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Change in DST for Argentina
by Syed Sajjath June 7, 2001

June 7, 2001

Hi, Is anyone aware of changes in Argentina to add Daylight Savings. One of my contacts sent the following information. From TZ database, Argentina is GMT -3 and no DST. >> With this, timezone for Argentina will be modified as follows: >> from 1st Sunday October until first Saturday March: GMT -3 >> from 1st Sunday Martch until first Saturday October: GMT -4 Thanks -Syed

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Dave Wilson: Drowning in a Sea of Clocks
by Paul Eggert June 7, 2001

June 7, 2001

In yesterday's Los Angeles Times, Dave Wilson wrote a humorous piece "Drowning in a Sea of Clocks" complaining about the number of clocks he has to change every spring and fall. He goes on: Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese. Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might. Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks, man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which shows how much you know, pal. The Japanese don't have daylight saving time. He finally resolves to disable all his clocks that serve no function. (His oven clock now blinks 00:00.) See: http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html

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Additional Greenland time zone
by Gwillim Law June 6, 2001

June 6, 2001

Does anyone out there speak Norwegian or Danish? The tz database lists only three time zones for Greenland, with standard time equal to UTC-1, UTC-3, and UTC-4. Some recent time zone maps (e.g. <http://www.hammondmap.com/timezone/maintz.html>) show a fourth time zone in northeast Greenland with UTC as its standard time. Doing some Internet research, I found a document, "Notices to Mariners", in Norwegian and English, at <http://www.statkart.no/efs/efshefter/2001/efs5-2001.pdf>. The following excerpt obviously has a good deal of useful information, but appears in Norwegian only. "220. (T). Grønland. Sommertid 2001. Sommertiden begjynner den 24. mars 2001. Grønland har 4 lokale tider, og i relasjon til UTC gjelder følgende tidslinje: Forsvarsområdetved Thule UTC-4 Grønlandsk normaltid UTC-3 Scoresby-sund UTC-1 Danmarks-havn UTC Danmark (Mellem-europæisk tid) UTC+1 Sommertid innføres som følger: 1. Grønlandsk normaltid: Den 24. mars 2001 kl. 2200 stilles uret frem til kl. 2300. 2. Scoresbysund: Den 25. mars 2001 kl. 0000 stilles uret frem til kl. 0100. 3. I forsvarsområdet ved Thule samt i Danmarkshavn innføres det ikke sommertid." What I make of this is: Greenland Summer time begins on 24 March 2001. Greenland has four local times, and the relation to UTC is according to the following time line: [the following five items are aligned horizontally] Thule and environs [?] UTC-4 Standard Greenland time UTC-3 Scoresbysund UTC-1 Danmarkshavn UTC Denmark (Central European Time) UTC+1 Summer time [...?] 1. Standard Greenland time: on 24 March 2001 at 22:00 change the clock to 23:00 [?] 2. Scoresbysund: on 25 March 2001 at 00:00 change the clock to 01:00 3. In the environs of Thule together with Danmarkshavn [...?]." Here's an excerpt from another page <http://www.gh.gl/kn/news/govern/ukiunalun.htm>, probably in Danish: "Vintertid fra på søndag den 31. oktober Uret stilles en time tilbage Natten mellem lørdag og søndag den 31. oktober 1999 slutter sommertiden. Der skiftes officielt lørdag den 30. oktober 1999 kl. 23:00. Det betyder, at vi kl. 23:00 stiller klokken en time tilbage til kl. 22:00. For Ittoqqortoormiit slutter sommertiden søndag den 31. oktober 1999 kl. 01:00, hvor klokken stilles een time tilbage til kl. 00:00. For Danmarkshavn og i forsvarsområdet i Pituffik er der ikke indført sommertid/vintertid." It looks as if this means that in most of Greenland, the clock turned back from 30 October 1999 23:00 to 22:00. In Ittoqqortoormiit (= Scoresbysund), it went from 31 October 1999 01:00 to 00:00. In Danmarkshavn and Pituffik (= Thule), something else happened, but I can't tell what. There are similar texts on <http://www.statkart.no/efs/efshefter/2000/efs5-2000.pdf>, <http://www.gh.gl/dk/nyheder/regering/2000/meddelt1610-2.htm>, and <http://www.epr.gl/government/dk_pressrel/160301_sommertid.html>. It looks as if they're all paraphrased from official Greenland press releases. Can anyone translate the rest, or fill in any more details? Gwillim Law

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RE: [akr@m17n.org: bin/27630: mktime problem.]
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) June 5, 2001

June 5, 2001

Garrett's analysis of the cause of the Africa/Monrovia problem is accurate (see the end of this message). The conservative approach to fixing the problem would be as shown just below. The more radical approach would be to ditch the saved_seconds hackery completely; it predates the conditional normalize_overflow(&yourtm.tm_min, &yourtm.tm_sec, SECSPERMIN) call that now appears in the code, which should do what the saved_seconds hackery was designed to do. --ado *** 7.73/localtime.c Tue Jun 5 14:04:57 2001 --- 7.74/localtime.c Tue Jun 5 14:04:57 2001 *************** *** 1383,1389 **** } if (increment_overflow(&yourtm.tm_year, -TM_YEAR_BASE)) return WRONG; ! if (yourtm.tm_year + TM_YEAR_BASE < EPOCH_YEAR) { /* ** We can't set tm_sec to 0, because that might push the ** time below the minimum representable time. --- 1383,1391 ---- } if (increment_overflow(&yourtm.tm_year, -TM_YEAR_BASE)) return WRONG; ! if (yourtm.tm_sec >= 0 && yourtm.tm_sec < SECSPERMIN) ! saved_seconds = 0; ! else if (yourtm.tm_year + TM_YEAR_BASE < EPOCH_YEAR) { /* ** We can't set tm_sec to 0, because that might push the ** time below the minimum representable time. -----Original Message----- From: Garrett Wollman [mailto:wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:01 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: [akr(a)m17n.org: bin/27630: mktime problem.] A FreeBSD user submitted the following bug report. I'm curious as to whether the current tzcode still has this problem. My analysis follows at the end. -GAWollman ... For example, TZ=Africa/Monrovia, 1972/05/01 00:44:30 cannot be converted to time_t. Since this example is taken from `zdump -v Africa/Monrovia' and it is after Epoch, there is no reason to fail. ... This problem appears to result from the `saved_seconds' hackery in time2(): saved_seconds = yourtm.tm_sec; yourtm.tm_sec = 0; time2() then goes on to attempt to find (in this example) 1972-05-01T00:44:00, which does not exist in this time zone, and returns failure.

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tzcode2001c.tar.gz and tzdata2001.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) June 5, 2001

June 5, 2001

The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001c.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2001c.tar.gz are now available. These incorporate the changes circulated last week on the time zone mailing list by Paul Eggert and Andrew Brown. --ado

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[The Times 2001-06-02] Timezone cheats using Net for exams
by Joseph S. Myers June 2, 2001

June 2, 2001

From Saturday's Times: SATURDAY JUNE 02 2001 Timezone cheats using Net for exams BY GLEN OWEN, EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT, AND LAURA PEEK IN WASHINGTON A GLOBAL network of timezone cheats has been established on the Internet to pass examination secrets between candidates. Overseas students, who start the same papers at staggered intervals because of international time differences, are corresponding with candidates who have already finished their exams. The English examination boards alerted to the scam by The Times, have promised to review procedures, and warn that any candidate found cheating will be disqualified. One board admitted that the growth of Internet use and mobile text messaging presented a significant twist to an old problem. Schools in Brazil, Bermuda, the USA and Canada, also contacted by The Times yesterday, said they would be reviewing examination procedures to prevent time-zone cheating. [ ... - for full article see Times website: ] http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001190449,00.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,59-2001190216,00.html -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28(a)cam.ac.uk

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by USMCGRANDMOTHER＠aol.com June 2, 2001

June 2, 2001

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RE: proposed tz changes for Mongolia, Jan Mayen, Chagos, Indonesia, etc.
by Jesper Nørgaard June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

