* zic.8, zoneinfo2tdf.pl: Change names of Link line fields to be more
descriptive and more like the parameters of 'ln'. LINK-FROM becomes
TARGET, and LINK-TO becomes LINK-NAME.
* backward: Add a '# Link' header.
* europe, northamerica: Add a few '# Zone' headers where needed.
* NEWS: Document this.
This should better address concerns about large-scale changes.
We can do the rest of these changes later, as they're not urgent.
* backward (Africa/Asmera, Asia/Saigon): Restore old links.
* checktab.awk (tztab): Handle zones that should probably be
turned into links some day.
* africa (Africa/Luanda, Africa/Porto-Novo, Africa/Gaborone)
(Africa/Bujumbura, Africa/Douala, Africa/Bangui, Indian/Comoro)
(Africa/Kinshasa, Africa/Lubumbashi, Africa/Brazzaville)
(Africa/Djibouti, Africa/Malabo, Africa/Asmara, Africa/Addis_Ababa)
(Africa/Libreville, Africa/Maseru, Indian/Antananarivo)
(Africa/Blantyre, Indian/Mayotte, Africa/Niamey, Africa/Kigali)
(Africa/Mogadishu, Africa/Mbabane, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam)
(Africa/Kampala, Africa/Lusaka, Africa/Harare):
* asia (Asia/Bahrain, Asia/Phnom_Penh, Asia/Kuwait)
(Asia/Vientiane, Asia/Muscat, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, Asia/Aden):
* australasia (Pacific/Saipan, Pacific/Midway):
* northamerica, southamerica (America/Antigua, America/Cayman):
New zones, restoring 2014e data. Corresponding links removed.
* NEWS: Document the above.
Revert zone-to-link changes that changed current time zone
abbreviations. Add a few more changes, for more consistency.
Make several other fixes discovered while researching this.
* africa (Africa/Accra, Antarctica/Syowa):
* asia (Pacific/Palau):
* australasia (Pacific/Funafuti, Pacific/Majuro, Pacific/Wake)
(Pacific/Wallis, Antarctica/DumontDUrville, Pacific/Chuuk)
(Pacific/Pohnpei):
* northamerica (Pacific/Tahiti):
Remove links, as they are now zones again.
* africa (Africa/Accra, Africa/Maputo):
* antarctica (Antarctica/DumontDUrville, Antarctica/Syowa):
* australasia (Pacific/Tahiti, Pacific/Majuro, Pacific/Chuuk)
(Pacific/Pohnpei, Pacific/Palau, Pacific/Funafuti, Pacific/Wake)
(Pacific/Wallis):
Restore zone.
* africa (Africa/Accra): Assume DST starting in 1920, as per Scott
Keltie & Epstein 1920.
* asia (Asia/Bahrain, Asia/Phnom_Penh, Asia/Kuwait, Asia/Vientiane)
(Asia/Muscat, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, Asia/Aden):
* northamerica (America/Antigua, America/Cayman):
Change from zone to link, as these are also closely related.
* africa (Africa/Blantyre, Africa/Bujumbura, Africa/Gaborone)
(Africa/Harare, Africa/Kigali, Africa/Lubumbashi, Africa/Lusaka):
Now links to Africa/Maputo, not Africa/Johannesburg.
* asia (Asia/Riyadh): Change standard-time transition from 1950
to 1947-03-14. Add commentary citing Hunt 1961 and CAB 1946.
* australasia (Pacific/Chatham): Assume NZST - 45 min. before 1946.
Add commentary about this.
(Pacific/Pago_Pago): UT-11 from 1911 to 1950.
(WS, Pacific/Apia): Use NZ-style abbreviations.
Switch to "WSST" for Western Samoa standard time before 1950.
Add commentary about Samoa before 1950.
* backward (Africa/Asmera, Africa/Timbuktu, Asia/Saigon):
Redo to avoid link-to-link.
