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Asia/Jakarta timezone acronym is misleading
by Benny Feb. 13, 2013

Feb. 13, 2013

The acronym used in Asia/Jakarta timezone is WIT (Western Indonesian Time), where in Indonesian language, WIT means Waktu Indonesia Timur (Eastern Indonesian Time), so it's rather confusing, especially if the conversation (say in Indonesian Wikipedia) is done in Indonesian language, and the user add a signature with the timemark, it will assume WIT is the Indonesian abbreviation, which is of course not. Noted in: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44758 First noted in: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=791 (2005) ___________________ Regards, benny

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Russia plans to switch back to the "permanent winter time" in 2013
by Alexander Krivenyshev Feb. 6, 2013

Feb. 6, 2013

According to the Russian news: http://izvestia.ru/news/544409 Russia plans to switch back to the "permanent winter time" by the end of the year (2013). New bill will be introduce to the State Duma shortly. (in Russian) http://izvestia.ru/news/544409 or http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia053.html Alexander Krivenyshev, http://www.worldtimezone.com

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Re: [tz] A simple JavaScript library for timezone handling
by Shawn Steele Feb. 3, 2013

Feb. 3, 2013

FWIW: The ECMAScript folks are working on globalization stuff for JavaScript, including looking at timezones... Of course creating new standards and getting them implemented takes a while, but I thought I'd mention it... -Shawn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "L. David Baron" <dbaron(a)dbaron.org> Subject: [tz] A simple JavaScript library for timezone handling To: tz(a)iana.org A while ago I wrote a simple JavaScript library for timezone handling in JavaScript. It provides a simple API described here: https://github.com/dbaron/tz.js/blob/3489978e9422c49f1bb4aafdfeee429a3e6651… and has build scripts to convert the necessary data from the tz database into JSON format to include in the script. The end result including the code and the data, gzip-compressed, is about 74 KB. I keep hoping I'd get a chance to make some additional improvements before announcing it, but that served only to delay announcing it and not to lead to additional improvements. Since it might be useful to others in its current form, I thought I'd share it on this list. It is: https://github.com/dbaron/tz.js -David

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A simple JavaScript library for timezone handling
by L. David Baron Feb. 2, 2013

Feb. 2, 2013

A while ago I wrote a simple JavaScript library for timezone handling in JavaScript. It provides a simple API described here: https://github.com/dbaron/tz.js/blob/3489978e9422c49f1bb4aafdfeee429a3e6651… and has build scripts to convert the necessary data from the tz database into JSON format to include in the script. The end result including the code and the data, gzip-compressed, is about 74 KB. I keep hoping I'd get a chance to make some additional improvements before announcing it, but that served only to delay announcing it and not to lead to additional improvements. Since it might be useful to others in its current form, I thought I'd share it on this list. It is: https://github.com/dbaron/tz.js -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂

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Rule names
by Osko, Galatea Feb. 1, 2013

Feb. 1, 2013

Can anyone please advise on where I can find the Rule name history for each country/region? The data I'm interested in is as follows: - AQ, Oz: I don't know to which area/country this is referring to as it is not listed on tiscali - C-Eur, E-EurAsia - are these valid/active rule names in use? or used parallel? not sure if any of them is a historic name for Europe that's why I'm looking for archived rule names. I believe some of these were used up to some point in the past and then switched to a new name... And I also have some other countries like Pakistan, Palestine where I would like to check the DST history. ________________________________ NOTICE: Morgan Stanley is not acting as a municipal advisor and the opinions or views contained herein are not intended to be, and do not constitute, advice within the meaning of Section 975 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. If you have received this communication in error, please destroy all electronic and paper copies and notify the sender immediately. Mistransmission is not intended to waive confidentiality or privilege. Morgan Stanley reserves the right, to the extent permitted under applicable law, to monitor electronic communications. This message is subject to terms available at the following link: http://www.morganstanley.com/disclaimers If you cannot access these links, please notify us by reply message and we will send the contents to you. By messaging with Morgan Stanley you consent to the foregoing.

