When recently changing the 'Chile' ruleset in 'southamerica', I
forgot to update its copy 'ChileAQ' in 'antarctica'. This sort of
thing has been a continuing problem over the years. Attempt to
make further recurrences less likely by moving 'Antarctica/Palmer'
from 'antarctica' to 'southamerica', so that there's no need to
copy the rules in question.
* antarctica (ArgAQ, ChileAQ): Remove.
(Antarctica/Palmer): Move to ...
* southamerica: ... this file, and use plain 'Arg' and 'Chile'.
* NEWS: Mention Antarctica/Palmer and the other affected zones.
* NEWS:
* antarctica (ChileAQ, Antarctica/Palmer):
* southamerica (Chile, America/Santiago, Pacific/Easter):
Chile will not change its clocks in April, or thereafter.
Consider this to be their new standard time, effective April.
(Thanks to Juan Correa.)
It allows multiple country codes per zone. Switch code and data to
use the new format, along with the recently-added Crozet Islands entry.
The old zone.tab file is still installed but is deprecated.
The new file uses UTF-8; add commentary saying that iso3166.tab is
planned to change to UTF-8.
* Theory, tzselect.8 (FILES): zone.tab -> time.tab.
* africa (Indian/Alfred_Faure): Remove link.
* antarctica: Mention Possession Island in comments.
* checktab.awk: Add support for checking time.tab.
* iso3166.tab: Mention planned switch to UTF-8.
Update ISO 3166-1 Newsletter from VI-15 to VI-16.
* time.tab: New file.
* tzselect.ksh (zonetabtype): New variable.
Add undocumented -t option, meant for developer testing.
(TZ_ZONE_TABLE): Use zonetabtype.
(output_distances, countries, regions, TZ): Support time.tab format.
(quoted_continents, distance_table, countries, regions)
(TZ, TZ_for_date): Quote shell strings more carefully.
* zone.tab: Refer to time.tab for detailed comments about format.
(Indian/Alfred_Faure): Remove.
* Makefile (TIMETABLES): New macro.
(TABDATA, install, check_tables): Use it.
(check_character_set, check_tables): Check time.tab too.
(check_time_t_alternatives): Use time.tab, not zone.tab.
* 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.
* africa (Africa/Luanda, Africa/Porto-Novo, Africa/Gaborone)
(Africa/Ouagadougou, 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/Banjul, Africa/Accra, Africa/Conakry)
(Africa/Maseru, Indian/Antananarivo, Africa/Blantyre, Africa/Bamako)
(Africa/Nouakchott, Indian/Mayotte, Africa/Maputo, Africa/Niamey)
(Africa/Kigali, Atlantic/St_Helena, Africa/Sao_Tome, Africa/Dakar)
(Africa/Freetown, Africa/Mogadishu, Africa/Mbabane, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam)
(Africa/Lome, Africa/Kampala, Africa/Lusaka, Africa/Harare):
* antarctica (Antarctica/Syowa):
Remove zone, replacing each with a link to a region that has had
the same UTC offset since 1970.
* NEWS: Document this.
This is like the 2013-09-02 change, but for the Pacific this time.
* antarctica (Antarctica/DumontDUrville):
* australasia (Pacific/Tahiti, Pacific/Saipan, Pacific/Majuro)
(Pacific/Chuuk, Pacific/Pohnpei, Pacific/Palau, Pacific/Funafuti)
(Pacific/Midway, Pacific/Wake, Pacific/Wallis):
Remove zone, replacing each with a link to a region that has had
the same UTC offset since 1970. This removes data that were
largely invented, either by us or almost surely by Shanks or his
sources.
* asia, australasia, northamerica: Create links accordingly.
* NEWS: Document this.
* antarctica (Antarctica/Casey): Spell out AWST in comment.
* tz-link.htm: Use CST instead of EST in the example, as in Theory, to
match the current database.
* zic.8: Update Australia/Adelaide Zone line example to match current
usage.
* Theory: Use CST instead of EST in the example, so that it matches
the current database.
* antarctica (Antarctica/Casey): AWST, not WST.
* asia (Asia/Jayapura): ACST, not CST.
* australasia: Prepend "[A]" to "EST" in quote about EST.
Garrett Wollman reported privately that XEmacs 21.4.22, the current
stable version, doesn't work with the UTF-8 recently introduced
into our commentary. For example, the UTF-8 character '−'
(MINUS SIGN), which is stored as the three bytes "\342\210\222",
displays as 'â\210\222'. For proper names this is annoying but
tolerable, as there's little loss in utility from (say) 'Racoviță'
to its display form 'RacoviÈ\233Ä\203'. But for symbols this is a
real pain that can make it hard to understand the documentation, e.g.,
'Release 2014e – 2014-06-12 21:53:52 −0700' displays as
'Release 2014e â\200\223 2014-06-12 21:53:52 â\210\2220700'.
To work around this problem, make the following substitutions in
commentary to mostly revert these symbols to their pre-UTF-8 versions:
'§' -> 'section', '°' -> 'degrees', '±' -> '+-', '–' -> '-' (en
dash), '—' -> '--' (em dash), '′' -> "'", '″' -> '"', '→' -> '->',
'−' -> '-' (minus sign), '≤' -> '<='. Leave proper names and
foreign words in UTF-8.
Most of this patch is to commentary, to distinguish better among
the similar characters hyphen '-', minus sign '−', en dash '–' (used
for ranges), and em dash '—'. Render ordinary dashes in text as
spaced en dashes, as this gives better-looking results in monospaced
fonts.
* yearistype.sh, zic.c: Reword diagnostics so that they do not use
hyphens as if they were dashes. Since we are sticking to ASCII in
programs, we can't use proper dashes in diagnostics.
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.)
* antarctica (Antarctica/Troll), NEWS: Uncomment, but with an
approximation that uses only UTC and CEST. (Thanks to Bengt-Inge
Larsson.)
* zone.tab (Antarctica/Troll): New entry.
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.
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.
This doesn't affect time stamps, just zone selection.
Problem reported by Tobias Conradi in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-April/019023.html>.
* antarctica (AusAQ, ATAQ): Remove; no longer needed.
* australasia (Antarctica/Macquarie): Move here from
the 'antarctica' file. Use Aus and AT rather than
AusAQ and ATAQ.
* zone.tab (Antarctica/Macquarie): Country code AU, not AQ.
