Update from tzdata1998g.

diff --git a/timezone/backward b/timezone/backward
index 4c7a19d..84f3de5 100644 (file)
--- a/timezone/backward
+++ b/timezone/backward
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)backward 7.14
+# @(#)backward 7.15
 
 # This file provides links between current names for time zones
 # and their old names.  Many names changed in late 1993.
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ Link  America/Havana          Cuba
 Link   Africa/Cairo            Egypt
 Link   Europe/Dublin           Eire
 Link   Europe/London           GB
-Link   Etc/GMT                 GMT
 Link   Etc/GMT+0               GMT+0
 Link   Etc/GMT-0               GMT-0
 Link   Etc/GMT0                GMT0

diff --git a/timezone/etcetera b/timezone/etcetera
index cf1516f..4fb27ac 100644 (file)
--- a/timezone/etcetera
+++ b/timezone/etcetera
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)etcetera 7.9
+# @(#)etcetera 7.10
 
 # These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that
 # people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l"
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ Zone Etc/GMT         0       -       GMT
 Zone   Etc/UTC         0       -       UTC
 Zone   Etc/UCT         0       -       UCT
 
+# The following link uses older naming conventions,
+# but it belongs here, not in the file `backward',
+# as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly.
+# We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names.
+Link   Etc/GMT                         GMT
+
 Link   Etc/UTC                         Etc/Universal
 Link   Etc/UTC                         Etc/Zulu
 

diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe
index 5e920e8..671cd54 100644 (file)
--- a/timezone/europe
+++ b/timezone/europe
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)europe   7.54
+# @(#)europe   7.55
 
 # 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
@@ -1610,11 +1610,16 @@ Zone    Europe/Vilnius  1:41:16 -       LMT     1880
                        1:00    C-Eur   CE%sT   1944 Aug
                        3:00    Russia  MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
                        2:00    1:00    EEST    1991 Sep 29 2:00s
-                       2:00    C-Eur   EE%sT
+                       2:00    C-Eur   EE%sT   1998 Mar 29 2:00s
+                       1:00    C-Eur   CE%sT
 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
 # 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):
+# I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone
+# (Europe/Vilnius) was changed.
+
 # Luxembourg
 # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.
 # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S