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Acre, Brazil time zone change passed in Senate, waiting for President
by Steffen Thorsen Oct. 17, 2013

Oct. 17, 2013

According to multiple news sources, Acre and some western parts of Amazonas will probably change time zone later this year, going one hour back. The change has been approved in the senate, but the president could veto it, but that is unlikely to happen. The date for the change is not yet announced. Some sources in Portuguese: http://g1.globo.com/ac/acre/noticia/2013/10/senado-aprova-mudanca-de-fuso-h… http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/noticia/2013-10-08/senado-aprova-projeto-qu… http://www.oriobranco.net/concursos/34175-acre-e-uma-parte-do-amazonas-deve… Our short summary, in English: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/acre-amazonas-change-time-zone.html Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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Antarctica/McMurdo
by Wolfgang Pausch Oct. 16, 2013

Oct. 16, 2013

Hello, in my application, I used Antarctica/McMurdo in some test case. In version 2013d, file antarctica contained an entry # # # McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - zzz 1956 12:00 NZAQ NZ%sT which is gone in version 2013g. However, McMurdo is still referenced both in australasia in a link, and in the zone.tab file: ~/tmp/tzdata$ grep McMurdo * antarctica:# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) antarctica:# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 antarctica:# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, antarctica:# We use the same time as McMurdo does. antarctica:# See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo. australasia:Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo zone.tab:AQ -7750+16636 Antarctica/McMurdo McMurdo, South Pole, Scott (New Zealand time) ~/tmp/tzdata$ I guess this is a inconsistency in the tzdata files...? Wolfgang

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Re: [tz] draft-douglass-timezone-service-08
by Julian Cable Oct. 9, 2013

Oct. 9, 2013

Odd. I will contact them directly. Julian On 9 Oct 2013, at 07:41, "Paul Eggert" <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > Julian Cable wrote: >> I assume Mike Douglass and Cyrus Daboo subscribe to this list? > > My guess is not, since they haven't posted here. ----------------------------- http://www.bbc.co.uk This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. -----------------------------

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draft-douglass-timezone-service-08
by Julian Cable Oct. 8, 2013

Oct. 8, 2013

Hi Paul, thanks for referencing this, I hadn't spotted it until now. I assume Mike Douglass and Cyrus Daboo subscribe to this list? Great work - at first read the only thought I had was that JSONP should be supported. Cheers Julian ----------------------------- http://www.bbc.co.uk This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. -----------------------------

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Time zones in the news
by Arthur David Olson Oct. 8, 2013

Oct. 8, 2013

>From The Economist, "What's the time in Antarctica?" http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/10/economist-explain… @dashdashado

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tz-based JavaScript library timezone-js
by Jim Fehrle Oct. 8, 2013

Oct. 8, 2013

Re: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html You may want to add the JavaScript library timezone-js to the list "Other tz compilers". See https://github.com/mde/timezone-js. Regards, Jim

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[PATCH 0/4] Make tzselect more portable
by Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott Oct. 6, 2013

Oct. 6, 2013

These patches allow tzselect to run on almost any Bourne-compatible shell (tested: bash, BusyBox ash, dash, ksh93, mksh, pdksh, posh, yash, and zsh) and fix an issue with older versions of BusyBox awk (and makes the setting of FS more consistent throughout tzselect). The prompts are identical to those printed by ksh or bash, except that the final prompt now gives a more generic error message than the old "Please enter 1 for Yes, or 2 for No." message. I hereby disclaim copyright interest in these changes. -- Patrick "P. J." McDermott http://www.pehjota.net/ Lead Developer, ProteanOS http://www.proteanos.com/

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Europe/Volgograd timezone patch
by Денис Савин Oct. 5, 2013

Oct. 5, 2013

According to http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0… Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 3:00 - TSAT 1925 Apr 6 # Tsaritsyn Time 3:00 - STAT 1930 Jun 21 # Stalingrad Time 4:00 - STAT 1961 Nov 11 4:00 Russia VOL%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Volgograd T 3:00 Russia VOL%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3:00 - VOLT 1991 Sep 29 3:00s 2:00 - VOLT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3:00 - VOLT 1992 Mar 29 2:00s 3:00 Russia VOL%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 4:00 - VOLT -- Денис Савин, Самара. +7 927 7679312

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Morocco not ending DST tonight - instead extending by one month
by Steffen Thorsen Oct. 4, 2013

Oct. 4, 2013

Morocco extends DST by one month, on very short notice, just 1 day before it was going to end. There is a new decree (2.13.781) for this, where DST from now on goes from last Sunday of March at 02:00 to last Sunday of October at 03:00, similar to EU rules. Official source (French): http://www.maroc.gov.ma/fr/actualites/lhoraire-dete-gmt1-maintenu-jusquau-2… Another source (specifying the time for start and end in the decree): http://www.lemag.ma/Heure-d-ete-au-Maroc-jusqu-au-27-octobre_a75620.html Our brief summary in English: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-ends-dst-2013.html Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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Cellphone tz updates often not happening in Israel
by Paul Eggert Oct. 3, 2013

Oct. 3, 2013

A couple of weeks ago there were widespread reports of problems in the tz database's updates getting propagated to end users in Israel. Many cellphones running Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Symbian were still based on tz release 2012g or earlier, i.e., they had not updated even to tz release 2012h (2012-10-26), much less to the current rules for Israel as per tz release 2013d (2013-07-05). Hundreds of thousands of cellphones were reportedly affected by the problem, and some cellphone companies worked around the problem by advising their users to switch to Athens time. Unfortunately, Europe/Athens is also incorrect for Israel, as it gets the transition wrong by two hours this fall and by 49 hours next spring. And even if users were advised to switch back to Asia/Jerusalem after next month I wouldn't be surprised if some users forget, and run into a similar problem in March. I wonder why the cellphones' copies of the tz database are not being updated? My sources: Elis N. Israel does the time warp; daylight savings glitch wreaks havoc. Jerusalem Post 2013-09-08 http://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-Features/Israel-does-the-time-warp-d… Winer S. New daylight savings schedule baffles cellphones. The Times of Israel 2013-09-08 http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-daylight-savings-schedule-baffles-cellphon… Schuster R. Israel's mobile users go Greek. Haaretz 2013-09-08 http://www.haaretz.com/business/tech-roundup/1.545875

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