A few comments on the proposed tz changes ... Check out my free program World Time Explorer: http://www20.Brinkster.com/timezone50/index.htm ---------- From: Paul Eggert[SMTP:eggert@twinsun.com] Sent: Jueves 31 de Mayo de 2001 3:00 To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: proposed tz changes for Mongolia, Jan Mayen, Chagos, Indonesia, etc. >Here are proposed changes to the tz code and data. The most pressing >ones are those for Mongolia, Jan Mayen, and Chagos, as the current UTC >offsets are incorrect. Also, these changes affect the current time >zone abbreviations for Indonesia. >* Jan Mayen observes Oslo time, not -01:00. Also, add commentary about > time in Svalbard and Jan Mayen since 1925. > (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen for this.) Actually I would have liked to take credit for that, at least the first part, but I don't deny that Steffen is the expert (by birth, I presume) of norwegian issues :-) ... >* Southwest Borneo switched from +08:00 to +07:00 on 1988-01-01. > This entails a new zone 'Asia/Pontianak'. > (Thanks to Gwillim Law for this.) Funny, I had it all along right under my nose without noticing it. I send a screenshot from my program World Time Explorer which shows the region. And the line down the middle of Borneo from Malaysia actually *is* a time zone border - I just hadn't realized it, since the line towards Malaysia is a country border, not a time zone border. Can anyone confirm that Palangkaray (with population 148,700 latitude -2.19 and longitude 113.82) is also on GMT+7 just like Pontianak, and that Bandjarmasin (with population 534,600 and latitude -3.34, longitude 114.57) is on GMT+8? The screenshot I send is BorneoSouthWest.gif. The map was developed by Manifold, check out http://www.manifold.net/download/freemaps.html. >* Time Zone Converter has moved. The new name will be World Time Explorer 1.6 further down on page http://www20.brinkster.com/timezone50/index.htm you can find 3 download buttons for this program, which has maps included from which the graphic that I attach to the mail were taken. Note that it's a beta version, mainly because I want to put some more functionality into the program before releasing it officially, but also because the help file is not up-to-date at all. But the existing functions should work. Note that you can take a snapshot of world time from all distinct time zones in Time Calculator. And by the way, you need a Windows computer to use it ... Regards Jesper Nørgaard Welen

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proposed tz changes for Mongolia, Jan Mayen, Chagos, Indonesia, etc.
by Paul Eggert May 31, 2001

