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@@ -1,5 +1,83 @@ News for the tz database +Release 2025a - 2025-01-15 10:47:24 -0800 + + Briefly: + Paraguay adopts permanent -03 starting spring 2024. + Improve pre-1991 data for the Philippines. + Etc/Unknown is now reserved. + + Changes to future timestamps + + Paraguay will stop changing its clocks after the spring-forward + transition on 2024-10-06, so it is now permanently at -03. + (Thanks to Heitor David Pinto and Even Scharning.) + This affects timestamps starting 2025-03-22, as well as the + obsolescent tm_isdst flags starting 2024-10-15. + + Changes to past timestamps + + Correct timestamps for the Philippines before 1900, and from 1937 + through 1990. (Thanks to P Chan for the heads-up and citations.) + This includes adjusting local mean time before 1899; fixing + transitions in September 1899, January 1937, and June 1954; adding + transitions in December 1941, November 1945, March and September + 1977, and May and July 1990; and removing incorrect transitions in + March and September 1978. + + Changes to data + + Add zone1970.tab lines for the Concordia and Eyre Bird Observatory + research stations. (Thanks to Derick Rethans and Jule Dabars.) + + Changes to code + + strftime %s now generates the correct numeric string even when the + represented number does not fit into time_t. This is better than + generating the numeric equivalent of (time_t) -1, as strftime did + in TZDB releases 96a (when %s was introduced) through 2020a and in + releases 2022b through 2024b. It is also better than failing and + returning 0, as strftime did in releases 2020b through 2022a. + + strftime now outputs an invalid conversion specifier as-is, + instead of eliding the leading '%', which confused debugging. + + An invalid TZ now generates the time zone abbreviation "-00", not + "UTC", to help the user see that an error has occurred. (Thanks + to Arthur David Olson for suggesting a "wrong result".) + + mktime and timeoff no longer incorrectly fail merely because a + struct tm component near INT_MIN or INT_MAX overflows when a + lower-order component carries into it. + + TZNAME_MAXIMUM, the maximum number of bytes in a proleptic TZ + string's time zone abbreviation, now defaults to 254 not 255. + This helps reduce the size of internal state from 25480 to 21384 + on common platforms. This change should not be a problem, as + nobody uses such long "abbreviations" and the longstanding tzcode + maximum was 16 until release 2023a. For those who prefer no + arbitrary limits, you can now specify TZNAME_MAXIMUM values up to + PTRDIFF_MAX, a limit forced by C anyway; formerly tzcode silently + misbehaved unless TZNAME_MAXIMUM was less than INT_MAX. + + tzset and related functions no longer leak a file descriptor if + another thread forks or execs at about the same time and if the + platform has O_CLOFORK and O_CLOEXEC respectively. Also, the + functions no longer let a TZif file become a controlling terminal. + + 'zdump -' now reads TZif data from /dev/stdin. + (From a question by Arthur David Olson.) + + Changes to documentation + + The name Etc/Unknown is now reserved: it will not be used by TZDB. + This is for compatibility with CLDR, which uses the string + "Etc/Unknown" for an unknown or invalid timezone. (Thanks to + Justin Grant, Mark Davis, and Guy Harris.) + + Cite Internet RFC 9636, which obsoletes RFC 8536 for TZif format. + + Release 2024b - 2024-09-04 12:27:47 -0700 Briefly: @@ -116,7 +194,7 @@ Release 2024b - 2024-09-04 12:27:47 -0700 Changes to commentary Commentary about historical transitions in Portugal and her former - colonies has been expanded with links to many relevant legislation. + colonies has been expanded with links to relevant legislation. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.) @@ -204,10 +282,10 @@ Release 2023d - 2023-12-21 20:02:24 -0800 changing its time zone from -01/+00 to -02/-01 at the same moment as the spring-forward transition. Its clocks will therefore not spring forward as previously scheduled. The time zone change - reverts to its common practice before 1981. + reverts to its common practice before 1981. (Thanks to Jule Dabars.) Fix predictions for DST transitions in Palestine in 2072-2075, - correcting a typo introduced in 2023a. + correcting a typo introduced in 2023a. (Thanks to Jule Dabars.) Changes to past and future timestamps |