The 2013f 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 administrative changes: Changes affecting near-future time stamps Tocantins will very likely not observe DST starting this spring. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) Jordan will likely stay at UTC+3 indefinitely, and will not fall back this fall. Palestine will fall back at 00:00, not 01:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) Changes affecting API The types of the global variables 'timezone' and 'altzone' (if present) have been changed back to 'long'. This is required for 'timezone' by POSIX, and for 'altzone' by common practice, e.g., Solaris 11. These variables were originally 'long' in the tz code, but were mistakenly changed to 'time_t' in 1987; nobody reported the incompatibility until now. The difference matters on x32, where 'long' is 32 bits and 'time_t' is 64. (Thanks to Elliott Hughes.) Changes affecting the build procedure Avoid long strings in leapseconds.awk to work around a mawk bug. (Thanks to Cyril Baurand.) Changes affecting documentation and commentary New file 'NEWS' that contains release notes like this one. Paraguay's law does not specify DST transition time; 00:00 is customary. (Thanks to Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo.) Minor capitalization fixes. Changes affecting version-control only The experimental github repository now contains annotated and signed tags for recent releases, e.g., '2013e' for Release 2013e. Releases are tagged starting with 2012e; earlier releases were done differently, and tags would either not have a simple name or not exactly match what was released. 'make set-timestamps' is now simpler and a bit more portable. Here are links to the release files: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2013f.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2013f.tar.gz The files are also available via HTTP as follows: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2013f.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2013f.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 7436d7438735104103d6d6b0ae5b45bdef7b69a2 dated Tue Sep 24 23:37:36 2013 -0700 in the unofficial github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. Here are the GPG checksums for the release files: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJSQoY1AAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40MOwP/j4xZCapf6Wqzmr7aexvNAVj t+L665BgXBYgmh3V+D1B1mj+B1Ilu0+3z0b4xyNB938trMuWMoBVfBjYfw+nQgbk hoIFggl3jh4BmCJqL7gLRYDBMxhuTcZfDbLHYJ1znuNC63PJej8X3uOXBR1TUQC4 /D40tArmDrpA2KQ5uBbBnIqWFmWUqbPPM+4Zb02TFI6ElIzN9yF7hO8c4AzevYZG SuY6DzdRAvt+HKkPb5BSH5qIb9WnOHPHlh1gb8Ek8IjfC0Y/NPFkfivBcRLcvU3D BMH+ysfhrt/L2shGbN9xJY72hflWZAlBUveggtEEem4ZGyR3jt494qs5bAmfFs5c NEl4FOJ7A0zR4zOOXasY8d8H9x8QHACM7pnFl007CC3/X65ahMDYznug3m0fIlTT FIVExwC7vu5q9phKZqllsf1WDDlYsRDSjvZRyJftAo8d7uiX/hSRV62ENzvDpZTE IhKbQcJO4o3HSy1ZAR/8ZBOZZTrfuCTVia3HQSv+z9HE1DcqZr24Vc5rUxOWlLAG Ikd+F23YtPqH7d+PVZMBDIZkqeu7qB/3a7WSzEvE/eYIKeoGojQBIvz9swZd5vmb tbHrYmvCM9nuPat6XfMhCms80gjcxPSqS3+UODvq01+OOG/v+1uxBavxZWjMo/6n yoay8oUjHbaBUSy9gjv/ =mvcv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJSQoY1AAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40MHYP/Aq8zW+aeJkn0MP55pJYL/oJ 7yGojddjV7FApzoqiBnTqsmUtxMWdrQR8ZAejSoKvZWWI/XwhHv6nPO6ZAlMB7WV 1lakGSjGD055ZhOQaViMF0/i2iQJXrWW+YAy0QWUhJSSLOHZ/Mk0dUVPb2I/3XPW uFuR8xmrJE4gBTEXyN9CL/ebmpvV0lEUbNEj46Y/SKDDqcF8pA1WJlbCiqcxwiTp lS0B/KuwhKof8N3ij7TnIlIM/HzwnTFiL3zabvUNErhRtP3PWggCVanyULnNcSJU 2C4pSQRC3CW2gIPZfF7e3EaV0RoraeinRPdSM+HHsgM13WHw/EuXQ3QJXvJDYoWc w0VnD2cnDqlSBEkWqI/SdK4W3bRhR9lhskFJSBGxSr6XBBXzYAgFu4dzL5DzCSd5 9ITsIC/2FMslLNAEkufNOpHLV7BBrrMDmtwuM2B1yc4zkMXVMKof9v0BxnODGTsH gxncarfm19i7Ew/6rz9UqVH8gsPt2JkMbmLnPjoEo5bgF5JQINO3WC6FtLWxNlPn 5DUfwhE9XcdxoJCl+sA3DsB3qxWz3VHSVH8M3OYSxtRqzRFXpNcLXbwSxz+IlSjp +sTuM8WAECLsSRT5S1zIroobbs2sguY6Gipk9Lq3L4Lux3eHkMzlCoZk36OJdU6K U/ScBctj4rv1sM33kqJW =eD7x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----