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Argentina DST switch on October 19 is not official
by Martin Pitt Oct. 9, 2008

Oct. 9, 2008

Hello tzdata maintainers, in https://launchpad.net/bugs/278419 we first handled the recent Argentina DST change and uloaded 2008g to all stable Ubuntu releases. However, now there are some followup comments which say that is not at all clear whether October 19 will actually switch to DST, as indicated by the current rules. The last comment subsumes this as "I think the problem is that there are no official sources saying that DST will start on 19th October, so there isn't really any source to reference to. That dates seem to be a rumour from an unofficial news site. Until an official announcement is made, it should probably be assumed that there will be no DST starting in October." I can just play messenger here, and I don't speak Spanish either, but I thought notifying you about possible problems would be a good idea. Settling this soon would be good, since it always takes a while until tzdata package updates are actually downloaded and used by people. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)

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Australia/Melbourne Sydney daylight savings.
by Mario Sammut Oct. 7, 2008

Oct. 7, 2008

Hi, Looking at current times coming from the tz-database http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdatepick.html The daylight savings offset for the following (atleast) haven't been taken into account: Australia/Melbourne Australia/Sydney Using the icu java classes http://www.icu-project.org/ to read from the tz-database is producing the same results. Doing some testing, the daylight savings offset doesn't come into effect until doesn't start until the 26th October. But has in actual fact daylight savings in Melbourne and Sydney has already started (5th October). Cheers. *************************************************************************** CAUTION: This email message and accompanying data may contain information that is confidential and/or subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data is prohibited. If you have received this email message in error, please notify us immediately and erase all copies of this message and attachments. Thank you. ***************************************************************************

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Mauritius DST yet again
by Ed Maste Oct. 7, 2008

Oct. 7, 2008

A contact in Mauritius tells me that the time for switching back to standard time is incorrect. According to the summer time bill[1], "period of summer time" means ... the period (i) beginning at 2 o'clock standard time in the morning of the last Sunday of October in any year; and (ii) ending at 2 o'clock standard time in the morning of the last Sunday of March in the following year; There's also the following wording on www.gov.mu though: It will start at two o'clock in the morning on the last Sunday of October and will end at two o'clock in the morning on the last Sunday of March the following year. This seems to imply to me that it's 2am local time and is what I'd expect, but that contradicts the actual bill. -Ed [1] http://www.gov.mu/portal/goc/assemblysite/file/bill2708.pdf

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Syria still on DST
by Steffen Thorsen Oct. 7, 2008

Oct. 7, 2008

Syria is still on DST, contrary to the dates they announced earlier this year, and since current tzdata says it ended on 2008-10-01, the current timestamps are wrong. The Syrian government has not yet announced when DST will end. Based on what we were able to find out, it will end on or around 2008-11-01, but the exact date will probably be announced soon. Some background info: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-daylight-saving-ends-2008.html Regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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FW: Niue
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 7, 2008

Oct. 7, 2008

I'm forwarding this message from hsv(a)tbbs.net, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: hsv(a)tbbs.net [mailto:hsv@tbbs.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:40 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Niue I think that Niue s longitude s sign is wrong, that it is around west 170 not east 170 degrees from Greenwich. In any case, that is so in the CIA s World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2011. html, and its LMT offset is suggestive.

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On Argentina DST
by Rodrigo Severo Oct. 7, 2008

Oct. 7, 2008

Hi, Here is some info available at a Gentoo bug related to TZ on Argentina's DST: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Comment #1 from jmdocile(a)gmail.com 2008-10-06 16:28 0000 ------- Hi, there is a problem with timezone-data-2008e and maybe with timezone-data-2008f Argentinian law N° 25.155 is no longer valid. http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/60000-64999/60036/norma.htm The new one is law N° 26.350 http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/135000-139999/136191/norma… So there is no summer time in Argentina for now. I don't know where to inform this to update tzdata & tzcode Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rodrigo

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Niue
by hsv＠tbbs.net Oct. 7, 2008

Oct. 7, 2008

I think that Niue s longitude s sign is wrong, that it is around west 170 not east 170 degrees from Greenwich. In any case, that is so in the CIA s World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2011.html, and its LMT offset is suggestive.

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NSW, Australia timezone changes
by Nathan Porter Oct. 7, 2008

Oct. 7, 2008

Hi, Please see the attached link for changes to NSW daylight savings times. Reading your database listing you have NSW listed as changing on the last weekend in October instead of the first Sunday which it changed to for this year. NSW daylight savings link: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/cru/ll_cru.nsf/pages/cru_daylights aving >From you website: Australia DST rule name Valid on/off Date Time Offset AN on Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 AN <=2005 off Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 AN 2006 off Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 AN >=2007 off Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 AS on Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 AS <=2005 off Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 AS 2006 off Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 AS >=2007 off Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 AT on Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 AT <=2005 off Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 AT 2006 off Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 AT >=2007 off Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 AV on Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 AV <=2005 off Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 AV 2006 off Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 AV >=2007 off Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 AW 2006 on Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 AW 2007-2009 off Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 AW 2007-2008 on Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 LH on Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 LH <=2005 off Mar lastSun 2:00 0 LH 2006 off Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 LH >=2007 off Mar lastSun 2:00 0 District(s) TZ zone name Zone time Time DST rule LMT Remarks Northern Territory Australia/Darwin 9:30 CST - 8:43:20 Western Australia Australia/Perth 8:00 WST AW 7:43:24 Central Western Australia Australia/Eucla 8:45 CWST AW 8:35:28 Queensland Australia/Brisbane 10:00 EST - 10:12:08 Queensland Australia/Lindeman 10:00 EST - 9:55:56 South Australia Australia/Adelaide 9:30 CST AS 9:14:20 Tasmania Australia/Hobart 10:00 EST AT 9:49:16 Also for Macquarie Island Tasmania Australia/Currie 10:00 EST AT 9:35:28 On King Island Victoria Australia/Melbourne 10:00 EST AV 9:39:52 New South Wales Australia/Sydney 10:00 EST AN 10:04:52 New South Wales Australia/Broken_Hill 9:30 CST AS 9:25:48 Lord Howe Island Australia/Lord_Howe 10:30 LHST LH 10:36:20 Regards, Nathan

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Wrong Argentinian DST introduced in version 2008f
by Aurelien Jarno Oct. 6, 2008

Oct. 6, 2008

Hi, tzdata version 2008f introduced a rule for Argentinian DST based on http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina03.html and http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 Unfortunately those links only speak about rumors of a DST change, there is nothing fixed officially, and according to some Argentinian people DST may even not happen this year. Until an official decision is taken it is probably a lot better to remove any DST rule for year 2008. Please find attached a patch to do that. Regards, Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32(a)debian.org | aurelien(a)aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net

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tzcode2008g.tar.gz and tzdata2008g.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 6, 2008

Oct. 6, 2008

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2008g.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2008g.tar.gz ...are now available; these reflect the changes circulated last week on the time zone mailing list to fix a broken HTML anchor and to update Brazil's DST transitions; there's also a slight reordering of information in tz-art.htm --ado

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