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zdump
by Dan Cotruta Aug. 11, 2008

Aug. 11, 2008

Someone, please enlighten me - what do the numerical numbers in the output of zdump stand for? What I mean is, for this output: [dcotruta@linnoc ~]$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v -c 2008,2009 America/Los_Angeles America/Los_Angeles -9223372036854775808 = NULL <------ What does this line signify? America/Los_Angeles -9223372036854689408 = NULL <------ What does this line signify? America/Los_Angeles Sun Mar 9 09:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 9 01:59:59 2008 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 America/Los_Angeles Sun Mar 9 10:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 9 03:00:00 2008 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 America/Los_Angeles Sun Nov 2 08:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Nov 2 01:59:59 2008 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 America/Los_Angeles Sun Nov 2 09:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Nov 2 01:00:00 2008 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 America/Los_Angeles 9223372036854689407 = NULL <------ What does this line signify? America/Los_Angeles 9223372036854775807 = NULL <------ What does this line signify? The number is far too large to be a standard timestamp, even in milliseconds... so what is it? Many thanks, -- Dan Cotruta Operations Manager, London Innovation Centre. Tel: 0203 006 7278 Mob: 0779 163 4020 London Innovation Centre, Lombard House, 2 Purley Way, Croydon CR0 3JP (T) 0845 262 8545 (F) 020 8481 0460 (e) info(a)linnoc.net (w) www.linnoc.net London Innovation Centre is a trading name of Kingston Innovation Centre (Properties) Limited. Registered in England under no. 4557707.

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Difference between "s" and "u"
by Christian Sakowski Aug. 5, 2008

Aug. 5, 2008

Hi, What is the difference between 1:00u and 1:00s? Can anyone explain than? Is any documentation available? # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EU 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00u 1:00 S # W-Eur differs from EU only in that W-Eur uses standard time. Rule W-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S -- Grüße/Regards, Christian Sakowski christian(a)christiansakowski.de http://www.familiesakowski.de/ iChat/AIM: SakowskiF

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FW: MAURITIUS - Summertime update with link to official government cabinet decision
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Aug. 4, 2008

Aug. 4, 2008

I'm forwarding this message from Riad M. Hossen, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado From: Riad M. Hossen Ally [mailto:riad@intnet.mu] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 7:41 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: MAURITIUS - Summertime update with link to official government cabinet decision Sir/Madam, Thank you for the various updates you provide to the online community. We have downloaded tz*2008e.tar_2.gz and found in the data 'africa' 8.15 file that: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct 26 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar 27 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time # Agalega Is, Rodriguez # no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius With the online information described below, we would like to bring to your attention that: The Government of Mauritius weblink http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/pmosite/menuitem.4ca0efdee47462e7440a600248a5… Cabinet Decision of July 18th, 2008 states as follows: 4. ...Cabinet has agreed to the introduction into the National Assembly of the Time Bill which provides for the introduction of summer time in Mauritius. The summer time period which will be of one hour ahead of the standard time, will be aligned with that in Europe and the United States of America. 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. The summer time for the year 2008 - 2009 will, therefore, be effective as from 26 October 2008 and end on 29 March 2009. Changes to the 'africa' file is typed in blue below: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct 26 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar 29 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time # Agalega Is, St. Brandon Is, Rodrigues Is # same time zone as Indian/Mauritius We would be very grateful if you could kindly post a new version of the tz*2008e compressed tar balls on your ftp server. Thanking you in anticipation, and remain with, Best compliments and regards, Riad.

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MAURITIUS - Summertime update with link to official government cabinet decision
by Riad M. Hossen Ally Aug. 3, 2008

Aug. 3, 2008

Sir/Madam, Thank you for the various updates you provide to the online community. We have downloaded tz*2008e.tar_2.gz and found in the data 'africa' 8.15 file that: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct 26 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar 27 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time # Agalega Is, Rodriguez # no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius With the online information described below, we would like to bring to your attention that: The Government of Mauritius weblink http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/pmosite/menuitem.4ca0efdee47462e7440a600248a5… Cabinet Decision of July 18th, 2008 states as follows: 4. ...Cabinet has agreed to the introduction into the National Assembly of the Time Bill which provides for the introduction of summer time in Mauritius. The summer time period which will be of one hour ahead of the standard time, will be aligned with that in Europe and the United States of America. 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. The summer time for the year 2008 - 2009 will, therefore, be effective as from 26 October 2008 and end on 29 March 2009. Changes to the 'africa' file is typed in blue below: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct 26 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar 29 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time # Agalega Is, St. Brandon Is, Rodrigues Is # same time zone as Indian/Mauritius We would be very grateful if you could kindly post a new version of the tz*2008e compressed tar balls on your ftp server. Thanking you in anticipation, and remain with, Best compliments and regards, Riad.

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tzcode2008e.tar.gz and tzdata2008e.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] July 28, 2008

July 28, 2008

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2008e.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2008e.tar.gz ...are now available; these reflect the changes circulated last week on the time zone mailing list by yours truly and Jesper Norgaard Welen. If the message sent to the list last week is correct; there may be a Mauritius update next month. --ado

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Russia May Discontinue DST in 2009- new draft proposal introduced.
by Alexander Krivenyshev July 26, 2008

July 26, 2008

A draft proposal of a new federal law to regulate time calculation within the territory of the Russian Federation has been offered by Sergei Mironov, a member of the Federal Council. Proposed at the legislative level, the draft seeks to determine the order of time calculation, under which the territory of the Russian Federation, during the entire calendar year is set to Standard Time plus 1 hour (current Decree time), without any additional time change (eliminating Daylight Saving Time/Summer Time). If approved this would take effect January 1, 2009. A current draft in Russian is available at the following URL: http://www.mironov.ru/council/initiations/11.html. An English translation by Alexander Krivenyshev (edited by Michael Cofield) is available at Worldtimezone.com at the following URL: http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia02.html Regards, Alexander Krivenyshev, http://www.worldtimezone.com New York, NY

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New DST dates for Mauritius - moved to October
by Steffen Thorsen July 24, 2008

