Update to latest tzdata / switch back to zones.tab
The file has fallen out of date since it was fundamentally updated in commit 50e9b862. This change brings it up to date with 2017b. This change also switches back to using zone.tab as a source of time zone IDs. In commit 50e9b862 the source was switched to zone1970.tab. Although this switch wouldn't have meaningfully affected time zone calculations it does alter the exemplar locations for automatically detected time zones. This information may surfaced to users in some places and can lead to confusion because zone1970.tab uses zones that span multiple countries, while zone.tab zones tend to be more local. Reverting should lead to a subtly better localization experience. During this work a number of unexpected differences between zone.tab and zone1970.tab were uncovered. These have been questioned upstream via the IANA mailing list on 31st March 2017. Notable other updates: Addition of Asia/Famagusta for Cyprus. Addition of Asia/Atyrau for Kazakhstan. Addition of Europe/Saratov for Russia. The following have been queried with IANA and differ between zone.tab and zone1970.tab: Removal of Indian/Reunion for French Southern Territories Removal of Pacific/Honolulu for United States Minor Outlying Islands Removal of Asia/Bangkok for Vietnam. Bug: 25338903 Test: Build / CtsUtilTestCases Change-Id: I955a2dc8d35968f2e58f51c3a2175e8402a59ee0
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