On 2025-01-16 11:48, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2025-01-16 11:21, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 09:37:50 -0800, Paul Eggert via tz-announce
via tz wrote:
... Paraguay adopts permanent -03 starting spring 2024.
starting spring *2025* ?
Actually, "spring 2024" is correct.
Come to think of it, though, "adopts" is misleading. Although I wrote
"adopts" back when present tense was perhaps appropriate, past tense
would have been clearer when the 2025a release was made. I installed the
attached proposed NEWS patch to try to lessen the confusion in the future.From 271a5784a59e454b659d85948b5e65c17c11516a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:58:33 -0800
Subject: [PROPOSED] Fix NEWS tense
* NEWS: Change commentary tense to match that of the release date.
I hope this helps clear up some of the confusion
mentioned by Geert Hendrickx as quoted in:
https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/thread/V3AELODBOIDY3GM6R5FIJSJVJKX73AIZ/
---
NEWS | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a5d7ea89..bc146e89 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ News for the tz database
Release 2025a - 2025-01-15 10:47:24 -0800
Briefly:
- Paraguay adopts permanent -03 starting spring 2024.
+ Paraguay adopted permanent -03 starting spring 2024.
Improve pre-1991 data for the Philippines.
Etc/Unknown is now reserved.
Changes to future timestamps
- Paraguay will stop changing its clocks after the spring-forward
+ Paraguay stopped changing its clocks after the spring-forward
transition on 2024-10-06, so it is now permanently at -03.
(Thanks to Heitor David Pinto and Even Scharning.)
This affects timestamps starting 2025-03-22, as well as the
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2.45.2
