From 138540a8ff1db8879a06f7c380df2e2dfc07cd4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Franco Fichtner Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:30:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] contrib/tzdata: bump to 2015f Taken from: http://www.iana.org/time-zones --- contrib/tzdata/africa | 4 +- contrib/tzdata/asia | 25 ++++++++--- contrib/tzdata/etcetera | 4 +- contrib/tzdata/europe | 71 +++++++++++++++++------------ contrib/tzdata/factory | 2 +- contrib/tzdata/leap-seconds.list | 8 ++-- contrib/tzdata/leapseconds | 76 ++++++++------------------------ contrib/tzdata/northamerica | 19 +++++--- contrib/tzdata/southamerica | 43 +++++++++++------- contrib/tzdata/zone.tab | 4 +- contrib/tzdata/zone1970.tab | 7 ++- 11 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/africa b/contrib/tzdata/africa index 5ad47e3601b..f20d216021b 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/africa +++ b/contrib/tzdata/africa @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920 # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-07-11): # Seems that English language article "The revival of daylight saving -# time: Energy conservation?"-# No. 16578 (07/11/2008) was originally +# time: Energy conservation?"- No. 16578 (07/11/2008) was originally # published on Monday, June 30, 2008... # # I guess that article in French "Le gouvernement avance l'introduction @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis # Here is a link to official document from Royaume du Maroc Premier Ministre, # Ministère de la Modernisation des Secteurs Publics # -# Under Article 1 of Royal Decree No. 455-67 of Act 23 safar 1387 (2 june 1967) +# Under Article 1 of Royal Decree No. 455-67 of Act 23 safar 1387 (2 June 1967) # concerning the amendment of the legal time, the Ministry of Modernization of # Public Sectors announced that the official time in the Kingdom will be # advanced 60 minutes from Sunday 31 May 2009 at midnight. diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/asia b/contrib/tzdata/asia index 756e3d0e5f4..4f8756b87ea 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/asia +++ b/contrib/tzdata/asia @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see # the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. -# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): +# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-08): # # Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ # 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time # 2:00 IST IDT Israel # 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* -# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran +# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran* # 4:00 GST Gulf* # 5:30 IST India # 7:00 ICT Indochina, most times and locations* @@ -52,10 +52,11 @@ # 8:00 CST China # 8:00 IDT Indochina, 1943-45, 1947-55, 1960-75 (some locations)* # 8:00 JWST Western Standard Time (Japan, 1896/1937)* +# 8:30 KST KDT Korea when at +0830* # 9:00 JCST Central Standard Time (Japan, 1896/1937) # 9:00 WIT east Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Timur) # 9:00 JST JDT Japan -# 9:00 KST KDT Korea +# 9:00 KST KDT Korea when at +09 # 9:30 ACST Australian Central Standard Time # # See the 'europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. @@ -1027,7 +1028,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov # # From Roozbeh Pournader (2007-11-05): # This is quoted from Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of -# Iran, Volume 63, Number 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24 +# Iran, Volume 63, No. 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24 # [2007-10-16]. I am doing the best translation I can:... # The official time of the country will be moved forward for one hour # on the 24 hours of the first day of the month of Farvardin and will @@ -1557,7 +1558,7 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 # - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. # - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. -# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 +# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin No. 11 # (2005-03-21): # The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing # daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health @@ -1711,6 +1712,17 @@ Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 3:00 0 S # # For Pyongyang we have no information; guess no changes since World War II. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-08-07): +# According to many news sources, North Korea is going to change to +# the 8:30 time zone on August 15, one example: +# http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33815049 +# +# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-07): +# No transition time is specified; assume 00:00. +# There is no common English-language abbreviation for this time zone. +# Use %z rather than invent one. We can't assume %z works everywhere yet, +# so for now substitute its output manually. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1908 Apr 1 8:30 - KST 1912 Jan 1 @@ -1723,7 +1735,8 @@ Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1908 Apr 1 8:30 - KST 1912 Jan 1 9:00 - JCST 1937 Oct 1 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 24 - 9:00 - KST + 9:00 - KST 2015 Aug 15 + 8:30 - KST ############################################################################### diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/etcetera b/contrib/tzdata/etcetera index 3d271a51684..c2e25328d5d 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/etcetera +++ b/contrib/tzdata/etcetera @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ Zone Etc/UCT 0 - UCT # The following link uses older naming conventions, # but it belongs here, not in the file 'backward', -# as functions like gmtime load the "UTC" file to handle leap seconds properly. +# as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly. # We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names. -Link Etc/UTC UTC +Link Etc/GMT GMT Link Etc/UTC Etc/Universal Link Etc/UTC Etc/Zulu diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/europe b/contrib/tzdata/europe index c64c41bec95..6b89b6e1f28 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/europe +++ b/contrib/tzdata/europe @@ -193,11 +193,14 @@ # republished in Finest Hour (Spring 2002) 1(114):26 # http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/Vol.01%20No.114.pdf -# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): +# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-08): # The