Time Zone Database Release 2014i
Released
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Release Notes
Changes affecting future timestamps
Pacific/Fiji will observe DST from 2014-11-02 02:00 to 2015-01-18 03:00.
(Thanks to Ken Rylander for the heads-up.) Guess that future
years will use a similar pattern.
A new Zone Pacific/Bougainville, for the part of Papua New Guinea
that plans to switch from UT +10 to +11 on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.
(Thanks to Kiley Walbom for the heads-up.)
Changes affecting time zone abbreviations
Since Belarus is not changing its clocks even though Moscow is,
the time zone abbreviation in Europe/Minsk is changing from FET
to its more traditional value MSK on 2014-10-26 at 01:00.
(Thanks to Alexander Bokovoy for the heads-up about Belarus.)
The new abbreviation IDT stands for the pre-1976 use of UT +08 in
Indochina, to distinguish it better from ICT (+07).
Changes affecting past timestamps
Many timestamps have been corrected for Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh before 1976
(thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân for an indirect pointer to Trần Tiến Bình's
authoritative book). Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh has been added to
zone1970.tab, to give tzselect users in Vietnam two choices,
since north and south Vietnam disagreed after our 1970 cutoff.
Asia/Phnom_Penh and Asia/Vientiane have been turned into links, as
they differed from existing zones only for older timestamps. As
usual, these changes affect pre-1970 timestamps only. Their old
contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file.
Changes affecting code
The time-related library functions now set errno on failure, and
some crashes in the new tzalloc-related library functions have
been fixed. (Thanks to Christos Zoulas for reporting most of
these problems and for suggesting fixes.)
If USG_COMPAT is defined and the requested timestamp is standard time,
the tz library's localtime and mktime functions now set the extern
variable timezone to a value appropriate for that timestamp; and
similarly for ALTZONE, daylight saving time, and the altzone variable.
This change is a companion to the tzname change in 2014h, and is
designed to make timezone and altzone more compatible with tzname.
The tz library's functions now set errno to EOVERFLOW if they fail
because the result cannot be represented. ctime and ctime_r now
return NULL and set errno when a timestamp is out of range, rather
than having undefined behavior.
Some bugs associated with the new 2014g functions have been fixed.
This includes a bug that largely incapacitated the new functions
time2posix_z and posix2time_z. (Thanks to Christos Zoulas.)
It also includes some uses of uninitialized variables after tzalloc.
The new code uses the standard type 'ssize_t', which the Makefile
now gives porting advice about.
Changes affecting commentary
Updated URLs for NRC Canada (thanks to Matt Johnson and Brian Inglis).