May 31, 2001

Here are proposed changes to the tz code and data. The most pressing ones are those for Mongolia, Jan Mayen, and Chagos, as the current UTC offsets are incorrect. Also, these changes affect the current time zone abbreviations for Indonesia. The other changes cover historical data, minor porting glitches for the code, and the web page describing tz. As usual, thanks to everyone who wrote in; it couldn't be done without you! Code changes * Add support for non-POSIX systems that lack sys/stat.h. * Add instructions for OSF1 V5.0 cc (which mishandles 'const'). Data changes * Mongolia observes DST this year, from 04-27 02:00 to 09-28 03:00. (Thanks to Rives McDow for this.) * Jan Mayen observes Oslo time, not -01:00. Also, add commentary about time in Svalbard and Jan Mayen since 1925. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen for this.) * The British Indian Ocean Territory (Indian/Chagos) seems to have switched from +05:00 to +06:00; for lack of better info, we'll guess that it occurred on 1996-01-01. * The English abbreviations for the current time zones in Indonesia are WIT, CIT, and EIT (not JAVT, BORT, JAYT which were purely guesswork on my part). Thanks to Gwillim Law for pointing me at a web page that had an (incorrect) translation about this. * Southwest Borneo switched from +08:00 to +07:00 on 1988-01-01. This entails a new zone 'Asia/Pontianak'. (Thanks to Gwillim Law for this.) * Shanks now says that Mongolia didn't introduce DST until 1983. * Chile introduced DST in 1966, not 1969. (Thanks to Gwillim Law for this.) * Fixes for legal time in the Netherlands before 1938: - From 1918 through 1921 DST ended the last Monday in September, not the last Sunday. - Amsterdam Mean Time was +00:19:32.13 until 1937-07-01. The tz database can't represent the ".13", unfortunately. - Add commentary about legal time in the Netherlands before 1937. (Thanks to Robert H. van Gent for this.) * Fixes for legal time in Sweden before 1917: - Sweden adopted standard time on 1879-01-01, not 1878-05-31. - Standard time was +1:00:14, not +1:12:12. - The switch to +1:00 occurred on 1900-01-01 at 00:00, not at 01:00. - 1916 DST was from 05-14 23:00 to 10-01 01:00, not from 04-14 23:00 to 10-01 00:00. (Thanks to Ivan Nilsson for this.) * Change zone.tab entry to say that Sala y Gomez is like Easter Island, while the other Chilean locations are all like Santiago. (Thanks to Gwillim Law for this.) Changes that affect commentary only. * Add brief instructions for how to retrieve, build and test tz. * Add more commentary for Choibalsan, Mongolia, which may or may not be in a different time zone from Ulaanbaatar. (Thanks to Rives McDow for this.) * Add more commentary about why the Antarctica/Vostok entry is guesswork. (Thanks to Lee Hotz for this.) * Fix the spelling of "Attlee". (Thanks to Mark Brader for this.) * Add commentary for Villa Las Estrellas, the only town in the Antarctic. * Add commentary for the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, which were transferred from the British Indian Ocean Territory to the Seychelles in 1976. * Add remarks about why Alaska's switch from Julian to Gregorian is somewhat notional, as none of the locations currently in the tz database were permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. * Remove commentary about Brad Sherman's attempt to let California operate on Denver time, as it's too hard to keep track of all the legislative proposals right now. * Navassa is now administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Changes that affect the web page tz-link.htm only. * Use family name first in the Dublin Core metadata, as the standard recommends. * Mention Tru64, which uses tz too. * Change <samp> to <code> in tz-link.htm, as that better matches what's being represented. * Time Zone Converter has moved. * World Time Server no longer publishes maps (that I could see, anyway). * Mention http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html, which is more useful than the official page http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2 for Australia. * Mention http://www.nrc.ca/inms/time/tze.html for Canada. * Translate the title of http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm from Dutch to English. (Thanks to Robert H. van Gent for this.) * Mention the SOFA code. (Thanks to Markus Kuhn for this.) * The International Earth Rotation Service's web site has moved. * ISO 8601 has been updated; the current version is ISO 8601:2000. (Thanks to Markus Kuhn for this.) * Mention Internet RFC 2822 and draft-ietf-impp-datetime-03.txt. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/README,v retrieving revision 1997.7 retrieving revision 1997.7.0.1 diff -pu -r1997.7 -r1997.7.0.1 --- README 1997/09/04 20:55:54 1997.7 +++ README 2001/05/31 00:59:05 1997.7.0.1 @@ -33,8 +33,22 @@ Since POSIX frowns on correct leap secon the "zic" command (in the absence of a "-L" option) has been changed to omit leap second information from its output files. -Be sure to read the comments in "Makefile" and make any changes -needed to make things right for your system. +Here is a recipe for acquiring, building, installing, and testing the +tz distribution on a GNU/Linux or similar host. + + mkdir tz + cd tz + wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz' + gzip -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf - + gzip -dc tzdata*.tar.gz | tar -xf - + +Be sure to read the comments in "Makefile" and make any changes needed +to make things right for your system, especially if you are using some +platform other than GNU/Linux. Then run the following commands, +substituting your desired installation directory for "$HOME/tzdir": + + make TOPDIR=$HOME/tzdir install + $HOME/tzdir/etc/zdump -v America/Los_Angeles To use the new functions, use a "-ltz" option when compiling or linking. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/tz-link.htm,v retrieving revision 2001.2 retrieving revision 2001.2.0.2 diff -pu -r2001.2 -r2001.2.0.2 --- tz-link.htm 2001/04/05 20:43:41 2001.2 +++ tz-link.htm 2001/05/31 03:53:40 2001.2.0.2 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?> -<!DOCTYPE html +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> @@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ <title>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</title> <link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.1/" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-ASCII"' /> -<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Paul Eggert" /> -<meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Arthur David Olson" /> -<meta name="DC.Date" content="2000/10/03" /> +<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul" /> +<meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David" /> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2001-05-30" /> <meta name="DC.Description" content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time" /> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm" /> @@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ Please send corrections to this web page to the <a href="mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone mailing list</a>. </p> -<h2>The <samp>tz</samp> database</h2> +<h2>The <code>tz</code> database</h2> <p> The public-domain time zone database contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies to UTC offsets and daylight-saving rules. -This database (often called <samp>tz</samp> or <samp>zoneinfo</samp>) +This database (often called <code>tz</code> or <code>zoneinfo</code>) is used by several implementations, including <a href="http://www.linux.org/">GNU/Linux</a>, @@ -43,17 +43,30 @@ including <a href="http://unix.hp.com/operating/">HP-UX</a>, <a href="http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/irix.html">IRIX</a>, <a href="http://www.sco.com/products/openserver/">SCO OpenServer</a>, -<a href="http://www.sun.com/solaris/">Solaris</a>, and -<a href="http://www.sco.com/unixware/">UnixWare</a>. -In the <samp>tz</samp> database's +<a href="http://www.sun.com/solaris/">Solaris</a>, +<a href="http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/">Tru64</a>, and +<a href="http://www.sco.com/unixware/">UnixWare</a>.</p> +<p> +In the <code>tz</code> database's <a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/">FTP distribution</a>, -the code is in the file <samp>tzcode<var>C</var>.tar.gz</samp>, -where <samp><var>C</var></samp> is the code's version; -similarly, the data are in <samp>tzdata<var>D</var>.tar.gz</samp>, -where <samp><var>D</var></samp> is the data's version. -The code lets you compile the <samp>tz</samp> source files into +the code is in the file <code>tzcode<var>C</var>.tar.gz</code>, +where <code><var>C</var></code> is the code's version; +similarly, the data are in <code>tzdata<var>D</var>.tar.gz</code>, +where <code><var>D</var></code> is the data's version. +The following shell commands use <a +href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">GNU wget</a> to download +these files to a GNU/Linux or similar host; see the downloaded +<code>README</code> file for what to do next.</p> +<pre style="margin-left: 2em"><code>mkdir tz +cd tz +wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz' +gzip -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf - +gzip -dc tzdata*.tar.gz | tar -xf - +</code></pre> +<p> +The code lets you compile the <code>tz</code> source files into machine-readable binary files, one for each location. It also lets -you read a <samp>tz</samp> binary file and interpret time stamps for that +you read a <code>tz</code> binary file and interpret time stamps for that location.</p> <p> The data are by no means authoritative. If you find errors, please @@ -68,7 +81,7 @@ format).</p> The Web has several other sources for time zone and daylight saving time data. Here are some recent links that may be of interest. </p> -<h2>Web pages using recent versions of the <samp>tz</samp> database</h2> +<h2>Web pages using recent versions of the <code>tz</code> database</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.bsdi.com/date/">Date and Time Gateway</a> is a text-based point-and-click interface to tables of current time @@ -91,19 +104,19 @@ time zone converter</a> is a multilingua holidays.</li> <li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock</a> is a web interface to a time zone database derived from -<samp>tz</samp>'s.</li> +<code>tz</code>'s.</li> </ul> -<h2>Other <samp>tz</samp> compilers</h2> +<h2>Other <code>tz</code> compilers</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.karuna.freeserve.co.uk/vzic.tgz">Vzic</a> -compiles <samp>tz</samp> source into VTIMEZONE text as specified by +compiles <code>tz</code> source into VTIMEZONE text as specified by the <a href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2445.txt">iCalendar</a> specification published by the <a href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html">IETF Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group</a>. Vzic is freely available under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License (GPL)</a>.</li> -<li>Possible XML schemata for the <samp>tz</samp> data include <a +<li>Possible XML schemata for the <code>tz</code> data include <a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo">one</a> sketched out by <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim Berners-Lee</a> and <a @@ -112,27 +125,27 @@ used by the <a href="http://www.iplanet.com/products/iplanet_calendar/">iPlanet Calendar Server</a>.</li> </ul> -<h2>Other <samp>tz</samp> binary file readers</h2> +<h2>Other <code>tz</code> binary file readers</h2> <ul> <li>The <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">GNU C Library</a> has an independent, thread-safe implementation of -a <samp>tz</samp> binary file reader. +a <code>tz</code> binary file reader. This library is freely available under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html"> GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)</a>, and is widely used in GNU/Linux systems.</li> <li><a href="http://www.bmsi.com/java/#TZ">ZoneInfo.java</a> -is a <samp>tz</samp> binary file reader written in Java. +is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Java. It is freely available under the GNU LGPL.</li> </ul> -<h2>Other <samp>tz</samp>-based time zone conversion software</h2> +<h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone conversion software</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www1.tip.nl/~t876506/AboutTimeZonesHC.html">HyperCard time zones calculator</a> is a HyperCard stack.</li> <li><a -href="http://timezone50.homepage.com/">Time Zone Converter</a> is a -Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT4 program.