Update tzdata and zoneinfo to version 2016j.

Author: GitHub Actions

tzdata/CONTRIBUTING

@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ data should contain commentary citing reliable sources as
 justification.
 
 Please submit changes against either the latest release in
-<ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/> or the master branch of the experimental
-Git repository.  If you use Git the following workflow may be helpful:
+<ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/> or the master branch of the development
+repository.  If you use Git the following workflow may be helpful:
 
-  * Copy the experimental repository.
+  * Copy the development repository.
 
       git clone https://github.com/eggert/tz.git
       cd tz

tzdata/Makefile

@@ -542,7 +542,8 @@ force_tzs:	$(TZS_NEW)
 		cp $(TZS_NEW) $(TZS)
 
 libtz.a:	$(LIBOBJS)
-		$(AR) ru $@ $(LIBOBJS)
+		rm -f $@
+		$(AR) -rc $@ $(LIBOBJS)
 		$(RANLIB) $@
 
 date:		$(DATEOBJS)

tzdata/NEWS

@@ -1,5 +1,46 @@
 News for the tz database
 
+Release 2016j - 2016-11-22 23:17:13 -0800
+
+  Briefly: Saratov, Russia moves from +03 to +04 on 2016-12-04.
+
+  Changes to future time stamps
+
+    Saratov, Russia switches from +03 to +04 on 2016-12-04 at 02:00.
+    This hives off a new zone Europe/Saratov from Europe/Volgograd.
+    (Thanks to Yuri Konotopov and Stepan Golosunov.)
+
+  Changes to past time stamps
+
+    The new zone Asia/Atyrau for Atyraū Region, Kazakhstan, is like
+    Asia/Aqtau except it switched from +04/+05 to +05/+06 in spring
+    1999, not fall 1994.  (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.)
+
+  Changes to past time zone abbreviations
+
+    Asia/Gaza and Asia/Hebron now use "EEST", not "EET", to denote
+    summer time before 1948.  The old use of "EET" was a typo.
+
+  Changes to code
+
+    zic no longer mishandles file systems that lack hard links, fixing
+    bugs introduced in 2016g.  (Problems reported by Tom Lane.)
+    Also, when the destination already contains symbolic links, zic
+    should now work better on systems where the 'link' system call
+    does not follow symbolic links.
+
+  Changes to documentation and commentary
+
+    tz-link.htm now documents the relationship between release version
+    numbers and development-repository commit tags.  (Suggested by
+    Paul Koning.)
+
+    The 'Theory' file now documents UT.
+
+    iso3166.tab now accents "Curaçao", and commentary now mentions
+    the names "Cabo Verde" and "Czechia".  (Thanks to Jiří Boháč.)
+
+
 Release 2016i - 2016-11-01 23:19:52 -0700
 
   Briefly: Cyprus split into two time zones on 2016-10-30, and Tonga
@@ -212,7 +253,7 @@ Release 2016g - 2016-09-13 08:56:38 -0700
     23 commits and some working-file changes have been made since
     release 2016g, the version number is now something like
     '2016g-23-g50556e3-dirty' instead of the misleading '2016g'.
-    Official releases uses the same version number format as before,
+    Tagged releases use the same version number format as before,
     e.g., '2016g'.  To support the more-accurate version number, its
     specification has moved from a line in the Makefile to a new
     source file 'version'.

tzdata/README

@@ -10,24 +10,9 @@ locations around the globe.  It is updated periodically to reflect
 changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets,
 and daylight-saving rules.
 
-Here is a recipe for acquiring, building, installing, and testing the
-tz distribution on a GNU/Linux or similar host.
-
-To acquire the distribution, run the following shell commands:
-
-	mkdir tz
-	cd tz
-	wget --retr-symlinks 'ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tz*-latest.tar.gz'
-	gzip -dc tzcode-latest.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-	gzip -dc tzdata-latest.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-
-Alternatively, the following shell commands acquire the same
-distribution, with extra data useful for regression testing:
-
-	wget --retr-symlinks 'ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdb-latest.tar.lz'
-	lzip -dc tzdb-latest.tar.lz | tar -xf -
-
-Be sure to read the comments in "Makefile" and make any changes needed
+See <https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html> or the
+file tz-link.htm for how to acquire the code and data.  Once acquired,
+read the comments in the file 'Makefile' and make any changes needed
 to make things right for your system, especially if you are using some
 platform other than GNU/Linux.  Then run the following commands,
 substituting your desired installation directory for "$HOME/tzdir":
@@ -60,10 +45,6 @@ Thanks in particular to Arthur David Olson, the project's founder and first
 maintainer, to whom the time zone community owes the greatest debt of all.
 None of them are responsible for remaining errors.
 
-Look in <ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/> for updated versions of these files.
-
-Please send comments or information to [email protected].
-
 -----
 
 This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2009-05-17 by

tzdata/Theory

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Theory and pragmatics of the tz code and data
 	Time zone abbreviations
 	Accuracy of the tz database
 	Time and date functions
+	Interface stability
 	Calendrical issues
 	Time and time zones on Mars
 
@@ -342,12 +343,24 @@ Errors in the tz database arise from many sources:
    non-hour-based system at night.
 
  * Early clocks were less reliable, and data entries do not represent
-   this unreliability.
-
- * As for leap seconds, civil time was not based on atomic time before
-   1972, and we don't know the history of earth's rotation accurately
-   enough to map SI seconds to historical solar time to more than
-   about one-hour accuracy.  See: Morrison LV, Stephenson FR.
+   clock error.
+
+ * The tz database assumes Universal Time (UT) as an origin, even
+   though UT is not standardized for older time stamps.  In the tz
+   database commentary, UT denotes a family of time standards that
+   includes Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) along with other variants
+   such as UT1 and GMT, with days starting at midnight.  Although UT
+   equals UTC for modern time stamps, UTC was not defined until 1960,
+   so commentary uses the more-general abbreviation UT for time stamps
+   that might predate 1960.  Since UT, UT1, etc. disagree slightly,
+   and since pre-1972 UTC seconds varied in length, interpretation of
+   older time stamps can be problematic when subsecond accuracy is
+   needed.
+
+ * Civil time was not based on atomic time before 1972, and we don't
+   know the history of earth's rotation accurately enough to map SI
+   seconds to historical solar time to more than about one-hour
+   accuracy.  See: Morrison LV, Stephenson FR.
    Historical values of the Earth's clock error Delta T and the
    calculation of eclipses. J Hist Astron. 2004;35:327-36
    <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2004JHA....35..327M>;
@@ -601,10 +614,14 @@ The tz code and data supply the following interfaces:
 
  * The format of the country code file, documented in iso3166.tab.
 
-When these interfaces are changed, an effort is made to preserve
-backward compatibility.  For example, tz data files typically do not
-rely on recently-added zic features, so that users can run older zic
-versions to process newer data files.
+ * The version number of the code and data, as the first line of
+   the text file 'version' in each release.
+
+Interface changes in a release attempt to preserve compatibility with
+recent releases.  For example, tz data files typically do not rely on
+recently-added zic features, so that users can run older zic versions
+to process newer data files.  The tz-link.htm file describes how
+releases are tagged and distributed.
 
 Interfaces not listed above are less stable.  For example, users
 should not rely on particular UT offsets or abbreviations for time

tzdata/africa

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Zone	Africa/Algiers	0:12:12 -	LMT	1891 Mar 15  0:01
 # Cameroon
 # See Africa/Lagos.
 
-# Cape Verde
+# Cape Verde / Cabo Verde
 #
 # Shanks gives 1907 for the transition to CVT.
 # Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree