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.)
This was appropriate before Unicode, where "`" and "'" often balanced
in visual output, but that's been obsolete for a while.
Overall, single-quote 'like this' instead of `like this', and
double-quote "like this" or (in typeset output) “like this”
instead of ``like this''. While we're at it, fix some glitches
with hyphens versus minus versus en dash versus em dash.
* Makefile ($(MANTXTS)): Use UTF-8 locale to produce *.txt output.
* checktab.awk, tzselect.ksh:
Quote 'like this' in diagnostics, instead of `like this'.
* date.1, newctime.3, newtzset.3, time2posix.3, zic.8 (q, lq, rq):
New macros. Use them for better double-quoting in output.
* workman.sh: Tell Perl that its stdin and stdout are UTF-8.
* NEWS: Document this.
* asia (Jordan, Asia/Amman): Jordan switches back to standard time
on 2013-12-20. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) Assume this is at
00:00s, and that the previous schedule resumes next year.
* NEWS: Document this.
* asia (Asia/Dili, Asia/Jakarta, Asia/Pontianak, Asia/Makassar)
(Asia/Jayapura): Use WIB/WITA/WIT rather than WIT/CIT/EIT, since
it's typical to use Indonesian-language abbreviations even when
writing in English. I surveyed the Internet and Google Books and
found several independent English-language sources using WIB/WITA/WIT,
whereas it seemed only tz-inspired sources used WIT/CIT/EIT.
Problem reported several times, by George Ziegler, Priyadi Iman
Nurcahyo, Zakaria, Jason Grimes, Martin Pitt, and Benny Lin;
see Lin's summary of the reports in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-February/018609.html>.
This change does not affect time zone offsets, just alphabetic
abbreviations, such as tm_zone in the BSD-style struct tm.
(Asia/Jakarta): Use BMT, not JMT, for mean time from 1923 to 1932,
as Jakarta was called Batavia back then.
Thanks to Steffen Thorsen, in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-March/018812.html>.
An earlier version of this patch was mistaken.
Thanks to Petr Machata for reporting some of the bugs, in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-March/018814.html>.
* asia (Palestine, Asia/Gaza, Asia/Hebron): Incorporates the latest info
from timeanddate.com about Palestine. When combined with the previous
(incorrect) patch this incorporates the following changes for Gaza and
Hebron:
The spring 2008 change in Gaza and Hebron was on 00:00 Mar 28, not
00:00 Apr 1.
The fall 2009 change in Gaza and Hebron on Sep 4 was at 01:00, not
02:00.
The spring 2010 change in Hebron was 00:00 Mar 26, not 00:01 Mar 27.
timeanddate.com's table says 02:00, but the text at
<http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/gaza-and-west-bank-dst-2010.html>
says 00:00.
The spring 2011 change in Gaza was 00:01 Apr 1, not 12:01 Apr 2.
timeanddate's table says 00:00, but the text at
<http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/west-bank-starts-dst-2011.html>
says 00:01.
The spring 2011 change in Hebron on Apr 1 was at 00:01, not 12:01.
The fall 2011 change in Hebron on Sep 30 was at 00:00, not 03:00.
From 2013 on, Gaza and Hebron both observe DST, with the predicted
rules being the last Thursday in March at 24:00 to the first Friday on
or after September 21 at 01:00.
Thanks to Steffen Thorsen, in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-March/018812.html>.
* asia (Palestine): Add rules for 2011 on, to simplify Gaza and Hebron.
Adjust to recently announced changed.
(Asia/Gaza, Asia/Hebron): Use adjusted rules.
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.
* africa (Morocco): Summer time changes to start late April 2012.
* asia (Gaza, Hebron, Syria): Summer time changes.
* northamerica (Haiti): Following US/Canada rules for 2012, and
we're assuming, for now anyway, for the future.