</li> +href="http://www20.Brinkster.com/timezone50/">Time Zone Converter</a> is a +Microsoft Windows program.</li> </ul> <h2>Other time zone databases</h2> <ul> @@ -146,10 +159,12 @@ href="http://astrocom.com/">Astro Commun time info, public holidays</a> contains information on local time, sunrise and sunset, and public holidays in several hundred cities around the world.</li> +<li><a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/">World Time Server</a> +is another time zone database.</li> <li><a href="http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html">World Time Zones</a> contains data from the Time Service Department of the US Naval Observatory (USNO), used as the source -for the <samp>usno*</samp> files in the <samp>tz</samp> distribution.</li> +for the <code>usno*</code> files in the <code>tz</code> distribution.</li> <li>The <a href="http://www.iata.org/">International Air Transport Association</a> publishes the <a href="http://www.iata.org/sked/ssim.htm">Standard @@ -166,7 +181,7 @@ zone map</a>; the <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/world_maps.html"> Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection</a> of the University of Texas at Austin has copies of -recent editions. +recent editions. The pictorial quality is good, but the maps do not indicate summer time, and parts of the data are a few years out of date.</li> @@ -175,9 +190,6 @@ current time</a> has several fancy time zone maps; it covers Russia particularly well. The maps' pictorial quality is not quite as good as the CIA's but the maps are more up to date.</li> -<li><a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/">World Time Server</a> -has a separate little outline map for each region of each country that -currently observes a different time.</li> </ul> <h2>Time zone boundaries</h2> <ul> @@ -210,15 +222,20 @@ time zone boundary.</li> <li>A few countries have well-documented histories of legal time. <dl> <dt>Australia</dt> -<dd>The Community Relations Division of the NSW Attorney General's -Department maintains a history of <a -href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2">daylight -saving in New South Wales</a>.</dd> +<dd><a +href="http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html#more">Australia's +Daylight Saving Times</a> contains pointers to government records and to +histories of daylight saving.</dd> <dt>Brazil</dt> <dd>The Time Service Department of the National Observatory records <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html" hreflang="pt-BR">Brazil's daylight saving time decrees (in Portuguese)</a>.</dd> +<dt>Canada</dt> +<dd>The Institute for National Measurement Standards publishes current +and some older information about <a +href="http://www.nrc.ca/inms/time/tze.html">Time Zones and Daylight +Saving Time</a>.</dd> <dt>Germany</dt> <dd>The National Institute for Science and Technology maintains the <a href="http://www.ptb.de/english/org/4/43/432/lega.htm">Realisation of @@ -234,7 +251,7 @@ href="http://www.cddhcu.gob.mx/bibliot/p hreflang="es">history of Mexican local time (in Spanish)</a>.</dd> <dt>Netherlands</dt> <dd><a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm" -hreflang="nl">De wettelijke tijdregeling in Nederland (in Dutch)</a> +hreflang="nl">Legal time in the Netherlands (in Dutch)</a> covers the history of local time in the Netherlands from ancient times.</dd> <dt>United Kingdom</dt> <dd><a @@ -259,22 +276,28 @@ answers questions like "What is the diff href="http://sadira.gb.nrao.edu/~rfisher/Ephemerides/times.html">Astronomical Times</a> explains more abstruse astronomical time scales like TT, TCG, and TDB.</li> +<li>The <a href="http://www.iau.org/">IAU</a>'s <a +href="http://www.iau-sofa.rl.ac.uk/">Standards Of Fundamental +Astronomy</a> (SOFA) initiative publishes Fortran code for converting +among time scales like TAI, TDB, TT and UTC.</li> <li><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf2-3.htm">Basics of Space Flight - Reference Systems - Time Conventions</a> briefly explains interplanetary space flight timekeeping.</li> -<li><a href="http://hpiers.obspm.fr/webiers/results/bul/README.html">Bulletins -of IERS</a> contains official publications of the +<li><a +href="http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/products/bulletins.html">Bulletins +maintained by the IERS EOP (PC)</a> contains official publications of +the Earth Orientation Parameters Product Center of the International Earth Rotation Service, the committee that decides when leap seconds occur.</li> <li>The <a href="http://clockdev.usno.navy.mil/archives/leapsecs.html">Leap Second Discussion List</a> covers <a href="http://clockdev.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A3=ind00&L=leapsecs&P=…">McCarthy -and Klepczynski's proposal to remove leap seconds</a> +and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a> (which requires discussion list membership to read). This proposal is being studied by the URSI Commission J <a href="http://space.mit.edu/URSI/leapsecond.html">Working Group on the -Leap Second</a>, and the <a href="http://www.iau.org/">IAU</a> +Leap Second</a>, and the IAU has plans to report on this proposal by 2003.</li> </ul> <h2>Time notation</h2> @@ -284,7 +307,18 @@ has plans to report on this proposal by the International Standard Date and Time Notation</a> is a good summary of <a href="http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf">ISO 8601:1988 - Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange -- Representation of dates and times</a>.</li> +- Representation of dates and times</a> (which has been superseded by +<a href="http://www.iso.ch/cate/d26780.html">ISO 8601:2000</a>).</li> +<li> +Section 3.3 of <a +href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt">Internet RFC 2822</a> +specifies the time notation used in email and <a +href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt">HTTP</a> headers.</li> +<li> +<a +href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-impp-datetime-03.txt">Date +and Time on the Internet: Timestamps</a> proposes an ISO 8601 profile +for use in new Internet protocols.</li> </ul> <h2>Related indexes</h2> <ul> =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/Makefile,v retrieving revision 2001.2 retrieving revision 2001.2.0.1 diff -pu -r2001.2 -r2001.2.0.1 --- Makefile 2001/04/05 20:43:41 2001.2 +++ Makefile 2001/05/31 00:59:05 2001.2.0.1 @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ YEARISTYPE= ./yearistype LDLIBS= # Add the following to the end of the "CFLAGS=" line as needed. +# -Dconst= if `const' does not work (SunOS 4.x cc, OSF1 V5.0 cc) # -DHAVE_ADJTIME=0 if `adjtime' does not exist (SVR0?) # -DHAVE_GETTEXT=1 if `gettext' works (GNU, Linux, Solaris); also see LDLIBS # -DHAVE_INCOMPATIBLE_CTIME_R=1 if your system's time.h declares @@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ LDLIBS= # -DHAVE_SETTIMEOFDAY=3 if settimeofday ignores 2nd arg (4.4BSD) # -DHAVE_STRERROR=0 if your system lacks the strerror function # -DHAVE_SYMLINK=0 if your system lacks the symlink function +# -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=0 if your compiler lacks a "sys/stat.h" # -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=0 if your compiler lacks a "sys/wait.h" # -DLOCALE_HOME=\"path\" if locales are in "path", not "/usr/lib/locale" # -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=0 if your compiler lacks a "unistd.h" (Microsoft C++ 7?) =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/private.h,v retrieving revision 2000.5 retrieving revision 2000.5.0.1 diff -pu -r2000.5 -r2000.5.0.1 --- private.h 2000/07/31 13:27:54 2000.5 +++ private.h 2001/05/31 00:59:05 2000.5.0.1 @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ static char privatehid[] = "@(#)private. #define HAVE_SYMLINK 1 #endif /* !defined HAVE_SYMLINK */ +#ifndef HAVE_SYS_STAT_H +#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1 +#endif /* !defined HAVE_SYS_STAT_H */ + #ifndef HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H #define HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H 1 #endif /* !defined HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H */ @@ -123,16 +127,6 @@ static char privatehid[] = "@(#)private. */ /* -** SunOS 4.1.1 cc lacks const. -*/ - -#ifndef const -#ifndef __STDC__ -#define const -#endif /* !defined __STDC__ */ -#endif /* !defined const */ - -/* ** SunOS 4.1.1 cc lacks prototypes. */ =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/zic.c,v retrieving revision 2000.6 retrieving revision 2000.6.0.1 diff -pu -r2000.6 -r2000.6.0.1 --- zic.c 2000/08/10 13:31:47 2000.6 +++ zic.c 2001/05/31 00:59:05 2000.6.0.1 @@ -7,9 +7,15 @@ static char elsieid[] = "@(#)zic.c 7.101 #include "private.h" #include "locale.h" #include "tzfile.h" -#ifdef unix -#include "sys/stat.h" /* for umask manifest constants */ -#endif /* defined unix */ + +#if HAVE_SYS_STAT_H +#include "sys/stat.h" +#endif +#ifdef S_IRUSR +#define MKDIR_UMASK (S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IXUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IXGRP|S_IROTH|S_IXOTH) +#else +#define MKDIR_UMASK 0755 +#endif /* ** On some ancient hosts, predicates like `isspace(C)' are defined @@ -613,7 +619,7 @@ const char * const tofile; (void) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); result = link(fromname, toname); -#if (HAVE_SYMLINK - 0) +#if (HAVE_SYMLINK - 0) if (result != 0) { const char *s = tofile; register char * symlinkcontents = NULL; @@ -2187,7 +2193,7 @@ char * const argname; ** created by some other multiprocessor, so we get ** to do extra checking. */ - if (mkdir(name, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IXUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IXGRP|S_IROTH|S_IXOTH) != 0) { + if (mkdir(name, MKDIR_UMASK) != 0) { const char *e = strerror(errno); if (errno != EEXIST || !itsdir(name)) { =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/africa,v retrieving revision 2000.7 retrieving revision 2000.7.0.1 diff -pu -r2000.7 -r2000.7.0.1 --- africa 2000/10/10 15:35:14 2000.7 +++ africa 2001/05/31 00:59:05 2000.7.0.1 @@ -481,6 +481,12 @@ Zone Africa/Dakar -1:09:44 - LMT 1912 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria 4:00 - SCT # Seychelles Time +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): +# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the +# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory +# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know +# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now. +# Possibly the islands were uninhabited. # Sierra Leone # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/antarctica,v retrieving revision 2001.2 retrieving revision 2001.2.0.1 diff -pu -r2001.2 -r2001.2.0.1 --- antarctica 2001/04/05 20:43:40 2001.2 +++ antarctica 2001/05/31 00:59:05 2001.2.0.1 @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - Rule ArgAQ 1974 1976 - Oct Sun<=7 0:00 1:00 S Rule ArgAQ 1975 1977 - Apr Sun<=7 0:00 0 - -Rule ChileAQ 1969 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S -Rule ChileAQ 1970 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1966 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1967 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 - Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 0:00 1:00 S Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 0:00 0 - Rule ChileAQ 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S @@ -92,11 +92,13 @@ Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb # Brazil - year-round base # Ferraz, King George Island, since 1983/4 -# Chile - year-round bases +# Chile - year-round bases and towns # Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 -# Frei, King George Is, -6214-05848, since 1969 +# Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 # O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 # Prat, -6230-05941 +# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), King George Island, since 1984-04-09 +# These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. # China - year-round bases # Great Wall, King George Island, since 1985-02-20 @@ -219,6 +221,15 @@ Rule NZAQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 # of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The # natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT.'' # +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): +# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it +# in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local +# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this +# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean +# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks +# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time +# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess UTC+6. +# Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/asia,v retrieving revision 2001.2 retrieving revision 2001.2.0.1 diff -pu -r2001.2 -r2001.2.0.1 --- asia 2001/04/05 20:43:40 2001.2 +++ asia 2001/05/31 00:59:05 2001.2.0.1 @@ -37,8 +37,11 @@ # 4:00 GST Gulf* # 5:30 IST India # 7:00 ICT Indochina* +# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia +# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia # 8:00 CST China # 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* +# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia # 9:00 JST Japan # 9:00 KST Korea # 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time @@ -131,9 +134,11 @@ Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time # British Indian Ocean Territory -# From Whitman: +# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the +# 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT # BIOT Time +Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time + 6:00 - IOT # Brunei # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -357,7 +362,7 @@ Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3 - 8:00 - TPT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 + 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 9:00 - TPT # India @@ -374,27 +379,43 @@ Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Nicobar Is # Indonesia +# +# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks: +# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime> +# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some +# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat +# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7. +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10 # Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13, # but this must be a typo. 