July 24, 2008

According to http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article.php?news_id=111216 (in French), Mauritius will start and end their DST a few days earlier than previously announced (2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31). The new start date is 2008-10-26 at 02:00 and the new end date is 2009-03-27 (no time given, but it is probably at either 2 or 3 wall clock time). A little strange though, since the article says that they moved the date to align itself with Europe and USA which also change time on that date, but that means they have not paid attention to what happened in USA/Canada last year (DST ends first Sunday in November). I also wonder why that they end on a Friday, instead of aligning with Europe which changes two days later. Best regards, Steffen / timeanddate.com

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C-Eur related change suggestions for version 2008e
by Jesper Norgaard Welen July 21, 2008

July 21, 2008

In a previous email Robbin Kawabata has shown unintended changes for the tz database relating to the change for the C-Eur Rule in 2008d. Here are the relevant portions of the tz database together with a few suggestions to mend it (with + and - as the first letter of the relevant lines): Rule C-Eur 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 S # Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 - ... # These are for backward compatibility with older versions. ... # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone WET 0:00 EU WE%sT Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT ... Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 1:56:56 - IMT 1894 Nov 30 # Istanbul MT? 2:00 - EET 1942 Nov 2 3 :00 - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 3:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 + 1:00 - CET 1945 Apr 2 3:00 2:00 - EET 1979 Mar 31 23:00 ... Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1941 Apr 6 2:00 - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 1 23:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1980 Sep 28 2:00s ... Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 + 1:00 - CET 1945 May 8 2:00s 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s The problem arose because the C-Eur rules had no DST for 1945, making other timezones free to use it without effects for 1945. However this meant that Zone CET and Zone MET did not have DST for 1945, which is not very adequate. I agree with the action of adding DST for C-Eur for 1945, but that means that other timezones using C-Eur must be changed to return status quo. As far as I can see only Europe/Sofia, Europe/Budapest and Europe/Belgrade are affected, though of course Europe/Skopje and other timezones linking to Europe/Belgrade will be equally affected. My suggestion for Europe/Sofia and Europe/Belgrade are to stop using C-Eur from 1945 since the timezone abbreviation (CET) will be the same, and then only start CEST from the previous cutoff dates. For Europe/Budapest the answer is easier since Hungary rule already has the DST start time of May 1, 1945 at 23:00 encoded, so the Hungary rule can simply be used insted of C-Eur since 1945. I don't have access to a zic compiler to see if the desired results crop out, so I will leave that to people who can check it. Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: HYPERLINK "http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html"http://www.worldtimeexplorer.co m/index.html No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.5.3/1563 - Release Date: 2008-07-20 12:59

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proposed time zone package changes
by Arthur David Olson July 20, 2008

