[tz-announce] 2016j release of tz code and data available

Nov. 24, 2016

      The 2016j 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: Saratov, Russia moves from +03 to +04 on 2016-12-04.

   Changes to future time stamps

     Saratov, Russia switches from +03 to +04 on 2016-12-04 at 02:00.
     This hives off a new zone Europe/Saratov from Europe/Volgograd.
     (Thanks to Yuri Konotopov and Stepan Golosunov.)

   Changes to past time stamps

     The new zone Asia/Atyrau for Atyraū Region, Kazakhstan, is like
     Asia/Aqtau except it switched from +04/+05 to +05/+06 in spring
     1999, not fall 1994.  (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)

   Changes to past time zone abbreviations

     Asia/Gaza and Asia/Hebron now use "EEST", not "EET", to denote
     summer time before 1948.  The old use of "EET" was a typo.

   Changes to code

     zic no longer mishandles file systems that lack hard links, fixing
     bugs introduced in 2016g.  (Problems reported by Tom Lane.)
     Also, when the destination already contains symbolic links, zic
     should now work better on systems where the 'link' system call
     does not follow symbolic links.

   Changes to documentation and commentary

     tz-link.htm now documents the relationship between release version
     numbers and development-repository commit tags.  (Suggested by
     Paul Koning.)

     The 'Theory' file now documents UT.

     iso3166.tab now accents "Curaçao", and commentary now mentions
     the names "Cabo Verde" and "Czechia".  (Thanks to Jiří Boháč.)

Here are links to the release files:

   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016j.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016j.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdb-2016j.tar.lz

The files are also available via HTTP as follows:

   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2016j.tar.gz
   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016j.tar.gz
   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2016j.tar.lz

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
   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdb-latest.tar.lz

   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzcode-latest.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdata-latest.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdb-latest.tar.lz

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 eeff212d0f2b94a8c08d7ce2e1ff2278c027936b 
dated 2016-11-22 23:17:13 -0800 and tagged '2016j' in the experimental github 
repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>.

Here are the SHA-512 checksums for the release files:

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  tzcode2016j.tar.gz
ce0b9958b764479fac7df6b5ba0933fc4c6d815ebccc2537c75c4be105691cd58054704eebfb50ca755d7d48504480d4925ce8836eb499ae4798e3d5503d7e0e 
  tzdata2016j.tar.gz
d6ea53bb23ebc1a41ae5ccfa198aec50b8c3836ee8e2dbe8ac0dd77b410884055df87fe9ca926aa8683c6593d2f08ce18b552cf5996d484b2a526c97c67f8419 
  tzdb-2016j.tar.lz

Here are the GPG checksums for the release files:

[tz-announce] 2016j release of tz code and data available

Paul Eggert