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time - 7:30 - JAVT 1942 Mar 23 + 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 7:30 - JAVT 1948 May - 8:00 - JAVT 1950 May - 7:30 - JAVT 1964 - 7:00 - JAVT + 7:30 - WIT 1948 May + 8:00 - WIT 1950 May + 7:30 - WIT 1964 + 7:00 - WIT +Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May + 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT + 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29 + 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug + 7:30 - WIT 1948 May + 8:00 - WIT 1950 May + 7:30 - WIT 1964 + 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1 + 7:00 - WIT Zone Asia/Ujung_Pandang 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT - 8:00 - BORT 1942 Feb 9 # Borneo Time + 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 8:00 - BORT + 8:00 - CIT Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov - 9:00 - JAYT 1944 # Jayapura Time + 9:00 - EIT 1944 9:30 - CST 1964 - 9:00 - JAYT + 9:00 - EIT # Iran # From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales: @@ -960,38 +981,52 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij. # From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15): -# For now, we'll comment out the east zone (Choybalsan) -# and use Shanks's and the IATA's data for the daylight-saving rules. # Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia. # We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone; # the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us, # and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd # is good enough for our purposes. -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Mongol 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Mongol 1981 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Mongol 1985 1990 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Mongol 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - -Rule Mongol 1991 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Mongol 1991 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - -# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25; go with Shanks. -Rule Mongol 1996 only - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - -Rule Mongol 1997 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13): +# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier +# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28), +# there are three time zones. +# +# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai +# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov, +# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi +# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar +# +# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists +# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00. +# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998. +Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - # IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST. +Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr 27 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Mongol 2001 only - Sep 28 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT +# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT -# We're not sure about this entry yet, so we'll omit it for now. -#Zone Asia/Choybalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug -# 8:00 - CHOT 1978 # Choybalsan Time -# 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT 19?? -# 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT +# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan, +# Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan +# We're still not sure about this data, so we'll omit it for now. +#Zone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug +# 7:00 - ULAT 1978 +# 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT 1983 Apr +# 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT # Choibalsan Time # Nepal # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/europe,v retrieving revision 2001.2 retrieving revision 2001.2.0.1 diff -pu -r2001.2 -r2001.2.0.1 --- europe 2001/04/05 20:43:41 2001.2 +++ europe 2001/05/31 00:59:05 2001.2.0.1 @@ -41,7 +41,10 @@ # 0:00 GMT BST Greenwich, British Summer # 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer # 0:00 WET WEST Western Europe +# 0:19:32 AMT NST Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)* +# 0:20 NET NEST Netherlands (1937-1940)* # 1:00 CET CEST Central Europe +# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)* # 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe # 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow # @@ -1371,22 +1374,59 @@ Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Ma 1:00 EU CE%sT # Netherlands + # Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940, # but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time. -# The data before 1945 is taken from + +# However, Robert H. van Gent writes (2001-04-01): +# Howse's statement is only correct up to 1909. From 1909-05-01 (00:00:00 +# Amsterdam mean time) onwards, the whole of the Netherlands (including +# the Dutch railways) was required by law to observe Amsterdam mean time +# (19 minutes 32.13 seconds ahead of GMT). This had already been the +# common practice (except for the railways) for many decades but it was +# not until 1909 when the Dutch government finally defined this by law. +# On 1937-07-01 this was changed to 20 minutes (exactly) ahead of GMT and +# was generally known as Dutch Time ("Nederlandse Tijd"). +# +# (2001-04-08): +# 1892-05-01 was the date when the Dutch railways were by law required to +# observe GMT while the remainder of the Netherlands adhered to the common +# practice of following Amsterdam mean time. +# +# (2001-04-09): +# In 1835 the authorities of the province of North Holland requested the +# municipal authorities of the towns and cities in the province to observe +# Amsterdam mean time but I do not know in how many cases this request was +# actually followed. +# +# From 1852 onwards the Dutch telegraph offices were by law required to +# observe Amsterdam mean time. As the time signals from the observatory of +# Leiden were also distributed by the telegraph system, I assume that most +# places linked up with the telegraph (and railway) system automatically +# adopted Amsterdam mean time. +# +# Although the early Dutch railway companies initially observed a variety +# of times, most of them had adopted Amsterdam mean time by 1858 but it +# was not until 1866 when they were all required by law to observe +# Amsterdam mean time. + +# The data before 1945 are taken from # <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm>. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Neth 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 NST # Netherlands Summer Time Rule Neth 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 AMT # Amsterdam Mean Time Rule Neth 1917 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 AMT Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST -Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Sep lastMon 2:00s 0 AMT Rule Neth 1922 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1922 1936 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 AMT Rule Neth 1923 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1924 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1925 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +# From 1926 through 1939 DST began 05-15, except that it was delayed by a week +# in years when 05-15 fell in the Pentecost weekend. Rule Neth 1926 1931 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1932 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1933 1936 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST @@ -1396,10 +1436,13 @@ Rule Neth 1937 1939 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 Rule Neth 1938 1939 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Neth 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +# +# Amsterdam Mean Time was +00:19:32.13 exactly, but the .13 is omitted +# below because the current format requires GMTOFF to be an integer. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:28 - LMT 1892 May - 0:19:28 Neth %s 1937 Jul - 0:20 Neth NE%sT 1940 May 17 0:00 +Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 + 0:19:32 Neth %s 1937 Jul 1 + 0:20 Neth NE%sT 1940 May 17 0:00 # Dutch Time 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1:00 Neth CE%sT 1977 1:00 EU CE%sT @@ -1417,17 +1460,62 @@ Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 Rule Norway 1959 1965 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - Rule Norway 1965 only - Apr 25 2:00s 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 +Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1940 Aug 10 23:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT # Svalbard & Jan Mayen + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2001-05-01): +# Although I could not find it explicitly, it seems that Jan Mayen and +# Svalbard have been using the same time as Norway at least since the +# time they were declared as parts of Norway. Svalbard was declared +# as a part of Norway by law of 1925-07-17 no 11, section 4 and Jan +# Mayen by law of 1930-02-27 no 2, section 2. (From +# http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19250717-011.html and +# http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19300227-002.html) The law/regulation +# for normal/standard time in Norway is from 1894-06-29 no 1 (came +# into operation on 1895-01-01) and Svalbard/Jan Mayen seem to be a +# part of this law since 1925/1930. (From +# http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-18940629-001.html ) I have not been +# able to find if Jan Mayen used a different time zone (e.g. -0100) +# before 1930. Jan Mayen has only been "inhabitated" since 1921 by +# Norwegian meteorologists and maybe used the same time as Norway ever +# since 1921. Svalbard (Arctic/Longyearbyen) has been inhabited since +# before 1895, and therefore probably changed the local time somewhere +# between 1895 and 1925 (inclusive). + +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-01): +# +# Actually, Jan Mayen was never occupied by Germany during World War II, +# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Olso was +# keeping Berlin time. +# +# <http://home.no.net/janmayen/history.htm> says that the meteorologists +# burned down their station in 1940 and left the island, but returned in +# 1941 with a small Norwegian garrison and continued operations despite +# frequent air ttacks from Germans. In 1943 the Americans established a +# radiolocating station on the island, called "Atlantic City". Possibly +# the UTC offset changed during the war, but I think it unlikely that +# Jan Mayen used German daylight-saving rules. +# +# Svalbard is more complicated, as it was raided in August 1941 by an +# Allied party that evacuated the civilian population to England (says +# <http://www.bartleby.com/65/sv/Svalbard.html>). The Svalbard FAQ +# <http://www.svalbard.com/SvalbardFAQ.html> says that the Germans were +# expelled on 1942-05-14. However, small parties of Germans did return, +# and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954) +# <http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/publishing/rights/dege_warnorthof80.htm> +# the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named +# Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945. +# +# All these events predate our cutoff date of 1970. Unless we can +# come up with more definitive info about the timekeeping during the +# war years it's probably best just do do the following for now: Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen -# From Whitman: -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Atlantic/Jan_Mayen -1:00 - EGT +Link Europe/Oslo Atlantic/Jan_Mayen # Poland # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -1638,7 +1726,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 # enforcing curfew at the wrong time. # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr +Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 2:00 Poland CE%sT 1946 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s @@ -1795,11 +1883,56 @@ Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 # Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU. # Sweden -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1878 May 31 - 1:12:12 - SMT 1900 Jan 1 1:00 # Stockholm MT - 1:00 - CET 1916 Apr 14 23:00s - 1:00 1:00 CEST 1916 Sep 30 23:00s + +# From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks: +# +# The law "Svensk forfattningssamling 1878, no 14" about standard time in 1879: +# From the beginning of 1879 (that is 01-01 00:00) the time for all +# places in the country is "the mean solar time for the meridian at +# three degrees, or twelve minutes of time, to the west of the +# meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated 1878-05-31. +# +# The observatory at that time had the meridian 18 degrees 03' 30" +# eastern longitude = 01:12:14 in time. Less 12 minutes gives the +# national standard time as 01:00:14 ahead of GMT.... +# +# About the beginning of CET in Sweden. The lawtext ("Svensk +# forfattningssamling 1899, no 44") states, that "from the beginning +# of 1900... ... the same as the mean solar time for the meridian at +# the distance of one hour of time from the meridian of the English +# observatory at Greenwich, or at 12 minutes 14 seconds to the west +# from the meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated +# 1899-06-16. In short: At 1900-01-01 00:00:00 the new standard time +# in Sweden is 01:00:00 ahead of GMT. +# +# 1916: The lawtext ("Svensk forfattningssamling 1916, no 124") states +# that "1916-05-15 is considered to begin one hour earlier". It is +# pretty obvious that at 05-14 23:00 the clocks are set to 05-15 00:00.... +# Further the law says, that "1916-09-30 is considered to end one hour later". +# +# The laws regulating [DST] are available on the site of the Swedish +# Parliament beginning with 1985 - the laws regulating 1980/1984 are +# not available on the site (to my knowledge they are only available +# in Swedish): <http://www.riksdagen.se/english/work/sfst.asp> (type +# "sommartid" without the quotes in the field "Fritext" and then click +# the Sok-button). +# +# (2001-05-13): +# +# I have now found a newspaper stating that at 1916-10-01 01:00 +# summertime the church-clocks etc were set back one hour to show +# 1916-10-01 00:00 standard time. The article also reports that some +# people thought the switch to standard time would take place already +# at 1916-10-01 00:00 summer time, but they had to wait for another +# hour before the event took place. +# +# Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left. + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1879 Jan 1 + 1:00:14 - SET 1900 Jan 1 # Swedish Time + 1:00 - CET 1916 May 14 23:00 + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1916 Oct 1 01:00 1:00 - CET 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/northamerica,v retrieving revision 2001.2 retrieving revision 2001.2.0.1 diff -pu -r2001.2 -r2001.2.0.1 --- northamerica 2001/04/05 20:44:38 2001.2 +++ northamerica 2001/05/31 00:59:05 2001.2.0.1 @@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ # From Joseph Gallant <notquite(a)hotmail.com>, citing # George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): # At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set -# to switch to London for Atlee's address, but the American people +# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people # never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account, # CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender, # but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word # of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in -# London which were to precede Mr. Atlee's speech. +# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D @@ -185,13 +185,6 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 # "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. # See the file "australasia". -# From Ryan Alessi of the Thousand Oaks Star (2001-02-15) via Rives McDow: -# Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks, introduced a bill in Congress on -# Wednesday that could have California operating on Denver time as -# early as this summer.... The options include keeping -# daylight-saving time all year long, or setting clocks back two hours -# -- instead of just one -- during the existing daylight-saving time. - # US Eastern time, represented by New York @@ -280,7 +273,7 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT # Alaska # AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO. # -# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-01): +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): # Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, # and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. # This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian, @@ -288,6 +281,13 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT # ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent # the Julian calendar. # +# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were +# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. +# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement +# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there +# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps +# it's best to simply use the official transition. +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 N # Pam Belluck reported in the New York Times (2001-01-31) that the # Indiana Legislature is considering a bill to adopt DST statewide. # Her article mentioned Vevay, whose post office observes a different -# time zone than Danner's Hardware across the street. +# time zone from Danner's Hardware across the street. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D @@ -589,10 +589,11 @@ Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 18 -6:00 US C%sT # Navassa +# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service # claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act # also claimed by Haiti # occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co -# US lighthouse 1917/1997-01 +# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 # currently uninhabited # see Mark Fineman, ``An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord'', # _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 2001.1 retrieving revision 2001.1.0.1 diff -pu -r2001.1 -r2001.1.0.1 --- southamerica 2001/03/13 17:57:40 2001.1 +++ southamerica 2001/05/31 00:59:05 2001.1.0.1 @@ -493,16 +493,26 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1 # Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later, # on April 3, (one-time change). -# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): -# I came across a Chilean on-line newspaper, La Tercera. Its -# <a href="http://www.tercera.cl/diario/1998/03/13/extras.html"> -# 1998-03-13 issue -# </a>, says (my translation): -# "At 24:00 (midnight) tomorrow (Saturday) - 22:00 in the insular -# territory [Easter Island, Juan Fernandez, etc.] - winter time will -# begin in the entire country." +# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-04): +# I came across another article in "La Tercera" about Chilean DST. +# <http://www.tercera.cl/diario/2000/10/13/t-extras.html> +# It clearly confirms my earlier suggestion, that DST begins at 22:00 +# on Easter Island.... But it also seems to be saying that the +# observance of DST in Chile began in 1966, rather than 1969 as +# ... [Shanks] has it.... +# +# My translation: +# +# "The Chilean Army has announced that summer time will begin tomorrow, +# Saturday, October 14 in continental Chile, insular Chile, and +# Antarctica, as provided by Supreme Decree 25 of January 11, 1966. +# By the preceding, official time in continental Chile and Chilean +# Antarctic, and official time in Western Insular Chile, which applies +# to Easter Island and Sala y Gomez Island, will be set forward at +# midnight and at 22:00, respectively, by 20 minutes." -# From Paul Eggert (2001-02-21): +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): +# Go with this article in preference to Shanks's 1969 date for modern DST. # Assume this rule has been used since DST was introduced in the islands. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -510,8 +520,8 @@ Rule Chile 1918 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 Rule Chile 1919 only - Jul 2 0:00 0 - Rule Chile 1927 1931 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1928 1932 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Chile 1969 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1970 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1966 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1967 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S @@ -528,10 +538,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890 -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 14 # Easter I Time -6:00 Chile EAS%sT # -# Whitman says Juan Fernandez Is are like America/Santiago. -# San Ambrosio, San Felix -# no information; probably like America/Santiago - +# Sala y Gomez Island is like Pacific/Easter. +# Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernandez Is, San Ambrosio, +# San Felix, and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago. # Colombia # Shanks specifies 24:00 for 1992 transition times; go with IATA, =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/zone.tab,v retrieving revision 2001.1 retrieving revision 2001.1.0.1 diff -pu -r2001.1 -r2001.1.0.1 --- zone.tab 2001/03/13 17:57:42 2001.1 +++ zone.tab 2001/05/31 00:59:05 2001.1.0.1 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ # first latitude (+ is north), then longitude (+ is east). # 3. Zone name used in value of TZ environment variable. # 4. Comments; present if and only if the country has multiple rows. -# +# # Columns are separated by a single tab. # The table is sorted first by country, then an order within the country that # (1) makes some geographical sense, and @@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ CG -0416+01517 Africa/Brazzaville CH +4723+00832 Europe/Zurich CI +0519-00402 Africa/Abidjan CK -2114-15946 Pacific/Rarotonga -CL -3327-07040 America/Santiago mainland -CL -2710-10927 Pacific/Easter Easter Island +CL -3327-07040 America/Santiago most locations +CL -2710-10927 Pacific/Easter Easter Island & Sala y Gomez CM +0403+00942 Africa/Douala CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin north Manchuria CN +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai China coast @@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ HR +4548+01558 Europe/Zagreb HT +1832-07220 America/Port-au-Prince HU +4730+01905 Europe/Budapest ID -0610+10648 Asia/Jakarta Java & Sumatra -ID -0507+11924 Asia/Ujung_Pandang Borneo & Celebes +ID -0002+10920 Asia/Pontianak west & central Borneo +ID -0507+11924 Asia/Ujung_Pandang east & south Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Nusa Tengarra, west Timor ID -0232+14042 Asia/Jayapura Irian Jaya & the Moluccas IE +5320-00615 Europe/Dublin IL +3146+03514 Asia/Jerusalem @@ -237,7 +238,8 @@ ML +1239-00800 Africa/Bamako southwest M ML +1446-00301 Africa/Timbuktu northeast Mali MM +1647+09610 Asia/Rangoon MN +4755+10653 Asia/Ulaanbaatar most locations -MN +4801+09139 Asia/Hovd Bayan-Olgiy, Hovd, Uvs +MN +4801+09139 Asia/Hovd Bayan-Olgiy, Govi-Altai, Hovd, Uvs, Zavkhan +#MN +4804+11430 Asia/Choibalsan Dornod, Sukhbaatar (unsure about this) MO +2214+11335 Asia/Macao MP +1512+14545 Pacific/Saipan MQ +1436-06105 America/Martinique

