MFC of 280413,tzdata7:

Release 2015b - 2015-03-19 23:28:11 -0700

  Changes affecting future time stamps

    Mongolia will start observing DST again this year, from the last
    Saturday in March at 02:00 to the last Saturday in September at 00:00.
    (Thanks to Ganbold Tsagaankhuu.)

    Palestine will start DST on March 28, not March 27.  Also,
    correct the fall 2014 transition from September 26 to October 24.
    Adjust future predictions accordingly.  (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)

  Changes affecting past time stamps

    The 1982 zone shift in Pacific/Easter has been corrected, fixing a 2015a
    regression.  (Thanks to Stuart Bishop for reporting the problem.)

    Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed
    from existing zones only for older time stamps.  As usual,
    these changes affect UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only.
    Their old contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file.
    The affected zones are: America/Antigua, America/Cayman,
    Pacific/Midway, and Pacific/Saipan.

  Changes affecting time zone abbreviations

    Correct the 1992-2010 DST abbreviation in Volgograd from "MSK" to "MSD".
    (Thanks to Hank W.)

6 files changed, 64 insertions, 53 deletions

diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/asia b/share/zoneinfo/asia
index 8f33b162097d..756e3d0e5f46 100644
--- a/share/zoneinfo/asia
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/asia
@@ -1904,6 +1904,13 @@ Zone	Indian/Maldives	4:54:00 -	LMT	1880 # Male
 # was at the start of 2008-03-31 (the day of Steffen Thorsen's report);
 # this is almost surely wrong.
 
+# From Ganbold Tsagaankhuu (2015-03-10):
+# It seems like yesterday Mongolian Government meeting has concluded to use
+# daylight saving time in Mongolia....  Starting at 2:00AM of last Saturday of
+# March 2015, daylight saving time starts.  And 00:00AM of last Saturday of
+# September daylight saving time ends.  Source:
+# http://zasag.mn/news/view/8969
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Mongol	1983	1984	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Mongol	1983	only	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
@@ -1924,6 +1931,8 @@ Rule	Mongol	1984	1998	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
 Rule	Mongol	2001	only	-	Apr	lastSat	2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Mongol	2001	2006	-	Sep	lastSat	2:00	0	-
 Rule	Mongol	2002	2006	-	Mar	lastSat	2:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Mongol	2015	max	-	Mar	lastSat	2:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Mongol	2015	max	-	Sep	lastSat	0:00	0	-
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 # Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
@@ -2342,13 +2351,19 @@ Zone	Asia/Karachi	4:28:12 -	LMT	1907
 # official source...:
 # http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/ar/Views/ViewDetails.aspx?pid=1252
 
-# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-24):
-# For future dates, guess the last Thursday in March at 24:00 through
-# the first Friday on or after September 21 at 00:00.  This is consistent with
-# the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs,
-# which are for Gaza and Hebron respectively:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=702
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=2364
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-03-03):
+# Sources such as http://www.alquds.com/news/article/view/id/548257
+# and http://www.raya.ps/ar/news/890705.html say Palestine areas will
+# start DST on 2015-03-28 00:00 which is one day later than expected.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03):
+# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/ramallah?year=2014
+# says that the fall 2014 transition was Oct 23 at 24:00.
+# For future dates, guess the last Friday in March at 24:00 through
+# the first Friday on or after October 21 at 00:00.  This is consistent with
+# the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs:
+# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza
+# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron
 
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule EgyptAsia	1957	only	-	May	10	0:00	1:00	S
@@ -2374,9 +2389,11 @@ Rule Palestine	2011	only	-	Apr	 1	0:01	1:00	S
 Rule Palestine	2011	only	-	Aug	 1	0:00	0	-
 Rule Palestine	2011	only	-	Aug	30	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule Palestine	2011	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	-
-Rule Palestine	2012	max	-	Mar	lastThu	24:00	1:00	S
+Rule Palestine	2012	2014	-	Mar	lastThu	24:00	1:00	S
 Rule Palestine	2012	only	-	Sep	21	1:00	0	-
-Rule Palestine	2013	max	-	Sep	Fri>=21	0:00	0	-
+Rule Palestine	2013	only	-	Sep	Fri>=21	0:00	0	-
+Rule Palestine	2014	max	-	Oct	Fri>=21	0:00	0	-
+Rule Palestine	2015	max	-	Mar	lastFri	24:00	1:00	S
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Gaza	2:17:52	-	LMT	1900 Oct
diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/australasia b/share/zoneinfo/australasia
index 911e68176a2e..3e2c0b34531f 100644
--- a/share/zoneinfo/australasia
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/australasia
@@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Guam	-14:21:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
 			 9:39:00 -	LMT	1901        # Agana
 			10:00	-	GST	2000 Dec 23 # Guam
 			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
+Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
 
 # Kiribati
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -388,12 +389,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Kiritimati	-10:29:20 -	LMT	1901
 			 14:00	-	LINT
 
 # N Mariana Is
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Saipan	-14:17:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
-			 9:43:00 -	LMT	1901
-			 9:00	-	MPT	1969 Oct    # N Mariana Is Time
-			10:00	-	MPT	2000 Dec 23
-			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
+# See Pacific/Guam.
 
