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-rw-r--r--timezone/antarctica6
-rw-r--r--timezone/asia24
-rw-r--r--timezone/australasia24
-rw-r--r--timezone/europe78
-rw-r--r--timezone/iso3166.tab4
-rw-r--r--timezone/leapseconds36
-rw-r--r--timezone/northamerica12
-rw-r--r--timezone/solar878
-rw-r--r--timezone/solar888
-rw-r--r--timezone/solar898
-rw-r--r--timezone/southamerica18
-rw-r--r--timezone/zone.tab4
13 files changed, 124 insertions, 114 deletions
diff --git a/timezone/africa b/timezone/africa
index 689c2c414c..7d75ae3a05 100644
--- a/timezone/africa
+++ b/timezone/africa
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# @(#)africa	7.37
+# @(#)africa	7.38
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22):
 #
 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
 # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 #
 # Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT
 # for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively,
-# but Mark R V Murray <markm@grondar.za> reports that
+# but Mark R V Murray reports that
 # `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa,
 # `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and
 # `WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ Zone	Africa/Maseru	1:50:00 -	LMT	1903 Mar
 			2:00	-	SAST
 
 # Liberia
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (2001-07-17):
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17):
 # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch
 # from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes.
 # Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday.
diff --git a/timezone/antarctica b/timezone/antarctica
index ad47860bd6..c11d24e7d5 100644
--- a/timezone/antarctica
+++ b/timezone/antarctica
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)antarctica	7.24
+# @(#)antarctica	7.25
 
 # From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15):
 # To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 -	zzz	1947
 # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06):
 # In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time.  [See]
 # <a href="http://www.crl.go.jp/uk/uk201/basyo.htm">[reference in Japanese]</a>
-# and information from KAMO Hiroyasu <wd@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp>.
+# and information from KAMO Hiroyasu.
 #
 # Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan,
 # was established on 1957-01-29.  Since Syowa station is still the main
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/Rothera	0	-	zzz	1976 Dec  1
 #
 # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
 #
-# From Ethan Dicks <erd@mcmsun5.mcmurdo.gov> (1996-10-06):
+# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06):
 # It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us
 # and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line....
 # I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
diff --git a/timezone/asia b/timezone/asia
index 024cb37e57..1a40fb4c5f 100644
--- a/timezone/asia
+++ b/timezone/asia
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# @(#)asia	7.82
+# @(#)asia	7.83
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22):
 #
 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
 # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Phnom_Penh	6:59:40 -	LMT	1906 Jun  9
 # CHINA               8 H  AHEAD OF UTC  ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
 # CHINA               9 H  AHEAD OF UTC  APR 17 - SEP 10
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19):
+# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
 # Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1,
 # observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's
 # note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986.
@@ -329,13 +329,13 @@ Zone	Asia/Nicosia	2:13:28 -	LMT	1921 Nov 14
 Link	Asia/Nicosia	Europe/Nicosia
 
 # Georgia
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19):
+# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19):
 # Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward
 # an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze,
 # an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it!
 # We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.
 #
-# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
+# From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
 # Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia
 # will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy,
 # President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Tehran	3:25:44	-	LMT	1916
 
 # Iraq
 #
-# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12):
+# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12):
 # An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in
 # the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph:
 # "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ Rule	Zion	1987	only	-	Sep	13	0:00	0	S
 Rule	Zion	1988	only	-	Apr	 9	0:00	1:00	D
 Rule	Zion	1988	only	-	Sep	 3	0:00	0	S
 
-# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il>
+# From Ephraim Silverberg
 # (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22,
 # and 2005-02-17):
 
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Jerusalem	2:20:56 -	LMT	1880
 
 # `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris.
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06):
+# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06):
 # Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
 # daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued
 # because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.''
@@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Amman	2:23:44 -	LMT	1931
 
 # Kazakhstan
 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
-# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan
+# Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan
 # stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk)
 # and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones.
 # Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time
@@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ Zone	Indian/Maldives	4:54:00 -	LMT	1880	# Male
 #
 # [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.]
 
-# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar <ganbold@micom.mng.net> (2004-04-17):
+# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17):
 # Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March.
 # It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of
 # September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001.
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Karachi	4:28:12 -	LMT	1907
 
 # Palestine
 
-# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15):
+# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15):
 #
 # From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now
 # known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule.
@@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Tashkent	4:37:12 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			5:00	-	UZT
 
 # Vietnam
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
+# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
 # Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long.
 # We'll stick with the traditional name for now.
 # From Shanks:
diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia
index 41c7368852..b39ada2cd4 100644
--- a/timezone/australasia
+++ b/timezone/australasia
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)australasia	7.71
+# @(#)australasia	7.72
 # This file also includes Pacific islands.
 
 # Notes are at the end of this file
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Zone Australia/Perth	 7:43:24 -	LMT	1895 Dec
 			 8:00	-	WST
 # Queensland
 #
-# From Alex Livingston <alex@agsm.unsw.edu.au> (1996-11-01):
+# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):
 # I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast
 # of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after
 # Queensland ceased to.
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
 # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
@@ -645,13 +645,13 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 
 # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
 # Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand.
-# Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au> writes that his newspaper
+# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
 # reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
 # but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
 # and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time.
 # For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
 
-# From Eric Ulevik <eau@zip.com.au> (1998-01-05):
+# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05):
 #
 # Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
 # and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 
 # From Arthur David Olson:
 # New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
-# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz),
+# Based on law library research by John Mackin,
 # who notes:
 #	In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
 #	individual states.  Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time''
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 # Lawlink NSW: Daylight Saving in New South Wales
 # </a>
 
-# From Eric Ulevik <eau@ozemail.com.au> (1999-05-26):
+# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26):
 # DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
 # October in 2000.  [See: Matthew Moore,
 # <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html">
@@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 
 # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
 # Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand.
-# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight
+# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight
 # Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
 # time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
 # As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
@@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 
 # Micronesia
 
-# Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16),
+# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
 # ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk"
 # (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.''
 #
@@ -1257,10 +1257,10 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 # October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
 # Government.
 
-# From Steffen Thorsen [straen@thorsen.priv.no] (1999-09-09):
+# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
 # * Tonga will introduce DST in November
 #
-# I was given this link by John Letts <johnletts@earthlink.net>:
+# I was given this link by John Letts:
 # <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm">
 # http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
 # </a>
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 # of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
 # (12 + 1 hour DST).
 
-# From Arthur David Olson [arthur_david_olson@nih.gov] (1999-09-20):
+# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20):
 # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>
 # http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html
 # </a>:
diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe
index 3bf1b1ab02..9535a667b5 100644
--- a/timezone/europe
+++ b/timezone/europe
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# @(#)europe	7.92
+# @(#)europe	7.94
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
 # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain,
 # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
 
-# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-12-04),
+# From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04),
 # The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy,
 # Luxembourg, the Netherlands.
 # Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom.
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 
 # Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire)
 
-# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-07-06):
+# From Peter Ilieve (1994-07-06):
 #
 # On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about
 # historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 #
 # [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.]
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
+# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
 #
 # Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time.
 # The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time,
@@ -168,12 +168,12 @@
 # known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom.
 
 # Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed)
-# From: Jonathan Leffler <nih-csl!uunet!mcvax!sphinx.co.uk!john>
+# From: Jonathan Leffler
 # [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament.
 # If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in
 # politics making a fortune, not computing.
 
-# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-14):
+# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-14):
 # I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the
 # acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time.  Look for the published
 # time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and
@@ -204,15 +204,15 @@
 # and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first,
 # so we use `BDST'.
 
-# Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19) described at length
+# Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length
 # the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom.
-# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> has been updating
+# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating
 # and extending this list, which can be found in
 # <a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/">
 # History of legal time in Britain
 # </a>
 
-# From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06):
+# From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06):
 #
 # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC;
 # see Lord Tanlaw's speech
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Zone	EET		2:00	EU	EE%sT
 # Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST
 # for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage.
 