July 20, 2008

Proposed time zone packages appear below. These include: * changes to "Makefile" to allow withdrawal of logwtmp.c * data file URL fixes from Halasz Sandor Viktor * a fix for a typo in the "europe" file from Jesper Norgaard Welen (only affects 1945 time stamps) * changes for Mauritius in the "africa" file based on messages from Steffen Thorsen and Alex Krivenyshev * changes to the "leapseconds" file to reflect the IERS announcement of a positive leap second at the end of 2008 * changes (previously circulated) to the "tz-link.htm" file from Paul Eggert. If there's no negative feedback, I'll make tzcode2008e.tar.gz and tzdata2008e.tar.gz available on 2008-07-28. --ado diff -r -c old/Makefile new/Makefile *** old/Makefile Wed Mar 5 11:58:23 2008 --- new/Makefile Sun Jul 20 14:23:27 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)Makefile 8.6 # Change the line below for your time zone (after finding the zone you want in # the time zone files, or adding it to a time zone file). --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)Makefile 8.7 # Change the line below for your time zone (after finding the zone you want in # the time zone files, or adding it to a time zone file). *************** *** 246,258 **** TZCOBJS= zic.o localtime.o asctime.o scheck.o ialloc.o TZDSRCS= zdump.c localtime.c ialloc.c TZDOBJS= zdump.o localtime.o ialloc.o ! DATESRCS= date.c localtime.c logwtmp.c strftime.c asctime.c ! DATEOBJS= date.o localtime.o logwtmp.o strftime.o asctime.o LIBSRCS= localtime.c asctime.c difftime.c LIBOBJS= localtime.o asctime.o difftime.o HEADERS= tzfile.h private.h NONLIBSRCS= zic.c zdump.c scheck.c ialloc.c ! NEWUCBSRCS= date.c logwtmp.c strftime.c SOURCES= $(HEADERS) $(LIBSRCS) $(NONLIBSRCS) $(NEWUCBSRCS) tzselect.ksh MANS= newctime.3 newstrftime.3 newtzset.3 time2posix.3 \ tzfile.5 tzselect.8 zic.8 zdump.8 --- 246,258 ---- TZCOBJS= zic.o localtime.o asctime.o scheck.o ialloc.o TZDSRCS= zdump.c localtime.c ialloc.c TZDOBJS= zdump.o localtime.o ialloc.o ! DATESRCS= date.c localtime.c strftime.c asctime.c ! DATEOBJS= date.o localtime.o strftime.o asctime.o LIBSRCS= localtime.c asctime.c difftime.c LIBOBJS= localtime.o asctime.o difftime.o HEADERS= tzfile.h private.h NONLIBSRCS= zic.c zdump.c scheck.c ialloc.c ! NEWUCBSRCS= date.c strftime.c SOURCES= $(HEADERS) $(LIBSRCS) $(NONLIBSRCS) $(NEWUCBSRCS) tzselect.ksh MANS= newctime.3 newstrftime.3 newtzset.3 time2posix.3 \ tzfile.5 tzselect.8 zic.8 zdump.8 *************** *** 348,362 **** if [ -x /usr/ucb/ranlib -o -x /usr/bin/ranlib ] ; \ then ranlib $@ ; fi - # We use the system's logwtmp in preference to ours if available. - date: $(DATEOBJS) - ar r ,lib.a logwtmp.o - if [ -x /usr/ucb/ranlib -o -x /usr/bin/ranlib ] ; \ - then ranlib ,lib.a ; fi $(CC) $(CFLAGS) date.o localtime.o asctime.o strftime.o \ ! $(LDLIBS) -lc ,lib.a -o $@ ! rm -f ,lib.a tzselect: tzselect.ksh sed \ --- 348,356 ---- if [ -x /usr/ucb/ranlib -o -x /usr/bin/ranlib ] ; \ then ranlib $@ ; fi date: $(DATEOBJS) $(CC) $(CFLAGS) date.o localtime.o asctime.o strftime.o \ ! $(LDLIBS) -lc -o $@ tzselect: tzselect.ksh sed \ diff -r -c old/africa new/africa *** old/africa Mon Jul 7 09:45:31 2008 --- new/africa Sun Jul 20 15:30:59 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)africa 8.13 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)africa 8.15 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 394,416 **** # It seems that Mauritius observed daylight saving time from 1982-10-10 to # 1983-03-20 as well, but that was not successful.... # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-daylight-saving-time.html ! # # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-25): # http://economicdevelopment.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.a42b241… ! # # From Arthur David Olson (2008-06-30): # The www.timeanddate.com article cited by Steffen Thorsen notes that "A # final decision has yet to be made on the times that daylight saving # would begin and end on these dates." As a place holder, use midnight. ! # # From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30): # Follow Thorsen on DST in 1982/1983, instead of Shanks & Pottenger. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - ! Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S ! Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time --- 394,432 ---- # It seems that Mauritius observed daylight saving time from 1982-10-10 to # 1983-03-20 as well, but that was not successful.... # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-daylight-saving-time.html ! # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-25): # http://economicdevelopment.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.a42b241… ! # From Arthur David Olson (2008-06-30): # The www.timeanddate.com article cited by Steffen Thorsen notes that "A # final decision has yet to be made on the times that daylight saving # would begin and end on these dates." As a place holder, use midnight. ! # From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30): # Follow Thorsen on DST in 1982/1983, instead of Shanks & Pottenger. + # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-07-11): + # Seems that English language article "The revival of daylight saving + # time: Energy conservation?"-# No. 16578 (07/11/2008) was originally + # published on Monday, June 30, 2008... + # + # I guess that article in French "Le gouvernement avance l'introduction + # de l'heure d'ete" stating that DST in Mauritius starting on October 26 + # and ending on March 27, 2009 is the most recent one. + # <a href="http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article.php?news_id=111216"> + # http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article.php?news_id=111216 + # </a> + # or + # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mauritius02.html"> + # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mauritius02.html + # </a> + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - ! Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct 26 0:00 1:00 S ! Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar 27 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time *************** *** 475,481 **** # published on the web. # # It's also confirmed here: ! # <a href="http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm "> # http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm # </a> # on a government portal as being between june 1st and sept 27th (not yet --- 491,497 ---- # published on the web. # # It's also confirmed here: ! # <a href="http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm"> # http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm # </a> # on a government portal as being between june 1st and sept 27th (not yet diff -r -c old/asia new/asia *** old/asia Mon Jul 7 09:45:31 2008 --- new/asia Sun Jul 20 15:09:44 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)asia 8.21 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)asia 8.22 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 1416,1422 **** # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-31): # eznis airways, which operates several domestic flights, has a flight # schedule here: ! # <a href="http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112" # http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112 # </a> # (click the English flag for English) --- 1416,1422 ---- # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-31): # eznis airways, which operates several domestic flights, has a flight # schedule here: ! # <a href="http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112"> # http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112 # </a> # (click the English flag for English) diff -r -c old/europe new/europe *** old/europe Mon Jul 7 09:45:31 2008 --- new/europe Sun Jul 20 15:20:42 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)europe 8.14 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)europe 8.16 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 483,489 **** Rule C-Eur 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 S # Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - ! Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 - Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S Rule C-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule C-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - --- 483,527 ---- Rule C-Eur 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 S # Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - ! # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2008-07-13): ! # ! # I found what is probably a typo of 2:00 which should perhaps be 2:00s ! # in the C-Eur rule from tz database version 2008d (this part was ! # corrected in version 2008d). The circumstancial evidence is simply the ! # tz database itself, as seen below: ! # ! # Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 ! # 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 ! # ! # Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 ! # 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 ! # ! # Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 ! # 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s ! # ! # Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - ! # Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - ! # Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - ! # ! # The rule line to be changed is: ! # ! # Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 - ! # ! # It seems that Paris, Monaco, Rule France, Rule Belgium all agree on ! # 2:00 standard time, e.g. 3:00 local time. However there are no ! # countries that use C-Eur rules in September 1945, so the only items ! # affected are apparently these ficticious zones that translates acronyms ! # CET and MET: ! # ! # Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT ! # Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT ! # ! # It this is right then the corrected version would look like: ! # ! # Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - ! # ! # A small step for mankind though 8-) ! Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S Rule C-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule C-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - *************** *** 1094,1101 **** # [See tz-link.htm for the URL.] # From Joerg Schilling (2002-10-23): ! # In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by <a ! # href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/"> # General [Nikolai] Bersarin</a>. # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08): --- 1132,1139 ---- # [See tz-link.htm for the URL.] # From Joerg Schilling (2002-10-23): ! # In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by ! # <a href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/"> # General [Nikolai] Bersarin</a>. # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08): diff -r -c old/leapseconds new/leapseconds *** old/leapseconds Mon Mar 24 08:30:59 2008 --- new/leapseconds Thu Jul 10 12:58:26 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)leapseconds 8.5 # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file. --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)leapseconds 8.6 # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file. *************** *** 44,49 **** --- 44,50 ---- Leap 1997 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S Leap 2005 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S + Leap 2008 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S # INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) # *************** *** 50,83 **** # SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE # # SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ! # OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS # 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) # Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 # FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 ! # Internet : services.iers(a)obspm.fr # ! # Paris, 18 January 2008 # ! # Bulletin C 35 # ! # To authorities responsible # for the measurement and ! # distribution of time # ! # INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI # ! # NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2008. ! # The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the ! # International Atomic Time TAI is : # ! # from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -33 s # # Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December ! # or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every ! # six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there # will be no time step at the next possible date. # # Daniel GAMBIS ! # Head ! # Earth Orientation Center of the IERS # Observatoire de Paris, France --- 51,92 ---- # SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE # # SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ! # OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS # 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) # Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 # FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 ! # e-mail : services.iers(a)obspm.fr ! # http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc # ! # Paris, 4 July 2008 # ! # Bulletin C 36 # ! # To authorities responsible # for the measurement and ! # distribution of time # ! # UTC TIME STEP ! # on the 1st of January 2009 # ! # A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008. ! # The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: # ! # 2008 December 31, 23h 59m 59s ! # 2008 December 31, 23h 59m 60s ! # 2009 January 1, 0h 0m 0s # + # The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: + # + # from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2009 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 33s + # from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 34s + # # Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December ! # or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every ! # six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there # will be no time step at the next possible date. # # Daniel GAMBIS ! # Head ! # Earth Orientation Center of IERS # Observatoire de Paris, France Only in old: logwtmp.c diff -r -c old/tz-link.htm new/tz-link.htm *** old/tz-link.htm Mon Dec 31 10:23:10 2007 --- new/tz-link.htm Mon Jul 7 09:47:19 2008 *************** *** 18,24 **** <body> <h1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</h1> <address> ! @(#)tz-link.htm 8.15 </address> <p> Please send corrections to this web page to the --- 18,24 ---- <body> <h1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</h1> <address> ! @(#)tz-link.htm 8.16 </address> <p> Please send corrections to this web page to the *************** *** 134,139 **** --- 134,142 ---- timezone information for all countries</a> displays tables of DST rules. <li><a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock - Time Zones</a> lets you sort zone names and convert times.</li> + <li><a href="http://daylight-savings-time.info/">Graphical Display of + Time Zones and Daylight Saving Times</a> shows a graph of time + difference versus time for any pair of locations.</li> <li>The <a href="http://worldtimeengine.com/">World Time Engine</a> also contains data about time zone boundaries; it supports queries via place names and shows location maps.</li> *************** *** 178,184 **** </ul> <h2>Other <code>tz</code> compilers</h2> <ul> ! <li><a href="http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/prod/dialspace/town/pipexdsl/s/asbm26/vzic/">Vzic iCalendar Timezone Converter</a> describes a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29">C</a> program that compiles --- 181,187 ---- </ul> <h2>Other <code>tz</code> compilers</h2> <ul> ! <li><a href="http://www.dachaplin.dsl.pipex.com/vzic/">Vzic iCalendar Timezone Converter</a> describes a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29">C</a> program that compiles *************** *** 353,359 **** </ul> <h2>Time zone boundaries</h2> <ul> ! <li><a href="http://efele.net/maps/">A map of the TZ timezones in the US</a> contains a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile">shapefile</a> of the <code>tz</code> regions in the US.</li> --- 356,362 ---- </ul> <h2>Time zone boundaries</h2> <ul> ! <li><a href="http://efele.net/maps/tz/us/">A map of the TZ timezones in the US</a> contains a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile">shapefile</a> of the <code>tz</code> regions in the US.</li> *************** *** 477,483 **** legal time in Britain</a> discusses in detail the country with perhaps the best-documented history of clock adjustments. The National Physical Laboratory also maintains an <a ! href="http://www.npl.co.uk/time/measurement_time/summer_time_archive.html">Archive of Summer time dates</a>.</dd> </dl> <h2>Precision timekeeping</h2> --- 480,486 ---- legal time in Britain</a> discusses in detail the country with perhaps the best-documented history of clock adjustments. The National Physical Laboratory also maintains an <a ! href="http://www.npl.co.uk/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.2714">Archive of Summer time dates</a>.</dd> </dl> <h2>Precision timekeeping</h2>

