Update TZDB to 2021bfork2

pom.xml

@@ -1034,6 +1034,6 @@
     <!-- Other properties -->
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-    <tz.database.version>2021a</tz.database.version>
+    <tz.database.version>2021bfork2</tz.database.version>
   </properties>
 </project>

src/main/java/org/joda/time/tz/src/africa

@@ -30,9 +30,6 @@
 # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
 # https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
 #
-# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
-# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
-#
 # European-style abbreviations are commonly used along the Mediterranean.
 # For sub-Saharan Africa abbreviations were less standardized.
 # Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT
@@ -732,7 +729,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius	3:50:00 -	LMT	1907 # Port Louis
 # See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 # Morocco
-# See the 'europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta).
+# See Africa/Ceuta for Spanish Morocco.
 
 # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09):
 # Here is an article that Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time between
@@ -1397,8 +1394,6 @@ Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Porto-Novo  # Benin
 Zone	Indian/Reunion	3:41:52 -	LMT	1911 Jun # Saint-Denis
 			4:00	-	+04
 #
-# Crozet Islands also observes Réunion time; see the 'antarctica' file.
-#
 # Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses) administered from Réunion are as follows.
 # The following information about them is taken from
 # Îles Éparses (<http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm>, 1997-07-22,
@@ -1527,12 +1522,13 @@ Zone	Africa/Khartoum	2:10:08 -	LMT	1931
 			3:00	-	EAT	2017 Nov  1
 			2:00	-	CAT
 
+# South Sudan
+
 # From Steffen Thorsen (2021-01-18):
 # "South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1
 # hour on February 1, 2021...."
 # from https://eyeradio.org/south-sudan-adopts-new-time-zone-makuei/
 
-# South Sudan
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Africa/Juba	2:06:28 -	LMT	1931
 			2:00	Sudan	CA%sT	2000 Jan 15 12:00
@@ -1637,7 +1633,7 @@ Rule	Tunisia	2005	only	-	Sep	30	 1:00s	0	-
 Rule	Tunisia	2006	2008	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
 Rule	Tunisia	2006	2008	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
 
-# See Europe/Paris for PMT-related transitions.
+# See Europe/Paris commentary for PMT-related transitions.
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Africa/Tunis	0:40:44 -	LMT	1881 May 12
 			0:09:21	-	PMT	1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time

src/main/java/org/joda/time/tz/src/asia

@@ -34,9 +34,6 @@
 # Byalokoz EL. New Counting of Time in Russia since July 1, 1919.
 # (See the 'europe' file for a fuller citation.)
 #
-# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
-# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
-#
 # The following alphabetic abbreviations appear in these tables
 # (corrections are welcome):
 #	     std  dst
@@ -2234,6 +2231,14 @@ Zone	Asia/Tokyo	9:18:59	-	LMT	1887 Dec 31 15:00u
 # From Paul Eggert (2013-12-11):
 # As Steffen suggested, consider the past 21-month experiment to be DST.
 
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2021-09-24):
+# The Jordanian Government announced yesterday that they will start DST
+# in February instead of March:
+# https://petra.gov.jo/Include/InnerPage.jsp?ID=37683&lang=en&name=en_news (English)
+# https://petra.gov.jo/Include/InnerPage.jsp?ID=189969&lang=ar&name=news (Arabic)
+# From the Arabic version, it seems to say it would be at midnight
+# (assume 24:00) on the last Thursday in February, starting from 2022.
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Jordan	1973	only	-	Jun	6	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Jordan	1973	1975	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
@@ -2264,8 +2269,9 @@ Rule	Jordan	2004	only	-	Oct	15	0:00s	0	-
 Rule	Jordan	2005	only	-	Sep	lastFri	0:00s	0	-
 Rule	Jordan	2006	2011	-	Oct	lastFri	0:00s	0	-
 Rule	Jordan	2013	only	-	Dec	20	0:00	0	-
-Rule	Jordan	2014	max	-	Mar	lastThu	24:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Jordan	2014	2021	-	Mar	lastThu	24:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Jordan	2014	max	-	Oct	lastFri	0:00s	0	-
+Rule	Jordan	2022	max	-	Feb	lastThu	24:00	1:00	S
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Amman	2:23:44 -	LMT	1931
 			2:00	Jordan	EE%sT
@@ -2740,7 +2746,8 @@ Rule	NBorneo	1935	1941	-	Dec	14	0:00	0	-
 #
 # peninsular Malaysia
 # taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
-# http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html
+# https://web.archive.org/web/20190822231045/http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~mathelmr/teaching/timezone.html
+# This agrees with Singapore since 1905-06-01.
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur	6:46:46 -	LMT	1901 Jan  1
 			6:55:25	-	SMT	1905 Jun  1 # Singapore M.T.
@@ -3500,6 +3507,12 @@ Zone	Asia/Hebron	2:20:23	-	LMT	1900 Oct
 # influence of the sources.  There is no current abbreviation for DST,
 # so use "PDT", the usual American style.
 
