ELEA-2018-0232

ELEA-2018-0232 - tzdata enhancement update

Type:	ENHANCEMENT
Severity:	NA
Release Date:	2018-01-30

Description

[2018c-1.0.1]
- Rebase to tzdata-2018c (pfrankli@redhat.com)
- Revert the Irish time changes that relied on negative DST offsets.
- Rebase to tzdata-2018b (pfrankli@redhat.com)
- Sao Tome and Principe changed from +00 to +01 on January 1, 2018
- Brazils DST will start on the first Sunday in November
- Irish standard time is in the summer now, not the winter.
- Support for the new zic -t option.
- Add back pacificnew file omitted in tzdata-2018a

[2017b-1.0.1]
- Rebase to tzdata-2017c.
- Northern Cyprus will revert to using EQ rules on October 29, 2017.
- Sudan will switch from +03 to +02 on November 1, 2017.
- Tonga will not change its clocks on Novemeber 5, 2017 ending its
experiment with DST.
- Fiji DST will end on January 14, 2018 rather than January 21, 2018.
- Namibia - starting September 3, 2017 switches from +)1 with DST to
+02 all year. This change takes effect April 1, 2018.
- Turks & Caicos changes from -04 all year to -05 with US DST starting
on March 11, 2018. Effective change date is November 4, 2018.
- tzdata now includes two text versions of the time zone data - tzdata.zi
and leapseconds.

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