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Re: proposed changes for Brazil, Mauritius, Argentina, Berlin 1945, etc.
by Robbin Kawabata July 16, 2008

July 16, 2008

Just wanted to mention a small discrepancy between the 2008d cover letter description and actual timezone behavior. The commentary says Berlin should have no user-visible changes. However, changes in the europe file affected past behavior for some European timezones including Berlin (see zdump output diffs below). It seems the "Changes affecting past time stamps" section should have mentioned some European timezones changed behavior for 1945 or 1947. Commentary from cover letter: ... Changes affecting past time stamps. * For Mauritius, also include the 1982/1983 DST as reported by Steffen Thorsen. * For America/Argentina/San_Luis, redo the history from 1990 through 2000 to match what's in Shanks & Pottenger. The following changes should not affect externally visible behavior. ... * Redo the daylight-saving rules for Berlin in 1945 to make it clearer that these are for the Soviet Zone, not for Berlin in general. ... ==================================================== Diffs between 2008c and 2008d zdump outputs (European timezones): 26a27,30 > CET Mon Apr 2 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 > CET Mon Apr 2 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 > CET Sat Sep 15 23:59:59 1945 UTC = Sun Sep 16 01:59:59 1945 CEST isdst=1 > CET Sun Sep 16 00:00:00 1945 UTC = Sun Sep 16 01:00:00 1945 CET isdst=0 15,16c15,16 < Europe/Belgrade Tue May 8 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 < Europe/Belgrade Tue May 8 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 --- > Europe/Belgrade Mon Apr 2 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 > Europe/Belgrade Mon Apr 2 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 39,40c39,40 < Europe/Berlin Sun Apr 6 00:59:59 1947 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:59 1947 CET isdst=0 < Europe/Berlin Sun Apr 6 01:00:00 1947 UTC = Sun Apr 6 03:00:00 1947 CEST isdst=1 --- > Europe/Berlin Sun Apr 6 01:59:59 1947 UTC = Sun Apr 6 02:59:59 1947 CET isdst=0 > Europe/Berlin Sun Apr 6 02:00:00 1947 UTC = Sun Apr 6 04:00:00 1947 CEST isdst=1 35,36c35,36 < Europe/Budapest Tue May 1 21:59:59 1945 UTC = Tue May 1 22:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 < Europe/Budapest Tue May 1 22:00:00 1945 UTC = Wed May 2 00:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 --- > Europe/Budapest Mon Apr 2 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 > Europe/Budapest Mon Apr 2 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 15,16C15,16 < Europe/Ljubljana Tue May 8 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 < Europe/Ljubljana Tue May 8 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 --- > Europe/Ljubljana Mon Apr 2 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 > Europe/Ljubljana Mon Apr 2 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 15,16c15,16 < Europe/Podgorica Tue May 8 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 < Europe/Podgorica Tue May 8 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 --- > Europe/Podgorica Mon Apr 2 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 > Europe/Podgorica Mon Apr 2 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 15,16c15,16 < Europe/Sarajevo Tue May 8 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 < Europe/Sarajevo Tue May 8 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 --- > Europe/Sarajevo Mon Apr 2 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 > Europe/Sarajevo Mon Apr 2 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 15,16c15,16 < Europe/Skopje Tue May 8 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 < Europe/Skopje Tue May 8 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 --- > Europe/Skopje Mon Apr 2 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 > Europe/Skopje Mon Apr 2 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 13,14c13,14 < Europe/Sofia Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 02:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 < Europe/Sofia Mon Apr 2 02:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 04:00:00 1945 EET isdst=0 --- > Europe/Sofia Mon Apr 2 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 > Europe/Sofia Mon Apr 2 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 03:00:00 1945 EET isdst=0 15,16c15,16 < Europe/Zagreb Tue May 8 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 < Europe/Zagreb Tue May 8 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Tue May 8 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 --- > Europe/Zagreb Mon Apr 2 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 CET isdst=0 > Europe/Zagreb Mon Apr 2 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 03:00:00 1945 CEST isdst=1 26a27,30 > MET Mon Apr 2 00:59:59 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 01:59:59 1945 MET isdst=0 > MET Mon Apr 2 01:00:00 1945 UTC = Mon Apr 2 03:00:00 1945 MEST isdst=1 > MET Sat Sep 15 23:59:59 1945 UTC = Sun Sep 16 01:59:59 1945 MEST isdst=1 > MET Sun Sep 16 00:00:00 1945 UTC = Sun Sep 16 01:00:00 1945 MET isdst=0 ==================================================== Diffs of europe file: *** 2008c/europe Mon Mar 24 05:30:58 2008 --- 2008d/europe Mon Jul 7 06:45:31 2008 *************** *** 1,2 **** ! # @(#)europe 8.12 # <pre> --- 1,2 ---- ! # @(#)europe 8.14 # <pre> *************** *** 459,461 **** # The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See: ! # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html" # Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council --- 459,461 ---- # The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See: ! # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html"> # Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council *************** *** 482,484 **** Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 - ! Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S # Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. --- 482,484 ---- Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 - ! Rule C-Eur 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 S # Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. *************** *** 485,486 **** --- 485,487 ---- Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - + Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 - Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S *************** *** 1101,1102 **** --- 1102,1105 ---- # <a href="http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300 459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf"> + # http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee85256623004… /defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf + # </a> # says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20. *************** *** 1107,1112 **** # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S - Rule Germany 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S - Rule Germany 1945 only - May 24 2:00 2:00 M # Midsummer - Rule Germany 1945 only - Sep 24 3:00 1:00 S - Rule Germany 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 - Rule Germany 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S --- 1110,1111 ---- *************** *** 1114,1116 **** Rule Germany 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - ! Rule Germany 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Germany 1947 only - May 11 2:00s 2:00 M --- 1113,1118 ---- Rule Germany 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - ! # http://www.ptb.de/de/org/4/44/441/salt.htm says the following transition ! # occurred at 3:00 MEZ, not the 2:00 MEZ given in Shanks & Pottenger. ! # Go with the PTB. ! Rule Germany 1947 only - Apr 6 3:00s 1:00 S Rule Germany 1947 only - May 11 2:00s 2:00 M *************** *** 1119,1120 **** --- 1121,1127 ---- Rule Germany 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S + + Rule SovietZone 1945 only - May 24 2:00 2:00 M # Midsummer + Rule SovietZone 1945 only - Sep 24 3:00 1:00 S + Rule SovietZone 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 - + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] *************** *** 1121,1123 **** Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr ! 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980 --- 1128,1131 ---- Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr ! 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 24 2:00 ! 1:00 SovietZone CE%sT 1946 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980