+# From P Chan (2021-05-10):
+# Here's a fairly comprehensive article in Japanese:
+# https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/Philippine%20Time
+# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-10):
+# The info in the Japanese table has not been absorbed (yet) below.
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Phil	1936	only	-	Nov	1	0:00	1:00	D
 Rule	Phil	1937	only	-	Feb	1	0:00	0	S
@@ -3571,7 +3584,7 @@ Link Asia/Riyadh Asia/Kuwait
 
 # Singapore
 # taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
-# http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html
+# https://web.archive.org/web/20190822231045/http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~mathelmr/teaching/timezone.html
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Singapore	6:55:25 -	LMT	1901 Jan  1
 			6:55:25	-	SMT	1905 Jun  1 # Singapore M.T.

src/main/java/org/joda/time/tz/src/australasia

@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Pacific/Tarawa	 11:32:04 -	LMT	1901 # Bairiki
 			 12:00	-	+12
-Zone Pacific/Enderbury	-11:24:20 -	LMT	1901
+Zone Pacific/Kanton	  0	-	-00	1937 Aug 31
 			-12:00	-	-12	1979 Oct
 			-11:00	-	-11	1994 Dec 31
 			 13:00	-	+13
@@ -597,24 +597,65 @@ Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo
 # was probably like Pacific/Auckland
 
 # Cook Is
-# From Shanks & Pottenger:
+#
+# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2021-03-24):
+# In 1899 the Cook Islands celebrated Christmas twice to correct the calendar.
+# According to the old books, missionaries were unaware of
+# the International Date line, when they came from Sydney.
+# Thus the Cook Islands were one day ahead....
+# http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-KloDisc-t1-body-d18.html
+# ... Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1900
+# https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1900-I.2.1.2.3
+# (page 20)
+#
+# From Michael Deckers (2021-03-24):
+# ... in the Cook Island Act of 1915-10-11, online at
+# http://www.paclii.org/ck/legis/ck-nz_act/cia1915132/
+# "651. The hour of the day shall in each of the islands included in the
+#  Cook Islands be determined in accordance with the meridian of that island."
+# so that local (mean?) time was still used in Rarotonga (and Niue) in 1915.
+# This was changed in the Cook Island Amendment Act of 1952-10-16 ...
+# http://www.paclii.org/ck/legis/ck-nz_act/ciaa1952212/
+# "651 (1) The hour of the day in each of the islands included in the Cook
+#  Islands, other than Niue, shall be determined as if each island were
+#  situated on the meridian one hundred and fifty-seven degrees thirty minutes
+#  West of Greenwich.  (2) The hour of the day in the Island of Niue shall be
+#  determined as if that island were situated on the meridian one hundred and
+#  seventy degrees West of Greenwich."
+# This act does not state when it takes effect, so one has to assume it
+# applies since 1952-10-16.  But there is the possibility that the act just
+# legalized prior existing practice, as we had seen with the Guernsey law of
+# 1913-06-18 for the switch in 1909-04-19.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2021-03-24):
+# Transitions after 1952 are from Shanks & Pottenger.
+#
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Cook	1978	only	-	Nov	12	0:00	0:30	-
 Rule	Cook	1979	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
 Rule	Cook	1979	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0:30	-
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Rarotonga	-10:39:04 -	LMT	1901        # Avarua
+Zone Pacific/Rarotonga	13:20:56 -	LMT	1899 Dec 26 # Avarua
+			-10:39:04 -	LMT	1952 Oct 16
 			-10:30	-	-1030	1978 Nov 12
 			-10:00	Cook	-10/-0930
 
 ###############################################################################
 
 
 # Niue
+# See Pacific/Raratonga comments for 1952 transition.
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2021-09-13):
+# Consecutive contemporaneous editions of The Air Almanac listed -11:20 for
+# Niue as of Apr 1964 but -11 as of Aug 1964:
+#   Apr 1964: https://books.google.com/books?id=_1So677Y5vUC&pg=SL1-PA23
+#   Aug 1964: https://books.google.com/books?id=MbJloqd-zyUC&pg=SL1-PA23
+# Without greater specificity, guess 1964-07-01 for this transition.
+
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Pacific/Niue	-11:19:40 -	LMT	1901        # Alofi
-			-11:20	-	-1120	1951
-			-11:30	-	-1130	1978 Oct  1
+Zone	Pacific/Niue	-11:19:40 -	LMT	1952 Oct 16	# Alofi
+			-11:20	-	-1120	1964 Jul
 			-11:00	-	-11
 
