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Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
by Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) July 28, 2016

July 28, 2016

Hi, Novosibirsk Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+06:00 to UTC+07:00 (from Omsk to Krasnoyarsk time). This time zone change occurred on 24 July 2016. When can we expect the updated version of IANA Time Zone Data. Thanks & Regards, Shruthi.

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Blog Post: On the Timing of Time Zone Changes
by Matt Johnson July 26, 2016

July 26, 2016

I've written a blog post describing the chaos that ensues when governments don't provide enough notice of their changes to time zones. http://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/ <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> Enjoy! -Matt

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ICANN contacts Egyptian government about recent last-minute clock change
by Paul Eggert July 24, 2016

July 24, 2016

Baher Esmat of ICANN contacted the Egyptian government asking it to give us more notice about clock changes next time. This found its way into the popular press earlier this month; here's the English-language version: Al-Youm A-M. ICANN thrown into confusion by cancelation of Daylight Saving Time. Egypt Independent 2016-07-08. http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/icann-thrown-confusion-cancelation-day…

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Re: [tz] Joda-Time, Time4J, and Java SE 8
by Paul Eggert July 19, 2016

July 19, 2016

On 07/08/2016 06:23 AM, Meno Hochschild wrote: > it is not quite correct to say that Joda-Times "functionality is a > standard part of Java 8". It has rather inspired the development of > java.time-package in Java-8. Thanks for the correction. Sorry, I don't know Joda-Time vs Java SE 8 vs Time4J well. I'm trying to future-proof tz-link.htm. As I understand it from the Joda-Time web page, Joda-Time-using apps are expected to migrate to the Java SE 8 API, so future readers of tz-link.htm will mostly be using the Java API, with more-specialized uses (leap seconds? sorry, don't know the details) possibly using Time4J, and Joda-Time being a historical footnote. I installed the attached further patch into the experimental tz version on GitHub; I hope it addresses this point well enough. I'll CC: Stephen Colebourne to give him a heads-up, as I do want tz-link.htm to be accurate.

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Positive leap second on 2016-12-31.
by Tim Parenti July 19, 2016

July 19, 2016

Per IERS Bulletin C52 (2016-07-06), a positive leap second will be observed on 2016-12-31. The attached patch updates leap-seconds.list from NIST, retrieved from <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list>. -- Tim Parenti

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Fwd: tzcode: system-dependent default time zone file
by Paul Eggert July 7, 2016

July 7, 2016

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: tzcode: system-dependent default time zone file Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 21:11:19 -0400 From: Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> To: Paul Eggert <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> [Belated reply to an earlier thread. Feel free to post this to the tz list, or not, your choice. Other than Guy Harris, I don't know how interested the rest of the list is in these lower-level coding and build details.] Back in January, in the "tzcode test suite" thread, Paul and I had this exchange: >> I'm not sure what that warning about "no nontrivial tz offset tested" >> means, but I hope we can fix the testsuite to set TZ itself if that's >> what it needs to do. > > Setting TZ is what I needed to do, although I'm surprised that you > had the same problem, so this will bear further investigation. I believe the problem is simply some variation across systems in the location of the tz file that sets a machine's local time zone in the absence of a TZ environment variable. As compiled out of the box, tzcode expects to find this in TZDIR/localtime, that is, in /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime. But on my Mac it's /etc/localtime, and I suspect it's probably there on Paul's Fedora machine, too. The fix is simple: I'm now setting TZDEFAULT = "/etc/localtime" in the Makefile, and then passing it down to the compilations: CC = $(cc) -DTZDIR=\"$(TZDIR)\" -DTZDEFAULT=\"$(TZDEFAULT)\" With these changes, I no longer need to explicitly set TZ to keep tzcode's copy of localtime happy. I was going to propose adding this comment to the Makefile in the tz distribution: # By default, the local time zone is taken from the file # "localtime" in TZDIR. Or you can set TZDEFAULT to something # else (for example, it's typically "/etc/localtime" for MacOS, # BSD, and some versions of Linux). But I believe TZDEFAULT in the same Makefile is also used when *installing* a set of zoneinfo files built from tzdata, and I'm uncertain of the repercussions for tzdata builds if I encourage people to tinker with TZDEFAULT to match their OS. This is probably a symptom of a deeper issue: if someone downloads and builds tzdata and/or tzcode, is it assumed that they'll be installing and referencing the zoneinfo files in the tzdata/tzcode default location, or in their OS's preferred location, or what? And the answer gets more complicated depending on whether people are actually using tzcode, or their OS's possibly different tz code -- glibc or whatever -- instead.

