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* Palestine will not start DST until 2019-03-30, instead of 2019-03-23 as
previously predicted.

* Metlakatla rejoined A

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* Palestine will not start DST until 2019-03-30, instead of 2019-03-23 as
previously predicted.

* Metlakatla rejoined Alaska Time (from previously Pacific Standard Time)
on 2019-01-20.

* Affecting older timestamps only: Israel observed DST in 1980 and 1984.

For a detailed list of changes, see share/zoneinfo/NEWS.

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Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2017b from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases

Haiti resumed observance of DST in 2017. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)

Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2016j from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases

* Saratov, Russia switches from +03 to +04 on 2016-12-04 at 02:00.
This hives off a new zone Europe/Saratov from Europ

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* Saratov, Russia switches from +03 to +04 on 2016-12-04 at 02:00.
This hives off a new zone Europe/Saratov from Europe/Volgograd.
(Thanks to Yuri Konotopov and Stepan Golosunov.)

* The new zone Asia/Atyrau for Atyraū Region, Kazakhstan, is like
Asia/Aqtau except it switched from +04/+05 to +05/+06 in spring
1999, not fall 1994. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)

* Asia/Gaza and Asia/Hebron now use "EEST", not "EET", to denote
summer time before 1948. The old use of "EET" was a typo.

* The 'Theory' file now documents UT.

* iso3166.tab now accents "Curaçao", and commentary now mentions
the names "Cabo Verde" and "Czechia". (Thanks to Jiří Boháč.)

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* New zones Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Ulyanovsk for the Russian Oblasts
(their post-1970 histories differ), and Asia/Ba

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* New zones Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Ulyanovsk for the Russian Oblasts
(their post-1970 histories differ), and Asia/Barnaul for Altai Krai
and Altai Republic, Russia. Also, Asia/Sakhalin moves from +10 to
+11 on March 27, 2016. (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev for the
heads-up, and to Matt Johnson and Stepan Golosunov for followup.)

* Haiti will not observe DST in 2016. (Thanks to Jean Antoine via
Steffen Thorsen.)

* Palestine's spring-forward transition on March 26, 2016 is at 01:00,
not 00:00. (Thanks to Hannah Kreitem.)

* Europe/Chisinau observed DST during 1990, and switched from +04 to
+03 at 1990-05-06 02:00, instead of switching from +03 to +02.
(Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)

* 1991 abbreviations in Europe/Samara should be SAMT/SAMST, not
KUYT/KUYST. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)

* Comments in zone tables have been improved.
(Thanks to J William Piggott.)

* In the Theory file, the description of possible time zone
abbreviations in tzdata has been cleaned up, as the old
description was unclear and inconsistent. (Thanks to Alain Mouette
for reporting the problem.)

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Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2014h from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases

We're coming from tzdata2014e.

Changes affecting future time stamps:

* Russia will subtract an hour from most of its tim

Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2014h from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases

We're coming from tzdata2014e.

Changes affecting future time stamps:

* Russia will subtract an hour from most of its time zones on 2014-10-26
at 02:00 local time. (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)

* Turks & Caicos is switching from US eastern time to UTC-4 year-round,
modeled as a switch from EST/EDT to AST on 2014-11-02 at 02:00.

* Tons of changes to past time stamps and cleanup. It's really too much
to repeat here. Please see the NEWS file for further information.

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Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2013i from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases

See https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/NEWS for a list of
what changed. We were previously in sync with tzdata2013d.

Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2013d from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases

* africa: Morocco's midsummer transitions this year are July 7 and
August 10, not July 9 and August 8. (Thanks to Andr

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* africa: Morocco's midsummer transitions this year are July 7 and
August 10, not July 9 and August 8. (Thanks to Andrew Paprocki.)

* asia: Israel now falls back on the last Sunday of October. (Thanks
to Ephraim Silverberg.)

* iso3166.tab: Fix typos in the entries for country codes BQ and SX.

* zone.tab: Specify Jerusalem's location more precisely; this changes
the pre-1880 times by 2 s.

* miscellaneous files: Deemphasize the significance of national borders.
Update several URLs. Spelling fixes (thanks to Kevin Lyda and
Jonathan Leffler).

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Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2012d from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases

* Removes the SCCS IDs

* africa: Morocco does not observe DST from Jul 20 03:00 to Aug 20 02:00.

Initial import of binutils 2.22 on the new vendor branch

Future versions of binutils will also reside on this branch rather
than continuing to create new binutils branches for each new version.

Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2011i from elsie.nci.nih.gov

africa: 8.31 -> 8.32
australasia: 8.23 -> 8.25
europe: 8.33 -> 8.34
iso3166.tab: 8.9 -> 8.11
northamerica: 8.4

Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2011i from elsie.nci.nih.gov

africa: 8.31 -> 8.32
australasia: 8.23 -> 8.25
europe: 8.33 -> 8.34
iso3166.tab: 8.9 -> 8.11
northamerica: 8.42 -> 8.48
zone.tab: 8.45 -> 8.47

* africa: Add Africa/Juba (South Sudan) zone.

* australasia: Samoa moves from east to west of the international date line
(changes from UTC-11 to UTC+13). It will skip December 30, 2011.
Thanks to David Zuelke and Mark Sim-Smith.

* europe: Use KALT as abbreviation for Europe/Kalinigrad from spring 2011
forward (thanks to Yoshito Umaoka).

* iso3166.tab: Add SS (South Sudan) entry.

* northamerica:
- Newfoundland changes time of day for DST start and end to 2:00 a.m.
starting fall 2011 and forward (thanks to Michael Pelley).
- Change America/Resolute use of EST to 2006-2007 only (thanks to
Chris Walton).
- Assume Metlakatla abandoned use of daylight saving as a result of
its 1983 vote.
- Avoid unnecessary use of US rule in America/Honolulu; fix two
typos in America/Honolulu comments.
- Adjust America/Goose_Bay as well as America/St_Johns from fall 2011
forward (thanks to Chris Walton).

* zone.tab:
- Change America/Resolute entry to Central Standard Time.
(thanks to Chris Walton).
- Add SS (South Sudan, Africa/Juba) entry.

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Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2011h from elsie.nci.nih.gov

antarctica: 8.8 -> 8.9
asia: 8.64 -> 8.65
europe: 8.32 -> 8.33
iso3166.tab 8.6 -> 8.9
southamerica: 8.49

Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2011h from elsie.nci.nih.gov

antarctica: 8.8 -> 8.9
asia: 8.64 -> 8.65
europe: 8.32 -> 8.33
iso3166.tab 8.6 -> 8.9
southamerica: 8.49 -> 8.50
zone.tab: 8.43 -> 8.45

* antarctica: Remove unused RussAQ rules.

* asia: Add comment on retaining "old" Russia rules for the benefit
of Armenia.

* europe: Russia abandons DST in 2011 (thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev).
"Old" Russia rules retained for now for Belarus.

* iso3166.tab: Change AN (Netherlands Antilles) to CW (Curacao).

* southamerica: Use links for places with new iso3166 codes.

* zone.tab: Change AN (Netherlands Antilles) to CW (Curacao).

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Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2009h from elsie.

README: 8.2 -> 8.3
Theory: 8.2 -> 8.3
africa: 8.19 -> 8.21
antarctica: 8.4 -> 8.5
asia: 8.30 -> 8.32
aust

Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2009h from elsie.

README: 8.2 -> 8.3
Theory: 8.2 -> 8.3
africa: 8.19 -> 8.21
antarctica: 8.4 -> 8.5
asia: 8.30 -> 8.32
australasia: 8.9 -> 8.11
backward: 8.7 -> 8.8
etcetera: 8.1 -> 8.2
europe: 8.20 -> 8.21
factory: 8.1 -> 8.2
iso3166.tab: 8.5 -> 8.6
leapseconds: 8.7 -> 8.8
northamerica: 8.27 -> 8.28
southamerica: 8.34 -> 8.36
systemv: 8.1 -> 8.2
zone.tab: 8.26 -> 8.28

From Arthur David Olson's comments:

* "Public domain" statements are added to a number of files.

* Instances of "=3D" are changed to "=" in the "africa"
and "southamerica" files.

* The start of DST in Jordan from 2002 forward is changed from
0:00 on the last Friday of the month to 24:00 on the last Thursday.

* Four sets of latitute/longitude are corrected in the "zone.tab" file
(with thanks to Marc Wick).

* Commentary is added to the "australasia" file regarding DST in
South Australia (no changes to the rules).

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Retire our /usr/share/misc/iso3166 file in favor of the version provided
in the tzdata distribution and adjust tzsetup(8) accordingly.

The old format had to be updated by tracking ISO3166 Maintenanc

Retire our /usr/share/misc/iso3166 file in favor of the version provided
in the tzdata distribution and adjust tzsetup(8) accordingly.

The old format had to be updated by tracking ISO3166 Maintenance Agency
Newsletters which was rather painful, and the extra fields (three letter
and three digit country codes) were skipped by tzsetup(8) anyway.

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