2017c

Zone Changes

• Refactor of timezones in China (#13)
  • Integration of areas formerly found in Asia/Chongqing, Asia/Harbin and Asia/Kashgar into other zones
  • Expansion of Asia/Shanghai to all of China except Xinjiang
  • Asia/Urumqi is now comprised of Xinjiang
• Fix Mexico Beach, FL by moving it to central time (#20)
• Make Viedma glacier area work with updated OSM boundaries
• Remove small holes and reduce geojson precision. (#11 and #17)
• Remove zones found in backward file of timezone db (#16)
  • America/Coral_Harbour now integrated into America/Atikokan
  • America/Montreal now integrated into America/Toronto
  • See notes on China refactor for changes to Asia/Chongqing, Asia/Harbin, Asia/Kashgar, Asia/Shanghai and Asia/Urumqi
  • Asia/Rangoon renamed to Asia/Yangon
  • Pacific/Yap integrated into Pacific/Chuuk
  • Pacific/Johnston integrated into Pacific/Honolulu
• Refactor arbitrary sea boundaries of timezones in the Gulf of St Lawrence to account for updated OSM geometry of the boundary of Quebec.
• Add Page, AZ to America/Phoenix (#9)
• Update to latest OSM data

Other Changes

• Add linting of json files
  • A overpass source listed in timezones.json must have a corresponding definition in osmBoundarySources.json
  • A overpass source defined in osmBoundarySources.json must be used in at least one operation in timezones.json
  • A manual-polygon or manual-multipolygon defined in timezones.json must be accompanied with a description.
• Add ability to build only certain zones in builder script
• Add travis-ci builds that require linting script to pass
• Added descriptions to manual geometries
• Add ability to use overpass to fetch ways that represent boundaries
• Rewrite README