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zdump no longer reports gmtoff
by Marvel, Jim (CPCOE) Jan. 31, 2013

Jan. 31, 2013

Using ubuntu 12.04 LTS Using tz 2012 j code/data Tested each timezone mentioned in zone.tab, by zdump-ing each one. Observed that each timezone had two lines that reported NULL, then a bunch of nice-looking pairs-of-lines, then two lines that reported "NULL" I understand that this could be caused if you are using a 64 bit ubuntu on a 32-bit machine.... ...I may have !!! migrated to a 32-bit ubuntu on a 32-bit machine... The lines at the earliest/latest transition for each timezone are no longer "NULL"-containing (they mention 1901 and 2038, which I understand) What is breaking my heart is "Why did the lines drop off the gmtoff value, now ending with the isdst value?" Saw somewhere that tm_gmtoff is a GNU extension that may not be visible... Please "illuminate" Thanks, Jim

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A Simple Question
by Donald MacQueen Jan. 31, 2013

Jan. 31, 2013

I recently added time zone support to our product, and life would have been easier if the time zone files had their file name in them so that they 'knew' what they were. How come they don't? Thanks in advance. -- Donald [|] Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation... Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? - The Maltese Falcon

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Archived Rule names
by Osko, Galatea Jan. 28, 2013

Jan. 28, 2013

Hi team, Is there a list of outdated rule names that are not in use anymore? I found rule name "oz" which is supposed to be a code for Australia however the tiscali only mentions AN, AS and some other similar codes. I assume this is a historical code but I do not find this info on any of the websites. I have problems with some other as well: C-Eur AQ E-EurAsia Please advise. Thanks Galatea Osko Morgan Stanley | Enterprise Data & Services Lechner Odon fasor 8 | Floor 06 Budapest, 1095 Phone: +36 1 881-3866 Galatea.Osko(a)morganstanley.com<mailto:Galatea.Osko@morganstanley.com> Be carbon conscious. Please consider our environment before printing this email. ________________________________ NOTICE: Morgan Stanley is not acting as a municipal advisor and the opinions or views contained herein are not intended to be, and do not constitute, advice within the meaning of Section 975 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. If you have received this communication in error, please destroy all electronic and paper copies and notify the sender immediately. Mistransmission is not intended to waive confidentiality or privilege. Morgan Stanley reserves the right, to the extent permitted under applicable law, to monitor electronic communications. This message is subject to terms available at the following link: http://www.morganstanley.com/disclaimers If you cannot access these links, please notify us by reply message and we will send the contents to you. By messaging with Morgan Stanley you consent to the foregoing.

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Re: [tz] Bangladesh's TZ Abbreviation
by Shawn Steele Jan. 19, 2013

Jan. 19, 2013

I noticed other non-bd sites with BdST. None of the sites (for either code) seem persuasively authoritative. References to BST are 1-off references, whereas the news site uses BdST consistently, but it's just one site. I notice that Wikipedia has been using BdST for some time. (Not that I'm saying it's a good source, and it didn't cite its references). I suggest that the lack of good references is maybe because Bengali doesn't use the Latin script? I can understand why someone may want to distinguish their abbreviation from BST though. What has been the past policy for determining these abbreviations? Particularly for non-Latin scripts, &/or where it may be difficult for us to find, read, &/or transliterate any native-language sources? -Shawn

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Proposed bill to abolish the Daylight saving time in Ukraine
by Alexander Krivenyshev Jan. 18, 2013

Jan. 18, 2013

The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine has submitted a bill to abolish the daylight saving time. If approved, new bill will go into effect on March 1, 2013 and Ukraine will use UTC+2 year around. Reference from the Ukraine Government web site: The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine (in Ukrainian): http://www.me.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=196220&cat_id=32862 or http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_ukraine07.html Alexander Krivenyshev, http://www.worldtimezone.com

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