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IERS Message No. 44: Journees 2003 - First Circular.
by central_bureau＠iers.org April 30, 2003

April 30, 2003

************************************************************************ IERS Message No. 44 April 30, 2003 ************************************************************************ Dear Colleagues, Please find attached the first circular and the registration form for Journees 2003 "Astrometry, Geodynamics and Solar System Dynamics: from milliarcseconds to microarcseconds" to be held in the Institute of Applied Astronomy, St.Petersburg, Russia on Sep 22-25, 2003. The file is in Word format. If you have any problem with reading this file, please contact LOC for assistance. You can also find the first announcement and registration form at the IAA web-site http://www.ipa.nw.ru/conference/2003. Best regards, LOC of Journees 2003 ************************************************************************ IERS Messages are edited and distributed by the IERS Central Bureau. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please write to <central_bureau(a)iers.org>. Archives: http://www.iers.org/iers/publications/messages/ ************************************************************************

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IERS Message No. 43: Informations on the IERS Retreat 2003
by central_bureau＠iers.org April 28, 2003

April 28, 2003

************************************************************************ IERS Message No. 43 April 28, 2003 ************************************************************************ Dear Colleagues, An IERS Retreat has been organized in Paris on March 31 / April 1, 2003. The Retreat was convened to determine the future direction of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) focusing on the improvement of the consistency and accuracy of its products. The minutes of the IERS Retreat 2003 are now online at http://www.iers.org/iers/meetings/IERS-Retreat-2003/ and can be downloaded as PDF file. The minutes include 4 annexes that are available as PDF files, too. With best regards Bernd Richter Director, IERS Central Bureau ************************************************************************ IERS Messages are edited and distributed by the IERS Central Bureau. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please write to <central_bureau(a)iers.org>. Archives: http://www.iers.org/iers/publications/messages/ ************************************************************************

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FW: 1960 Texas daylight saving time?
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) April 26, 2003

April 26, 2003

Lisa Borel is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. The time zone database indicates that Houston, Texas (along with the bulk of the Central time zone) DID observe DST in 1960. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Lisa Borel [mailto:lisa.borel@earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 8:27 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: 1960 Texas daylight saving time? Hi, Can anyone tell me whether Daylight saving time was observed in Houston, Texas in 1960? (please reply directly, as I am not a list member) Thanks, Lisa

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1960 Texas daylight saving time?
by Lisa Borel April 24, 2003

April 24, 2003

Hi, Can anyone tell me whether Daylight saving time was observed in Houston, Texas in 1960? (please reply directly, as I am not a list member) Thanks, Lisa

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TZCODE
by David Hoerl April 11, 2003

April 11, 2003

Hi - where is the latest TZCODE archived? I cannot ftp into elsie (well, I can get in, but I cannot see any files in /pub). David Hoerl, Director of Hardware Raritan Computers Inc

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Can't read tz Database
by Wade Selvig April 10, 2003

April 10, 2003

I have tried to access the tz database via annymous hockup using Cute FTP, but I am unable to connect. Specifically, I get a "cannot resolve host name" error. What am I doing wrong? Please reply Wade Selvig Shaunavon, SK, Canada.

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Washington Post DST coverage
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) April 3, 2003

April 3, 2003

The 2003-04-02 Washington Post's "KidsPost" page (C15) features the story "Well, It's About Time: With Daylight Saving, You Gain an Hour of Fun in the Sun." Franklin's place, the reason for non-year-round DST, and the reason it's "Daylight Saving" rather than "Daylight Savings" are all covered. A pointer to www.time.gov is provided. --ado

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RE: list headers, and filtering rules
by Dave Stewart March 26, 2003

March 26, 2003

I have a lot of "Rules" which all work fine, except for the TZ one, as I too was searching on Recipient info, which doesn't always work. >From the info in replies I have kindly been sent, and after further checking, it looks like the following criteria are the only ones that work all the time : Message Header contains "X-Mailing-List: <tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov>" OR Message Header contains "X-Loop: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov" Thanks to all those who helped. Best Rgds, Dave Stewart Database Information Manager IT Systems Teletext Ltd. t: +44 (0) 20 8323 5707 f: +44 (0) 870 191 2159 e: Dave(a)teletext.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Bugel [mailto:chris@tti-telecom.com <mailto:chris@tti-telecom.com> ] Sent: 24 March 2003 15:50 To: Hal Mueller Cc: Dave Stewart; tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: list headers, and filtering rules > You can filter the TZ list quite nicely by using the "Resent-From" > header or the presence of tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov as a recipient. No > reason to pollute the subject line. Indeed. Or otherwise look for the X-Mailing-List header: X-Mailing-List: <tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov> See also http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s3-18 <http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s3-18> IMPORTANT NOTICE This communication contains information, which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Teletext Ltd. Teletext Ltd. Building 10 Chiswick Park 566 Chiswick High Road London W4 5TS Registered in England number 2694814 _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp

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FW: Lithuania will use DST
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) March 25, 2003

March 25, 2003

Gediminas Girgzdys is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. The new ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2003a.tar.gz file already reflects Lithuanian DST. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Gediminas Girgzdys [mailto:g.girgzdys@omnitel.net] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 6:04 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Lithuania will use DST Hi, Lithuania (Europe/Vilnius) will use DST from 2003. http://www.tourism.lt/informa/ff.htm Regards, Gediminas

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tzcode2003a.tar.gz and tzdata2003a.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) March 24, 2003

March 24, 2003

The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2003a.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2003a.tar.gz are now available. In addition to the changes circulated on the time zone mailing list by Paul Eggert, there are a few additions and modifications to the tz-art.htm file. --ado

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RE: tzcode2003a.tar.gz and tzdata2003a.tar.gz
by Dave Stewart March 24, 2003

March 24, 2003

Is it possible to change the List config so that a "label" is put at the beginning of the Subject, e.g. "[TZ]", so that it is easier to sort and apply Email Processing Rules, etc. ? I imagine other people would find that useful as well ? - Feedback ? Best Rgds, Dave Stewart Dave Stewart Database Information Manager IT Systems Teletext Ltd. -----Original Message----- From: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov <mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> ] Sent: 24 March 2003 14:40 To: List Time Zone (E-mail) Subject: tzcode2003a.tar.gz and tzdata2003a.tar.gz The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2003a.tar.gz <ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2003a.tar.gz> and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2003a.tar.gz <ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2003a.tar.gz> are now available. In addition to the changes circulated on the time zone mailing list by Paul Eggert, there are a few additions and modifications to the tz-art.htm file. --ado IMPORTANT NOTICE This communication contains information, which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Teletext Ltd. Teletext Ltd. Building 10 Chiswick Park 566 Chiswick High Road London W4 5TS Registered in England number 2694814 _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp

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Lithuania will use DST
by Gediminas Girgzdys March 24, 2003

March 24, 2003

Hi, Lithuania (Europe/Vilnius) will use DST from 2003. http://www.tourism.lt/informa/ff.htm Regards, Gediminas

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Daylight Savings Time in Israel (2003-2004)
by Ephraim Silverberg March 23, 2003

March 23, 2003

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Rives McDow wrote: > Do you have any additional information about the daylight savings > changes in Israel for 2003? Minister of Interior Poraz has announced that he will respect the law passed in July 2000 (proposed at the time jointly by himself and then-MK David Azulai [Shas]) fixing the dates for 2000-2004. Hence, the dates for 2003 and 2004 remain unchanged: Year Start End ---- ----- --- 2003 Mar. 28 Oct. 3 2004 Apr. 7 Sep. 22 Where the start/end takes place at 1 AM old time (i.e. 1 a.m. IST => 2 a.m. IDT and 1 a.m. IDT => midnight IST). Timezone files for Israel can be found at: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/ As far as 2005 and beyond, no dates have been set. However, the minister has mentioned that he wishes to propose to move Israel's timezone in 2005 from GMT+2 to GMT+3 and upon that have DST during the summer months (i.e. GMT+4). However, no legislation in this direction is expected until the latter part of 2004 which is a long time off in terms of Israeli politics. ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-6757244 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim(a)cse.huji.ac.il