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Re: proposed changes for Brazil, Mauritius, Argentina, Berlin 1945, etc.
by Robbin Kawabata July 16, 2008

July 16, 2008

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Possible C-Eur typo
by Jesper Norgaard Welen July 13, 2008

July 13, 2008

I found what is probably a typo of 2:00 which should perhaps be 2:00s in the C-Eur rule from tz database version 2008d (this part was corrected in version 2008d). The circumstancial evidence is simply the tz database itself, as seen below: Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - The rule line to be changed is: Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 - It seems that Paris, Monaco, Rule France, Rule Belgium all agree on 2:00 standard time, e.g. 3:00 local time. However there are no countries that use C-Eur rules in September 1945, so the only items affected are apparently these ficticious zones that translates acronyms CET and MET: Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT It this is right then the corrected version would look like: Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - A small step for mankind though 8-) - Jesper Nørgaard Welen No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.8/1547 - Release Date: 2008-07-11 18:05

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Bulletin C 36 - Leap second added
by Edwin Groothuis July 12, 2008

July 12, 2008

I haven't seen anybody forwarding this message yet, so I will do it. It came to my notice when it was added to the FreeBSD share/zoneinfo/leapseconds file. http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 e-mail : services.iers(a)obspm.fr http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc Paris, 4 July 2008 Bulletin C 36 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time UTC TIME STEP on the 1st of January 2009 A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008. The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: 2008 December 31, 23h 59m 59s 2008 December 31, 23h 59m 60s 2009 January 1, 0h 0m 0s The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2009 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 33s from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 34s Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Head Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France

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Australian Capital Territory DST rule change?
by Paul Eggert July 10, 2008

July 10, 2008

A story in the July 3 ABC News (Australia) says that the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) will change its daylight-saving rules starting October, to bring it into line with Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Until now, I didn't know that the ACT had different rules from its neighbors. I guess this means we'll need to add a new Zone Australia/Canberra to deal with the discrepancy? It is pretty weird that the ACT was a small island of one UTC offset in a sea of a different UTC offsets. To be honest, I'm having a bit of a tough time believing this news report. Maybe I'm reading it incorrectly? But if it's correct, does anyone know when the ACT started diverging from NSW and Victoria? Thanks. Here's the story: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/03/2294048.htm

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Re: proposed changes
by Arthur David Olson July 9, 2008

July 9, 2008

Paul Schulze was kind enough to point out a geography error in the proposed changes; the change below is on top of those circulated yesterday. The changes below also eliminate the single accented character in the southamerica file (for consistency); we'll see what the future holds for accented characters. --ado ------- southamerica ------- *** /tmp/geta22393 Tue Jul 1 10:24:02 2008 --- /tmp/getb22393 Tue Jul 1 10:24:02 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)southamerica 8.22 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)southamerica 8.23 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 825,831 **** -3:00 - BRT # # Rondonia (RO) - # Rondonia includes Altamira, Oribidos, Prainha, and Oriximina. Zone America/Porto_Velho -4:15:36 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT 1988 Sep 12 -4:00 - AMT --- 825,830 ---- *************** *** 905,911 **** # http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm # </a>. ! # From José Miguel Garrido (2008-03-05): # ... # You could see the announces of the change on # <a href="http://www.shoa.cl/noticias/2008/04hora/hora.htm"> --- 904,910 ---- # http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm # </a>. ! # From Jose Miguel Garrido (2008-03-05): # ... # You could see the announces of the change on # <a href="http://www.shoa.cl/noticias/2008/04hora/hora.htm">