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Egypt cancelled DST
by Mina Samuel July 5, 2016

July 5, 2016

Dears, Egyptian government took the decision to cancel the DST, Can you please help to provide the updated package as to be able to apply the new/cancelled rules. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ar&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UT… http://www.youm7.com/story/2016/7/4/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8…

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[tz-announce] 2016f release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert July 5, 2016

July 5, 2016

The 2016f release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects the following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes: Changes affecting future time stamps The Egyptian government changed its mind on short notice, and Africa/Cairo will not introduce DST starting 2016-07-07 after all. (Thanks to Mina Samuel.) Asia/Novosibirsk switches from +06 to +07 on 2016-07-24 at 02:00. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.) Changes to past and future time stamps Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk now use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones. Changes affecting past time stamps Europe/Minsk's 1992-03-29 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 not 00:00. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.) Here are links to the release files: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016f.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016f.tar.gz The files are also available via HTTP as follows: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2016f.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016f.tar.gz As usual, links to the latest release files are here: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzcode-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdata-latest.tar.gz Each release file has a GPG signature, which can be retrieved by appending ".asc" to the above URLs. Copies of these signatures are appended to this message. This release corresponds to commit baba36e3b5ec93c462c27a28a697119df9e94783 dated 2016-07-05 16:26:51 +0200 and tagged '2016f' in the experimental github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. Here are the SHA-512 checksums for the release files: 97d084f4b0a688fef097dca256083ca9948393848d77c8ee637bdd26f859150cce7d2b26fc1165a3b44b28cc1c9075e10192332261ed68990b4b21a85438b023 tzcode2016f.tar.gz 0472f9516b6c3d83c0a5d0953a5535f4c48d9b9171e125f528188dac512f3556bc1805b7029c4f467a122cbce1beb4e804dd4ae63b259952de3bb217f8e8941d tzdata2016f.tar.gz Here are the GPG checksums for the release files (note I am using a new GPG key): -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAABAgAGBQJXe8puAAoJEAQ9tjdErUGMYo8IAKif54YlyHHNdLSWzAseY1jf 80hiZG4bIDVNXD5qNAN5sIf7FexBNS9h/KB3H2xJ+47UZHfBqEIRSdNM3+1cFhPg EZShIc8PKPkjS3/pxdR+7Sz/JWGDq1FyNCnBNoyRhKAcDWH3rsa2L7Q3hvkZ7Xcg 8DlhCcixLSX/rhJEs7k61FcGXivUkrht8trrvoTTBkoFpGUqt+x+cNan0z0qyiqF PLQq7YJAjstGRsli97+P72WdJDRY6JL716slICKO5IYDki9xmpcBuj4l0bAxR+6c PiZWlePe1TTyT0+shefy0eZmq1F7seTmkpAL7bhPR3E4ATYZfJfsMm6b/5seBFs= =62wb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAABAgAGBQJXe8p1AAoJEAQ9tjdErUGMmc0H/i837mGKBIJLmS1xtr64uaT+ LLLvI1gFTGJsqTaCya7aAVFlN/STM07otvYdkBDwQ6uIgjm8qAL33lGdi9IpTPp2 YOj03QkWpyPRFtM1A9EcsVkKOfezGSiY7WQiOEk7R05lH1SRBlZ+eXVQl9fhadrj qCRkcCasVIDQWMKCOhSch1HyUuR+Z1Ujomi7Z4d0AyQbMKhB1yGxYKCVGzN8KaOK AFr0Dd44p72dqgPdC/V7G0xjTNOpuM1zt8SdJuOE2EASRraIvnnQctmKlbYI8l8L ANvy9xl+p8VkuZi7yuSoqVSLYTQDE8pAMsfg0DZpAbnjV1G07FxekBMdNzdr5/E= =7jGR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tz-announce mailing list tz-announce(a)iana.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz-announce

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NOVT UTC+6 -> +7
by Евгений Пестов July 5, 2016

July 5, 2016

Hi! Timezone Asia/Novosibirsk (NOVT) change UTC+6 to UTC+7 at 2016-07-24 02:00 (local time). This change has been signed into the law by the President and published 2016-07-04: http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201607040064?index=0&rang… Best wishes Evgeny Pestov.

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Saratov and Novosibirsk proposed to change their time zones
by Stepan Golosunov July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

Hi, Search for "об исчислении времени" on http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/SearchUD?OpenForm revealed 3 new bills changing time zone borders in Russia: http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=1058438-6 and http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=1083558-6 move Saratov oblast from UTC+3 to UTC+4. http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=1085784-6 moves Novosibirsk oblast from UTC+6 to UTC+7. Given that the last two bills are proposed by regional parliaments, they are likely to be approved. When is less clear. The bills currently have effective dates in July, but that can be easily changed before the second readings. And they are just received while there are only 4 weeks before the summer break in the State Duma.

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Re: [tz] Novosibirsk, +06 -> +07 on 2016-07-24
by Pupkov, Dmitry July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

It looks like this has been officially signed by the President, and this is now a formal law. Changes will take into effect on 24th of July. http://ria.ru/society/20160704/1458396876.html Regards, Dmitry Thanks for the heads-up. Since it seems so likely this will go through, I'm attaching a proposed patch that I have installed into the experimental tz database on Github. While I'm in the neighborhood this patch also removes invented abbreviations for Asia/Novosibirsk by switching to numeric abbreviations for that location and for Asia/Novokuznetsk (which used the same invented abbreviation).

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Re: [tz] Egypt cancelled DST
by Mina Samuel July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

It is confirmed officially about the decision, so your help appreciated as it will need time to apply this in a lot of nodes. -----Original Message----- From: Mina Samuel Sent: Monday, July 04, 2016 12:51 PM To: tz(a)iana.org; 'Paul Eggert' <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> Cc: Rafik Adib <rafik.adib(a)ericsson.com>; Gehan Moustafa, Vodafone Egypt (Gehan.Moustafa(a)vodafone.com) <Gehan.Moustafa(a)vodafone.com>; Shreef Khattab, Vodafone Egypt (Shreef.Khattab(a)vodafone.com) <Shreef.Khattab(a)vodafone.com>; Ramy Rasmy <ramy.rasmy(a)ericsson.com>; Yasser Elsawi, Vodafone Egypt <Yasser.Elsawi(a)vodafone.com> Subject: [tz] Egypt cancelled DST Dears, Egyptian government took the decision to cancel the DST, Can you please help to provide the updated package as to be able to apply the new/cancelled rules. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ar&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UT… http://www.youm7.com/story/2016/7/4/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8…

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Egypt Time Change cancellation
by Gehan Moustafa, Vodafone Egypt July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

Dear All, Kindly be informed that according to Egyptian government DST has been cancelled , so please provide us with the cancllation package ASAP http://bit.ly/29iF6aC Best Regards, [Vodafone]<http://www.vodafone.com.eg/> Gehan Moustafa Mediation & Revenue Assurance Supervisor Charging, Mediation & IN Vodafone Egypt Telec. SA Mobile: +20 (10) 01008710 Email: gehan.moustafa(a)vodafone.com Vodafone Egypt, Smart Village : Vodafone C3 Building, Cairo/Alex. Desert Road KM 28- 6th of October City, Egypt vodafone.com.eg <http://www.vodafone.com.eg> ************************************************************************************************************************* The content of this document is classified as Vodafone Egypt S.A.E. Confidential and Proprietary Information. The recipient hereby is committed to hold in strict confidence the contents of this (e-mail, document, information) and not to disclose to any third party without the prior written consent of Vodafone Egypt S.A.E. Recipient will be held liable for any unauthorized disclosure. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message in its entirety, including any attachments. http://www.vodafone.com.eg *************************************************************************************************************************

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Europe/Minsk: September 1992 transition is incorrect?
by Ed Schouten July 2, 2016

July 2, 2016

Hi there, When taking a look at 'zdump -v Europe/Minsk' with tzcode2016e/tzdata2016e running on a FreeBSD 10 system, I observe the following: Europe/Minsk Sat Sep 26 23:59:59 1992 UTC = Sun Sep 27 02:59:59 1992 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Europe/Minsk Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 1992 UTC = Sun Sep 27 02:00:00 1992 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Now taking a look at the Zone definition of Minsk: 2:00 1:00 EEST 1992 Sep 27 0:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s My question is, shouldn't this transition have taken place two hours earlier? Can anyone else reproduce this? -- Ed Schouten <ed(a)nuxi.nl> Nuxi, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands KvK-nr.: 62051717

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Egypt to have DST again
by Steffen Thorsen July 2, 2016

