Time Zone Database Release 2022a
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Release Notes
Briefly:
Palestine will spring forward on 2022-03-27, not -03-26.
zdump -v now outputs better failure indications.
Bug fixes for code that reads corrupted TZif data.
Changes to future timestamps
Palestine will spring forward on 2022-03-27, not 2022-03-26.
(Thanks to Heba Hamad.) Predict future transitions for first
Sunday >= March 25. Additionally, predict fallbacks to be the first
Friday on or after October 23, not October's last Friday, to be more
consistent with recent practice. The first differing fallback
prediction is on 2025-10-24, not 2025-10-31.
Changes to past timestamps
From 1992 through spring 1996, Ukraine's DST transitions were at
02:00 standard time, not at 01:00 UTC. (Thanks to Alois Treindl.)
Chile's Santiago Mean Time and its LMT precursor have been adjusted
eastward by 1 second to align with past and present law.
Changes to commentary
Add several references for Chile's 1946/1947 transitions, some of
which only affected portions of the country.
Changes to code
Fix bug when mktime gets confused by truncated TZif files with
unspecified local time. (Problem reported by Almaz Mingaleev.)
Fix bug when 32-bit time_t code reads malformed 64-bit TZif data.
(Problem reported by Christos Zoulas.)
When reading a version 2 or later TZif file, the TZif reader now
validates the version 1 header and data block only enough to skip
over them, as recommended by RFC 8536 section 4. Also, the TZif
reader no longer mistakenly attempts to parse a version 1 TZIf
file header as a TZ string.
zdump -v now outputs "(localtime failed)" and "(gmtime failed)"
when local time and UT cannot be determined for a timestamp.
Changes to build procedure
Distribution tarballs now use standard POSIX.1-1988 ustar format
instead of GNU format. Although the formats are almost identical
for these tarballs, ustar headers' magic fields contain "ustar"
instead of "ustar ", and their version fields contain "00" instead
of " ". The two formats are planned to diverge more significantly
for tzdb releases after 2242-03-16 12:56:31 UTC, when the ustar
format becomes obsolete and the tarballs switch to pax format, an
extension of ustar. For details about these formats, please see
"pax - portable archive interchange", IEEE Std 1003.1-2017,
<https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13>.