  Changes affecting past time stamps

    Asia/Karachi's two transition times in 2002 were off by a minute.
    

  Changes affecting build procedure

    An installer can now combine leap seconds with use of the backzone file,
    e.g., with 'make PACKRATDATA=backzone REDO=posix_right zones'.
    The old 'make posix_packrat' rule is now marked as obsolescent.
    

  Changes affecting documentation and commentary

    A new file LICENSE makes it easier to see that the code and data
    are mostly public-domain.  The three
    non-public-domain files now use the current (3-clause) BSD license
    instead of older versions of that license.

    tz-link.htm mentions the BDE library ,
    CCTZ , TimeJones.com, and has a new section
    on editing tz source files .

    The Theory and asia files now mention the 2015 book "The Global
    Transformation of Time, 1870-1950", and cite a couple of reviews.

    The America/Chicago entry now documents the informal use of US
    central time in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. 

Here are links to the release files:

  ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016a.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016a.tar.gz

The files are also available via HTTP as follows:

http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2016a.tar.gz
http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016a.tar.gz

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

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