July 2, 2016

Several of our users have reported on new DST plans in Egypt, which is confirmed by several sources that all say Egypt will have DST from July 7 until the end of October. Unfortunately, "end of October" is very vague, but we at timeanddate.com would assume a rule like this for it, based on their historic end dates: Rule Egypt 2016 max - Oct lastThu 23:00s 0 - We also assume it will start at the end of July 7 (midnight between Thursday and Friday). http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/204655/Egypt/Daylight-savings-ti… http://www.nileinternational.net/en/?p=25806 I found it interesting that EgyptAir seems to have assumed DST to start in April (like it previously did in 2010), and therefore this obviously causes problems with the schedules: http://www.egyptair.com/en/about-egyptair/news-and-press/Pages/CANCELLATION… Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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No DST in Egypt anymore
by Amgad Meckawy June 29, 2016

June 29, 2016

Egyptian parliament have just agreed to Cancel the DST so clock won't change 1 hour ahead on next 7th of July. time-fixed would still the same allover the year this decision have been announced just on 28-june-2016 sources --------- http://s.youm7.com/2780068 https://rassd.com/189329.htm http://www.parlmany.com/News/7/98619/%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%A1- %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA- %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%89-%D8%A8%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1- %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86 http://www.masrawy.com/News/News_Egypt/details/2016/6/28/876429/%D8%B1%D8% B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3- %D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%82- %D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%A1- %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA- %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A#NEWS-MOSTREAD-details

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America/Indiana/Vincennes
by Matt Johnson June 23, 2016

June 23, 2016

In zone.tab, the America/Indiana/Vincennes comments were changed to "Eastern - IN (Da, Du, K, Mn)". IMHO, those abbreviations aren't distinct enough to identify specific counties in Indiana. We used to say "Daviess, Dubois, Knox & Martin". Da and Du I might be able to figure out, but K could just as well be Kosciusko County, and Mn could be Madison or Marion. Can we just return them to their names please?

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Asia/Kashgar offset
by stefan.kruzlik.ext＠geodis.com June 23, 2016

June 23, 2016

Hello, Could you please confirm the current usage of offset of +6hours for Asia/Kashgar in your TZ database is correct? Checking any available source on the internet Google (search for 'Kashgar time') Bing (search for 'Kashgar time') http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/china/kashgar https://www.localtimenow.com/china/kashgar/ All show offset of +8hours. Thanks, Stefan Kruzlik SCO IT Geobus Solution Architect Geodis IT Supply Chain Optimisation GEODIS 7-9, allées de l'Europe 92615 - CLICHY / FRANCE Tel. : + 33 (0)1 71 15 65 62 stefan.kruzlik.ext(a)geodis.com | geodis.com

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Asia/Novosibirsk switch from +06 to +07 on 2016-07-24.
by Александр June 22, 2016

June 22, 2016

> The bill for Novosibirsk is here: > http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=1085784-6 > > It has passed the first reading in the State Duma. It needs to pass a second reading, then pass the Federation Council, then be signed into law by the President. Even if this all passes, it's possible the effective date will change along the way. > http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=1085784-6&02 This bill was approved in the second reading today. It moves Novosibirsk oblast from UTC+6 to UTC+7 and is supposed to come into effect on 2016-07-24 at 2:00. The bill needs to be approved in the third readings by the State Duma, approved by the Federation Council, signed by the President and published to become a law. Minor changes in the text are to be expected before the second reading (references need to be updated to account for the recent changes). --- Best regards, Alexander Golikov.

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Asia/Novosibirsk switch from +06 to +07 on 2016-07-03.
by Andrey Kitsul June 16, 2016

June 16, 2016

Hello, Asia/Novosibirsk switch from +06 to +07 on 2016-07-03. https://rg.ru/2016/06/14/reg-sibfo/deputaty-pereveli-chasy-v-novosibirskoj-… -- Kind regards, Andrey Kitsul.

