This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
now identical with the distributed versions, which may cause some
abbreviations to change for people in obscure zones. (The abbreviations
can be changed again if need be.) It also changes the abbreviation
of Central European Time to `CET' from its previous value of `MET'
(a curious German-English hybrid). Finally, we have finally rid
ourselves of those nasty ZONE-DESCR comments, which were a maintenance
nightmare, in favor of the new zone.tab file. We are not using the
distribution's iso3166.tab file because we have our own list.
Obtained from: Arthur David Olson; ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov
Changed zones: Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Libya, Morocco, Sierra Leone,
South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Armenia, Myanmar, China, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, Macao, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan,
Kirgizstan, Lebanon, Mongolia, the Phillippines, Syria, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Australia, Kiribati, New Caledonia, New
Zealand, Vanuatu, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Czech Republic,
Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey,
Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, the
Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua,
Brazil, the Falkland Islands, Paraguay
Deleted zones: Asia/Tomsk (superseded by Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
Added zones: Asia/Aktau (area formerly part of Asia/Alma-Ata);
Asia/Krasnoyarsk (supersedes Asia/Tomsk); America/Glace_Bay (area
formerly part of America/Halifax); America/Thunder_Bay,
America/Nipigon, America/Rainy_River (areas formerly covered by
America/Montreal); America/Swift_Current (area formerly part of
America/Regina); America/Dawson_Creek (area formerly part of
America/Vancouver); America/Pangnirtung, America/Iqaluit,
America/Rankin_Inlet, America/Yellowknife, America/Inuvik,
America/Dawson (areas formerly part of America/Whitehorse)
is 1996 EC harmonization. Also, the following timezones have been renamed:
Asia/Frunze -> Asia/Bishkek
Pacific/Cocos -> Indian/Cocos
Pacific/Belau -> Pacific/Palau
America/Navajo -> America/Shiprock
and one new timezone has been added:
Australia/Canberra
as the previous one, and better integrated with the build scheme.
Define OLDTIMEZONES to get backward-compatibility links added.
Define LEAPSECONDS if you want leap-second support.
