From e18735c9c4fedf060a2ece677d603501bcb8f741 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Parenti Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 15:02:54 -0500 Subject: * NEWS: Reorganize. --- NEWS | 26 ++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1df1c06..3bc1b91 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,17 +2,28 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes - Changes affecting past and future time stamps + Changes affecting future time stamps Asia/Chita switches from +0800 to +0900 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00. (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.) + Asia/Tehran now has DST predictions for the year 2038 and later, + to be March 21 00:00 to September 21 00:00. This is likely better + than predicting no DST, albeit off by a day every now and then. + + Changes affecting past and future time stamps + + America/Metlakatla switched from PST all year to AKST/AKDT on + 2015-11-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) + + Time zone abbreviations for America/Cayman have been changed from + EST/EDT to CIST/CIDST, as per the 2015-11-25 daylight-saving bill. + America/Santa_Isabel has been removed, and replaced with a backward compatibility link to America/Tijuana. Its contents were apparently based on a misreading of Mexican legislation. - America/Metlakatla switched from PST all year to AKST/AKDT on - 2015-11-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) + Changes affecting past time stamps Asia/Karachi's two transition times in 2002 were off by a minute. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.) Several other occurrences of historical @@ -21,15 +32,6 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Europe/Athens, Europe/Paris, and most Australian zones, all for time stamps before 1945. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.) - Time zone abbreviations for America/Cayman have been changed from - EST/EDT to CIST/CIDST, as per the 2015-11-25 daylight-saving bill. - - Changes affecting future time stamps - - Asia/Tehran now has DST predictions for the year 2038 and later, - to be March 21 00:00 to September 21 00:00. This is likely better - than predicting no DST, albeit off by a day every now and then. - Changes affecting build procedure An installer can now combine leap seconds with use of the backzone file, -- 2.6.2