 # Marshall Is
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -563,6 +559,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago	 12:37:12 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
 			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr    # N=Nome
 			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
 			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
+Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
 
 # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
 
@@ -744,23 +741,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti	11:56:52 -	LMT	1901
 # uninhabited
 
 # Midway
-#
-# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
-# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
-# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
-# reproduced a Pan American Airways timetable from 1936, for their weekly
-# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
-# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast.  As it uses some time zone
-# designations that I've never seen before:....
-# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I.   H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
-#  "   3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A  "
-#
-Zone Pacific/Midway	-11:49:28 -	LMT	1901
-			-11:00	-	NST	1956 Jun  3
-			-11:00	1:00	NDT	1956 Sep  2
-			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr    # N=Nome
-			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
-			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
+# See Pacific/Pago_Pago.
 
 # Palmyra
 # uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/europe b/share/zoneinfo/europe
index 60dfc1dce1fe..41097234fda2 100644
--- a/share/zoneinfo/europe
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/europe
@@ -2400,7 +2400,7 @@ Zone Europe/Volgograd	 2:57:40 -	LMT	1920 Jan  3
 			 4:00	Russia	VOL%sT	1989 Mar 26  2:00s # Volgograd T
 			 3:00	Russia	VOL%sT	1991 Mar 31  2:00s
 			 4:00	-	VOLT	1992 Mar 29  2:00s
-			 3:00	Russia	MSK	2011 Mar 27  2:00s
+			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	2011 Mar 27  2:00s
 			 4:00	-	MSK	2014 Oct 26  2:00s
 			 3:00	-	MSK
 
diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list b/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list
index 17c04663887b..5bac01baaacd 100644
--- a/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list
@@ -131,10 +131,10 @@
 #	over the last few minutes of the day. The frequency of the local
 #	clock is decreased (or increased) to realize the positive (or
 #	negative) leap second. This method removes the time step described
-#	above. Although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct 
-#	in this case, this method introduces an error during the adjustment 
-#	period both in time and in frequency with respect to the official 
-#	defintion of UTC.
+#	above. Although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct
+#	in this case, this method introduces an error during the adjustment
+#	period both in time and in frequency with respect to the official
+#	definition of UTC.
 #
 #	Questions or comments to:
 #		Judah Levine
diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica
index cb94c5e502ba..77463dab447c 100644
--- a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica
@@ -2312,8 +2312,24 @@ Zone America/Dawson	-9:17:40 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20
 # "...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday
 # of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current
 # time..."
-#
 # Also, the new zone will not use DST.
+#
+# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02):
+# The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally
+# been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación
+# http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015
+# It establishes 5 zones for Mexico:
+# 1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W,
+#    includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below.
+# 2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the
+#    states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía
+#    de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora.
+# 3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the
+#    state of Baja California.
+# 4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state
+#    of Quintana Roo.
+# 5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the
+#    longitude they are located at.
 
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Mexico	1939	only	-	Feb	5	0:00	1:00	D
@@ -2508,13 +2524,8 @@ Zone America/Santa_Isabel	-7:39:28 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:20:32
 ###############################################################################
 
 # Anguilla
-# See America/Port_of_Spain.
-
 # Antigua and Barbuda
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	America/Antigua	-4:07:12 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
-			-5:00	-	EST	1951
-			-4:00	-	AST
+# See America/Port_of_Spain.
 
 # Bahamas
 #
@@ -2581,10 +2592,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Bermuda	-4:19:18 -	LMT	1930 Jan  1  2:00 # Hamilton
 			-4:00	US	A%sT
 
 # Cayman Is
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	America/Cayman	-5:25:32 -	LMT	1890     # Georgetown
-			-5:07:11 -	KMT	1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
-			-5:00	-	EST
+# See America/Panama.
 
 # Costa Rica
 
@@ -3107,6 +3115,7 @@ Zone	America/Managua	-5:45:08 -	LMT	1890
 Zone	America/Panama	-5:18:08 -	LMT	1890
 			-5:19:36 -	CMT	1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time
 			-5:00	-	EST
+Link America/Panama America/Cayman
 
 # Puerto Rico
 # There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'.
diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/southamerica b/share/zoneinfo/southamerica
index 3ab353e329a8..77e3584b2754 100644
--- a/share/zoneinfo/southamerica
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/southamerica
@@ -1206,10 +1206,13 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco	-4:31:12 -	LMT	1914
 # DST Start: first Saturday of September 2014 (Sun 07 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC)
 # http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl//media/2014/02/19/do-20140219.pdf
 
-# From Juan Correa (2015-01-28):
-# ... today the Ministry of Energy announced that Chile will drop DST, will keep
-# "summer time" (UTC -3 / UTC -5) all year round....
-# http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/ministerio-de-energia-anuncia.html
+# From Eduardo Romero Urra (2015-03-03):
+# Today has been published officially that Chile will use the DST time
+# permanently until March 25 of 2017
+# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/media/2015/03/03/1-large.jpg
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03):
+# For now, assume that the extension will persist indefinitely.
 
 # NOTE: ChileAQ rules for Antarctic bases are stored separately in the
 # 'antarctica' file.
@@ -1268,7 +1271,7 @@ Zone America/Santiago	-4:42:46 -	LMT	1890
 			-3:00	-	CLT
 Zone Pacific/Easter	-7:17:44 -	LMT	1890
 			-7:17:28 -	EMT	1932 Sep    # Easter Mean Time
-			-7:00	Chile	EAS%sT	1982 Mar 13 3:00u # Easter Time
+			-7:00	Chile	EAS%sT	1982 Mar 14 3:00u # Easter Time
 			-6:00	Chile	EAS%sT	2015 Apr 26 3:00u
 			-5:00	-	EAST
 #
@@ -1603,6 +1606,7 @@ Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
 
 # These all agree with Trinidad and Tobago since 1970.
 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Anguilla
+Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Antigua
 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Dominica
 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Grenada
 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Guadeloupe