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TZ patches via email vs. non-ASCII encoding
by Markus Scherer July 9, 2008

July 9, 2008

As a solution to the problem of faithfully getting patches through email (with non-ASCII encoding, long lines, and other issues), may I suggest using an svn repository with online anonymous read-only access, and just sending a summary to the mailing list and a link to the online diffs? markus

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References to various time zones in a TV program.
by Dave Cantor July 7, 2008

July 7, 2008

Have you folks noticed that Family Channel's "The Middleman" seems to use a different time zone for every scene? Examples from the most recent episode Middleman HQ, 9:32 AM Australian Central Daylight Time The Dread Pyramid of Itzilichlitlichitzl. 4:00 PM Charlie Time The skies over the Yucatán Peninsula, 10:45 AM Heure Avancée l'est The Dread Pyramid of Itzilichlitlichitzl. 5:10 PM Alastka Standard Time Alfred Necessiter Memorial Hospital, 12:35 AM Zulu Time Dave C.

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mailing list setup
by Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven July 7, 2008

July 7, 2008

Is there a reason we get the emails from tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov, but every email's Reply-To is set to tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーンラウフロックヴァンデルウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625B In the world, there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong, nothing can surpass it...

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tzdata2008d.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] July 7, 2008

July 7, 2008

The file... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2008d.tar.gz ...is now available; this reflects the changes circulated last week on the time zone mailing list by yours truly, Paul Eggert, and Rodrigo Severo. --ado

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RE: Non-ASCII encoding [Scanned]
by Goudge, Stephen July 3, 2008

July 3, 2008

> From: Jaakko Hyvätti [mailto:jaakko.hyvatti@foreca.com] > > I say just let's get over with it and do the change to UTF-8 > now. There > are no real problems with it, it's only comments, and it is > not worth any > extra pondering. I agree, UTF-8 comments are a good idea; and, even though I'm in a Windows place, I also agree with not including the BOM. My only worry would be spec creep: it would be friendly to the End User if the names could be presented in all their accented glory within the UI and "everyone can handle Unicode filenames now, can't they" (quoth the guy writing the Req Spec - not me, honest). I foresee requests coming in (if they haven't already) that "the names of the cities are spelt correctly everywhere and as the file is UTF-8 it won't cause any problems..." Well, if the names of the Zones themselves started to appear in UTF-8 it would certainly cause my code a lot of pain... Can I suggest that a mechanism is added to allow the fully decorated region & city names to be added in UTF-8, along with a firm note that the names following the "Zone" keyword are 7-bit Ascii only? Perhaps, to avoid *having* to modify the parser inside every variant of 'zic', it could be done via a convention in the comments, such as "a comment immediately preceding a Zone declaration which starts with ##! is a UTF-8 form of the Zone's name" suitable for collection and display in a UI. This leaves a few things to be tweaked - eg, if we let multiple lines give alternate spellings should they be language tagged so the most appropriate one can be selected for display; or whether something clever needs to be done to cope with the fact that the aliases for different Zones that are in the same region (subdirectory) may not give the same spelling for the region... Regards, Stephen Goudge Transport R&D Petards Joyce-Loebl Gateshead, UK Private, Confidential and Privileged. This e-mail and any files and attachments transmitted with it are confidential and/or privileged. They are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). The content of this e-mail and any file or attachment transmitted with it may have been changed or altered without the consent of the author. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any review, dissemination, disclosure, alteration, printing, circulation or transmission of this e-mail and/or any file or attachment transmitted with it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail or any file or attachment transmitted with it in error please notify the IT Manager, Petards Joyce-Loebl Limited, 390 Princesway, Gateshead, NE11 0TU, telephone no: +44 191 4203000. Petards Joyce-Loebl Limited is registered in England under number 2170100 DISCLAIMER: Privileged / Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of my company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. _____________________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Petards Joyce-Loebl. The service is powered by MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email. _____________________________________________________________________________________

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Subject: Re: FW: Change of timezone City for India
by Kenneth Gonsalves July 2, 2008

July 2, 2008

hi, I would like to bring it to your attention that the usage Asia/ Calcutta has a long history. India has four major metropolitan cities - originally Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi and Madras and now known as Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and Chennai. Each has historically been the seat of some important national institutions/traditions. Calcutta/ Kolkata has historically been the 'time' city of India. Everyone is quite comfortable with this. If you *do* want to make a change, please consult all sections of the community before you do so. India is also a country with sensitive regional feelings, so please take these things into consideration before making any change. If necessary you could poll the various LUGs and FSUGs and other interest groups before making a change. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

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Re: FW: Links in the Olson database
by hsv＠tbbs.net July 2, 2008

July 2, 2008

>>>> 2008/06/30 11:54 -0400, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] >>>> I'm (very belatedly) forwarding this message from Hal�sz S�ndor Viktor, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. These suggestions are to be part of the next set of proposed changes, due later today or tomorrow. <<<<<<<< Thank you. But I noted one more case of not good anchor-formatting; my new list: diff x/africa data/africa 454c454 < # <a href="http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm "> --- > # <a href="http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm"> diff x/asia data/asia 1397c1397 < # <a href="http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112" --- > # <a href="http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112"> diff x/australasia data/australasia 1349c1349 < # <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> --- > # <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> 1359c1359 < # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html> --- > # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html"> diff x/europe data/europe 460c460 < # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html" --- > # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html"> 1096,1097c1096,1097 < # In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by <a < # href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/"> --- > # In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by > # <a href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/"> 1102c1102 < # says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20. --- > # says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20.</a> diff x/southamerica data/southamerica 665c665 < # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm"></a> --- > # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm">4,399</a> 668c668 < # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm"></a> --- > # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm">4,844</a> 671c671 < # <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm"></a> --- > # <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm">5,223</a> but it occurs to me that in this last case, of Brazilian decrees, maybe this is better? 580,581c580,581 < # Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. < # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm"></a> --- > # Decree <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm">4,399</a> > # (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. 583,584c583,584 < # Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO. < # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm"></a> --- > # Decree <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm">4,844</a> > # (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO. 586,587c586,587 < # Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT. < # <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm"></a> --- > # Decree <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm">5,223</a> > # (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT.