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local_time2UTC and UTC2local_time on win
by Dariusz Krzyszkowski March 19, 2003

March 19, 2003

Hi, Could you tell me how can I use tz database? How to use this database to write (using C#) two methods which convert local time to UTC and vice versa (there are a lot od different rules). Thanx Darek

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No DST in Pakistan
by Steffen Thorsen March 17, 2003

March 17, 2003

According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm there will be no DST in Pakistan this year: > ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh > Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous > decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by > one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy. > > The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather shown > 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity. Regards, Steffen -- Steffen Thorsen <steffen(a)thorsen.priv.no> <steffent(a)pvv.ntnu.no> http://www.thorsen.priv.no

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Iran daylight saving time correction
by Roozbeh Pournader March 16, 2003

March 16, 2003

Iran's daylight saving time is one day off. This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian). The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16] No. 16760/T233 H 1370/6/10 [1991-09-01] The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14], based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13] of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs, and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that: The official time of the country will should move forward one hour at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of Shahrivar. First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This affects all the tz data starting from 1992. >From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed for at least the last 5 years. Before that, for a few years, the date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates. I'm searching for evidence of the exact dates of each year in the newspaper archives. But in the meanwhile, it'd be great to update the database with the attached patch. Iran will be in daylight saving in just a week, and current tz data is off one day. The new data is guaranteed to be correct from about 1998 until the end (2037). I have also changed the abbreivations to what is considered correct here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time. roozbeh

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proposed tz changes for Lithuania, Tonga, Pakistan, Rothera, etc.
by Paul Eggert March 14, 2003