-# From Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> (1996-07-12):
+# From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12):
 # The official German names ... are
 #
 #	Mitteleuropaeische Zeit (MEZ)         = UTC+01:00
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Minsk	1:50:16 -	LMT	1880
 #	pp 8-9.
 # LMT before 1892 was 0:17:30, according to the official journal of Belgium:
 #	Moniteur Belge, Samedi 30 Avril 1892, N.121.
-# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie <pascal@belnet.be> for these references.
+# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie for these references.
 # The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium.
 # Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect.
 #
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Brussels	0:17:30 -	LMT	1880
 
 # Bulgaria
 #
-# From Plamen Simenov <P.Simeonov@cnsys.bg> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
+# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
 # 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
@@ -874,12 +874,12 @@ Zone America/Thule	-4:35:08 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base
 			-4:00	Thule	A%sT
 
 # Estonia
-# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-10-15):
+# From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15):
 # A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards
 # [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it,
 # a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989....
 #
-# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1996-10-28):
+# From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28):
 # [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s,
 # but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:]
 # ``I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different
@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ Zone America/Thule	-4:35:08 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base
 # human physiology.  It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to
 # summer time next spring.''
 
-# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-11-04), heavily edited:
+# From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited:
 # <a href="http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390">
 # The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law
 # </a>
@@ -938,11 +938,11 @@ Zone	Europe/Tallinn	1:39:00	-	LMT	1880
 
 # Finland
 #
-# From Hannu Strang <chs@apu.fi> (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC):
+# From Hannu Strang (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC):
 # Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one,
 # and it's supposed to change at 4am...
 #
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (25 Sep 1994):
+# From Paul Eggert (25 Sep 1994):
 # Shanks says Finland has switched at 02:00 standard time since 1981.
 # Go with Strang instead.
 #
@@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ Rule	France	1940	only	-	Feb	25	 2:00	1:00	S
 # Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collognes (Haute-Savioe).
 Rule	France	1941	only	-	May	 5	 0:00	2:00	M # Midsummer
 # Shanks says this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00,
-# but go with Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr (1997-12-12),
+# but go with Denis Excoffier (1997-12-12),
 # who quotes the Ephemerides Astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes
 # as saying 5/10/41 22hUT.
 Rule	France	1941	only	-	Oct	 6	 0:00	1:00	S
@@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Paris	0:09:21 -	LMT	1891 Mar 15  0:01
 
 # Germany
 
-# From Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> (1998-09-29):
+# From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29):
 # The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische
 # Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916.
 # [See tz-link.htm for the URL.]
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Budapest	1:16:20 -	LMT	1890 Oct
 
 # Iceland
 #
-# From Adam David <adam@veda.is> (1993-11-06):
+# From Adam David (1993-11-06):
 # The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT.
 #
 # (1993-12-05):
@@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Budapest	1:16:20 -	LMT	1890 Oct
 # might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it
 # might mean something else (???).
 #
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
 # The Iceland Almanak, Shanks and Whitman disagree on many points.
 # We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks, namely that
 # Reykavik was 21W57 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that.
@@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ Link	Europe/Rome	Europe/San_Marino
 
 # Latvia
 
-# From Liene Kanepe <Liene_Kanepe@lm.gov.lv> (1998-09-17):
+# From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17):
 
 # I asked about this matter Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy
 # of The University of Latvia Dr. paed Mr. Ilgonis Vilks. I also searched the
@@ -1398,7 +1398,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Vaduz	0:38:04 -	LMT	1894 Jun
 # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is
 # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too.
 
-# From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07):
+# From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07):
 # I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone
 # (Europe/Vilnius) was changed.
 
@@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Malta	0:58:04 -	LMT	1893 Nov  2	# Valletta
 # on 1991-08-27 (the 1992-01-19 date is that of a Russian decree).
 # In early 1992 there was large-scale interethnic violence in the area
 # and it's possible that some Russophones continued to observe Moscow time.
-# But moldavizolit@tirastel.md and mk@tirastel.md separately reported via
+# But [two people] separately reported via
 # Jesper Norgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau.
 # The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now.
 