OED Supplement says that the English originally said "Daylight Saving" # when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this # term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the # proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using "Summer". +# The term "Summer Time" was introduced by Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary; see: +# Viscount Samuel. Leisure in a Democracy. Cambridge University Press +# ISBN 978-1-107-49471-8 (1949, reissued 2015), p 8. # From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19): # A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's @@ -343,7 +346,7 @@ # From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02): # The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94, -# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive # 94/21/EC. +# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive No. 94/21/EC. # Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate # regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of # Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is @@ -592,11 +595,11 @@ Rule Russia 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 MSD Rule Russia 1921 only - Mar 20 23:00 2:00 MSM # Midsummer Rule Russia 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 MSD Rule Russia 1921 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - -# Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24): +# Act No. 925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24): Rule Russia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Russia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - -# Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in -# Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14): +# Act No. 967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in +# Act No. 227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14): Rule Russia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule Russia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S # @@ -828,7 +831,7 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 # Bulgaria # # From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): -# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says: +# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No. 94/1997) says: # EET -> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ... # EETDST -> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October # @@ -845,7 +848,7 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 1:00 - CET 1945 Apr 2 3:00 2:00 - EET 1979 Mar 31 23:00 - 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 2:00 + 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 3:00 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 2:00 EU EE%sT @@ -1062,8 +1065,8 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base # after that. # From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29): -# Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation -# no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all +# Regulation No. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation +# No. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all # the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01. # From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21): @@ -1084,7 +1087,7 @@ Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22 - 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Nov 1 + 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Oct 31 4:00 2:00 - EET 2002 Feb 21 2:00 EU EE%sT @@ -1527,21 +1530,21 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino # correct data in juridical acts and I found some juridical documents about # changes in the counting of time in Latvia from 1981.... # -# Act No.35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ... -# according to the Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24 +# Act No. 35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ... +# according to the Act No. 925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24 # ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning # the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on 1 April at 00:00 (GMT 31 March 21:00) # and 1 hour backward on the 1 October at 00:00 (GMT 30 September 20:00). # -# Act No.592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ... -# according to the Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13 +# Act No. 592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ... +# according to the Act No. 967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13 # ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning # the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on the last Sunday of March at 02:00 # (GMT 23:00 on the previous day) and 1 hour backward on the last Sunday of # September at 03:00 (GMT 23:00 on the previous day). # -# Act No.81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ... -# according to the Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14 +# Act No. 81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ... +# according to the Act No. 227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14 # ...: since the last Sunday of March 1989 in Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, # Estonian SSR and Kaliningrad region of Russian Federation all year round the # time of 2nd time zone (Moscow time minus one hour). On the territory of Latvia @@ -1558,7 +1561,7 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino # From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06): # This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in # The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of -# 29-Feb-2000 (#79) , +# 29-Feb-2000 (No. 79) , # in Latvian for subscribers only). # From RFE/RL Newsline @@ -1763,6 +1766,18 @@ Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 0:00s # Valletta # News from Moldova (in russian): # http://ru.publika.md/link_317061.html +# From Roman Tudos (2015-07-02): +# http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=1&id=355077 +# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-01): +# The abovementioned official link to IGO1445-868/2014 states that +# 2014-10-26's fallback transition occurred at 03:00 local time. Also, +# http://www.trm.md/en/social/la-30-martie-vom-trece-la-ora-de-vara +# says the 2014-03-30 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 local time. +# Guess that since 1997 Moldova has switched one hour before the EU. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Moldova 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Moldova 1997 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880 @@ -1777,7 +1792,7 @@ Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 # See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules. - 2:00 EU EE%sT + 2:00 Moldova EE%sT # Monaco # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's @@ -2123,7 +2138,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # Russia # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-15): -# Based on last Russian Government Decree # 725 on August 31, 2011 +# Based on last Russian Government Decree No. 725 on August 31, 2011 # (Government document # http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/ # in Russian) @@ -2133,7 +2148,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia36.htm # From Sanjeev Gupta (2011-09-27): -# Scans of [Decree #23 of January 8, 1992] are available at: +# Scans of [Decree No. 23 of January 8, 1992] are available at: # http://government.consultant.ru/page.aspx?1223966 # They are in Cyrillic letters (presumably Russian). @@ -2144,19 +2159,19 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # One source is # http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/ # which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Decree of August 31, -# 2011 No 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information. +# 2011 No. 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information. # # Another source is # http://www.rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html # which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Resolution of the # Government of the Russian Federation on August 31, 2011 N 725" and also # contains "Date first official publication: September 6, 2011 Posted on: -# in the 'RG' - Federal Issue number 5573 September 6, 2011" but which +# in the 'RG' - Federal Issue No. 5573 September 6, 2011" but which # does not contain any "effective date" information. # # Another source is # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakonsky_District#cite_note-RuTime-7 -# which, in note 8, contains "Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011... +# which, in note 8, contains "Resolution No. 725 of August 31, 2011... # Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication" # but which does not contain any reference to September 6, 2011. # @@ -2364,7 +2379,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # changed in May. 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1994 May # From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev. - 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 3:00s + 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 0:00s 3:00 1:00 MSD 1996 Oct 27 3:00s # IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Crimea switched to EET/EEST. # Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks. @@ -2499,7 +2514,7 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 # from current Russia Zone 6 - Krasnoyarsk Time Zone (KRA) UTC +0700 # to Russia Zone 5 - Novosibirsk Time Zone (NOV) UTC +0600 # -# This is according to Government of Russia decree # 740, on September +# This is according to Government of Russia decree No. 740, on September # 14, 2009 "Application in the territory of the Kemerovo region the Fifth # time zone." ("Russia Zone 5" or old "USSR Zone 5" is GMT +0600) # @@ -2922,7 +2937,7 @@ Zone Africa/Ceuta -0:21:16 - LMT 1901 Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C. -1:00 - CANT 1946 Sep 30 1:00 # Canaries T 0:00 - WET 1980 Apr 6 0:00s - 0:00 1:00 WEST 1980 Sep 28 0:00s + 0:00 1:00 WEST 1980 Sep 28 1:00u 0:00 EU WE%sT # IATA SSIM (1996-09) says the Canaries switch at 2:00u, not 1:00u. # Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU. @@ -3212,7 +3227,7 @@ Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. # From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, # via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27): # BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's government -# regulations number 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says: +# regulations No. 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says: # "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday # of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of # October the time at 4am is changing to 3am" @@ -3221,7 +3236,7 @@ Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. # On September 20, 2011 the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada agreed to # abolish the transfer clock to winter time. # -# Bill number 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got +# Bill No. 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got # approval from 266 deputies. # # Ukraine abolishes transfer back to the winter time (in Russian) diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/factory b/contrib/tzdata/factory index 839118da3cc..4304f7cf7bc 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/factory +++ b/contrib/tzdata/factory @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ # Also useful for the "comp.sources" version. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT -Zone Factory 0 - "Local time zone must be set--use tzsetup" +Zone Factory 0 - "Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page" diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/leap-seconds.list b/contrib/tzdata/leap-seconds.list index 5bac01baaac..0a0bacbb921 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/leap-seconds.list +++ b/contrib/tzdata/leap-seconds.list @@ -199,10 +199,10 @@ # current -- the update time stamp, the data and the name of the file # will not change. # -# Updated through IERS Bulletin C49 -# File expires on: 28 December 2015 +# Updated through IERS Bulletin C50 +# File expires on: 28 June 2016 # -#@ 3660249600 +#@ 3676060800 # 2272060800 10 # 1 Jan 1972 2287785600 11 # 1 Jul 1972 @@ -246,4 +246,4 @@ # the hash line is also ignored in the # computation. # -#h 45e70fa7 a9df2033 f4a49ab0 ec648273 7b6c22c +#h 3d037453 3acade76 570bd8f8 be2b8bc9 55ec6fe8 diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/leapseconds b/contrib/tzdata/leapseconds index 5b5c70eb6bf..70ec6d1b535 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/leapseconds +++ b/contrib/tzdata/leapseconds @@ -1,14 +1,20 @@ -# 
-# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
-# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
+# Allowance for leap seconds added to each time zone file.
 
-# Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file.
+# This file is in the public domain.
 
-# The International Earth Rotation Service periodically uses leap seconds
-# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1
+# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain
+# leap-seconds.list file available from most NIST time servers.
+# If the URL  does not work,
+# you should be able to pick up leap-seconds.list from a secondary NIST server.
+# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see
+# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds
+# http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html
+
+# The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
+# periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1
 # (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see
 # Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time,
-# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905.
+# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905 .
 # There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism
 # accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation
 # did not exist until the early 1970s.
@@ -19,8 +25,8 @@
 # or
 #	Leap	YEAR	MON	DAY	23:59:59	-	R/S
 
-# If the leapsecond is Rolling (R) the given time is local time
-# If the leapsecond is Stationary (S) the given time is UTC
+# If the leapsecond is Rolling (R) the given time is local time.
+# If the leapsecond is Stationary (S) the given time is UTC.
 
 # Leap	YEAR	MONTH	DAY	HH:MM:SS	CORR	R/S
 Leap	1972	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
@@ -48,53 +54,7 @@ Leap	1998	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
 Leap	2005	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
 Leap	2008	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
 Leap	2012	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
+Leap	2015	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
 
-# INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS)
-#
-# SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE
-#
-#
-# SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
-# OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
-# 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
-# Tel.      : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
-# FAX       : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
-# e-mail    : (E-Mail Removed)
-# http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc
-#
-# Paris, 5 January 2012
-#
-#
-# Bulletin C 43
-#
-# To authorities responsible
-# for the measurement and
-# distribution of time
-#
-#
-# UTC TIME STEP
-# on the 1st of July 2012
-#
-#
-# A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012.
-# The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:
-#
-#                          2012 June 30,     23h 59m 59s
-#                          2012 June 30,     23h 59m 60s
-#                          2012 July  1,      0h  0m  0s
-#
-# The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:
-#
-# from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2012 July 1  0h UTC  : UTC-TAI = - 34s
-# from 2012 July 1,    0h UTC, until further notice    : UTC-TAI = - 35s
-#
-# Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
-# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
-# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there
-# will be no time step at the next possible date.
-#
-#
-# Daniel GAMBIS
-# Head
-# Earth Orientation Center of IERS
-# Observatoire de Paris, France
+#	Updated through IERS Bulletin C50
+#	File expires on:  28 June 2016
diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/northamerica b/contrib/tzdata/northamerica
index 88423e61a45..660a92085c2 100644
--- a/contrib/tzdata/northamerica
+++ b/contrib/tzdata/northamerica
@@ -1235,10 +1235,19 @@ Zone America/Goose_Bay	-4:01:40 -	LMT	1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
 
 # west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I
 
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
+# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20):
+# From the historical weather station records available at:
+# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada
+# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was
+# likely to be the same across the island....
+# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would
+# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20):
 # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like
 # Halifax.  Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
-# Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of.
+# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of
+# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now).
 # Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town
 # in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume
 # this is a typo.
@@ -1796,13 +1805,13 @@ Zone America/Edmonton	-7:33:52 -	LMT	1906 Sep
 # Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess.
 # 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7)
 # Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess.
-# note#1:
+# note 1:
 # On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada,
 # Creston did not change its clocks.
-# note#2:
+# note 2:
 # During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change,
 # Creston did not oblige.
-# note#3:
+# note 3:
 # There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time
 # (UTC-7) forever.
 # The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council.
diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/southamerica b/contrib/tzdata/southamerica
index 6bbc2c8f84a..50d118ebfa6 100644
--- a/contrib/tzdata/southamerica
+++ b/contrib/tzdata/southamerica
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Rule	Arg	2000	only	-	Mar	3	0:00	0	-
 # Timezone Law (which never was effectively applied) will (would?) be
 # in effect.... The article is at
 # http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-06/e-01701.htm
-# ... The Law itself is "Ley No 25155", sanctioned on 1999-08-25, enacted
+# ... The Law itself is "Ley No. 25155", sanctioned on 1999-08-25, enacted
 # 1999-09-17, and published 1999-09-21.  The official publication is at:
 # http://www.boletin.jus.gov.ar/BON/Primera/1999/09-Septiembre/21/PDF/BO21-09-99LEG.PDF
 # Regretfully, you have to subscribe (and pay) for the on-line version....
@@ -175,15 +175,11 @@ Rule	Arg	2000	only	-	Mar	3	0:00	0	-
 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina03.html
 # http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 (in spanish)
 