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IERS Message No. 10
by central_bureau＠iers.org May 30, 2001

May 30, 2001

*************************************************************************** IERS Message No. 10 May 30, 2001 *************************************************************************** CHAMP Announcement of Opportunity Release The GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) has released on May 28, 2001 electronically an Announcement of Opportunity for conducting basic scientific research and application oriented projects using data and data products from its georesearch mission CHAMP. Individuals or parties interested in proposing a CHAMP mission investigation in response to this AO are requested to contact the Newsletter No. 3 at http://op.gfz-potsdam.de/champ/ for further details. Christoph Reigber (CHAMP Project Director) ---------------------------------------------------- Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Christoph Reigber GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) Division 1: Kinematics & Dynamics of the Earth Telegrafenberg A 17, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany phone: +49 (0)331 288-1100, -1101 (secr.) fax: +49 (0)331 288-1111 e-mail: reigber(a)gfz-potsdam.de www: http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/ ***************************************************************************

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Year Round Daylight Saving Time?
by Martin Smoot May 29, 2001

May 29, 2001

the latest energy problems have prompted Massacuhsetts to consider year round Daylight saving time. cnn.com (under US) has an article: http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/05/29/daylight.saving.ap/index.html there is also a reference on the wmal.com web page (WMAL is a washington area radio station). I have not found any other references although I have not really looked very hard. -- Martin Smoot Network Storage Solutions 703-834-2242 msmoot(a)nssolutions.com www.nssolutions.com

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[akr@m17n.org: bin/27630: mktime problem.]
by Garrett Wollman May 25, 2001

May 25, 2001

A FreeBSD user submitted the following bug report. I'm curious as to whether the current tzcode still has this problem. My analysis follows at the end. -GAWollman ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- Message-Id: <20010525021018.01D54727(a)flux.etl.go.jp> Reply-To: akr(a)m17n.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 List-ID: <freebsd-bugs.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-bugs> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-bugs> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: akr(a)m17n.org Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs(a)FreeBSD.ORG To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit(a)FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/27630: mktime problem. Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:10:18 +0900 (JST) >Number: 27630 >Category: bin >Synopsis: mktime failure. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu May 24 19:20:00 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Tanaka Akira >Release: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 >Organization: m17n >Environment: FreeBSD flux 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #2: Fri Jan 12 22:55:02 JST 2001 akr@flux:/usr/src/sys/compile/AKR i386 >Description: mktime(3) fails on some condition. For example, TZ=Africa/Monrovia, 1972/05/01 00:44:30 cannot be converted to time_t. Since this example is taken from `zdump -v Africa/Monrovia' and it is after Epoch, there is no reason to fail. Actually, I tested all time listed in `zdump -v' for each timezone in /usr/share/zoneinfo and found many failures. Above failure is one of them. >How-To-Repeat: % cat tst.c #include <stdio.h> #include <time.h> int main() { struct tm a; time_t t; a.tm_year = 1972 - 1900; a.tm_mon = 5 - 1; a.tm_mday = 1; a.tm_hour = 0; a.tm_min = 44; a.tm_sec = 30; a.tm_wday = 0; a.tm_yday = 0; a.tm_isdst = -1; t = mktime(&a); if (t == -1) { perror("mktime"); exit(1); } printf("no problem\n"); return 0; } % gcc tst.c % TZ=Africa/Monrovia ./a.out mktime: Undefined error: 0 % >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(a)FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message ------- end ------- This problem appears to result from the `saved_seconds' hackery in time2(): saved_seconds = yourtm.tm_sec; yourtm.tm_sec = 0; time2() then goes on to attempt to find (in this example) 1972-05-01T00:44:00, which does not exist in this time zone, and returns failure. -GAWollman

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FW: Time Zone Converter
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) May 16, 2001

May 16, 2001

Bob Niebergall is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Bob Niebergall [mailto:r.niebergall@sk.sympatico.ca] Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 2:31 PM To: stewart(a)parc.xerox.com Subject: Time Zone Converter I have used your time zone converter and I have to point out some errors. There is not such time zone as Canada/Saskatchewan and Canada/East Saskatchewan. As of the sending of this message the province of Saskatchewan, in Canada, is on Central Standart Time and we do not convert to daylight saving time for the summer. Bob Niebergall Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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[Fwd: Time Zone Converter]
by Bob Niebergall May 16, 2001

May 16, 2001

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Mongolia
by Oscar van Vlijmen May 15, 2001

May 15, 2001

Reasonably reliable information about the administrative regions in Mongolia can be found on the web site of the National Statistical Office of Mongolia: http://statis.pmis.gov.mn/english/territory_fe.htm and http://statis.pmis.gov.mn/yearbook99/Territor/1_1.HTM The spelling of the places on the Mongolian web site is not extremely consistent (e.g. Zavkhan and Zavhan). The Times atlas uses a spelling which is more consistent with the Mongolian-Cyrillic names (Dzavhan). Of course, names with ö and ü have to be Posixified, for instance by dropping the diacritics. At the moment, still no better time zone information can be found on-line than on the web page: http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/factpack.htm as referred to by Jesper Nørgard and saying: "Most of Mongolia is 8 hours ahead of GMT. However, the three western aimags of Khovd, Uvs and Bayan Ulgii are GMT+7. Mongolia no longer puts forward its clocks by 1 hour in the summer months." Khovd is spelled by the Times atlas as Hovd and Bayan Ulgii as Bayan-Ölgiy. Uvs is 'correct'. Regards, Oscar van Vlijmen 2001-05-16

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RE: Mongolia time zones
by Jesper Nørgaard May 14, 2001

May 14, 2001

I haven't seen any references to the new Mongolia daylight saving, are there any on the web? It seems that there are also no references in your mail. Since so many sources differ about Mongolia, I would advice a careful approach to these changes, to avoid having to do them over and over again (well, I admit that this how we always manage time zone changes from Israel, but here there is no indication that the Mongol government is changing it's mind all the time, as they do in Tel Aviv). Actually I checked out mongolian time zones just a few weeks ago, but could not find other sources than <http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm> which I believe we received from Oscar van Vlijmen in Holland. It is true that it doesn't work anymore, but that is simply because the page general.htm is not available anymore. If you use http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/toc.htm , you will get into a general page, which further down has a paragraph "Time Differences" It seems that these pages were recently changed concerning visa rules, but I don't know if the timezone information is up-to-date. They report two time zones, the eastern consisting of provinces Khovd, Bayan Ulgii and Uvs, on GMT+7, and the rest on GMT+8. They specifically claim that Mongolia no longer "puts forward its clocks by 1 hour in the summer months". I would doubt a lot that the Choibalsan zone on GMT+9 has existed since 1983 as Shanks claims, but we lack authoritative information, since all the authorities seem to disagree. However, the above page I still consider as the only authoritative web page I have seen yet, e.g. published by the mongolian government. I found a map of Mongolia from these pages which showed each province with borders to the other provinces, also population counters, however I did not write the URLs down, and I couldn't find them again today. I am pretty sure that the provinces Govi-Altai and Zavkhan were to the east of the Khovd, Bayan Ulgii and Uvs provinces on these maps (not to the west). > (Maybe they redrew the provincial lines lately? It's such a > pain to deal with a nation that is still nearly half nomadic. :-) I can only agree more! We will have to wait for the nomadic computers ... :-) E.g. those that are powered by Sun light or maybe saddle pressure power :-) Regards, ---------- From: Paul Eggert[SMTP:eggert@twinsun.com] Sent: Domingo 13 de Mayo de 2001 0:52 To: rmcdow(a)enteles.com Cc: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: Mongolia time zones > Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 10:59:24 -0800 > From: Rives McDow <rmcdow(a)enteles.com> > In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier > (adopted dst on April 27, 2001,0200 local time, ending Sept. 28, 2001), Thanks. Sorry, I missed that somehow. Is this a one-time deal, or are they permanently instituting DST, presumably using a last-Friday-of-April-and-September rule? > there are three time zones. I guess it's time to add a new Asia/Choibalsan Zone. Shanks wrote that they diverged from Ulaanbaatar time in April 1983, so I'll assume that. Also, your "0200 local time" agrees with Shanks from mid-1984 on, but disagrees with the IATA; I'll assume that the IATA has been wrong (which wouldn't be the first time). > Provinces 19 hours from the IDL: > Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai <http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm> (now inaccessible, alas) reported in 1999-09 that only Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, and Khovd were in that time zone. Did the other two provinces switch zones? They are further west than Khovd, so for now, I'll assume that the earlier reference missed those two provinces. (That reference claimed that there was no third time zone in the east, which disagreed with Shanks and other sources, so it was on my "questionable" list anyway.) > Provinces 20 hours from the IDL: > Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov, Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, > Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi, > > Provinces 21 hours from the IDL: > Choibalsan, Sukhbaatar Just as a point of trivia, <http://www.world-gazetteer.com/c/c_mn.htm> says that Choibalsan is in the province of Dornod. Your list also omits the province of Selenge, which is listed in that source and at the CIA. (Maybe they redrew the provincial lines lately? It's such a pain to deal with a nation that is still nearly half nomadic. :-)

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Summertime in Sweden 1916.
by Ivan Nilsson May 13, 2001

