* NEWS: Document this.
* europe (Europe/Sofia, Europe/Tallinn, Europe/Simferopol):
This is like the previous change, except it also simplifies the
generated data files for Europe/Simferopol and Europe/Tallinn.
Suggested by Howard Hinnant in:
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2015-June/022309.html
* europe (Iceland, Atlantic/Reykjavik):
Correct entries for 1939, 1921, 1919, and 1837-1907.
Coalesce some other entries, for simplicity.
* NEWS: Document this.
* africa, asia, australasia, backzone, europe, northamerica:
* southamerica, tz-link.htm: Be less enthusiastic about Shanks.
* tz-link.htm: Be clearer about UT vs UTC.
* NEWS: Document this.
* 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.
(Thanks to Stephen Colebourne for a heads-up about the decree.)
* africa (Africa/Luanda, Africa/Bissau):
Change transition date to 1912-01-01.
(Atlantic/Cape_Verde, Africa/Maputo):
Add commentary about the switch.
* asia (Asia/Kolkata): Add commentary about Portuguese India.
* europe (Europe/Lisbon): Change Lisbon Mean Time from -0:36:32
to -0:36:45 (rounded from -0:36:44.68).
(Atlantic/Azores, Atlantic/Madeira):
Change transition date to 1912-01-01.
* NEWS: Document the above.
(Thanks to Vladimir Karpinsky.)
* asia (Asia/Tbilisi, Asia/Samarkand):
* europe (Europe/Riga, Europe/Samara, Asia/Yekaterinburg, Asia/Omsk)
(Asia/Krasnoyarsk, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Yakutsk, Asia/Vladivostok):
Match Byalokoz 1919 better.
* NEWS: Document the above.
* NEWS: Russian change of 2014-10-26 is now official; removes verbal hedge.
* europe (Asia/Omsk): Fixes typos in commentary.
* tz-art.htm: Fuller sources for "Friends" and "Frasier" quotes, a few other
typos.
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.
(Thanks to Vladimir Karpinsky for the Moscow corrections.)
Other corrections are taken from Milne 1899.
* asia (Asia/Tbilisi): Change LMT from 2:59:16 to 2:59:06.
(Asia/Tashkent): Change LMT from 4:37:12 to 4:37:11.
* europe (Europe/Helsinki): Change LMT from 1:39:52 to 1:39:49.
(Europe/Riga): Change LMT from 1:36:24 to 1:36:28.
(Europe/Moscow): Change LMT from 2:30:20 to 2:30:17.
Change 1916/9 time from 2:30:48 to 2:31:19.
(Asia/Yekaterinburg): Change LMT from 4:02:24 to 4:02:33.
(Asia/Irkutsk): Change LMT from 6:57:20 to 6:57:15.
(Asia/Vladivostok): Change LMT from 8:47:44 to 8:47:34.
* zone.tab (Europe/Moscow): Use Kilometer 0 point.
* NEWS: Document this.
* europe: (Europe/Samara): Prefer MSK/MSD for Moscow time and EET/EEST for
Eastern European time.
(Asia/Srednekolymsk): Fix incorrect link in commentary.
* zone.tab (Asia/Chita): Mention that the Moscow offset changes 2014-10-26.
My best guess is that the Asia/Tiksi entry is a false alarm,
and that the area hasn't diverged from Yakutsk since 1970.
* europe: Move zone.tab comments to zone.tab.
(Asia/Yakutsk): Move comment for Bulunsky district here,
Remove a comment about a draft Asia/Tiksi zone, containing the
Bulunsky district. We don't have sufficient evidence that it
ever diverged from Yakutsk after 1970.
* zone.tab (RU): Reorder entries to make more geographical sense.
Add comments for draft zones Asia/Chita, Asia/Srednekolymsk.
(Europe/Samara, Asia/Novokuznetsk, Asia/Magadan, Asia/Kamchatka)
(Asia/Anadyr): Mention that the Moscow offset changes 2014-10-26.
* NEWS: Document the above.
Also, a historical split.
* europe: Add commentary describing proposed future zones Asia/Chita and
Asia/Srednekolymsk, as well as proposed historical split Asia/Tiksi.
* NEWS: Document this.
This borrows heavily from Oscar van Vlijmen's earlier work here.
Mention recent mergers of regions as well.
* europe (Europe/Volgograd): Reattribute old comment to Paul Eggert.
(Asia/Yakutsk): Confirm that Zabaykalsky Krai will need its own zone
from 2014-10-26.
(Asia/Vladivostok): Mention that Bulunsky District will need its own
zone to correctly record its history.
(Asia/Magadan): Mention that the parts of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic and
the North Kuril Islands covered by this zone will need their own zone
from 2014-10-26.
* NEWS: Document this.
* europe: Fix an 80-column issue in commentary.
(Asia/Novokuznetsk): Switch abbreviation from NOVT to KRAT on 2014-10-26
at 02:00.
(Asia/Krasnoyarsk, Asia/Khandyga, Asia/Sakhalin, Asia/Ust-Nera):
Subtract an hour on 2014-10-26 at 02:00.
(Asia/Magadan): Subtract two hours at that time.
* zone.tab (Europe/Samara, Asia/Novokuznetsk, Asia/Magadan, Asia/Kamchatka)
(Asia/Anadyr): Update descriptions relative to Moscow time.
* NEWS: Document this.
* europe (Europe/Kaliningrad, Europe/Moscow, Europe/Simferopol)
(Europe/Volgograd, Asia/Yekaterinburg, Asia/Omsk)
(Asia/Novosibirsk, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Yakutsk, Asia/Vladivostok):
The transition this fall is at 02:00 local time, not 02:00 Moscow time.
The newspaper report was wrong. Also, add pointers to the bill and to
Krivenyshev's table. (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
(Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
* europe: Document FET separately. Add a comment about
whether Zabajkal'skij kraj needs a separate zone.
(Europe/Kaliningrad, Europe/Moscow, Europe/Simferopol, Europe/Volgograd)
(Asia/Yekaterinburg, Asia/Omsk, Asia/Novosibirsk, Asia/Irkutsk)
(Asia/Yakutsk, and Asia/Vladivostok): Subtract an hour from the
time zone on 2014-10-26 at 02:00 Moscow time.
(Europe/Simferopol): Move to after Europe/Moscow, to simplify
similar maintenance in the future.
* NEWS: Document this.
Change attributions for contributors' names using the Latin alphabet
only where it was possible to reconstruct from mailing list records.
Leave attributions for Андрей Чернов, Иофис Герман Романович, and 李耀
宗 with their romanized versions instead (Andrey A. Chernov, German
Iofis, and Lee Yiu Chung, respectively).