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proposed time zone package changes: Brazil; Mauritius; URL fixes
by Arthur David Olson July 2, 2008

July 2, 2008

Below find proposed changes to files in the time zone package: * australasia, europe, and southamerica: changes by Halász Sándor Viktor to fix URLs. * africa: changes to reflect Mauritius's 2008-2009 DST experiment. * southamerica and zone.tab: changes to reflect Brazilian time zone realignments. As usual, I plan to let these percolate over a weekend; if no problems are found tzdata2008d.tar.gz should appear on 2008-07-07. --ado diff -r -c old/africa new/africa *** old/africa Mon May 19 17:48:03 2008 --- new/africa Mon Jun 30 12:18:01 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)africa 8.11 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)africa 8.12 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 387,395 **** 0:00 - GMT # Mauritius ! # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis ! 4:00 - MUT # Mauritius Time # Agalega Is, Rodriguez # no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius --- 387,443 ---- 0:00 - GMT # Mauritius ! # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-06-25): ! # Mauritius plans to observe DST from 2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31 on a trial ! # basis. ! # ! # Some information about it from sources there: ! # <a href="http://www.lexpress.mu/display_search_result.php?news_id=109689"> ! # http://www.lexpress.mu/display_search_result.php?news_id=109689 (French) ! # </a> ! # <a href="http://www.mcci.org/readmorechamber.aspx?id=359"> ! # http://www.mcci.org/readmorechamber.aspx?id=359 ! # </a> ! # ! # Based on the articles like those above and contact with government ! # officials, we have written more about it here: ! # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-daylight-saving-time.html"> ! # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-daylight-saving-time.html ! # </a> ! # ! # It seems that Mauritius observed daylight saving time from 1982-10-10 to ! # 1983-03-20 as well, but that was not successful. Current zoneinfo or ! # Shanks/Pottenger do not contain any details about this 1982-83 change. ! ! # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-25): ! # Mauritius plan to introduce Summer Time (DST) on 1st November 2008 has ! # been confirmed on authoritative web site-Government Information ! # Service-Government of Mauritius. ! # ! # Please check out ! # <a href="http://economicdevelopment.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.a42b241…"> ! # http://economicdevelopment.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.a42b241… ! # </a> ! # or ! # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mauritius01.html"> ! # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mauritius01.html ! # </a> ! # ! # Thus Summer Time is being introduced on a pilot basis. The clock will ! # be moved forward one hour as from 1st November 2008 to 31st March ! # 2009.... ! ! # From Arthur David Olson (2008-06-30): ! # The www.timeanddate.com article cited by Steffen Thorsen notes that "A ! # final decision has yet to be made on the times that daylight saving ! # would begin and end on these dates." As a place holder, use midnight. ! ! # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S ! Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S ! Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Apr 1 0:00 0:00 - ! # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis ! 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time # Agalega Is, Rodriguez # no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius diff -r -c old/australasia new/australasia *** old/australasia Mon Mar 24 08:30:58 2008 --- new/australasia Mon Jun 30 11:54:56 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)australasia 8.8 # <pre> # This file also includes Pacific islands. --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)australasia 8.9 # <pre> # This file also includes Pacific islands. *************** *** 1346,1352 **** # * Tonga will introduce DST in November # # I was given this link by John Letts: ! # <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> # http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm # </a> # --- 1346,1352 ---- # * Tonga will introduce DST in November # # I was given this link by John Letts: ! # <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> # http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm # </a> # *************** *** 1356,1362 **** # (12 + 1 hour DST). # From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20): ! # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html> # http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html # </a>: # "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000 --- 1356,1362 ---- # (12 + 1 hour DST). # From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20): ! # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html"> # http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html # </a>: # "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000 diff -r -c old/europe new/europe *** old/europe Mon Mar 24 08:30:58 2008 --- new/europe Mon Jun 30 11:54:56 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)europe 8.12 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)europe 8.13 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 457,463 **** Rule EU 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S Rule EU 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - # The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See: ! # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html" # Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council # of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements. # </a> --- 457,463 ---- Rule EU 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S Rule EU 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - # The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See: ! # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html"> # Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council # of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements. # </a> *************** *** 1099,1104 **** --- 1099,1106 ---- # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08): # <a href="http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee85256623004…"> + # http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee85256623004… + # </a> # says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20. # However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so # this was equivalent to CEMT (GMT+3), not GMT+4. diff -r -c old/southamerica new/southamerica *** old/southamerica Mon Mar 24 08:30:58 2008 --- new/southamerica Mon Jun 30 18:37:16 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)southamerica 8.19 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)southamerica 8.22 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 546,551 **** --- 546,595 ---- # Decretos sobre o Horario de Verao no Brasil # </a>. + # From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24): + # ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Dirio Oficial da Unio"...) + # in Brazil there are changes in the timezones, effective today (00:00am + # at June 24, 2008) as follows: + # + # a) The timezone UTC+5 is e[x]tinguished, with all the Acre state and the + # part of the Amazonas state that had this timezone now being put to the + # timezone UTC+4 + # b) The whole Par state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just + # part of it, as was before. + # + # This change follows a proposal of senator Tio Viana of Acre state, that + # proposed it due to concerns about open television channels displaying + # programs inappropriate to youths in the states that had the timezone + # UTC+5 too early in the night. In the occasion, some more corrections + # were proposed, trying to unify the timezones of any given state. This + # change modifies timezone rules defined in decree 2.784 of 18 June, + # 1913. + + # From Rodrigo Severo (2008-06-24): + # Just correcting the URL: + # <a href="https://www.in.gov.br/imprensa/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=3Ddo&secao=3D1&pa…"> + # https://www.in.gov.br/imprensa/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=3Ddo&secao=3D1&pa… + # </a> + # + # As a result of the above Decree I believe the America/Rio_Branco + # timezone shall be modified from UTC-5 to UTC-4 and a new timezone shall + # be created to represent the the west side of the Para State. I + # suggest this new timezone be called Santarem as the most + # important/populated city in the affected area. + # + # This new timezone would be the same as the Rio_Branco timezone up to + # the 2008/06/24 change which would be to UTC-3 instead of UTC-4. + + # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-24): + # This is a quick reference page for New and Old Brazil Time Zones map. + # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/brazil-time-new-old.php"> + # http://www.worldtimezone.com/brazil-time-new-old.php + # </a> + # + # - 4 time zones replaced by 3 time zones-eliminating time zone UTC- 05 + # (state Acre and the part of the Amazonas will be UTC/GMT- 04) - western + # part of Par state is moving to one timezone UTC- 03 (from UTC -04). + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm">20,466</a> (1931-10-01) # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV21896.htm">21,896</a> (1932-01-10) *************** *** 662,674 **** Rule Brazil 2000 2001 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 2001 2006 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - # Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. ! # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm"></a> Rule Brazil 2002 only - Nov 3 0:00 1:00 S # Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO. ! # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm"></a> Rule Brazil 2003 only - Oct 19 0:00 1:00 S # Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT. ! # <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm"></a> Rule Brazil 2004 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5539.gif">5,539</a> (2005-09-19), # adopted by the same states as before. --- 706,718 ---- Rule Brazil 2000 2001 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 2001 2006 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - # Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. ! # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm">4,339</a> Rule Brazil 2002 only - Nov 3 0:00 1:00 S # Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO. ! # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm">4,844</a> Rule Brazil 2003 only - Oct 19 0:00 1:00 S # Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT. ! # <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm">5,223</a> Rule Brazil 2004 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5539.gif">5,539</a> (2005-09-19), # adopted by the same states as before. *************** *** 687,693 **** # For dates after mid-2008, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # # Fernando de Noronha (administratively part of PE) --- 731,736 ---- *************** *** 775,782 **** -4:00 - AMT 2004 Oct 1 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT # ! # west Para (PA), Rondonia (RO) ! # West Para includes Altamira, Oribidos, Prainha, Oriximina, and Santarem. Zone America/Porto_Velho -4:15:36 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT 1988 Sep 12 -4:00 - AMT --- 818,831 ---- -4:00 - AMT 2004 Oct 1 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT # ! # west Para (PA) ! Zone America/Santarem -3:38:48 - LMT 1914 ! -4:00 Brazil AM%sT 1988 Sep 12 ! -4:00 - AMT 2008 Jun 24 ! -3:00 - BRT ! # ! # Rondonia (RO) ! # Rondonia includes Altamira, Oribidos, Prainha, and Oriximina. Zone America/Porto_Velho -4:15:36 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT 1988 Sep 12 -4:00 - AMT *************** *** 808,816 **** # Acre (AC) Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 -5:00 Brazil AC%sT 1988 Sep 12 ! -5:00 - ACT - # Chile # From Eduardo Krell (1995-10-19): --- 857,865 ---- # Acre (AC) Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 -5:00 Brazil AC%sT 1988 Sep 12 ! -5:00 - ACT 2008 Jun 24 ! -4:00 - AMT # Chile # From Eduardo Krell (1995-10-19): diff -r -c old/zone.tab new/zone.tab *** old/zone.tab Mon Mar 24 08:30:59 2008 --- new/zone.tab Mon Jun 30 18:37:16 2008 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)zone.tab 8.16 # # TZ zone descriptions # --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)zone.tab 8.18 # # TZ zone descriptions # *************** *** 92,98 **** BR -2332-04637 America/Sao_Paulo S & SE Brazil (GO, DF, MG, ES, RJ, SP, PR, SC, RS) BR -2027-05437 America/Campo_Grande Mato Grosso do Sul BR -1535-05605 America/Cuiaba Mato Grosso ! BR -0846-06354 America/Porto_Velho W Para, Rondonia BR +0249-06040 America/Boa_Vista Roraima BR -0308-06001 America/Manaus E Amazonas BR -0640-06952 America/Eirunepe W Amazonas --- 92,99 ---- BR -2332-04637 America/Sao_Paulo S & SE Brazil (GO, DF, MG, ES, RJ, SP, PR, SC, RS) BR -2027-05437 America/Campo_Grande Mato Grosso do Sul BR -1535-05605 America/Cuiaba Mato Grosso ! BR -0226-05452 America/Santarem W Para ! BR -0846-06354 America/Porto_Velho Rondonia BR +0249-06040 America/Boa_Vista Roraima BR -0308-06001 America/Manaus E Amazonas BR -0640-06952 America/Eirunepe W Amazonas