May 13, 2001

I have now found a newspapper stating that at 01:00 october 1st 1916 summertime the church-clocks etc were set back one hour to show 0:00 october 1st 1916 standard time. The article also reports that some people thought the switch to standard time would take place already at 0:00 october 1st 1916 summer time, but they had to wait for another hour before the event took place. Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", ocober 1st 1916, page 7 to the upper left. /Regards Ivan Nilsson

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Mongolia time zones
by Rives McDow May 13, 2001

May 13, 2001

Dear Paul and all, In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier (adopted dst on April 27, 2001,0200 local time, ending Sept. 28, 2001), there are three time zones. Provinces 19 hours from the IDL: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai Provinces 20 hours from the IDL: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov, Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi, Provinces 21 hours from the IDL: Choibalsan, Sukhbaatar Rives McDow

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Re: Updated Australian time zone names/strings
by Robbin Kawabata May 4, 2001

May 4, 2001

> From eggert(a)twinsun.com Thu May 3 15:43:17 2001 > From: Paul Eggert <eggert(a)twinsun.com> > > > From: "Olson, Arthur David (NCI)" <olsona(a)dc37a.nci.nih.gov> > > Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 10:03:51 -0400 > > > Another possibility would be a separate environment variable that, if > > defined, would request numeric abbreviations. This has the advantage (and > > disadvantage) of providing for some system-level control: putting > > TZNUMERIC=1 > > (or whatever) in the system-wide startup file would buy numeric > > abbreviations no matter what TZ value a particular user set up (unless, of > > course, the user undid the TZNUMERIC). > > I can seem some problems with this approach. For example, I've > written shell commands like this: > > LC_ALL=C TZ=GMT0 date > > in order to get a string like the following reliably, in all environments > (even those where "date -u" doesn't work): > > Thu May 3 22:32:37 GMT 2001 > > But with TZNUMERIC, the output might look like this instead: > > Thu May 3 22:32:37 +0000 2001 > > and the extra data might mess up the output format. > > > The Theory file says the following about TZ, explaining why the tz > code uses TZ rather than some other environment variable. > > It was recognized that allowing the "TZ" environment variable to > take on values such as "America/New_York" might cause "old" programs > (that expect "TZ" to have a certain form) to operate incorrectly; > consideration was given to using some other environment variable > (for example, "TIMEZONE") to hold the string used to generate the > time zone information file name. In the end, however, it was decided > to continue using "TZ": it is widely used for time zone purposes; > separately maintaining both "TZ" and "TIMEZONE" seemed a nuisance; > and systems where "new" forms of "TZ" might cause problems can simply > use TZ values such as "EST5EDT" which can be used both by > "new" programs (a la POSIX) and "old" programs (as zone names and > offsets). > > Isn't this argument still sound, and doesn't it argue against moving > the functionality into a new environment variable like TZNUMERIC? Also, TZNUMERIC would violate POSIX. POSIX says date.1 and strftime() should use the TZ variable. The %Z specifier for date.1 and strftime() (which prints the timezone abbreviation), should key off the TZ variable. Robbin

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Re: timezones
by Robert Elz May 4, 2001

May 4, 2001

Thanks for sharing your list with the tz mailing list. In return, I'll add to your data by noting that CST can also be "Central Summer Time" (Australian) +1030, and that EST can be "Eastern Summer Time" (Australian) +1100 (if you look closely, you'll find those in the tz database) That list is certainly interesting, I'm from Melbourne, Australia, and I can't even begin to imaging what LIGT is supposed to represent... If nothing else though, your list will certainly quieten those who believe that if a few changes are made to the list of abbreviations in the data base will make them all unique, so that people can take an abbreviation and from that determine the offset. The huge number of ambiguities in your list (same abbreviation, different offset) ends that forever I hope. kre

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RE: Updated Australian time zone names/strings
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) May 3, 2001

May 3, 2001

> > OK, how about this idea? If TZ='Australia/Sydney:' then use numeric > > abbreviations. The basic idea is to append a suffix that cannot > > possibly be part of a portable POSIX file name. > I guess we could, though I'm not overly enamoured with the "cannot possibly > be part of a portable POSIX file name" part. We should certainly not be > presuming that any such names can be used, and should not be naming zones in > non-portable ways, but if someone decides to name a timezone file > /path/to/EST:EDT (and it happens to work on his system) I'd prefer not to > break things. > Of course, it can be documented that ':' is magic in TZ file names (or > what would otherwise be a TZ file name) but it does seem a bit ugly. Another possibility would be a separate environment variable that, if defined, would request numeric abbreviations. This has the advantage (and disadvantage) of providing for some system-level control: putting TZNUMERIC=1 (or whatever) in the system-wide startup file would buy numeric abbreviations no matter what TZ value a particular user set up (unless, of course, the user undid the TZNUMERIC). --ado

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FW: timezones
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) May 3, 2001

May 3, 2001

Ron Woodall is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Ron Woodall [mailto:nor@htmlcompendium.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:43 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: timezones Dear Sirs/Mesdames: Over the past several weeks I've been researching time zones and have compiled a list of time zones, offsets and abbreviations. I submit it to your scrutiny. It will eventually be included in "The Compendium of HTML Elements" (www.htmlcompendium.org) in support of our sections on Log Analysis and Server Side Includes. This information may be of interest/use in your environment. This page cannot be quoted simply because there is nothing original here. I refer to many sources, including your listings, that may or may not be correct. I do provide proper credits where due. I welcome any corrections, comments, complaints or suggestions you might have. Thank you for your assistance and look forward to your comments. Ron Woodall

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Typo in timezone database, src/share/zoneinfo australasia
by Jens Schweikhardt May 2, 2001

May 2, 2001

Dear time zone database maintainer, FYI, there's a typo in the australasia part of the db. Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

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timezones
by Ron Woodall May 2, 2001

May 2, 2001

Dear Sirs/Mesdames: Over the past several weeks I've been researching time zones and have compiled a list of time zones, offsets and abbreviations. I submit it to your scrutiny. It will eventually be included in "The Compendium of HTML Elements" (www.htmlcompendium.org) in support of our sections on Log Analysis and Server Side Includes. This information may be of interest/use in your environment. This page cannot be quoted simply because there is nothing original here. I refer to many sources, including your listings, that may or may not be correct. I do provide proper credits where due. I welcome any corrections, comments, complaints or suggestions you might have. Thank you for your assistance and look forward to your comments. Ron Woodall --------------------------------------- Ron Woodall nor(a)htmlcompendium.org The Compendium of HTML Elements "your essential web publishing resource" - available at/disponible à: http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America)

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RE: Time on Jan Mayen
by Jesper Nørgaard May 2, 2001

May 2, 2001

In that case I presume the 'europe' file should be corrected from this: # Svalbard & Jan Mayen Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen # From Whitman: # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Atlantic/Jan_Mayen -1:00 - EGT ... to something like this: # Svalbard & Jan Mayen Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen Link Europe/Oslo Atlantic/Jan_Mayen The question is if Whitman's observation for Jan Mayen Island was correct earlier, in that case we will have to reuse parts of the first definition. Although EGT is a bit misleading perhaps because East Greenland (Scoresbysund) is using EU rules with DST, which might not coincide with what Jan Mayen had. I suggest that this needs to be investigated a bit further (hint, hint, I will probably not do it :) Regards, Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Programador/Analista 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 (5) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (5) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 CIMMYT home page: http://cimmyt.cgiar.org Check out my free program World Time Explorer: http://www20.Brinkster.com/timezone50/index.htm http://members.theglobe.com/timezone50/index.htm ---------- From: Olson, Arthur David (NCI)[SMTP:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Sent: Lunes 30 de Abril de 2001 6:55 To: Tz (E-mail) Subject: FW: Time on Jan mayen M. H. P. van Genderen is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Genderen, M.H.P. van [mailto:M.H.P.v.Genderen@tue.nl] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 2:54 AM To: 'tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov' Subject: Time on Jan mayen Hi, I asked the crew of the meteorological station on Jan Mayen Island (janmayen(a)ftd.mil.no) what time they used, and this is their answer: > We are using the same time as i Norway, and are following the summer and winter time as i Norway. > Regards > Åge-leif Godø So it seems that the time zone should be changed from East Greenland Time to Oslo time for Jan Mayen. Yours, Marcel van Genderen _______________________________________ Dr. Marcel van Genderen Assistant Professor Lab Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry Room STO 4.45 Eindhoven University of Technology PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands Tel: +31-40-2473139. Fax: +31-40-2451036 E-mail: M.H.P.v.Genderen(a)tue.nl Homepage: www.chem.tue.nl/toc

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