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.)
* europe (Europe/Simferopol), NEWS:
Crimea switches to MSK on 2014-03-30 at 02:00 local time.
(Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
* zone.tab: Move its zone.tab entry from UA to RU.
(Thanks to Vladimir in Moscow via Alois Treindl.)
* europe (Europe/Kiev): Omit 1990-01-01 transition.
1990-07-01 transition was to EEST, not EET. EEST ended
1991-09-29 03:00.
In several places the code and documentation incorrectly used
"UTC" to describe time stamps that might precede the introduction
of UTC and for which UTC is therefore undefined. Change these
uses to "UT", as that's the correct term when talking about these
time stamps. Problem reported by Steve Allen in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019907.html>.
The major compatibility issue here is with 'zdump -v'; it'll now
output "UT" instead of the possibly-incorrect "UTC".
Many files change in minor ways in the commentary.
* zdump.c (show):
* zic.c (inzsub, addtype):
In output, say "UT" rather than "UTC", since the time stamp we're
talking about might precede the introduction of UTC.
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.
* 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.
The source is: Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
<http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.
* africa (Africa/Gaborone, Africa/Cairo):
* asia (Asia/Rangoon, Asia/Shanghai, Asia/Hong_Kong, Asia/Aden):
* australasia (Pacific/Fiji):
* europe (Europe/Vienna):
* northamerica (America/Nassau, America/Barbados, Atlantic/Bermuda)
(America/Costa_Rica):
* southamerica (America/Bogota, America/Curacao):
Adjust old time stamps to match Milne. I went going through
Milne's list one by one and did not finish, but the rest can be
done later.
* africa, australasia, europe, northamerica, southamerica:
* tzselect.ksh, zdump.c, zic.c:
In commentary and strings, change email address from
tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov to tz@iana.org, as the old email address
no longer works.
