I'm getting some warnings when running zic -d on the updated tzdata file: $ tar -xf tzdata2016b.tar.gz -C tzdata2016b $ zic -d tzdata2016b tzdata2016b/europe warning: "tzdata2016b/europe", line 2425: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+03) warning: "tzdata2016b/europe", line 2426: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+05) (rule from "tzdata2016b/europe", line 599) warning: "tzdata2016b/europe", line 2426: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+04) (rule from "tzdata2016b/europe", line 600) warning: "tzdata2016b/europe", line 2485: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+03) warning: "tzdata2016b/europe", line 2486: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+05) (rule from "tzdata2016b/europe", line 599) warning: "tzdata2016b/europe", line 2486: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+04) (rule from "tzdata2016b/europe", line 600) warning: "tzdata2016b/europe", line 2488: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+02) (rule from "tzdata2016b/europe", line 603) warning: "tzdata2016b/europe", line 2567: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+06) warning: "tzdata2016b/europe", line 2568: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+08) (rule from "tzdata2016b/europe", line 599) warning: "tzdata2016b/europe", line 2568: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+07) (rule from "tzdata2016b/europe", line 600) Not sure if this is a version incompatibility or what: $ zic --version zic (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.21-0ubuntu4) 2.21 On 2016年03月12日 20:52, Paul Eggert wrote:
Given the urgency of the Haiti rule change in a few hours, I've prepared a new tz version 2016b. It is available at <https://github.com/eggert/tz> as commit 70161f48bc212678c58490f7faabc286c90b2a05. Although this is intended to be the next release, published as usual, it can take a bit of time to turn the crank so I thought I'd give the mailing list a heads-up.
2016b does not incorporate all changes recently circulated. Notably it's missing historical changes for Russia contributed by Stepan Golosunov, which I haven't had time to proofread carefully. I'd like to get all this stuff fixed soon, although we may have to wait until the spring silly season is over.