@@ -1716,7 +1716,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Warsaw	1:24:00 -	LMT	1880
 # says the autumn 1995 switch was at 02:00.
 # Stick with W-Eur for now.
 #
-# From Marcin.Kasperski@softax.com.pl (1999-06-10):
+# From Marcin Kasperski (1999-06-10):
 # According to my colleagues someone recently decided, that Poland would
 # follow European Union regulations, so - I think - the matter is not
 # worth further discussion.
@@ -1729,11 +1729,11 @@ Zone	Europe/Warsaw	1:24:00 -	LMT	1880
 
 # Portugal
 #
-# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro <rps@inescca.inescc.pt> (1992-11-12):
+# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12):
 # Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone
 # (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC.
 #
-# Martin Bruckmann <martin@ua.pt> (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve
+# Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve
 # that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring.
 # The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter.
 #
@@ -1863,25 +1863,25 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest	1:44:24 -	LMT	1891 Oct
 
 # Russia
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-11-12):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-12):
 # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations.
 # Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991,
 # are from Andrey A. Chernov.  The rest is from Shanks, except we follow
 # Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat 23:00, not Sun 02:00s.
 #
-# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski <S.A.Kuz@iae.nsk.su> (1994-06-29):
+# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29):
 # But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow!
 # I do not know why they have decided to make this change;
 # as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching
 # so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch.
 #
-# From Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.ru> (1996-10-04):
+# From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04):
 # `MSK' and `MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with
 # UNIX-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group)....
 # The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor
 # (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there.
 #
-# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-10-30):
+# From Chris Carrier (1996-10-30):
 # According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from
 # Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ...
 # still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located.
@@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Belgrade	1:22:00	-	LMT	1884
 			1:00	-	CET	1941 Apr 18 23:00
 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 May  8  2:00s
 			1:00	1:00	CEST	1945 Sep 16  2:00s
-# Metod Kozelj <metod.kozelj@rzs-hm.si> reports that the legal date of
+# Metod Kozelj reports that the legal date of
 # transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time.
 # Shanks doesn't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj.
 			1:00	-	CET	1982 Nov 27
@@ -2343,7 +2343,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol	2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
 			3:00	-	MSK	1990 Jul  1 2:00
 			2:00	-	EET	1992
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-11-12):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-12):
 # The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched
 # from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections.
 # Shanks says ``date of change uncertain'', but implies that it happened
@@ -2373,8 +2373,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol	2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
 
 # ...
 # Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100
-# From: seismo!mcvax!cgcha!wtho (Tom Hofmann)
-# Message-Id: <8701281556.AA22174@cgcha.uucp>
+# From: Tom Hofmann
 # ...
 #
 # ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when
@@ -2393,11 +2392,11 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol	2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
 #
 # Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG,
 # 4002 Basle, Switzerland
-# UUCP: ...!mcvax!cernvax!cgcha!wtho
+# ...
 
 # ...
 # Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100
-# From: seismo!mcvax!cwi.nl!dik (Dik T. Winter)
+# From: Dik T. Winter
 # ...
 #
 # The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct.
@@ -2423,8 +2422,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol	2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
 #
 # ...
 # dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
-# INTERNET   : dik@cwi.nl
-# BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax
+# ...
 
 # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
 # ...
diff --git a/timezone/iso3166.tab b/timezone/iso3166.tab
index dad0d9d34a..07b43fc7c4 100644
--- a/timezone/iso3166.tab
+++ b/timezone/iso3166.tab
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # ISO 3166 alpha-2 country codes
 #
-# @(#)iso3166.tab	1.16
+# @(#)iso3166.tab	1.17
 #
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (2004-06-14):
+# From Paul Eggert (2004-06-14):
 #
 # This file contains a table with the following columns:
 # 1.  ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, current as of
diff --git a/timezone/leapseconds b/timezone/leapseconds
index 2966e760e3..a1078837d7 100644
--- a/timezone/leapseconds
+++ b/timezone/leapseconds
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)leapseconds	7.19
+# @(#)leapseconds	7.20
 
 # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file.
 
