Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 19:18:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-vendor@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r307781 - vendor/tzdata/dist Message-ID: <201610221918.u9MJIx9Q076011@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bapt Date: Sat Oct 22 19:18:59 2016 New Revision: 307781 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/307781 Log: Import tzdata 2016h Modified: vendor/tzdata/dist/asia vendor/tzdata/dist/australasia vendor/tzdata/dist/europe vendor/tzdata/dist/northamerica Modified: vendor/tzdata/dist/asia ============================================================================== --- vendor/tzdata/dist/asia Sat Oct 22 18:02:20 2016 (r307780) +++ vendor/tzdata/dist/asia Sat Oct 22 19:18:59 2016 (r307781) @@ -2544,11 +2544,6 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03): # http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/ramallah?year=2014 # says that the fall 2014 transition was Oct 23 at 24:00. -# For future dates, guess the last Friday in March at 24:00 through -# the first Friday on or after October 21 at 00:00. This is consistent with -# the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs: -# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza -# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron # From Hannah Kreitem (2016-03-09): # http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/WebSite/ar/ViewDetails?ID=31728 @@ -2558,7 +2553,21 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # # From Paul Eggert (2016-03-12): # Predict spring transitions on March's last Saturday at 01:00 from now on. -# Leave fall predictions alone for now. + +# From Sharef Mustafa (2016-10-19): +# [T]he Palestinian cabinet decision (Mar 8th 2016) published on +# http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/WebSite/Upload/Decree/GOV_17/16032016134830.pdf +# states that summer time will end on Oct 29th at 01:00. +# +# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-19): +# Predict fall transitions on October's last Saturday at 01:00 from now on. +# This is consistent with the 2016 transition as well as our spring +# predictions. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-19): +# It's also consistent with predictions in the following URLs today: +# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza +# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S @@ -2587,9 +2596,10 @@ Rule Palestine 2011 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 Rule Palestine 2012 2014 - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2012 only - Sep 21 1:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2013 only - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 - -Rule Palestine 2014 max - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2014 2015 - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2015 only - Mar lastFri 24:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2016 max - Mar lastSat 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Palestine 2016 max - Oct lastSat 1:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct @@ -2739,45 +2749,31 @@ Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 J # People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'], # as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. -# From K Sethu (2006-04-25): -# I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at -# the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government -# twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization -# agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard. -# -# I recollect before the recent change the government announcements -# mentioning it as simply changing Sri Lanka Standard Time or Sri Lanka -# Time and no mention was made about the abbreviation. -# -# If we look at Sri Lanka Department of Government's "Official News -# Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they -# use SLT as abbreviation in time stamp at the beginning of each news -# item.... -# -# Within Sri Lanka I think LKT is well known among computer users and -# administrators. In my opinion SLT may not be a good choice because the -# nation's largest telcom / internet operator Sri Lanka Telcom is well -# known by that abbreviation - simply as SLT (there IP domains are -# slt.lk and sltnet.lk). -# -# But if indeed our government has adopted SLT as standard abbreviation -# (that we have not known so far) then it is better that it be used for -# all computers. - -# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): -# One possibility is that we wait for a bit for the dust to settle down -# and then see what people actually say in practice. +# From Sadika Sumanapala (2016-10-19): +# According to http://www.sltime.org (maintained by Measurement Units, +# Standards & Services Department, Sri Lanka) abbreviation for Sri Lanka +# standard time is SLST. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-18): +# "SLST" seems to be reasonably recent and rarely-used outside time +# zone nerd sources. I searched Google News and found three uses of +# it in the International Business Times of India in February and +# March of this year when discussing cricket match times, but nothing +# since then (though there has been a lot of cricket) and nothing in +# other English-language news sources. Our old abbreviation "LKT" is +# even worse. For now, let's use a numeric abbreviation; we can +# switch to "SLST" if it catches on. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time - 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5 - 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep - 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00 - 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00 - 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30 - 6:00 - LKT 2006 Apr 15 0:30 - 5:30 - IST + 5:30 - +0530 1942 Jan 5 + 5:30 0:30 +0530/+06 1942 Sep + 5:30 1:00 +0530/+0630 1945 Oct 16 2:00 + 5:30 - +0530 1996 May 25 0:00 + 6:30 - +0630 1996 Oct 26 0:30 + 6:00 - +06 2006 Apr 15 0:30 + 5:30 - +0530 # Syria # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Modified: vendor/tzdata/dist/australasia ============================================================================== --- vendor/tzdata/dist/australasia Sat Oct 22 18:02:20 2016 (r307780) +++ vendor/tzdata/dist/australasia Sat Oct 22 19:18:59 2016 (r307781) @@ -350,7 +350,13 @@ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 # commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at # 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016. -# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-01): +# From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04): +# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx +# "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when +# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am.... Daylight Saving will +# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017." + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-03): # For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to # 03:00 the third Sunday in January. Although ad hoc, it matches # transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future Modified: vendor/tzdata/dist/europe ============================================================================== --- vendor/tzdata/dist/europe Sat Oct 22 18:02:20 2016 (r307780) +++ vendor/tzdata/dist/europe Sat Oct 22 19:18:59 2016 (r307781) @@ -1908,7 +1908,7 @@ Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Ma # Amsterdam mean time. # The data entries before 1945 are taken from -# http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm +# http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Neth 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 NST # Netherlands Summer Time @@ -3427,22 +3427,24 @@ Zone Europe/Zurich 0:34:08 - LMT 1853 Ju # Turkey -# From Amar Devegowda (2007-01-03): -# The time zone rules for Istanbul, Turkey have not been changed for years now. -# ... The latest rules are available at: -# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=107 -# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-01-03): -# I have been able to find press records back to 1996 which all say that -# DST started 01:00 local time and end at 02:00 local time. I am not sure -# what happened before that. One example for each year from 1996 to 2001: -# http://newspot.byegm.gov.tr/arsiv/1996/21/N4.htm -# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING97/03/97X03X25.TXT -# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING98/03/98X03X02.HTM -# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING99/10/99X10X26.HTM#%2016 -# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2000/03/00X03X06.HTM#%2021 -# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2001/03/23x03x01.HTM#%2027 -# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-03): -# Prefer the above source to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1990. +# From Kıvanç Yazan (2016-09-25): +# 1) For 1986-2006, DST started at 01:00 local and ended at 02:00 local, with +# no exceptions. +# 2) 1994's lastSun was overridden with Mar 20 ... +# Here are official papers: +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19032.pdf - page 2 for 1986 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19400.pdf - page 4 for 1987 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19752.pdf - page 15 for 1988 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20102.pdf - page 6 for 1989 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20464.pdf - page 1 for 1990 - 1992 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21531.pdf - page 15 for 1993 - 1995 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21879.pdf - page 1 for overriding 1994 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/22588.pdf - page 1 for 1996, 1997 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/23286.pdf - page 10 for 1998 - 2000 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2001/03/20010324.htm#2 - for 2001 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2002/03/20020316.htm#2 - for 2002-2006 +# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-25): +# Prefer the above sources to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1985. # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-09): # Starting 2007 though, it seems that they are adopting EU's 1:00 UTC @@ -3551,10 +3553,10 @@ Rule Turkey 1983 only - Jul 31 0:00 1:00 Rule Turkey 1983 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - Rule Turkey 1985 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1985 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - -Rule Turkey 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S -Rule Turkey 1986 1990 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule Turkey 1991 2006 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S -Rule Turkey 1991 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule Turkey 1986 1993 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1986 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule Turkey 1994 only - Mar 20 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1995 2006 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1996 2006 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880 Modified: vendor/tzdata/dist/northamerica ============================================================================== --- vendor/tzdata/dist/northamerica Sat Oct 22 18:02:20 2016 (r307780) +++ vendor/tzdata/dist/northamerica Sat Oct 22 19:18:59 2016 (r307781) @@ -24,8 +24,32 @@ # was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines # in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC, # but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich. -# His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00, -# and the most of the country soon followed suit. + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-21): +# Dowd's proposal left many details unresolved, such as where to draw +# lines between time zones. The key individual who made time zones +# work in the US was William Frederick Allen - railway engineer, +# managing editor of the Travelers' Guide, and secretary of the +# General Time Convention, a railway standardization group. Allen +# spent months in dialogs with scientific and railway leaders, +# developed a workable plan to institute time zones, and presented it +# to the General Time Convention on 1883-04-11, saying that his plan +# meant "local time would be practically abolished" - a plus for +# railway scheduling. By the next convention on 1883-10-11 nearly all +# railroads had agreed and it took effect on 1883-11-18 at 12:00. +# That Sunday was called the "day of two noons", as the eastern parts +# of the new zones observed noon twice. Allen witnessed the +# transition in New York City, writing: +# +# I heard the bells of St. Paul's strike on the old time. Four +# minutes later, obedient to the electrical signal from the Naval +# Observatory ... the time-ball made its rapid descent, the chimes +# of old Trinity rang twelve measured strokes, and local time was +# abandoned, probably forever. +# +# Most of the US soon followed suit. See: +# Bartky IR. The adoption of standard time. Technol Cult 1989 Jan;30(1):25-56. +# http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105430 # From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): # That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time.
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