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zdump broken with latest Cairo changes?
by Dave Rolsky June 16, 2016

June 16, 2016

Here's a snippet of "zdump -v Africa/Cairo" with the latest changes: Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 29 21:59:59 2038 UT = Thu Apr 29 23:59:59 2038 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 29 22:00:00 2038 UT = Fri Apr 30 01:00:00 2038 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 23 20:59:59 2038 UT = Thu Sep 23 23:59:59 2038 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 23 21:00:00 2038 UT = Thu Sep 23 23:00:00 2038 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 28 21:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Apr 28 23:59:59 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 28 22:00:00 2039 UT = Fri Apr 29 01:00:00 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 15 20:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Sep 15 23:59:59 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 15 21:00:00 2039 UT = Thu Sep 15 23:00:00 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 20 21:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Oct 20 23:59:59 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 20 22:00:00 2039 UT = Fri Oct 21 01:00:00 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 27 20:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Oct 27 23:59:59 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 27 21:00:00 2039 UT = Thu Oct 27 23:00:00 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 26 21:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Apr 26 23:59:59 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 26 22:00:00 2040 UT = Fri Apr 27 01:00:00 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 6 20:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Sep 6 23:59:59 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 6 21:00:00 2040 UT = Thu Sep 6 23:00:00 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 11 21:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Oct 11 23:59:59 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 11 22:00:00 2040 UT = Fri Oct 12 01:00:00 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 25 20:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Oct 25 23:59:59 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 25 21:00:00 2040 UT = Thu Oct 25 23:00:00 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Note that things seem to be fine up to 2038, but then after that it reports 6+ transitions a year for the region. This looks like a bug to me, and my Perl tools that parse the files still come up with just 2 transitions per year. Cheers, -dave /*============================================================ http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) ============================================================*/

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Cairo/Egypt
by Frank Bean June 16, 2016

June 16, 2016

I just saw this update and need to add some detail I think. Africa/Cairo observes DST in 2016 from July 7 to the end of October. Guess October 27 and 24:00 transitions. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) For future years, guess April's last Thursday to October's last Thursday except for Ramadan. Now, this may change next year but the current story from Egypt's government is that they will not be implementing DST until the end of Ramadan going forward.

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the final second before standard time daylight savings time transitions
by Inman, Mark H CIV USARMY HQDA (US) June 15, 2016

June 15, 2016

Hello, Is there any official documentation on the time zone for March 13 2016 in New York City, when the clock says 1:59:59.99991000 ? My guess would be that it is EST or -04:00 offset, but I cannot find anything that discussed the fractions of the last second. We store fractions of seconds, and we need to be able to convert to a particular offset. Thanks for your work and your consideration. P.S. I have enjoyed the notes in the time zone rules. Most Respectfully, Mark Inman Army Analytics Group Email: mark.h.inman2.civ(a)mail.mil Personal Work Phone: 707-863-7150 Personal Cell Phone: 925-324-9864 Personal Cell Text: 9253249864(a)vtext.com

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[tz-announce] 2016e release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert June 14, 2016

