diff --git a/tzcode/PKGBUILD b/tzcode/PKGBUILD
index d880cb6a..fa126569 100644
--- a/tzcode/PKGBUILD
+++ b/tzcode/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Alexey Pavlov <alexpux@gmail.com>
 
 pkgname=tzcode
-_ver=2018c
+_ver=2019a
 # use a pacman compatible version scheme
 pkgver=${_ver/[a-z]/.${_ver//[0-9.]/}}
 pkgrel=1
@@ -16,15 +16,13 @@ source=(
         https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata${_ver}.tar.gz{,.asc}
         https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/${pkgname}${_ver}.tar.gz{,.asc}
         tzcode-makefile.patch
-        tzcode-makefile-exe-extensions.patch
-        tzcode-fix-unknown-type-locale_t.patch)
-sha256sums=('2825c3e4b7ef520f24d393bcc02942f9762ffd3e7fc9b23850789ed8f22933f6'
+        tzcode-makefile-exe-extensions.patch)
+sha256sums=('90366ddf4aa03e37a16cd49255af77f801822310b213f195e2206ead48c59772'
             'SKIP'
-            '31fa7fc0f94a6ff2d6bc878c0a35e8ab8b5aa0e8b01445a1d4a8f14777d0e665'
+            '8739f162bc30cdfb482435697f969253abea49595541a0afd5f443fbae433ff5'
             'SKIP'
-            '93d047fcf6151a67f676f16888c34f82b5dfabca6a51d90e123dc197ef649003'
-            'faf73eb5f07c56b019b540005f4262f33927a4ff2acf3752a055e8530decd749'
-            '10abdf8b8a4a50bc6e27b293acb214d5debbab47837768e053eadd590678448d')
+            'f5ba93ebce547b14c44e55f94986046af6ed1c8befad296e4846412d053c4470'
+            'faf73eb5f07c56b019b540005f4262f33927a4ff2acf3752a055e8530decd749')
 validpgpkeys=('7E3792A9D8ACF7D633BC1588ED97E90E62AA7E34')
 
 timezones=('africa' 'antarctica' 'asia' 'australasia'
@@ -37,7 +35,6 @@ prepare() {
 
   patch -p1 -i ${srcdir}/tzcode-makefile.patch
   patch -p1 -i ${srcdir}/tzcode-makefile-exe-extensions.patch
-  patch -p1 -i ${srcdir}/tzcode-fix-unknown-type-locale_t.patch
 }
 
 build() {
diff --git a/tzcode/tzcode-fix-unknown-type-locale_t.patch b/tzcode/tzcode-fix-unknown-type-locale_t.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ff517156..00000000
--- a/tzcode/tzcode-fix-unknown-type-locale_t.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- src/private.h.orig	2018-03-02 11:30:00.359375000 +0800
-+++ src/private.h	2018-03-02 11:36:46.156250000 +0800
-@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@
- /* ... and enable large inode numbers on Mac OS X 10.5 and later.  */
- #define _DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE 1
- 
-+#ifdef __CYGWIN32__
-+typedef char* locale_t;
-+#endif
-+
- /*
- ** Nested includes
- */
diff --git a/tzcode/tzcode-makefile.patch b/tzcode/tzcode-makefile.patch
index e28bf1ab..4c0c7c12 100644
--- a/tzcode/tzcode-makefile.patch
+++ b/tzcode/tzcode-makefile.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 --- src/Makefile.orig	2018-01-17 18:05:36.000000000 +0900
 +++ src/Makefile	2018-01-19 17:58:12.857248200 +0900
-@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
+@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
  #	make zonenames
  # to get a list of the values you can use for LOCALTIME.
  
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  
  # If you want something other than Eastern United States time as a template
  # for handling POSIX-style time zone environment variables,
-@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
+@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
  ZDUMPDIR = $(BINDIR)
  
  # The "zic" command goes in:
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
  
  # Manual pages go in subdirectories of. . .
  MANDIR = $(TOPDIR)/$(USRSHAREDIR)/man
-@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
+@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
  # January's first Monday when a "%V" format is used and January 1
  # falls on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
  
@@ -27,16 +27,16 @@
  
  # Linker flags.  Default to $(LFLAGS) for backwards compatibility
  # to release 2012h and earlier.
-@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@
- ZIC_INSTALL=	$(ZIC) -d '$(DESTDIR)$(TZDIR)' $(LEAPSECONDS)
- 
- # The name of a Posix-compliant 'awk' on your system.
+@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@
+ # Older 'mawk' versions, such as the 'mawk' in Ubuntu 16.04, might dump core;
+ # on Ubuntu you can work around this with
+ #	AWK=		gawk
 -AWK=		awk
 +AWK=		gawk
  
  # The full path name of a Posix-compliant shell, preferably one that supports
  # the Korn shell's 'select' statement as an extension.
-@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@
+@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@
  
  #MAKE=		make