diff --git a/packages/sysutils/timezone-data/package.mk b/packages/sysutils/timezone-data/package.mk
index 2eb3d837cc..8d5126bed0 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/timezone-data/package.mk
+++ b/packages/sysutils/timezone-data/package.mk
@@ -17,11 +17,13 @@
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 PKG_NAME="timezone-data"
-PKG_VERSION="2014i"
+PKG_VERSION="2016a"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="Public Domain"
-PKG_SITE="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.iana.org/time-zones"
+# this package actually contains both packages tzcode and tzdate in a single package
+# duplicate files are the same files
 PKG_URL="$DISTRO_SRC/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"