[tz-announce] 2014j release of tz code and data available

Nov. 11, 2014

      The 2014j 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 current and future time stamps

     Turks & Caicos' switch from US eastern time to UTC-4 year-round
     did not occur on 2014-11-02 at 02:00.  It's currently scheduled
     for 2015-11-01 at 02:00.  (Thanks to Chris Walton.)

   Changes affecting past time stamps

     Many pre-1989 time stamps have been corrected for Asia/Seoul and
     Asia/Pyongyang, based on sources for the Korean-language Wikipedia
     entry for time in Korea.  (Thanks to Sanghyuk Jung.)  Also, no
     longer guess that Pyongyang mimicked Seoul time after World War II,
     as this is politically implausible.

     Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed
     from existing zones only for older time stamps.  As usual,
     these changes affect UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only.
     Their old contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file.
     The affected zones are: Africa/Addis_Ababa, Africa/Asmara,
     Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, Africa/Djibouti, Africa/Kampala,
     Africa/Mogadishu, Indian/Antananarivo, Indian/Comoro, and
     Indian/Mayotte.

   Changes affecting commentary

     The commentary is less enthusiastic about Shanks as a source,
     and is more careful to distinguish UT from UTC.

Here are links to the release files:

   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2014j.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2014j.tar.gz

The files are also available via HTTP as follows:

   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2014j.tar.gz
   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2014j.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 59ed0cc5b894da45a366d92ce9bd41d67e1c2225 
dated Mon Nov 10 17:37:11 2014 -0800 and tagged '2014j' in the experimental 
github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>.

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

1207670c168a80fe9db86307028efa3af8ca304817ebe36df5b5c2d2b67deba4294f05f4d6afa04220c3b255ad1903e2850bfb0649b2edfb2d754345a4b2490a 
  tzcode2014j.tar.gz
4c2979be3a96f91f8576304ec905d571b73df0842c8300c1d7317819b45ab3e29948ed911aa265b12a4ad587d5cba44f646dd02e40e4fbf9e68556a2d327142e 
  tzdata2014j.tar.gz

Here are the GPG checksums for the release files:

[tz-announce] 2014j release of tz code and data available

Paul Eggert