Speaking of Belarus's time zone abbreviation change, attached is a small patch to NEWS for more consistency with recent release notes dealing with changes to time zone abbreviations, specifically 2014f and 2013e, since that change doesn't affect timestamps per se. -- Tim Parenti On 14 Oct 2014 21:42, Paul Eggert wrote:
Paul_Koning@dell.com wrote:
I don’t know what the TZ maintainers think is a reasonable minimum
We can typically turn it around in a day or two for the tz database itself, but as you say it can take quite some time for this info to filter through all the channels, channels that we have no control over.
As Fiji has observed DST for five years running, it was plausible to guess DST this year too. However, it appears that Ken is guessing Fiji won't have DST this year, and he's closer to the ground and more likely to guess correctly than the rest of us, so I'm inclined to apply the attached proposed patch and publish a new tz version in the next week or so. We need a new version anyway for Belarus's time zone abbreviation change October 26.
Ken, please let us know of any further info you get about this. That way, if we get better information before next week we can revert this patch before publishing the next tz release. Thanks.