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1News for the tz database
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3Release 2019c - 2019-09-11 08:59:48 -0700
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5 Briefly:
6 Fiji observes DST from 2019-11-10 to 2020-01-12.
7 Norfolk Island starts observing Australian-style DST.
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9 Changes to future timestamps
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11 Fiji's next DST transitions will be 2019-11-10 and 2020-01-12
12 instead of 2019-11-03 and 2020-01-19. (Thanks to Raymond Kumar.)
13 Adjust future guesses accordingly.
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15 Norfolk Island will observe Australian-style DST starting in
16 spring 2019. The first transition is on 2019-10-06. (Thanks to
17 Kyle Czech and Michael Deckers.)
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19 Changes to past timestamps
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21 Many corrections to time in Turkey from 1940 through 1985.
22 (Thanks to Oya Vula�� via Alois Treindl, and to K��van�� Yazan.)
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24 The Norfolk Island 1975-03-02 transition was at 02:00 standard
25 time, not 02:00 DST. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.)
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27 South Korea observed DST from 1948 through 1951. Although this
28 info was supposed to appear in release 2014j, a typo inadvertently
29 suppressed the change. (Thanks to Alois Treindl.)
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31 Detroit observed DST in 1967 and 1968 following the US DST rules,
32 except that its 1967 DST began on June 14 at 00:01. (Thanks to
33 Alois Treindl for pointing out that the old data entries were
34 probably wrong.)
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36 Fix several errors in pre-1970 transitions in Perry County, IN.
37 (Thanks to Alois Triendl for pointing out the 1967/9 errors.)
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39 Edmonton did not observe DST in 1967 or 1969. In 1946 Vancouver
40 ended DST on 09-29 not 10-13, and Vienna ended DST on 10-07 not
41 10-06. In 1945 K��nigsberg (now Kaliningrad) switched from +01/+02
42 to +02/+03 on 04-10 not 01-01, and its +02/+03 is abbreviated
43 EET/EEST, not CET/CEST. (Thanks to Alois Triendl.) In 1946
44 K��nigsberg switched to +03 on 04-07 not 01-01.
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46 In 1946 Louisville switched from CST to CDT on 04-28 at 00:01, not
47 01-01 at 00:00. (Thanks to Alois Treindl and Michael Deckers.)
48 Also, it switched from CST to CDT on 1950-04-30, not 1947-04-27.
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50 The 1892-05-01 transition in Brussels was at 00:17:30, not at noon.
51 (Thanks to Michael Deckers.)
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53 Changes to past time zone abbreviations and DST flags
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55 Hong Kong Winter Time, observed from 1941-10-01 to 1941-12-25,
56 is now flagged as DST and is abbreviated HKWT not HKT.
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58 Changes to code
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60 leapseconds.awk now relies only on its input data, rather than
61 also relying on its comments. (Inspired by code from Dennis
62 Ferguson and Chris Woodbury.)
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64 The code now defends against CRLFs in leap-seconds.list.
65 (Thanks to Brian Inglis and Chris Woodbury.)
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67 Changes to documentation and commentary
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69 theory.html discusses leap seconds. (Thanks to Steve Summit.)
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71 Nashville's newspapers dueled about the time of day in the 1950s.
72 (Thanks to John Seigenthaler.)
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74 Liechtenstein observed Swiss DST in 1941/2.
75 (Thanks to Alois Treindl.)
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3Release 2019b - 2019-07-01 00:09:53 -0700
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5 Briefly:
6 Brazil no longer observes DST.
7 'zic -b slim' outputs smaller TZif files; please try it out.
8 Palestine's 2019 spring-forward transition was on 03-29, not 03-30.
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10 Changes to future timestamps

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80 Briefly:
81 Brazil no longer observes DST.
82 'zic -b slim' outputs smaller TZif files; please try it out.
83 Palestine's 2019 spring-forward transition was on 03-29, not 03-30.
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85 Changes to future timestamps

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