June 14, 2016

The 2016e release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects the following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes: Changes affecting future time stamps Africa/Cairo observes DST in 2016 from July 7 to the end of October. Guess October 27 and 24:00 transitions. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) For future years, guess April's last Thursday to October's last Thursday except for Ramadan. Changes affecting past time stamps Locations while uninhabited now use '-00', not 'zzz', as a placeholder time zone abbreviation. This is inspired by Internet RFC 3339 and is more consistent with numeric time zone abbreviations already used elsewhere. The change affects several arctic and antarctic locations, e.g., America/Cambridge_Bay before 1920 and Antarctica/Troll before 2005. Asia/Baku's 1992-09-27 transition from +04 (DST) to +04 (non-DST) was at 03:00, not 23:00 the previous day. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) Changes to code zic now outputs a dummy transition at time 2**31 - 1 in zones whose POSIX-style TZ strings contain a '<'. This mostly works around Qt bug 53071 <https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-53071>. (Thanks to Zhanibek Adilbekov for reporting the Qt bug.) Changes affecting documentation and commentary tz-link.htm says why governments should give plenty of notice for time zone or DST changes, and refers to Matt Johnson's blog post. tz-link.htm mentions Tzdata for Elixir. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.) Here are links to the release files: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016e.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016e.tar.gz The files are also available via HTTP as follows: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2016e.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016e.tar.gz As usual, links to the latest release files are here: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzcode-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdata-latest.tar.gz Each release file has a GPG signature, which can be retrieved by appending ".asc" to the above URLs. Copies of these signatures are appended to this message. This release corresponds to ddb14859b156e72bb2daff70ff2fe59d6d82d545 dated 2016-06-14 08:46:16 -0700 and tagged '2016e' in the experimental github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. Here are the SHA-512 checksums for the release files: dcaf615ada96920e60ffb336253f53541861153decc156d41661f43e0bfb128c6c231b0b776bbe3f2176549346275fc5a879074f4977d5141228e58cb33a41c6 tzcode2016e.tar.gz dace0f6fc87a73879ca3a1b143d7dcf9c50803e23e6b8c91f83711704e28129af776676c547c42f14dee7f1e8e285ce25296e53a52d11f4c8f155b5f80f4beb3 tzdata2016e.tar.gz Here are the GPG checksums for the release files: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJXYCdTAAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40EK8P/iKELbSZ0ZbgcqAkWRuh8OeG v/T8qkbK3pHeHi9+eELqR24ZODPe/KIORFZxXaxsn+JBUo8QdAlgyZc/5/MkISV1 AvJlk3SAe5TgyKRIQfmVeLpjPHx8w1fcHU3yc7ssMqcv8vhPXXZHGWhmoDoiJOwW ocnToizAWdjNQlqK29Ra33qCEYZuTjLg/a+gvJGqMV9d3zEtA4qOZNSyl9h8pKZo lUYIk+Vj56QSqw3iwZ83MrwhXw7/R8NpfjqAgXw3Au04CRYscvVLlKutdp3+B515 bjnX0ghtgvzolVQLRIPXLjDKXx5FduvW83yTfqFk8gPRgcCplE4mC1zZKfv8CXs9 tR4F+in7iLr23+7o4wjD3yolI9hgY0D8/XTuXs7XWzAaHjCcKAwT460AVmY3MkaL 130TQonnLuWPdfg6EWJHRxHr4du3s6Sg8aMO6tZiSf9eL2oOGPq7A0Yl3XkR01pb 9UEuVEsA0w1MxDl6jAIBZq9vZkbj5vehPD5yzmrXQbgMEeongY5eun0UYIJH8M/X P05+DnpnG9u88/U+yzZmOWLYL97JA2SQal/nfL8lIFkRnmVQnSlHzvi2MGkuYPcz jnhNQOkOGxTiZ5TTNqDPOe1wJ7nVfNJoaIoklnQXLES0necZDQJJ354+EjzzC+jK GuWBNHojTrArRXSkITEK =1NuU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJXYCdYAAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40yasP/18erUr4JDpff6WZWh/YN5uo 6D6aoDIvjgeC1L+OeUX4jEO2Iinc04rP4atMHqHueXYdSYhz9fJpRF+MawUP2Crf ccZEqN+zd4/x9M8JC7QjDFlYJQa7Z4O5YcAN69vGE6PBKLyc3C2oX5mh/OG5bQTR VfocXsCcCW5EJz8jVfQt+uEd8ZZPyVIDyNJG0eTXNupwTqYpErpj5LrpsHycEMRj iIDaSQMmHI30HJI/O5MGOWVZXUt9zkaXNVTy/O1T0Bg0/k2+1/zGynNyxTP88vlv qvHihVHr2E7cFTSka3pVnwF2lmQVuOmf3/Z2aj2c9ldgQCkmVYdnmiIk6ysvv1Lv qTh0680vdY++lVg8zhd59589lHMf4DZF0rve5hQjUU/E6Vh6cUPBHiQ3a/2yO0Y0 McHebPpGmho2p33Cx4xNE7jhcwcFNTbD2HV6P/gVCkteF3yvpjQHIdD+pZZj50mt FjH2+JMegXpaTNN/B0uk1krgguUf3LSyV3IpReg25ISE2giRNgciOePm/72/333r BKTKZPzEiHo/Ey6levNHkrhAKg0oaaaohw88AqGBO2OkCqfWrzdJL4kWi6I68UBE E/5y9fxdjInGKK7hbYGha+pQluLVF3AFY1dqn3JoGgYp0zKh8+kUy5vcEheCmJpu FUU381uQENicZ9FsYL+e =T1kv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tz-announce mailing list tz-announce(a)iana.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz-announce

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Egypt DST
by Mina Samuel June 14, 2016

June 14, 2016

Here below the confirmation link from official government website regarding Egypt DST 2016: http://www.cabinet.gov.eg/Media/NewsDetails.aspx?id=30512 ========= 3. On the basis of work to take coordinated world time on the GMT basis for determining the legal time in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the cabinet approved the draft decision of the PM which provides for the timing of Egypt by adding two hours to the coordinated world time (GMT 2). As provided for in the draft resolution that the cabinet may amend the legal time stipulated in article 1 of this law during the period or specific periods of the year in accordance with the considerations of the true connoisseur. The draft resolution would be in addition to the timing of a specific legal special decision on timing and legal status, the starting from the beginning on Friday, 8 July 2016 until the end of the day on Thursday, 27 October of the same year. ========

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