Time Zone Database Release 2016h
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Release Notes
Changes to future timestamps
Asia/Gaza and Asia/Hebron end DST on 2016-10-29 at 01:00, not
2016-10-21 at 00:00. (Thanks to Sharef Mustafa.) Predict that
future fall transitions will be on the last Saturday of October
at 01:00, which is consistent with predicted spring transitions
on the last Saturday of March. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.)
Changes to past timestamps
In Turkey, transitions in 1986-1990 were at 01:00 standard time
not at 02:00, and the spring 1994 transition was on March 20, not
March 27. (Thanks to Kıvanç Yazan.)
Changes to past and future time zone abbreviations
Asia/Colombo now uses numeric time zone abbreviations like "+0530"
instead of alphabetic ones like "IST" and "LKT". Various
English-language sources use "IST", "LKT" and "SLST", with no
working consensus. (Usage of "SLST" mentioned by Sadika
Sumanapala.)
Changes to code
zic no longer mishandles relativizing file names when creating
symbolic links like /etc/localtime, when these symbolic links
are outside the usual directory hierarchy. This fixes a bug
introduced in 2016g. (Problem reported by Andreas Stieger.)
Changes to build procedure
New rules 'traditional_tarballs' and 'traditional_signatures' for
building just the traditional-format distribution. (Requested by
Deborah Goldsmith.)
The file 'version' is now put into the tzdata tarball too.
(Requested by Howard Hinnant.)
Changes to documentation and commentary
The 'Theory' file now has a section on interface stability.
(Requested by Paul Koning.) It also mentions features like
tm_zone and localtime_rz that have long been supported by the
reference code.
tz-link.htm has improved coverage of time zone boundaries suitable
for geolocation. (Thanks to heads-ups from Evan Siroky and Matt
Johnson.)
The US commentary now mentions Allen and the "day of two noons".
The Fiji commentary mentions the government's 2016-10-03 press
release. (Thanks to Raymond Kumar.)