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Nov. 3, 2006

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Close to a 2006o?
by Stephen Colebourne Nov. 3, 2006

Nov. 3, 2006

Are we close to a version 2006o of the data? I am planning on releasing a new version of Joda-Time soon which includes the zone data. I know there have been a number of changes recently so I would like the release to include the up to date info if possible. On a more general note, is there a specific trigger for creating new releases of the tz database (eg. every month), or is it just created on demand? thanks for any info, Stephen http://joda-time.sourceforge.net

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FW: Corrections to latitudes/longitudes in zone.tab
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Nov. 1, 2006

Nov. 1, 2006

I'm forwarding this message from Andy McDonald, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list: please direct replies appropriately. Thanks! --ado -----Original Message----- From: Andy McDonald [mailto:andy@stemhaus.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:29 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Corrections to latitudes/longitudes in zone.tab Hi, I've run across a couple of inaccurate latitudes/longitudes in tz's zone.tab (2006n): Approx true lat/long zone.tab lat/long Europe/Jersey +4912-00207 +4912-00237 Europe/Podgorica +4227+01916 +4247+01928 Jersey perhaps looks like a typo.; Podgorica's latitude looks like a typo., but not the longitude. The corrected values come from playing with my Firefox time zone extension (http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/) and Google Earth, and are of course entirely subjective. Regards, Andy McDonald

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Nipigon and Atikokan
by Chris Walton Nov. 1, 2006

Nov. 1, 2006

Jesper, I don't know how much accuracy you need. I used a combination of the maps I sent you plus Garmin's Topo Canada to come of with some coordinates that I think are pretty close. Atikokan Township: Northern boundary: 48 degrees 50 minutes 0 seconds N Eastern boundary: 91 degrees 30 minutes 0 seconds W Southern boundary: 48 degrees 40 minutes 0 seconds N Western boundary: 91 degrees 45 minutes 0 seconds W If you wish to include Quetico Provincial Park it gets more complicated because it is not square. Nipigon Township: Northern boundary: 49 degrees 02 minutes 20 seconds N Eastern boundary: 88 degrees 14 minutes 0 seconds W Southern boundary: 49 degrees 00 minutes 0 seconds N Western boundary: 88 degrees 26 minutes 0 seconds W Note: the Township of "Red Rock" lies immediately south of the Township of Nipigon. My guess is that Red Rock has probably always followed Nipigon time. I have no proof and I don't wish to start making up history. Unless anybody has information Red Rock's time practices prior to 1974 we should keep "America/Nipigon" confined to Nipigon Township. -chris -----Original Message----- From: Chris Walton Sent: October 31, 2006 12:30 AM To: 'tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov'; 'jnorgard(a)prodigy.net.mx' Subject: RE: Canada details Jesper, I understand your confusion in trying to draw time zone boundaries for Atikokan and Nipigon. The "Township of Atikokan" and the "Township of Nipigon" are municipalities in Northern Ontario. Both townships have official boundaries and are officially recognized as municipalities by the province. The "town" of Atikokan is the built up area (townsite) within the Township of Atikokan. The "town" of Nipigon is the built up area (townsite) within the township of Nipigon. Before reading further, please understand that there are both "geographical townships" and "municipal townships" in Ontario. A "geographic township" is an area of land (usually rectangular in shape) that was given a name by the land surveyors many years ago. A "municipal township" is a municipality with some local political structure and generally a small population. The municipality of the "Township of Nipigon" lies exactly within the boundaries of the Nipigon geographic township. Total area is 109.65 square km with a population density of 17.9 people per square km. The north half of municipality of the "Township of Atikokan" is comprised of the geographic townships of Schwenger and Freehorn. The south half of is comprised of an area that was not surveyed in the original Ontario land surveys. Total area of the municipality is 316.81 square km with a population density of 11.5 people per square km. Note: there isn't (and never was) a geographic township named "Atikokan". The time zone boundaries for both Atikokan and Nipigon should presumably follow the municipal township boundaries. The best way to get the boundaries would be from paper copies of the federal 1:50000 topographical maps. Here are some online maps that give a general idea of the areas involved: Atikokan: Look for the black square near the east end of the Rainy River district. http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/userfiles/page_attachments/Library/1/1652085_E_200… Here is a more detailed map with some latitude and longitude markings. The Township of Atikokan is the larger of the two black squares in the center of the map. http://crownlanduseatlas.mnr.gov.on.ca/tilemaps/pdfs/_920485.pdf Nipigon: Look for the black rectangle south of Lake Nipigon http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/userfiles/page_attachments/Library/1/3519577_E_200… Here is a more detailed map with some latitude and longitude markings. The Township of Nipigon is near the bottom of the map. http://crownlanduseatlas.mnr.gov.on.ca/tilemaps/pdfs/_890490.pdf If you are making a time zone map you have to decide whether to lump Quetico Provincial Park in with Atikokan. Quetico is a large wilderness park. At 4758 square kilometres it is more than ten times the size of Atikokan itself. It is mostly used by canoeists in the summer and cross country skiers in the winter. The head office for Quetico is inside the town of Atikokan. The park staff uses Atikokan time for official purposes. Campers, canoeists, skiers, etc. can use what ever time they wish. Also, if you are creating time zone maps for all of Canada, please be aware of recent changes in Quebec time legislation. If I understand the new legislation, the time zone boundary will no longer follow the 63rd meridian starting next year. See my notes in: http://www3.sympatico.ca/c.walton/canada_dst.html Let me know if you need any more info. If I come across any better maps I will let you know. -chris -----Original Message----- From: Oscar van Vlijmen [mailto:ovv@hetnet.nl] Sent: October 30, 2006 5:29 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: Canada details > From: Jesper Norgaard Welen > Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:43:39 -0600 > Subject: Strange historic timezone in Nigeria > As a side-question, I'm trying to determine a meaningful area for the > timezones Atikokan and Nipigon, it seems to me that they would be > small, like a US county for instance, but I can't find anything about > it. It seems they must be within the larger areas Rainy River district > and Thunder Bay district, but how would it look on a map? Chris Walton put a lot of effort in researching the Canada situation. <http://www3.sympatico.ca/c.walton/canada_dst.html> Very detailed! And then there is of course the Matthews-Vincent 1998 article everybody refers to. It is quite possible that there is simply no more detail available....

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West Australia DST pushing forward
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Nov. 1, 2006

Nov. 1, 2006

West Australia has made a step further to implementing DST, the lower house approved the DST bill, but to go ahead the bill must also be passed in the upper house. In the meantime rhetoric flies high, DST can save lives, the upper house should be abolished if the DST bill is not passed etc. : http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20682208-29277,00.html Also a sincere thanks to Chris Walton for the "Canada details", I will look into that, but it looks good at first sight, just what I needed. And an apology for the ill-thought-through question about Niger (not Nigeria!), I hadn't even seen the comment in the 'africa' file about the double use of WAT for GMT-1 and GMT+1, and besides I could have confirmed with astro.com that Shanks also agree about the GMT-1 for Niger in the period specified. Regards, Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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FW: Cuba back on standard time
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 31, 2006

Oct. 31, 2006

I'm forwarding this message from Mike Castleman, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list: please direct replies to this message appropriately. Thanks! MC: others have also reported this information, and Paul Eggert has circulated proposed changes to the time zone database to reflect it; those changes should appear in the ftpable version of the database this coming Monday. --ado -----Original Message----- From: mike castleman [mailto:m@mlcastle.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:07 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Cuba back on standard time According to _Granma_, the official newspaper: AT 1:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 29, the clocks in Cuba were put back one hour, thus standard time - also known as winter time - in Cuba has once more come into effect. [...] full article (english): http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun30/45hora.html (spanish): http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2006/octubre/vier27/horario-e.html The Spanish article is clearer than the English that the change took place at 1am summer time; i.e., midnight standard time.

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Strange historic timezone in Nigeria
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Oct. 31, 2006

Oct. 31, 2006

Hi, tz emailing list I have stumbled over a peculiarity in the historic data about Nigeria, the africa file contains: Zone Africa/Niamey 0:08:28 - LMT 1912 -1:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26 0:00 - GMT 1960 1:00 - WAT Since the timezone abbreviation 'WAT' is the same seemingly for both GMT-1 and GMT+1, my suspicion is that it should rather be Zone Africa/Niamey 0:08:28 - LMT 1912 1:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26 0:00 - GMT 1960 1:00 - WAT which would make more sense from the lunar mean time value ... As a side-question, I'm trying to determine a meaningful area for the timezones Atikokan and Nipigon, it seems to me that they would be small, like a US county for instance, but I can't find anything about it. It seems they most be within the larger areas Rainy River district and Thunder Bay district, but how would it look on a map? Regards, Jesper

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Cuba back on standard time
by mike castleman Oct. 31, 2006

Oct. 31, 2006

According to _Granma_, the official newspaper: AT 1:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 29, the clocks in Cuba were put back one hour, thus standard time – also known as winter time – in Cuba has once more come into effect. [...] full article (english): http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun30/45hora.html (spanish): http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2006/octubre/vier27/horario-e.html The Spanish article is clearer than the English that the change took place at 1am summer time; i.e., midnight standard time.

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Chile DST history
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Oct. 31, 2006

Oct. 31, 2006

The page http://www.worldtimeserver.com claims that Chile starts DST this Sunday 8.th. of October at 1:00 so I got interested in if we have the information right concerning Chile. This made me revise the information in the tz database, which lead to the page http://www.shoa.cl which represents the oficial timekeeping of the armed forces of Chile, which in turn is the only authority on time setting matters in Chile since 11.th. of January 1966 according to decree No. 25 of that year. CIA factbook says on page http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ci.html that DST starts second Sunday in October, ends Second Sunday of March. But according to the official page it is really Second Saturday of October at 24:00 and Second Saturday of March at 24:00. 2006 happens to be a year where these two rules get to different results, in fact DST begins in Chile in 2006 Saturday 14.th. of March at 24:00, according to one of the Chile web pages. In tz database, file southamerica says: # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-24): # <http://www.shoa.cl/shoa/faqhoraoficial.htm> gives many details that # disagree with the following table, but we haven't had time to compare them. As far as I see it, this is the maximum authority of time setting in Chile, which should supersede tz database, Shanks, IATA etc. If you disagree on this point, please forward good arguments. Therefore I recommend the following changes to the tz database. I took the time to check out in detail what the differences are from this source compared to tz database, based on the page http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm which contains timezone and time history in Chile since 1884. Here are the results if you apply those to the tz database (I might have made mistakes, since there are plenty of differences): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Chile 1927 1931 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1928 1932 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Chile 1946 only - Aug 27 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1947 only - May 21 2:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1968 only - Nov 2 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1969 only - Mar 29 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1969 only - Nov 22 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1970 only - Mar 28 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1971 only - Mar 13 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1970 1972 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1973 only - Sep 29 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 2000 max - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - # IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14; # (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Santiago -4:42:40 - LMT 1890 -4:42:40 - SMT 1910 Jan 10 # Santiago Mean Time -5:00 - CL%sT 1916 Jul 1 # Chile Time -4:42:46 - SMT 1918 Sep 10 # Santiago Mean Time -4:00 - CL%sT 1919 Jul 1 # Chile Time -4:42:46 - SMT 1927 Aug 22 # Santiago Mean Time -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1932 Sep # Chile Time -4:00 Chile CL%sT Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890 # Mataveri -7:17:28 - MMT 1932 Sep # Mataveri Mean Time -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Jan 18 21:00 # Easter I Time -6:00 Chile EAS%sT Note (1) Since the starting and ending of DST in 1927-1932 is a bit confusing (not covered by a decree of when it ended), I used the tz database as it was, since the first two transitions concur with the web page. It seems that the Chile web page claims that it stopped in 1928, but it doesn't mention a decree about that. Note (2) The DST employment in 1946-1947 was decreed only for the central zone (whatever that is, but surely including Santiago), not for the rest of the country. But since this happens before our cutoff date of 1970, there is no need to make an extra timezone. Note (3) Since one of the IATA anomalies were agreeing with the Chile page, I deleted that from the commentary. I also did not put commentary for if the above changes are accepted (like "Jesper Norgaard wrote ..."), I will leave that happily to whoever might implement it in a coming version of the tz database. Regards, - Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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Paraguay link update
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Oct. 31, 2006

Oct. 31, 2006

I contacted Carlos Raúl Perasso from Paraguay, if there was news about the expected change this Sunday to DST in Paraguay. He tells me that the originally scheduled change will happen as planned, and gave me an official link: http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf The link in the 'southamerica' file is outdated (that happens often), which was Steffen's link from 2004-03-05 <http://www.labor.com.py/noticias.asp?id=27>, note that also my link from 2001-03-06 is outdated: # From Jesper Norgaard (2001-03-06) [an official URL saying similar things]: # http://gateway.abc.com.py:8000/pub/pag04.mbr/artic?FHA=2001-03-03-02.24.52.9 00592 # ... # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05): # Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05) <http://www.labor.com.py/noticias.asp?id=27> The new link from Carlos is also containing decree 1,867. Carlos asks me that his email information in the tz emailing list be updated to crperasso(a)gmail.com Regards, - Jesper Nørgaard Welen Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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Corrections to latitudes/longitudes in zone.tab
by Andy McDonald Oct. 31, 2006

Oct. 31, 2006

Hi, I've run across a couple of inaccurate latitudes/longitudes in tz's zone.tab (2006n): Approx true lat/long zone.tab lat/long Europe/Jersey +4912-00207 +4912-00237 Europe/Podgorica +4227+01916 +4247+01928 Jersey perhaps looks like a typo.; Podgorica's latitude looks like a typo., but not the longitude. The corrected values come from playing with my Firefox time zone extension (http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/) and Google Earth, and are of course entirely subjective. Regards, Andy McDonald

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FW: tz database help
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 30, 2006

Oct. 30, 2006

I'm forwarding this message from Joseph Thurakal, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list: please direct replies appropriately. JT: the idea if you're writing a C language program is to set the time zone environment variable to the value associated with the US central time zone location of interest, fill in a "struct tm" with the values associated with the instant of interest, call "mktime" to find the "time_t" value associated with the filled-in structure, then re-set the time zone enviroment variable to the appropriate "another time zone" value and feed mktime's returned time_t value to "localtime." --ado ________________________________ From: Joseph Thurakal [mailto:josephthurakal@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:55 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: tz database help Hi, My name is Joseph Thurakal and I am new to tz database. I am trying to figure out how to convert historic US central time zone times into another time zone, and I can't figure this out from the readme files. Could you outline how to do this or point me to a good source? Thanks for your help. Joe

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tz database help
by Joseph Thurakal Oct. 27, 2006

Oct. 27, 2006

Hi, My name is Joseph Thurakal and I am new to tz database. I am trying to figure out how to convert historic US central time zone times into another time zone, and I can't figure this out from the readme files. Could you outline how to do this or point me to a good source? Thanks for your help. Joe

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One letter change in tz data
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Oct. 26, 2006

Oct. 26, 2006

There is news about the revival of DST in Cuba (after 3 years of inactivity). An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html (note there are both spanish and english versions of this article). A few quotes: "AFTER three years of remaining on a summer daylight savings time schedule, Cubas National Electrical Union decided to go back to its normal schedule during this month of October. On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00 , watches should be set back one hour going back to 00:00 hours returning to the normal schedule, which in Cuba is known as the winter schedule ... In Cuba, because of electricity generation shortages, it was decided to maintain the summer daylight savings schedule for three years; however, the country is now in a position to produce all the energy it needs, which is why it was decided to go back to the regular schedule." We are in the lucky position to be able to change this with a single letter change, from "7" to "6": -Rule Cuba 2007 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S +Rule Cuba 2006 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S Regards, Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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DST in West Australia?
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Oct. 25, 2006

Oct. 25, 2006

These four links talk about DST as a possibility in Queensland and West Australia: http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20642132-5006789,00.ht ml http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20640810-5006789,00.ht ml http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20637822-5006789,00.ht ml http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20635587-5006789,00.ht ml The status quo at the moment seems to be that Queensland will stay with no DST, while West Australia is likely to approve a three year trial, beginning DST December 1, 2006, outside the schedule of any other state of Australia (mainland states that use DST are in-synch, while Tasmania and Lord Howe Island have their own variations of DST). There are apparently two bills which might be merged into one. Anyways, for the moment there are no definitive decisions yet, although it seems an individual count of MPs votes in West Australia favor the approval of the new DST. Stay tuned! Regards, - Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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FW: Beijing Time?
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 24, 2006

Oct. 24, 2006

I'm forwarding this message from Emma Baillie, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list should direct replies appropriately. (Emma Baillie: within... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2006n.tar.gz ...there's a "Theory" file explaining the principles behind naming zones. Shanghai is used because it's the most populous city--at least by some measures--in the time zone of interest. Note that the eastern United States time zone where I live is known as "America/New_York" and not "America/Washington"--we're not singling out China for different treatment.) --ado -----Original Message----- From: Emma Baillie [mailto:ebaillie@aconex.com] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:19 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Beijing Time? My workplace has recently included data form the tz database into our web services, which are used in various different countries around the world including (recently) China. Our Chinese customers are quite unhappy about the fact that their timezone is specified as "Asia/Shanghai" not "Asia/Beijing". As one customer commented: "Every one knows whole china has only one time zone which was officially named Beijing Time Zone, My client told me that Chinese people really can not understand why we missed our Capital City Time Zone on the list. They think it is disrespectful." I see from the official Chinese government website, that this also refers to the Chinese time zone as "Beijing Time" http://english.gov.cn/2005-08/25/content_26048.htm. I'm wondering if there is any reason (other than historical) to continue to refer to the time zone in China as "Asia/Shanghai". Should it not be updated to reflect current Chinese usage? Of course, in my own particular instance I can simply change it in our application (and will!) But this seems like a change which would be more generally useful. thanks emma baillie

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Beijing Time?
by Emma Baillie Oct. 23, 2006

Oct. 23, 2006

My workplace has recently included data form the tz database into our web services, which are used in various different countries around the world including (recently) China. Our Chinese customers are quite unhappy about the fact that their timezone is specified as "Asia/Shanghai" not "Asia/Beijing". As one customer commented: "Every one knows whole china has only one time zone which was officially named Beijing Time Zone, My client told me that Chinese people really can not understand why we missed our Capital City Time Zone on the list. They think it is disrespectful." I see from the official Chinese government website, that this also refers to the Chinese time zone as "Beijing Time" http://english.gov.cn/2005-08/25/content_26048.htm. I'm wondering if there is any reason (other than historical) to continue to refer to the time zone in China as "Asia/Shanghai". Should it not be updated to reflect current Chinese usage? Of course, in my own particular instance I can simply change it in our application (and will!) But this seems like a change which would be more generally useful. thanks emma baillie

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Brazilian "summer time" and elections.
by Andre Oct. 19, 2006

Oct. 19, 2006

Hello! Again, Brazilian "summer time" is different this year... From Nov 5th, 2006 to Feb 25th, 2007. http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHv5920.gif http://pcdsh01.on.br/HvInic06.htm And it is kind of urgent because every body's computer is already set with summer time when it should not. :-) Well, as a Brazilian I am ashamed of all this lack of organization: well, voting machines don't work well with summer time... change the summer time! Thank you, André Caldas.

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Tzcode2006n.tar.gz and tzdata2006n.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 11, 2006

Oct. 11, 2006

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2006n.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2006n.tar.gz ...are now available; these reflect the changes circulated last week by Paul Eggert on the time zone mailing list. --ado

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FW: Update southamerica Timezone file
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 10, 2006

Oct. 10, 2006

This message is being forwarded to the time zone mailing list from Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca, who is not on the list. Those of you who are on the list should be sure to direct replies appropriately. (Luis: an updated version of the southamerica file is available within ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/tzdata2006n.tar.gz.) --ado -----Original Message----- From: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca [mailto:luizluca@tre-sc.gov.br] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:15 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Update southamerica Timezone file Hello, As happens every year, Brazil sets a new summer time dates. Here is a patch to correct the zoneinfo file for 2006 summer. Att, -- Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca luizluca(a)tre-sc.gov.br Ramal: 3165

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Update southamerica Timezone file
by Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca Oct. 10, 2006

Oct. 10, 2006

Hello, As happens every year, Brazil sets a new summer time dates. Here is a patch to correct the zoneinfo file for 2006 summer. Att, -- Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca luizluca(a)tre-sc.gov.br Ramal: 3165

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Canada (2007)
by Chris Walton Oct. 10, 2006

Oct. 10, 2006

I have been continuing to track Canadian Daylight Saving Legislation changes. Not much has changed since I posted a summary of new Legislation back in the summer. I have assembled a web page with links to goverment legislation which may (or may not) be useful to some. The web page also includes a list of time zone regions for each province and territory. http://www3.sympatico.ca/c.walton/canada_dst.html Paul E., please don't feel you have to stay awake all night reading it! ################################################################################# I received an e-mail from Tom Lysyk who is the Senior Director of Corporate Affairs for the City of Lloydminster. He stated in his e-mail: "The City of Lloydminster plans to follow Alberta Daylight Saving time. The principle and the practice is as set out in the 'Lloydminster Charter' and will be followed regardless of an amendment. It is very difficult to amend the Charter because it requires an Order-in-Council passed in both Legislatures and when it is not a priority to them, things do not progress very rapidly." ################################################################################# At this point in time I have no updates for the database. We are still waiting to hear from: -Province of Newfoundland & Labrador -Nunavut Territory -Province of Saskatchewan (for the small part of the province that uses DST) ################################################################################# -chris P.S. Many thanks to Paul for adding America/Atikokan and Ameria/Blanc_Sablon in 2006j!