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FW: Change of timezone City for India
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] July 2, 2008

July 2, 2008

I'm forwarding this message from Goldwyn Rodrigues, 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: Goldwyn Rodrigues [mailto:rgoldwyn@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:23 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Change of timezone City for India Hi, I am not sure how the timezone city for India is addressed as Kolkatta (formerly known as Calcutta, and listed in timezone as Calcutta), but this has been the case since I started using Linux, and don't know the reason of the city being used. India has only one timezone. I woulid like to suggest to change the city to Delhi (from Calcutta), which is the capital of India, and has been stable since the country's independence in 1947. If your criteria is the most populous city, it would be Mumbai (formerly Bombay). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_populous_cities_in_India Delhi being the capital, is also closer to Allahabad (actually Mirzapur), which is the city used for the official meridian, and Delhi is also the site of National Physical Laboratory, which is used for time keeping. For more details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time -- Goldwyn

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FW: Links in the Olson database
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] June 30, 2008

June 30, 2008

I'm (very belatedly) forwarding this message from Halász Sándor Viktor, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. These suggestions are to be part of the next set of proposed changes, due later today or tomorrow. --ado -----Original Message----- From: hsv(a)tbbs.net [mailto:hsv@tbbs.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:23 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Links in the Olson database This is not about clocksetting-zone information. I wrote a JScript script for turning all the links into an HTML page, and found fault with a handful of the actual anchors and for myself made these changes, maybe of interest if another does the same: diff -b ../austra~1 ./austra~1 1349c1349 < # <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> --- > # <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> 1359c1359 < # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html> --- > # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html"> diff -b ../europe ./europe 460c460 < # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html" --- > # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html"> 1102c1102 < # says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20. --- > # says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20.</a> diff -b ../southa~1 ./southa~1 581c581 < # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm"></a> --- > # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm">4,399</a> 584c584 < # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm"></a> --- > # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm">4,844</a> 587c587 < # <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm"></a> --- > # <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm">5,223</a> Of course, many of the webpages have evaporated. (The script is really not good enough, for it misses those pages listed by themselvs after 'From Joseph S. Myers', and keeps only text right around the link. It seems to me not worth the while to make it turn all of the files into a webpage.)

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