Change logs for tzdata source package in Bionic

  • tzdata (2023c-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream release (LP: #2012599)
        - Egypt now uses DST again, from April through October.
        - This year Morocco springs forward April 23, not April 30.
        - Palestine delays the start of DST this year.
        - Much of Greenland still uses DST from 2024 on.
      * Test timezones using Python pytz module
      * Add autopkgtest test case for 2023c release
      * Update debconf template and translations
      * Check that the old SystemV timezones are still available
    
     -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden>  Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:52:56 +0200
  • tzdata (2023b-0ubuntu0.18.04.0) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream version (LP: #2012599):
        - Lebanon delays the start of DST this year.
    
    tzdata (2023a-0ubuntu0.18.04.0) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream release (LP: #2012599)
        - Egypt now uses DST again, from April through October.
        - This year Morocco springs forward April 23, not April 30.
        - Palestine delays the start of DST this year.
        - Much of Greenland still uses DST from 2024 on.
      * Convert backward compatible links into symlinks (instead of the reverse)
      * Generate debconf templates with Python (keep generating SystemV)
      * Test convert_timezone for consistency
      * Test timezones using Python pytz module
      * Test debconf configuration with autopkgtest
      * d/tzdata.config: Import convert_timezone from 2023g-1 (but keep SystemV)
      * Update debconf template and translations to 2023a-1
      * Fix configuration failure with relative /etc/localtime symlink
      * Fix updating obsolete timezone if only /etc/localtime is present
    
     -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden>  Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:39:21 +0100
  • tzdata (2022g-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream release (LP: #1998321)
        - The northern edge of Chihuahua changes to US timekeeping.
        - Much of Greenland stops changing clocks after March 2023.
        - Fix some pre-1996 timestamps in northern Canada.
      * d/watch: Switch from failing ftp to https
      * debian/tzdata.templates: Add Ciudad_Juarez
    
     -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden>  Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:08:26 +0100
  • tzdata (2022f-0ubuntu0.18.04.0) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream release (LP: #1995209):
        - Mexico will no longer observe DST except near the US border.
        - Chihuahua has moved to year-round -06 on 2022-10-30.
        - Fiji no longer observes DST.
    
     -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden>  Mon, 31 Oct 2022 02:02:00 +0100
  • tzdata (2022e-0ubuntu0.18.04.0) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream releases (LP: #1992692):
        - Palestine transitions are now Saturdays at 02:00. This means 2022 falls
          back 10-29 at 02:00, not 10-28 at 01:00.
        - Simplify three Ukraine zones into one. (LP: #1969671)
        - Jordan and Syria switch from +02/+03 with DST to year-round
      * debian/tzdata.templates and debian/tzdata.config:
        - Convert Europe/Kiev into Europe/Kyiv
        - Remove Uzhgorod and Zaporozhye
    
     -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden>  Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:59:56 +0200
  • tzdata (2022c-0ubuntu0.18.04.0) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream release (LP: #1986984):
        - Chile will spring forward on 2022-09-11, not 2022-09-04
        - Iran no longer observes DST
      * d/po/*.po: change Kiev msgids to Kyiv to reflect upstream change
    
     -- Simon Chopin <email address hidden>  Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:20:23 +0200
  • tzdata (2022a-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream release (LP: #1965791):
        - Palestine will spring forward on 2022-03-27 (not 2022-03-26).
    
     -- Brian Murray <email address hidden>  Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:52:27 -0700
  • tzdata (2021e-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream release (LP: #1948698), affecting the following timestamp:
        - Palestine will fall back 2021-10-29 (not 2021-10-30) at 01:00.
      * Dropped the patches which were cherry-picked from upstream as the
        situation is somewhat less confused now.
    
     -- Brian Murray <email address hidden>  Tue, 26 Oct 2021 09:03:37 -0700
  • tzdata (2021a-2ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1945527). Remaining changes:
        - Restore old SystemV timezones.
    
     -- Brian Murray <email address hidden>  Wed, 29 Sep 2021 12:14:22 -0700
  • tzdata (2021a-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream version (LP: #1913482), affecting the following future timestamp:
        - South Sudan changes from +03 to +02 on 2021-02-01 at 00:00.
    
     -- Brian Murray <email address hidden>  Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:46:22 -0800
  • tzdata (2020f-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream version (LP: #1909698), affecting the following timestamp:
        - Volgograd switches to Moscow time on 2020-12-27 at 02:00.
    
     -- Brian Murray <email address hidden>  Wed, 06 Jan 2021 08:11:57 -0800
  • tzdata (2020d-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream version (LP: #1901020), affecting past and future timestamps:
        - Palestine ends DST earlier than predicted, on 2020-10-24.
        - Fiji starts DST later than usual, on 2020-12-20.
        - Revised predictions for Morocco's changes starting in 2023.
        - Canada's Yukon changes to -07 on 2020-11-01, not 2020-03-08.
        - Macquarie Island has stayed in sync with Tasmania since 2011.
        - Casey, Antarctica is at +08 in winter and +11 in summer since 2018.
      * Restore old SystemV timezones.
    