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SERBIA, MONTENEGRO
by Jonas MG Oct. 8, 2006

Oct. 8, 2006

Hi, It have been removed the country name SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO from ISO 3166-1 due to the division of the country into two new countries. http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/03updates-on-iso-3166/nl… Greetings!

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proposed tz changes for Brazil, Jordan, Nicaragua, Serbia & Montenegro
by Paul Eggert Oct. 6, 2006

Oct. 6, 2006

Since we need an update ASAP for the current time stamps in Jordan, here are proposed changes to the tz database to bring us up to date with other changes. Thanks for everyone who contributed, and sorry I got a bit behind in my email! This change affects current time stamps: Jordan will switch to winter time on October 27, not September 29. (Thanks to Hilal Malawi and Steffen Thorsen.) This change affects only future time stamps: Brazil's DST this year is the first Sunday in November to the last Sunday in February. (Thanks to Frederico A. C. Neves.) This change affects only past time stamps: On Sunday Nicaragua switched at 01:00, not 00:00. (Thanks to Jesper Norgaard Welen.) This change affects other indexing data: Serbia has split into two, and now has ISO 3166 codes, so we need a new Zone Europe/Podgorica. (Thanks to Mark Davis.) This change affects only commentary: The CLDR project moved the Windows->Tzid table. --- iso3166.tab 2006/08/21 13:56:09 2006.11 +++ iso3166.tab 2006/10/06 19:42:52 2006.11.0.1 @@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ # # @(#)iso3166.tab 8.2 # -# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-24): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-09-27): # # This file contains a table with the following columns: # 1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, current as of -# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-11 (2006-03-29). See: +# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-12 (2006-09-26). See: # <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html"> # ISO 3166 Maintenance agency (ISO 3166/MA) # </a>. @@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ CM Cameroon CN China CO Colombia CR Costa Rica -CS Serbia and Montenegro CU Cuba CV Cape Verde CX Christmas Island @@ -159,6 +158,7 @@ LY Libya MA Morocco MC Monaco MD Moldova +ME Montenegro MG Madagascar MH Marshall Islands MK Macedonia @@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ PY Paraguay QA Qatar RE Reunion RO Romania +RS Serbia RU Russia RW Rwanda SA Saudi Arabia --- zone.tab 2006/08/21 17:50:24 2006.11 +++ zone.tab 2006/10/06 19:42:52 2006.11.0.1 @@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ CN +4348+08735 Asia/Urumqi most of Tibet CN +3929+07559 Asia/Kashgar west Tibet & Xinjiang CO +0436-07405 America/Bogota CR +0956-08405 America/Costa_Rica -CS +4450+02030 Europe/Belgrade CU +2308-08222 America/Havana CV +1455-02331 Atlantic/Cape_Verde CX -1025+10543 Indian/Christmas @@ -248,6 +247,7 @@ LY +3254+01311 Africa/Tripoli MA +3339-00735 Africa/Casablanca MC +4342+00723 Europe/Monaco MD +4700+02850 Europe/Chisinau +ME +4247+01928 Europe/Podgorica MG -1855+04731 Indian/Antananarivo MH +0709+17112 Pacific/Majuro most locations MH +0905+16720 Pacific/Kwajalein Kwajalein @@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ PY -2516-05740 America/Asuncion QA +2517+05132 Asia/Qatar RE -2052+05528 Indian/Reunion RO +4426+02606 Europe/Bucharest +RS +4450+02030 Europe/Belgrade RU +5443+02030 Europe/Kaliningrad Moscow-01 - Kaliningrad RU +5545+03735 Europe/Moscow Moscow+00 - west Russia RU +4844+04425 Europe/Volgograd Moscow+00 - Caspian Sea --- asia 2006/10/02 19:31:06 2006.13 +++ asia 2006/10/06 19:42:52 2006.13.0.1 @@ -953,6 +953,10 @@ Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 3 # For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year # about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year. # +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-10-01), after a heads-up from Hilal Malawi: +# http://www.petranews.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Sep/05/4000.htm +# "Jordan will switch to winter time on Friday, October 27". +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - @@ -979,7 +983,8 @@ Rule Jordan 1999 2002 - Sep lastThu 0:00 Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Jordan 2003 only - Oct 24 0:00s 0 - Rule Jordan 2004 only - Oct 15 0:00s 0 - -Rule Jordan 2005 max - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 - +Rule Jordan 2005 only - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 - +Rule Jordan 2006 max - Oct lastFri 0:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 2:00 Jordan EE%sT --- europe 2006/08/28 16:18:48 2006.11 +++ europe 2006/10/06 19:42:52 2006.11.0.1 @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 1:00 EU CE%sT # Bosnia and Herzegovina -# see Serbia and Montenegro +# see Serbia # Bulgaria # @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 2:00 EU EE%sT # Croatia -# see Serbia and Montenegro +# see Serbia # Cyprus # Please see the `asia' file for Asia/Nicosia. @@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 