-# From Rodrigo Severo (2008-10-06):
-# Here is some info available at a Gentoo bug related to TZ on Argentina's DST:
-# ...
-# ------- Comment #1 from [jmdocile]  2008-10-06 16:28 0000 -------
-# Hi, there is a problem with timezone-data-2008e and maybe with
-# timezone-data-2008f
-# Argentinian law [Number] 25.155 is no longer valid.
+# From Juan Manuel Docile in https://bugs.gentoo.org/240339 (2008-10-07)
+# via Rodrigo Severo:
+# Argentinian law No. 25.155 is no longer valid.
 # http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/60000-64999/60036/norma.htm
-# The new one is law [Number] 26.350
+# The new one is law No. 26.350
 # http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/135000-139999/136191/norma.htm
 # So there is no summer time in Argentina for now.
 
@@ -771,7 +767,7 @@ Zone	America/La_Paz	-4:32:36 -	LMT	1890
 #	 [ and in a second message (same day): ]
 # I found the decree.
 #
-# DECRETO No- 7.584, DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 2011
+# DECRETO No. 7.584, DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 2011
 # Link :
 # http://www.in.gov.br/visualiza/index.jsp?data=13/10/2011&jornal=1000&pagina=6&totalArquivos=6
 
@@ -1125,7 +1121,7 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco	-4:31:12 -	LMT	1914
 # Conflicts between [1] and [2] were resolved as follows:
 #
 #  - [1] says the 1910 transition was Jan 1, [2] says Jan 10 and cites
-#    Boletín Nº 1, Aviso Nº 1 (1910).  Go with [2].
+#    Boletín No. 1, Aviso No. 1 (1910).  Go with [2].
 #
 #  - [1] says SMT was -4:42:45, [2] says Chile's official time from
 #    1916 to 1919 was -4:42:46.3, the meridian of Chile's National
@@ -1133,7 +1129,7 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco	-4:31:12 -	LMT	1914
 #    Quinta Normal in Santiago.  Go with [2], rounding it to -4:42:46.
 #
 #  - [1] says the 1918 transition was Sep 1, [2] says Sep 10 and cites
-#    Boletín Nº 22, Aviso Nº 129/1918 (1918-08-23).  Go with [2].
+#    Boletín No. 22, Aviso No. 129/1918 (1918-08-23).  Go with [2].
 #
 #  - [1] does not give times for transitions; assume they occur
 #    at midnight mainland time, the current common practice.  However,
@@ -1533,7 +1529,7 @@ Rule	Para	1997	only	-	Feb	lastSun	0:00	0	-
 # (1999-09) reports no date; go with above sources and Gerd Knops (2001-02-27).
 Rule	Para	1998	2001	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
 # From Rives McDow (2002-02-28):
-# A decree was issued in Paraguay (no. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the
+# A decree was issued in Paraguay (No. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the
 # dst method to be from the first Sunday in September to the first Sunday in
 # April.
 Rule	Para	2002	2004	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
@@ -1713,8 +1709,19 @@ Rule	Uruguay	2005	only	-	Oct	 9	 2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Uruguay	2006	only	-	Mar	12	 2:00	0	-
 # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-06):
 # http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2006/09/CM%20210_08%2006%202006_00001.PDF
-Rule	Uruguay	2006	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00	1:00	S
-Rule	Uruguay	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	 2:00	0	-
+#
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-06-30):
+# ... it looks like they will not be using DST the coming summer:
+# http://www.elobservador.com.uy/gobierno-resolvio-que-no-habra-cambio-horario-verano-n656787
+# http://www.republica.com.uy/este-ano-no-se-modificara-el-huso-horario-en-uruguay/523760/
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-30):
+# Apparently restaurateurs complained that DST caused people to go to the beach
+# instead of out to dinner.
+# From Pablo Camargo (2015-07-13):
+# http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/sci/decretos/2015/06/cons_min_201.pdf
+# [dated 2015-06-29; repeals Decree 311/006 dated 2006-09-04]
+Rule	Uruguay	2006	2014	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Uruguay	2007	2015	-	Mar	Sun>=8	 2:00	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone America/Montevideo	-3:44:44 -	LMT	1898 Jun 28
 			-3:44:44 -	MMT	1920 May  1 # Montevideo MT
@@ -1723,6 +1730,10 @@ Zone America/Montevideo	-3:44:44 -	LMT	1898 Jun 28
 
