2014e release of tz code and data available

June 13, 2014

      The 2014e 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 near-future time stamps

     Egypt's 2014 Ramadan-based transitions are June 26 and July 31 at 
24:00.
     (Thanks to Imed Chihi.)  Guess that from 2015 on Egypt will temporarily
     switch to standard time at 24:00 the last Thursday before Ramadan, and
     back to DST at 00:00 the first Friday after Ramadan.

     Similarly, Morocco's are June 28 at 03:00 and August 2 at 02:00. 
(Thanks
     to Milamber Space Network.)  Guess that from 2015 on Morocco will
     temporarily switch to standard time at 03:00 the last Saturday before
     Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Saturday after Ramadan.

   Changes affecting past time stamps

     The abbreviation "MSM" (Moscow Midsummer Time) is now used instead of
     "MSD" for Moscow's double daylight time in summer 1921.  Also, a typo
     "VLASST" has been repaired to be "VLAST" for Vladivostok summer time
     in 1991.  (Thanks to Hank W. for reporting the problems.)

   Changes affecting commentary

     tz-link.htm now cites RFC 7265 for jCal, mentions PTP and the
     draft CalDAV extension, updates URLs for TSP, TZInfo, IATA, and
     removes stale pointers to World Time Explorer and WORLDTIME.

Here are links to the release files:

   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2014e.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2014e.tar.gz

The files are also available via HTTP as follows:

   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2014e.tar.gz
   http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2014e.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.

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

This release corresponds to commit 
aac77e9d1df743a04b4983332831e86f4fbfbf67 dated Thu Jun 12 21:53:52 2014 
-0700 and tagged '2014e' in the unofficial github repository at 
<https://github.com/eggert/tz>.

Here are the GPG checksums for the release files:

Paul Eggert

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