190 1:00 EU CE%sT # Macedonia -# see Serbia and Montenegro +# see Serbia # Malta # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -1570,6 +1570,9 @@ Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Ma 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 1:00 EU CE%sT +# Montenegro +# see Serbia + # Netherlands # Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940, @@ -2107,7 +2110,7 @@ Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 11:00 Russia ANA%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 12:00 Russia ANA%sT -# Serbia and Montenegro +# Serbia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 @@ -2119,6 +2122,7 @@ Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 1:00 EU CE%sT Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana # Slovenia +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Podgorica # Montenegro Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo # Bosnia and Herzegovina Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje # Macedonia Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia @@ -2127,7 +2131,7 @@ Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Cro Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava # Slovenia -# see Serbia and Montenegro +# see Serbia # Spain # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S --- northamerica 2006/08/28 16:18:49 2006.11 +++ northamerica 2006/10/06 19:42:52 2006.11.0.1 @@ -2383,12 +2383,19 @@ Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1 # advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the # morning, and will stay that way until 30.th. of september. # +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-09-30): +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-… +# My informal translation runs: +# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the +# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Nic 2005 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S +Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? --- southamerica 2006/10/02 19:31:06 2006.13 +++ southamerica 2006/10/06 19:42:52 2006.13.0.1 @@ -428,11 +428,7 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from # <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html"> # Decretos sobre o Horario de Verao no Brasil -# </a> (2001-09-20, in Portuguese). -# The official site for all decrees, including those not related to time, is -# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/principal_ano.htm"> -# Presidencia da Republica, Subchefia para Assuntos Juridicos, Decretos -# </a> (in Portuguese). +# </a>. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm">20,466</a> (1931-10-01) @@ -548,7 +544,7 @@ Rule Brazil 2000 only - Feb 27 0:00 0 - # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3916.gif">3,916</a> # (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. Rule Brazil 2000 2001 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Brazil 2001 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - +Rule Brazil 2001 2006 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - # Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm"></a> Rule Brazil 2002 only - Nov 3 0:00 1:00 S @@ -560,10 +556,14 @@ Rule Brazil 2003 only - Oct 19 0:00 1:0 Rule Brazil 2004 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5539.gif">5,539</a> (2005-09-19), # adopted by the same states as before. -Rule Brazil 2005 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Brazil 2005 only - Oct 16 0:00 1:00 S +# Decree <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2006/Decreto/D5920.htm">5,920</a> +# (2006-10-03), adopted by the same states as before. +Rule Brazil 2006 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Brazil 2007 max - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 - # The latest ruleset listed above says that the following states observe DST: # DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP. -# For dates after mid-2006, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses +# For dates after mid-2007, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. --- tz-link.htm 2006/08/28 16:18:49 2006.11 +++ tz-link.htm 2006/10/06 19:42:52 2006.11.0.1 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-ASCII"'> <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul"> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David"> -<meta name="DC.Date" content="2006-08-22"> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2006-10-06"> <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"> @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ gives current time zone rules for airpor <li>Some Microsoft Windows versions contain time zone information in an undocumented format, with IDs that can be mapped to <code>TZ</code> values using the <a -href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/supplemental/supplemental.html#windows___…">Windows +href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/supplemental/windows_tzid.html">Windows → Tzid table</a> maintained by the <abbr title="Common Locale Data Repository">CLDR</abbr> data mentioned below.</li>

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