* europe (Hungary, Europe/Bucharest): Several pre-1946
corrections: in 1918 the transition out of DST was on 09-16, not
09-29; in 1919 it was on 11-24, not 09-15; in 1945 it was on
11-01, not 11-03; in 1941 the transition to DST was 04-08 not
04-06 at 02:00; and there was no DST in 1920.
(Poland): Add source for 1919.
* southamerica: Add link for America/Antigua.
* NEWS: Document the above. Add some thanks.
* NEWS, asia: Document this.
* asia (Asia/Harbin, Asia/Chongqing, Asia/Kashgar): Remove.
These are now links in 'backward'.
(Asia/Shanghai): Change pre-standard-time offset from 8:05:57 to
8:05:43. Change transition to standard time from 1928 to 1901.
(Asia/Urumqi): Remove 1980 transition to UTC+8.
* backward (Asia/Harbin, Asia/Chongqing, Asia/Kashgar): New links.
(Asia/Chungking): Avoid link-to-link.
* zone.tab (Asia/Harbin, Asia/Chongqing, Asia/Kashgar): Remove.
In several cases our text files had commentary like this:
# Egypt to cancel daylight saving time
# <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/407168">
# http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/407168
# </a>
where lines 2 and 4 let the file be viewed by a browser with the
URL being clickable. In practice this approach does not work with
many modern browsers (I tested with Firefox and with Chrome) and
it clutters up the data, so in cases like the above this patch
removes lines 2 and 4.
(Problem reported by Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso.)
* northamerica (America/Anguilla, America/Dominica, America/Grenada)
(America/Guadeloupe, America/Montserrat, America/St_Kitts)
(America/St_Lucia, America/St_Vincent, America/Tortola)
(America/St_Thomas):
Link to America/Port_of_Spain instead of having a separate zone
that differs only in LMT. Each LMT entry is just a placeholder for
unavailable info, and by itself does not justify a separate zone.
Using just one zone simplifies maintenance, makes the runtime
a bit smaller, and can help simplify user selection of zones.
* southamerica (America/Aruba): Likewise, for America/Curacao.
* backward (America/Virgin):
* northamerica (America/St_Barthelemy, America/Marigot):
Adjust to the other changes, by not linking to a link.
This should allay concerns that the links would go away any time soon.
Suggested by Stephen Colebourne in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019801.html>.
Change "`" to "'"; these days, "`" and "'" are not symmetric.
* antarctica (Antarctica/McMurdo):
* europe (Europe/Jersey, Europe/Guernsey, Europe/Isle_of_Man)
(Europe/Mariehamn, Europe/Busingen, Europe/Vatican, Europe/San_Marino)
(Arctic/Longyearbyen, Europe/Ljubljana, Europe/Podgorica)
(Europe/Sarajevo, Europe/Skopje, Europe/Zagreb, Europe/Bratislava):
* northamerica (America/St_Barthelemy, America/Marigot):
* southamerica (America/Lower_Princes, America/Kralendijk):
Move here from 'backward'. This reverts a 2013-08-09 change.
Other tz file readers had problems with the new pre1970 file, so
remove it and related changes. To recover the pre-1970 data,
instead change pre-1970 Zone entries in other files back to what
they were. Perhaps we'll try to find a better way someday.
* .gitignore: Remove back-pre1970.
* Makefile (BACKWARD): Remove. All uses changed back to 'backward'.
(AWK_SCRIPTS): Remove back-pre1970.awk.
(back-pre1970): Remove.
(clean_misc): Don't rm back-pre1970.
(check_public): Remove special case for pre1970.
* back-pre1970.awk, pre1970: Remove.
* backward (America/Anguilla, America/Antigua, America/Aruba)
(America/Atikokan, America/Blanc-Sablon, America/Cayman)
(America/Creston, America/Curacao, America/Dominica, America/Grenada)
(America/Guadeloupe, America/Montreal, America/Montserrat)
(America/Nassau, America/Port_of_Spain, America/St_Kitts)
(America/St_Lucia, America/St_Thomas, America/St_Vincent)
(America/Tortola): Remove, as these are zones again.
