Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:58:38 -0400

The file...
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2008d.tar.gz
...is now available; this reflects the changes circulated last week on
the time zone mailing list by yours truly, Paul Eggert, and Rodrigo
Severo.

Changes affecting current and future time stamps.

* America/Eirunepe also changed from ACT (UTC-5) to AMT (UTC-4) on June 24.

Changes affecting past time stamps.

* For Mauritius, also include the 1982/1983 DST

* For America/Argentina/San_Luis, redo the history from 1990 through 2000
  to match what's in Shanks & Pottenger.

The following changes should not affect externally visible behavior.

* Redo comments about Brazil to make it clearer about what west Para contains.

* Update Brazil comments to mention Decree 6,212 (2007-09-26).

* Make comments a bit more concise for Brazil and Mauritius.

* Redo comments about Argentina to reflect the fact that San Luis is now
  separate.

* Redo the daylight-saving rules for Berlin in 1945 to make it clearer that
  these are for the Soviet Zone, not for Berlin in general.

* Redo Bahamas rules to make it clearer that the rules after 1975 are the
  same as the US.

* Add comments about time in China from 1949 to 1980.

* In tz-link.htm, add mention of daylight-savings-time.info,
  update links to Vzic, to efele.net map, and to the NPL.