Fixed
Created: Nov 4, 2014
Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Nov 5, 2014
Previous ID: LIN4-31915
Found In Version: 6.0.0.14
Fix Version: 6.0.0.14
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Userspace
The 2014i 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
Pacific/Fiji will observe DST from 2014-11-02 02:00 to
2015-01-18 03:00.
Guess that future years will use a similar pattern.
A new Zone Pacific/Bougainville, for the part of Papua New
Guinea that plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11 on
2014-12-28 at 02:00.
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.
The new abbreviation IDT stands for the pre-1976 use of UT+8
in Indochina, to distinguish it better from ICT (UT+7).
Changes affecting past time stamps
Many time stamps have been corrected for Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
before 1976 . Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh has
been added to zone1970.tab, to give tzselect users in Vietnam
two choices, since north and south Vietnam disagreed after our
1970 cutoff.
Asia/Phnom_Penh and Asia/Vientiane have been turned into
links, as they differed from existing zones only for older
time stamps. As usual, these changes affect pre-1970 time
stamps only. Their old contents have been moved to the
'backzone' file.
Changes affecting code
The time-related library functions now set errno on failure,
and some crashes in the new tzalloc-related library functions
have been fixed.
If USG_COMPAT is defined and the requested time stamp is
standard time, the tz library's localtime and mktime functions
now set the extern variable timezone to a value appropriate
for that time stamp; and similarly for ALTZONE, daylight
saving time, and the altzone variable. This change is a
companion to the tzname change in 2014h, and is designed to
make timezone and altzone more compatible with tzname.
The tz library's functions now set errno to EOVERFLOW if they
fail because the result cannot be represented. ctime and
ctime_r now return NULL and set errno when a time stamp is out
of range, rather than having undefined behavior.
Some bugs associated with the new 2014g functions have been
fixed. This includes a bug that largely incapacitated the new
functions time2posix_z and posix2time_z.
It also includes some uses of uninitialized
variables after tzalloc. The new code uses the standard type
'ssize_t', which the Makefile now gives porting advice about.
Changes affecting commentary
Updated URLs for NRC Canada
Here are links to the release files:
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2014i.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2014i.tar.gz
The files are also available via HTTP as follows:
http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2014i.tar.gz
http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2014i.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
Each release file has a GPG signature, which can be retrieved by appending ".asc" to the above URLs. Copies of these signatures are appended to this message.
This release corresponds to commit 6ea8fa787948062de40354dd81092f85c8e3fd84 dated Tue Oct 21 22:04:57 2014 -0700 and tagged '2014i' in the experimental github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>.
