The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
* tzdata 2022f
The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdb, or zoneinfo) contains
data that represents the history of local time for many locations around
the world, and supports conversion of UTC time to local time at those
locations to allow display of those local times. It is updated
periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies to summer
daylight saving time rules, UTC offsets, and time zone boundaries.
The tzcode package provides the tzselect, zdump, and zic utilities.
For more information, see the project home page:
https://www.iana.org/time-zones
For more details on changes, see the announcement or below:
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2022-October/000075.html
URGENT!
Mexico is dropping DST *TONIGHT* with minimal notice, so this
upgrade should be applied immediately if affected zones are
important to your applications, or your clients.
Other projects are unlikely to be able to update as quickly,
so prepare to take mitigating actions on other platforms,
or apply your own patches or updates.
Some municipalities near the borders may or may not observe or
drop DST depending on various factors, so more changes may be
applied retroactively or with no notice in the coming days.
Release 2022f 2022-10-28
Briefly:
* Mexico will no longer observe DST except near the US border.
Chihuahua moves to year-round -06 on 2022-10-30.
* Fiji no longer observes DST.
* Simplify four Ontario zones.
* Move links to 'backward'.
* In vanguard form, GMT is now a Zone and Etc/GMT a link.
Changes to future timestamps.
* Mexico will no longer observe DST after 2022, except for areas near
the US border that continue to observe US DST rules.
On 2022-10-30 at 02:00 the Mexican state of Chihuahua moves from -07
(-06 with DST) to year-round -06, thus not changing its clocks that
day. The new law states that Chihuahua near the US border no longer
observes US DST.
* Fiji will not observe DST in 2022/3.
For now, assume DST is suspended indefinitely.
Changes to data
* Move links to 'backward' to ease and simplify link maintenance.
This affects generated data only if you use 'make BACKWARD='.
* GMT is now a Zone and Etc/GMT a link instead of vice versa, as GMT is
needed for leap second support whereas Etc/GMT is not. However, this
change exposes a bug in TZUpdater 2.3.2 so it is present only in
vanguard form for now.
* Vanguard form now uses links to links, as zic now supports this.
Changes to past timestamps
* Simplify four Ontario zones, as most of the post-1970 differences
seem to have been imaginary. Move America/Nipigon,
America/Rainy_River, and America/Thunder_Bay to 'backzone';
backward-compatibility links still work, albeit
with some different timestamps before November 2005.
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