@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ Leap	1994	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
 Leap	1995	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
 Leap	1997	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
 Leap	1998	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
+Leap	2005	Dec	31	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
@@ -52,29 +54,39 @@ Leap	1998	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
 # 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
 # Tel.      : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
 # FAX       : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
-# Internet  : services.iers@obspm.fr
-#
-#						Paris, 21 July 2004
-#
+# ...
+# http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc
 #
-#						Bulletin C 28
+#						Paris, 4 July 2005
+#							
+#						Bulletin C 30
 #
 #						To authorities responsible
 #						for the measurement and
 #						distribution of time
 #
-#			INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI
 #
-# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2004.
+#                                    UTC TIME STEP
+#                             on the 1st of January 2006
+#
+# A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2005.
+# The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:
+#
+#			2005 December 31,     23h 59m 59s
+#			2005 December 31,     23h 59m 60s
+#			2006 January   1,      0h  0m  0s
+#
 # The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:
 #
-#	from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -32 s
+# from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2006 January 1  0h UTC  : UTC-TAI = - 32s
+# from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice       : UTC-TAI = - 33s
 #
-# Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
+# 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
+# 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
-#					Director
+#					Head
 #					Earth Orientation Center of IERS
+#					Observatoire de Paris, France
diff --git a/timezone/northamerica b/timezone/northamerica
index 64e4409345..c290caf67b 100644
--- a/timezone/northamerica
+++ b/timezone/northamerica
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)northamerica	7.74
+# @(#)northamerica	7.75
 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 # Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.'  Peace is wonderful."
 # </a> (August 1945) by way of confirmation.
 
-# From Joseph Gallant <notquite@hotmail.com>, citing
+# From Joseph Gallant citing
 # George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987):
 # At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set
 # to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ Link	Pacific/Honolulu	HST
 
 # Canada
 
-# From Alain LaBont<e'> <ALB@immedia.ca> (1994-11-14):
+# From Alain LaBont<e'> (1994-11-14):
 # I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada
 # for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard....
 #
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ Zone America/Winnipeg	-6:28:36 -	LMT	1887 Jul 16
 # Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton
 # are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law.
 
-# From W. Jones <jones@skdad.usask.ca> (1992-11-06):
+# From W. Jones (1992-11-06):
 # The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the
 # provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department.
 # A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and
@@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 -	LMT	1884
 
 # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
 # Dawson switched to PST in 1973.  Inuvik switched to MST in 1979.
-# Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org> (1996-10-07) gives the following refs:
+# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs:
 #	* 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68,
 #	c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9.  This is still valid;
 #	see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1).
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson	-9:17:40 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20
 # Shanks gives 1942-04-01 instead of 1942-04-24, and omits the 1981
 # and 1988 DST experiments.  Go with spin.com.mx.
 
-# From Alan Perry <alan.perry@eng.sun.com> (1996-02-15):
+# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15):
 # A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree
 # outlining the timezone changes in Mexico.
 #
diff --git a/timezone/solar87 b/timezone/solar87
index 3f32347973..21ba2c2d64 100644
--- a/timezone/solar87
+++ b/timezone/solar87
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)solar87	7.3
+# @(#)solar87	7.4
 
 # So much for footnotes about Saudi Arabia.
 # Apparent noon times below are for Riyadh; your mileage will vary.
@@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ Rule	sol87	1987	only	-	Dec	31	12:02:45s -0:02:45 -
 # Before and after 1987, we'll operate on local mean solar time.
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES/SAVE	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Asia/Riyadh87	3:07:04	-		??	1987
-			3:07:04	sol87		??	1988
-			3:07:04	-		??
+Zone	Asia/Riyadh87	3:07:04	-		zzz	1987
+			3:07:04	sol87		zzz	1988
+			3:07:04	-		zzz
 # For backward compatibility...
 Link	Asia/Riyadh87	Mideast/Riyadh87
diff --git a/timezone/solar88 b/timezone/solar88
index 41a64e5023..7e15f2b077 100644
--- a/timezone/solar88
+++ b/timezone/solar88
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)solar88	7.3
+# @(#)solar88	7.4
 
 # Apparent noon times below are for Riyadh; they're a bit off for other places.
 # Times were computed using formulas in the U.S. Naval Observatory's
@@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ Rule	sol88	1988	only	-	Dec	31	12:03:05s -0:03:05 -
 # Before and after 1988, we'll operate on local mean solar time.
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES/SAVE	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Asia/Riyadh88	3:07:04	-		??	1988
-			3:07:04	sol88		??	1989
-			3:07:04	-		??
+Zone	Asia/Riyadh88	3:07:04	-		zzz	1988
+			3:07:04	sol88		zzz	1989
+			3:07:04	-		zzz
 # For backward compatibility...
 Link	Asia/Riyadh88	Mideast/Riyadh88
diff --git a/timezone/solar89 b/timezone/solar89
index a6d3d718d3..3c36b6a30d 100644
--- a/timezone/solar89
+++ b/timezone/solar89
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)solar89	7.4
+# @(#)solar89	7.5
 