 # Norfolk
@@ -742,13 +783,17 @@ Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
 # From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08):
 # That web page currently lists transitions for 2012/3 and 2013/4.
 # Assume the pattern instituted in 2012 will continue indefinitely.
+#
+# From Geoffrey D. Bennett (2021-09-20):
+# https://www.mcil.gov.ws/storage/2021/09/MCIL-Scan_20210920_120553.pdf
+# DST has been cancelled for this year.
 
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	WS	2010	only	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1	-
 Rule	WS	2011	only	-	Apr	Sat>=1	4:00	0	-
 Rule	WS	2011	only	-	Sep	lastSat	3:00	1	-
-Rule	WS	2012	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	4:00	0	-
-Rule	WS	2012	max	-	Sep	lastSun	3:00	1	-
+Rule	WS	2012	2021	-	Apr	Sun>=1	4:00	0	-
+Rule	WS	2012	2020	-	Sep	lastSun	3:00	1	-
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Pacific/Apia	 12:33:04 -	LMT	1892 Jul  5
 			-11:26:56 -	LMT	1911
@@ -795,8 +840,8 @@ Rule	Tonga	2001	2002	-	Jan	lastSun	2:00	0	-
 Rule	Tonga	2016	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
 Rule	Tonga	2017	only	-	Jan	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:20 -	LMT	1901
-			12:20	-	+1220	1941
+Zone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:12 -	LMT	1945 Sep 10
+			12:20	-	+1220	1961
 			13:00	-	+13	1999
 			13:00	Tonga	+13/+14
 
@@ -1738,6 +1783,23 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 # One source for this is page 202 of: Bartky IR. One Time Fits All:
 # The Campaigns for Global Uniformity (2007).
 
+# Kanton
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-27):
+# Kiribati's +13 timezone is represented by Kanton, its only populated
+# island.  (It was formerly spelled "Canton", but Gilbertese lacks "C".)
+# Kanton was settled on 1937-08-31 by two British radio operators
+# <https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1937v02/d94>;
+# Americans came the next year and built an airfield, partly to
+# establish airline service and perhaps partly anticipating the
+# next war.  Aside from the war, the airfield was used by commercial
+# airlines until long-range jets became standard; although currently
+# for emergency use only, China says it is considering rebuilding the
+# airfield for high-end niche tourism.  Kanton has about two dozen
+# people, caretakers who rotate in from the rest of Kiribati in 2-5
+# year shifts, and who use some of the leftover structures
+# <http://pipa.neaq.org/2012/06/images-of-kanton-island.html>.
+
 # Kwajalein
 
 # From an AP article (1993-08-22):
@@ -2021,6 +2083,17 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 
 # Tonga
 
+# From Paul Eggert (2021-03-04):
+# In 1943 "The standard time kept is 12 hrs. 19 min. 12 sec. fast
+# on Greenwich mean time." according to the Admiralty's Hydrographic
+# Dept., Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. II, 7th ed., 1943, p 360.
+
+# From Michael Deckers (2021-03-03):
+# [Ian R Bartky: "One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity".
+# Stanford University Press. 2007. p. 255]:
+# On 10 September 1945 Tonga adopted a standard time 12 hours,
+# 20 minutes in advance of Greenwich.
+
 # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
 # Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that "Tonga has been plotting
 # to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time."
@@ -2049,9 +2122,26 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 # The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that
 # on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth
 # to say your prayers in the morning."
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2021-09-13), per Paul Eggert (2006-03-22) and Michael
+# Deckers (2021-03-03):
+# Mundell places the transition from +12:20 to +13 in 1941, while Shanks &
+# Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01.
+#
+# The Air Almanac published contemporaneous tables of standard times,
+# which listed +12:20 as of Nov 1960 and +13 as of Mar 1961:
+#   Nov 1960: https://books.google.com/books?id=bVgtWM6kPZUC&pg=SL1-PA19
+#   Mar 1961: https://books.google.com/books?id=W2nItAul4g0C&pg=SL1-PA19
+# (Thanks to P Chan for pointing us toward these sources.)
+# This agrees with Bartky, who writes that "since 1961 [Tonga's] official time
+# has been thirteen hours in advance of Greenwich time" (p. 202) and further
+# writes in an endnote that this was because "the legislation was amended" on
+# 1960-10-19. (p. 255)
+#
+# Without greater specificity, presume that Bartky and the Air Almanac point to
+# a 1961-01-01 transition, as Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV was still Crown Prince in
+# 1961 and this still jives with the gist of Mundell's telling, and go with
+# this over Shanks & Pottenger.
 
 # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
 # Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium

src/main/java/org/joda/time/tz/src/backward

@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
-# This file provides links between current names for timezones
-# and their old names.  Many names changed in late 1993.
+# This file provides links from old or merged timezone names to current ones.
+# Many names changed in late 1993, and many merged names moved here
+# in the period from 2013 through 2021.  Several of these names are
+# also present in the file 'backzone', which has data important only
+# for pre-1970 timestamps and so is out of scope for tzdb proper.
 
 # Link	TARGET			LINK-NAME
 Link	Africa/Nairobi		Africa/Asmera
@@ -103,6 +106,7 @@ Link	Pacific/Auckland	NZ
 Link	Pacific/Chatham		NZ-CHAT
 Link	America/Denver		Navajo
 Link	Asia/Shanghai		PRC
+Link	Pacific/Kanton		Pacific/Enderbury
 Link	Pacific/Honolulu	Pacific/Johnston
 Link	Pacific/Pohnpei		Pacific/Ponape
 Link	Pacific/Pago_Pago	Pacific/Samoa

src/main/java/org/joda/time/tz/src/europe

@@ -68,8 +68,7 @@
 #        0:00       GMT  BST  BDST  Greenwich, British Summer
 #        0:00       GMT  IST        Greenwich, Irish Summer
 #        0:00       WET  WEST WEMT  Western Europe
-#        0:19:32.13 AMT* NST*       Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)
-#        1:00       BST             British Standard (1968-1971)
+s#        1:00       BST             British Standard (1968-1971)
 #        1:00       IST  GMT        Irish Standard (1968-) with winter DST
 #        1:00       CET  CEST CEMT  Central Europe
 #        1:00:14    SET             Swedish (1879-1899)
@@ -1803,6 +1802,9 @@ Zone	Europe/Rome	0:49:56 -	LMT	1866 Dec 12
 Link	Europe/Rome	Europe/Vatican
 Link	Europe/Rome	Europe/San_Marino
 
+# Kosovo
+# See Europe/Belgrade.
+
 # Latvia
 
 # From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17):
@@ -2150,6 +2152,10 @@ Zone	Europe/Monaco	0:29:32 -	LMT	1892 Jun  1
 # The data entries before 1945 are taken from
 # https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/wettijd/wettijd.htm
 
+# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-09):
+# I invented the abbreviations AMT for Amsterdam Mean Time and NST for
+# Netherlands Summer Time, used in the Netherlands from 1835 to 1937.
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Neth	1916	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	NST	# Netherlands Summer Time
 Rule	Neth	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	AMT	# Amsterdam Mean Time
@@ -2376,12 +2382,10 @@ Rule	Port	1943	1945	-	Aug	Sat>=25	22:00s	1:00	S
 Rule	Port	1944	1945	-	Apr	Sat>=21	22:00s	2:00	M
 Rule	Port	1946	only	-	Apr	Sat>=1	23:00s	1:00	S
 Rule	Port	1946	only	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
-Rule	Port	1947	1949	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 2:00s	1:00	S
-Rule	Port	1947	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00s	0	-
-# Shanks & Pottenger say DST was observed in 1950; go with Whitman.
+# Whitman says DST was not observed in 1950; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
 # Whitman gives Oct lastSun for 1952 on; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
-Rule	Port	1951	1965	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 2:00s	1:00	S
-Rule	Port	1951	1965	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00s	0	-
+Rule	Port	1947	1965	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 2:00s	1:00	S
+Rule	Port	1947	1965	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00s	0	-
 Rule	Port	1977	only	-	Mar	27	 0:00s	1:00	S
 Rule	Port	1977	only	-	Sep	25	 0:00s	0	-
 Rule	Port	1978	1979	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 0:00s	1:00	S
@@ -3683,6 +3687,9 @@ Zone	Atlantic/Canary	-1:01:36 -	LMT	1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C.
 #
 # Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left.
 
+# An extra-special abbreviation style is SET for Swedish Time (svensk
+# normaltid) 1879-1899, 3° west of the Stockholm Observatory.
+
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Europe/Stockholm	1:12:12 -	LMT	1879 Jan  1
 			1:00:14	-	SET	1900 Jan  1 # Swedish Time