 # Venezuela
 #
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-28):
+# For the 1965 transition see Gaceta Oficial No. 27.619 (1964-12-15), p 205.533
+# http://www.pgr.gob.ve/dmdocuments/1964/27619.pdf
+#
 # From John Stainforth (2007-11-28):
 # ... the change for Venezuela originally expected for 2007-12-31 has
 # been brought forward to 2007-12-09.  The official announcement was
@@ -1734,6 +1745,6 @@ Zone America/Montevideo	-3:44:44 -	LMT	1898 Jun 28
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	America/Caracas	-4:27:44 -	LMT	1890
 			-4:27:40 -	CMT	1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time?
-			-4:30	-	VET	1965        # Venezuela Time
+			-4:30	-	VET	1965 Jan  1  0:00 # Venezuela T.
 			-4:00	-	VET	2007 Dec  9  3:00
 			-4:30	-	VET
diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/zone.tab b/contrib/tzdata/zone.tab
index f418e7ffca1..381f24521cc 100644
--- a/contrib/tzdata/zone.tab
+++ b/contrib/tzdata/zone.tab
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ BW	-2439+02555	Africa/Gaborone
 BY	+5354+02734	Europe/Minsk
 BZ	+1730-08812	America/Belize
 CA	+4734-05243	America/St_Johns	Newfoundland Time, including SE Labrador
-CA	+4439-06336	America/Halifax	Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (most places), PEI
-CA	+4612-05957	America/Glace_Bay	Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia - places that did not observe DST 1966-1971
+CA	+4439-06336	America/Halifax	Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (peninsula), PEI
+CA	+4612-05957	America/Glace_Bay	Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (Cape Breton)
 CA	+4606-06447	America/Moncton	Atlantic Time - New Brunswick
 CA	+5320-06025	America/Goose_Bay	Atlantic Time - Labrador - most locations
 CA	+5125-05707	America/Blanc-Sablon	Atlantic Standard Time - Quebec - Lower North Shore
diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/zone1970.tab b/contrib/tzdata/zone1970.tab
index 52d61651f9f..c9d31d94926 100644
--- a/contrib/tzdata/zone1970.tab
+++ b/contrib/tzdata/zone1970.tab
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
 # UTF-8 encoding.  The columns of the table are as follows:
 #
 # 1.  The countries that overlap the zone, as a comma-separated list
-#     of ISO 3166 2-character country codes.
-#     See the file '/usr/share/misc/iso3166'.
+#     of ISO 3166 2-character country codes.  See the file 'iso3166.tab'.
 # 2.  Latitude and longitude of the zone's principal location
 #     in ISO 6709 sign-degrees-minutes-seconds format,
 #     either +-DDMM+-DDDMM or +-DDMMSS+-DDDMMSS,
@@ -104,8 +103,8 @@ BT	+2728+08939	Asia/Thimphu
 BY	+5354+02734	Europe/Minsk
 BZ	+1730-08812	America/Belize
 CA	+4734-05243	America/St_Johns	Newfoundland Time, including SE Labrador
-CA	+4439-06336	America/Halifax	Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (most places), PEI
-CA	+4612-05957	America/Glace_Bay	Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia - places that did not observe DST 1966-1971
+CA	+4439-06336	America/Halifax	Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (peninsula), PEI
+CA	+4612-05957	America/Glace_Bay	Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (Cape Breton)
 CA	+4606-06447	America/Moncton	Atlantic Time - New Brunswick
 CA	+5320-06025	America/Goose_Bay	Atlantic Time - Labrador - most locations
 CA	+5125-05707	America/Blanc-Sablon	Atlantic Standard Time - Quebec - Lower North Shore