From 73665bea0b2da9ab6c0e65089c872f534c20948e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Hull <david.hull@openx.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 22:48:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tz-erl: Better document problem when a zone begins or ends
 using DST.

Worked around 2015 Uraguay problem by allowing database to be generated
for 2016 instead (with "make DATE=2016-01-01").
---
 db/Makefile | 3 ++-
 db/tz-erl   | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/db/Makefile b/db/Makefile
index 0da5f4c..44071f0 100644
--- a/db/Makefile
+++ b/db/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 TZDIR=tzdata
 TZ_FILES=$(addprefix $(TZDIR)/, africa antarctica asia australasia backward etcetera europe northamerica southamerica)
 
+tzout: DATE := $(shell date +%F)
 tzout: $(TZ_FILES)
 	TZ_VERSION=`perl -n -e 'm/^VERSION\s*=\s*(\S+)/ and print $$1;' $(TZDIR)/Makefile`; \
-	./tz-erl --version $$TZ_VERSION -o $@ $^
+	./tz-erl --version $$TZ_VERSION --date $(DATE) -o $@ $^
 
 $(TZ_FILES): $(TZDIR)
 
diff --git a/db/tz-erl b/db/tz-erl
index a5534c3..3f41e21 100755
--- a/db/tz-erl
+++ b/db/tz-erl
@@ -292,7 +292,10 @@ sub zone_line {
     $rule1 = $rule2 = RULE_NULL;
   } elsif (scalar(@rules) == 1) {
     # One active rule.  This is a year that DST started or stopped
-    # being observed
+    # being observed.  erlang_localtime doesn't handle this.  If DST
+    # stopped being observed in this year, don't output a DST rule.
+    # If DST started being observed, do.  (Except that we don't handle
+    # this yet.)
     print STDERR Data::Dump::dump(\@rules), "\n";
     die "one rule for $name";
     $name1 = zonename($format, $rules[0]->[RULE_LETTERS], undef);