The 2020a 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:
Briefly:
Morocco springs forward on 2020-05-31, not 2020-05-24.
Canada's Yukon advanced to -07 year-round on 2020-03-08.
America/Nuuk renamed from America/Godthab.
zic now supports expiration dates for leap second lists.
Changes to future timestamps
Morocco's second spring-forward transition in 2020 will be May 31,
not May 24 as predicted earlier. (Thanks to Semlali Naoufal.)
Adjust future-year predictions to use the first Sunday after the
day after Ramadan, not the first Sunday after Ramadan.
Canada's Yukon, represented by America/Whitehorse and
America/Dawson, advanced to -07 year-round, beginning with its
spring-forward transition on 2020-03-08, and will not fall back on
2020-11-01. Although a government press release calls this
"permanent Pacific Daylight Saving Time", we prefer MST for
consistency with nearby Dawson Creek, Creston, and Fort Nelson.
(Thanks to Tim Parenti.)
Changes to past timestamps
Shanghai observed DST in 1919. (Thanks to Phake Nick.)
Changes to timezone identifiers
To reflect current usage in English better, America/Godthab has
been renamed to America/Nuuk. A backwards-compatibility link
remains for the old name.
Changes to code
localtime.c no longer mishandles timestamps after the last
transition in a TZif file with leap seconds and with daylight
saving time transitions projected into the indefinite future.
For example, with TZ='America/Los_Angeles' with leap seconds,
zdump formerly reported a DST transition on 2038-03-14
from 01:59:32.999... to 02:59:33 instead of the correct transition
from 01:59:59.999... to 03:00:00.
zic -L now supports an Expires line in the leapseconds file, and
truncates the TZif output accordingly. This propagates leap
second expiration information into the TZif file, and avoids the
abovementioned localtime.c bug as well as similar bugs present in
many client implementations. If no Expires line is present, zic
-L instead truncates the TZif output based on the #expires comment
present in leapseconds files distributed by tzdb 2018f and later;
however, this usage is obsolescent. For now, the distributed
leapseconds file has an Expires line that is commented out, so
that the file can be fed to older versions of zic which ignore the
commented-out line. Future tzdb distributions are planned to
contain a leapseconds file with an Expires line.
The configuration macros HAVE_TZNAME and USG_COMPAT should now be
set to 1 if the system library supports the feature, and 2 if not.
As before, these macros are nonzero if tzcode should support the
feature, zero otherwise.
The configuration macro ALTZONE now has the same values with the
same meaning as HAVE_TZNAME and USG_COMPAT.
The code's defense against CRLF in leap-seconds.list is now
portable to POSIX awk. (Problem reported by Deborah Goldsmith.)
Although the undocumented tzsetwall function is not changed in
this release, it is now deprecated in preparation for removal in
future releases. Due to POSIX requirements, tzsetwall has not
worked for some time. Any code that uses it should instead use
tzalloc(NULL) or, if portability trumps thread-safety, should
unset the TZ environment variable.
Changes to commentary
The Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the Listuguj reserve are noted as
following America/Halifax, and comments about Yukon's "south" and
"north" have been corrected to say "east" and "west". (Thanks to
Jeffery Nichols.)
Here are links to the release files:
https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2020a.tar.gzhttps://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2020a.tar.gzhttps://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2020a.tar.lz
As usual, links to the latest release files are here:
https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gzhttps://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gzhttps://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdb-latest.tar.lz
Links are also available via plain HTTP, and via FTP from
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases with the same basenames as above.
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 7aec41a1d9b57c581af086db5de5bf99b165c405
dated 2020-04-23 16:03:47 -0700 and tagged '2020a' in the development GitHub
repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>.
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PS. If your tzdata parser does not yet support negative DST offsets or times
past 24:00, this release's data entries can be turned into a rearguard-format
tarball that does not use these features. This is intended to be a temporary
transition aid for these parsers. To generate a rearguard-format tarball, obtain
the full distribution as described above, and run the command 'make
rearguard_tarballs' on a development host. Or you can run 'make rearguard.zi' to
generate a single file that can be fed directly to a parser that works like 'zic'.