 # Apparent noon times below are for Riyadh; they're a bit off for other places.
 # Times were computed using a formula provided by the U. S. Naval Observatory:
@@ -386,8 +386,8 @@ Rule	sol89	1989	only	-	Dec	31	12:03:00s -0:03:00 -
 # Before and after 1989, we'll operate on local mean solar time.
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES/SAVE	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Asia/Riyadh89	3:07:04	-		??	1989
-			3:07:04	sol89		??	1990
-			3:07:04	-		??
+Zone	Asia/Riyadh89	3:07:04	-		zzz	1989
+			3:07:04	sol89		zzz	1990
+			3:07:04	-		zzz
 # For backward compatibility...
 Link	Asia/Riyadh89	Mideast/Riyadh89
diff --git a/timezone/southamerica b/timezone/southamerica
index 6f3b081294..d348d7a475 100644
--- a/timezone/southamerica
+++ b/timezone/southamerica
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# @(#)southamerica	7.59
+# @(#)southamerica	7.60
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-07-07):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-07-07):
 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
 # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 # From U. S. Naval Observatory (1988-01-199):
 # ARGENTINA           3 H BEHIND   UTC
 
-# From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (1995-06-26):
+# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
 # I am sending modifications to the Argentine time zone table...
 # AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina.
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Rule	Arg	1974	only	-	Jan	23	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Arg	1974	only	-	May	 1	0:00	0	-
 Rule	Arg	1988	only	-	Dec	 1	0:00	1:00	S
 #
-# From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (1995-06-26):
+# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
 # These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A.,
 # obtaining the data from the:
 # Talleres de Hidrografia Naval Argentina
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Rule	Arg	1988	only	-	Dec	 1	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Arg	1989	1993	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
 Rule	Arg	1989	1992	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	S
 #
-# From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (1995-06-26):
+# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
 # From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving
 # time corrections was derogated and no more modifications
 # to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made.
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Rule	Arg	2000	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
 # Argentina decided not to become one of the countries that go on or off DST.
 # So Buenos Aires should be -3 hours from GMT at all times.
 #
-# From Fabian L. Arce Jofre <farcejofre@bigfoot.com> (2000-04-04):
+# From Fabian L. Arce Jofre (2000-04-04):
 # The law that claimed DST for Argentina was derogated by President Fernando
 # de la Rua on March 2, 2000, because it would make people spend more energy
 # in the winter time, rather than less.  The change took effect on March 3.
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ Zone	America/La_Paz	-4:32:36 -	LMT	1890
 
 # Brazil
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
+# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
 # The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules
 # just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade.
 # The rule change lasted only part of the day;
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ Rule	Brazil	1996	only	-	Feb	11	 0:00	0	-
 # adopted by same states, minus AL, SE.
 Rule	Brazil	1996	only	-	Oct	 6	 0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Brazil	1997	only	-	Feb	16	 0:00	0	-
-# From Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@gns.com.br> (1998-02-12):
+# From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12):
 # In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was that
 # because international television networks ignored Brazil's policy on DS,
 # they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage of Pope's visit.
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
 			-4:00	-	AST
 
 # Uruguay
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
+# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
 # Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules.
 # From Shanks:
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
diff --git a/timezone/zone.tab b/timezone/zone.tab
index e3c8e39e1e..794c342a2d 100644
--- a/timezone/zone.tab
+++ b/timezone/zone.tab
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# @(#)zone.tab	1.30
+# @(#)zone.tab	1.31
 #
 # TZ zone descriptions
 #
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-08-05):
+# From Paul Eggert (1996-08-05):
 #
 # This file contains a table with the following columns:
 # 1.  ISO 3166 2-character country code.  See the file `iso3166.tab'.