(America/Coral_Harbour, America/Kralendijk, America/Lower_Princes)
(America/Marigot, America/St_Barthelemy, America/Virgin):
Revert to previous links.
* northamerica (Mont, America/Blanc-Sablon, America/Montreal)
(America/Atikokan, America/Creston, America/Anguilla, America/Antigua)
(Bahamas, America/Nassau, America/Cayman, America/Dominica)
(America/Grenada, America/Guadeloupe, America/Montserrat)
(America/St_Kitts, America/St_Lucia, America/St_Vincent)
(America/Tortola, America/St_Thomas):
* southamerica (America/Aruba, America/Curacao, America/Port_of_Spain):
Restore these rules and zones.
* .gitignore: Add back-pre1970.
This is like the previous change, except it entails a change to zone.tab.
The America/Montreal entry was created only because we mistakenly
thought that Montreal's and Toronto's post-1970 time stamps differed.
* backward, northamerica (America/Montreal):
Now a 'backward' link to America/Toronto.
* northamerica (Mont): Remove rules; no longer needed.
(America/Thunder_Bay): Refer to Toronto rules, not Mont.
This doesn't change any time stamps.
* zone.tab (America/Montreal): Remove.
(America/Toronto): Say that it also covers most of Quebec.
This continues in the series of moving entries to 'backward' if
they exist only because of obsolete tz rules about country codes.
In this case, Zone entries are changed to Links; this doesn't
affect any post-1970 time stamps, and the pre-1970 time stamps
are out of scope and are often of dubious reliability.
* backward, northamerica, southamerica (America/Anguilla)
(America/Antigua, America/Aruba, America/Blanc-Sablon)
(America/Cayman, America/Curacao, America/Dominica)
(America/Grenada, America/Guadeloupe, America/Montserrat)
(America/Port_of_Spain, America/St_Kitts, America/St_Lucia)
(America/St_Thomas, America/St_Vincent, America/Tortola):
Now 'backward' links to America/Puerto_Rico.
(America/Atikokan): Now a 'backward' link to America/Panama.
(America/Creston): Now a 'backward' link to America/Phoenix.
(America/Nassau): Now a 'backward' link to America/Toronto.
* backward (America/Coral_Harbour, America/Kralendijk)
(America/Lower_Princes, America/Marigot, America/St_Barthelemy)
(America/Virgin): Adjust to avoid link-to-a-link.
This fixes the 2013-08-15 change so that 'make check' works again.
* backward (America/Shiprock): Move this link here....
* northamerica (America/Shiprock): ... to here.
This continues in the series of moving entries to 'backward' if
they exist only because of obsolete tz rules about country codes.
This change does not affect any time stamps after 1970. Unlike
the previous change in this series, this one does affect time
stamps before 1970, but that's OK as pre-1970 time stamps are
out of scope for the tz database.
* antarctica (Antarctica/McMurdo, Antarctica/South_Pole):
Move to 'backward' and link to Pacific/Auckland.
* backward: Move links here from 'antarctica'.
* zone.tab: Coalesce McMurdo and South Pole, and add Scott Base
to the description.
* backward: Move links here from other files, if the only reason
they existed was to fill out zone.tab. Zones are now allowed to
cross national borders, so a zone now need not exist merely
because there's a national border. Sort the list consistently.
None of this changes any time stamp in the database.
* checktab.awk: Don't require that zone.tab's column 3 be unique.
* europe (Europe/Jersey, Europe/Guernsey, Europe/Isle_of_Man)
(Europe/Mariehamn, Europe/Busingen, Europe/Vatican, Europe/San_Marino)
(Arctic/Longyearbyen, Europe/Ljubljana, Europe/Podgorica)
(Europe/Sarajevo, Europe/Skopje, Europe/Zagreb, Europe/Bratislava):
* northamerica (America/St_Barthelemy, America/Marigot):
* southamerica (America/Lower_Princes, America/Kralendijk):
Move links to 'backward'.
* zone.tab: Give more details about how different rows can have
duplicate column 1 or column 3. For each link moved to 'backward',
change column 3 to be the non-backward name.
