This recommended update for timezone provides version 2015b with various fixes and adjustments (boo#923493):
- Changes to time zones:
+ Mongolia DST observance 2015
+ Palestine DST dates 2015 and 2015
+ correct 1982 zone shift in Pacific/Easter, regression in 2015a
+ More pre-1970 zones have been turned into links, when they differed from existing zones only for older time stamps:
* America/Antigua
* America/Cayman
* Pacific/Midway,
* Pacific/Saipan.
+ Correct the 1992-2010 DST abbreviation in Volgograd from "MSK" to "MSD".
- Changes to code:
+ Fix integer overflow bug in reference 'mktime' implementation.
+ Allow -Dtime_tz=time_t compilations, and allow -Dtime_tz=... libraries to be used in the same executable as standard-library time_t functions.