     -- Brian Murray <email address hidden>  Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:18:51 -0700
  • tzdata (2020a-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream release (LP: #1878108), affecting past and future timestamps:
        - Morocco springs forward on 2020-05-31, not 2020-05-24.
        - Canada's Yukon advanced to -07 year-round on 2020-03-08.
        - America/Nuuk renamed from America/Godthab.
    
     -- Brian Murray <email address hidden>  Thu, 07 May 2020 17:01:38 -0700
  • tzdata (2019c-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream version, affecting the following future timestamps:
        - Fiji's next DST transitions will be 2019-11-10 and 2020-01-12
          instead of 2019-11-03 and 2020-01-19.
        - Norfolk Island will observe Australian-style DST starting in
          spring 2019.  The first transition is on 2019-10-06.
    
     -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>  Fri, 20 Sep 2019 03:11:15 -0600
  • tzdata (2019b-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream version, affecting the following past and future timestamps:
        - Brazil has canceled DST and will stay on standard time indefinitely.
        - Predictions for Morocco now go through 2087 instead of 2037.
        - Palestine's 2019 spring transition was 03-29 at 00:00, not 03-30
          at 01:00.  Guess future transitions to be March's last Friday at 00:00.
        - Many corrections to historical Hong Kong transitions from 1941 to 1947.
    
     -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>  Thu, 04 Jul 2019 15:13:33 -0600
  • tzdata (2019a-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream version, affecting past and future timestamps:
        - Palestine "springs forward" on 2019-03-30 instead of 2019-03-23.
        - Metlakatla "fell back" to rejoin Alaska Time on 2019-01-20 at 02:00.
    
     -- Brian Murray <email address hidden>  Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:09:13 -0700
  • tzdata (2018i-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream version, affecting past and future timestamps:
        - São Tomé and Príncipe switches from +01 to +00 on 2019-01-01.
        - Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan moved from +06 to +05 on 2018-12-21.
        - A new zone Asia/Qostanay has been added, because Qostanay,
          Kazakhstan didn't move.
        - Metlakatla, Alaska observes PST this winter only.
    
     -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>  Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:05:44 -0700
  • tzdata (2018g-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=high
    
      * New upstream version, affecting the following timestamp:
        - Morocco switches to permanent +01 on 2018-10-27.
    
     -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>  Mon, 29 Oct 2018 03:51:03 -0600
  • tzdata (2018f-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream version, affecting the following future timestamp:
        - Volgograd moves from +03 to +04 on 2018-10-28.
        - Fiji ends DST 2019-01-13, not 2019-01-20.
        - Most of Chile changes DST dates, effective 2019-04-06.
    
     -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>  Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:11:24 -0600
  • tzdata (2018e-0ubuntu0.18.04) bionic; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream release
    
     -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden>  Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:00:05 -0700
  • tzdata (2018d-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Aurelien Jarno ]
      * debian/control: Update Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser fields following the move
        to Salsa.
    
      [ Clint Adams ]
      * New upstream version.
      * Remove Pacific-New as a choice.  closes: #815200.
    
     -- Clint Adams <email address hidden>  Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:23:37 -0400
  • tzdata (2018c-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Aurelien Jarno ]
      * New upstream version.
      * debian/control: Update Standards-Version to 4.1.3.
      * debian/patches/quiltrc: Remove.
    
     -- Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden>  Thu, 25 Jan 2018 23:47:46 +0100
  • tzdata (2018b-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Aurelien Jarno ]
      * Update Russian debconf translation, by Lev Lamberov.  Closes:
        #883876.
      * Update German debconf translation, by Holger Wansing.  Closes:
        #884811.
    
      [ Clint Adams ]
      * New upstream version.
    
     -- Clint Adams <email address hidden>  Sat, 20 Jan 2018 23:04:41 -0500
  • tzdata (2017c-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * New upstream version, affecting the following future timestamp:
        - Northern Cyprus resumed EU rules starting 2017-10-29.
        - Namibia will switch from +01 with DST to +02 all year, affecting
          UT offsets starting 2018-04-01.
        - Sudan will switch from +03 to +02 on 2017-11-01.
        - Tonga will not observe DST on 2017-11-05.
        - Turks & Caicos will switch from -04 all year to -05 with US DST,
          affecting UT offset starting 2018-11-04.
      * debian/control, debian/copyright: update upstream links to use https.
      * debian/upstream/signing-key.asc: new file.
      * debian/watch: update watch file to version 4, add check for the OpenPGP
        signatures.
      * debian/control: Update Standards-Version to 4.1.1.
    
     -- Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden>  Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:55:42 +0200
  • tzdata (2017b-2) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Aurelien Jarno ]
      * Update Dutch debconf translation, by Frans Spiesschaert.  Closes:
        #861700.
      * debian/control: provide tzdata-buster instead of tzdata-stretch.
    
     -- Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden>  Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:46:11 +0200