March 14, 2003

Spring is coming, so it must be time for a tz update. The patch enclosed below proposes the following changes. Lithuania is perhaps the most urgent case, as it changes its DST rules in a couple of weeks or so. Changes in the tz data proper: * Lithuania (Europe/Riga) will observe EU-style daylight-saving in 2003. Thanks to Klaus Marten for forwarding this info. * Tonga (Pacific/Tongatapu) stopped observing DST in January 2002. Thanks to Pulu 'Anau for this info. * Pakistan (Asia/Karachi) ends DST at the end of the first Saturday in October, not on October 15. Also, add 1 minute to the transition times, so they actually occur at 00:01 the next day. Thanks to Rives McDow for this info. * A new zone Antarctica/Rothera for Rothera Station, Antarctica. * Use the BEV for historical daylight-saving transitions for Europe/Vienna, applying the following corrections: Change 1918-06-16 to 1918-09-16. Change 1945-11-18 to 1945-04-12. Add transitions 1980-04-06 00:00 and 1980-09-28 00:00. Thanks to Janko Stamenovic for pointing out the BEV. * The PTB has come round to Shanks's opinions about double-daylight saving time for Europe/Berlin in 1945, so switch to Shanks. This changes the transition times from 05-31 03:00 to 05-24 02:00 and from 09-23 03:00 to 09-24 03:00. Thanks to Joerg Schilling for prompting me to look into this. * For Arizona/Phoenix, correct the date of the 1944 transition from 03-17 to 04-01. This correction comes from the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. * The New Zealand Dept of Internal Affairs says that standard time was introduced in New Zealand on 1868-11-02; change to this date from Shanks's presumably-vaguer 1868-01-01. Changes in the auxiliary tables: * Yugoslavia has changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro. This does not affect the substance of the TZ tables, but it does change some commentary and a label in zone.tab. The ISO 3166 maintenance agency plans to determine a suitable country code, but this process has not been done yet, so we'll continue to use YU for the country code. Changes in commentary: * Thanks to Igor Karpov, a comment now records the official document number for daylight-saving in Ukraine. * Add a comment noting that our historic data for Chile disagrees with that of Chile's Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service, but we haven't had time to resolve the discrepancies. * Add more details in the comments about current US time zone boundaries. * It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout, who first reported the United States' transition from War Time to Peace Time on 1945-08-14. Changes in the tz-link.htm web page: * Put national histories of time zones in their own section. * Add URLs for Cygwin, RDF-based time zone representation, XCal, Sosigenes, Java, Python, Keim's new binary time zone file reader, Law's time zone concepts web page, and Google's index. * Remove URLs to obsolete web sites Timezone Converter (killed by changes to Perl), iCS (now Sun ONE). * Update URLs for IRIX, UnixWare. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/antarctica,v retrieving revision 2001.3 retrieving revision 2001.3.0.1 diff -pu -r2001.3 -r2001.3.0.1 --- antarctica 2001/06/05 17:48:22 2001.3 +++ antarctica 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2001.3.0.1 @@ -255,6 +255,13 @@ Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec # Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated # so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. # Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 +# +# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) +# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 +all year. # +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1 + -3:00 - ROTT # Rothera time # Uruguay - year round base # Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/asia,v retrieving revision 2002.4 retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1 diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1 --- asia 2002/10/15 16:59:28 2002.4 +++ asia 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1 @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 # bill have until July 24 to pass. # # (2002-07-25): -# Thanks go to Yitschak Goldberg from E&M for bringing this (Hebrew) article +# Thanks go to Yitschak Goldberg from E&M for bringing this (Hebrew) +article # to my attention: # # http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2019315,00.html @@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 # - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. # - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. # - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. -# +# # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # @@ -1154,9 +1154,13 @@ Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920 # and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the # transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02. +# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): +# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on +2002-10-05 # that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow +for now. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Apr Sun>=2 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Oct 15 0:00 0 - +Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S +Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/australasia,v retrieving revision 2002.4 retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1 diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1 --- australasia 2002/10/15 16:59:28 2002.4 +++ australasia 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1 @@ -297,6 +297,17 @@ Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 ############################################################################### # New Zealand +# +# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-23): +# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history; # +see tz-link.htm for the full reference. # +# Shanks gives 1868 for the introduction of standard time; go with the +# DIA's more-precise 1868-11-02. The DIA says that clocks were +# advanced by half an hour in 1941; go with Shanks's more-precise +# 1940-09-29 02:00. The DIA says that starting in 1933 DST began the +# first Sunday in September; go with Shanks's last Sunday starting in +# 1934. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # Shanks gives 1927 Nov 6 - 1928 Mar 4, 1928 Oct 14 - 1929 Mar 17, @@ -311,17 +322,17 @@ Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 # didn't change until 1945 Apr 30; go with Shanks. Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule NZ 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 HD -Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D -Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D -Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D -Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S +Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 +Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1940 Sep 29 2:00 12:00 NZ NZ%sT Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT @@ -399,8 +410,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 190 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - -Rule Tonga 2000 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Tonga 2001 max - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - +Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time @@ -739,21 +750,21 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. # From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): -# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the -# southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along with -# 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into the -# continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being -# Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the -# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they are -# located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and Western -# Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western -# Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The -# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so -# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the -# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South -# Australia and Western Australia. As it only affects about 10 people and -# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an -# impact as Broken Hill. However, as tourist visiting there or anyone +# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on +the # southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along +with # 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into +the # continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns +being # Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the +# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they +are # located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and +Western # Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time; +Western # Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours +apart. The # residents decided to forget about this nonsense of +changing the clock so # much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 +minutes from the # international date line, or right in the middle of +the time of South # Australia and Western Australia. As it only +affects about 10 people and # tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it +has never really made as big an # impact as Broken Hill. However, as +tourist visiting there or anyone # calling the local sheriff will attest, they do keep time in this way. # # From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): @@ -1263,6 +1274,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one # hour to 1:00am. +# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05): +# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. ############################################################################### =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/europe,v retrieving revision 2002.3 retrieving revision 2002.3.0.1 diff -pu -r2002.3 -r2002.3.0.1 --- europe 2002/04/04 16:55:19 2002.3 +++ europe 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.3.0.1 @@ -33,20 +33,20 @@ # I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. # Corrections are welcome! -# std dst -# LMT Local Mean Time -# -4:00 AST Atlantic -# -3:00 WGT WGST Western Greenland* -# -1:00 EGT EGST Eastern Greenland* -# 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 +# std dst 2dst +# LMT Local Mean Time +# -4:00 AST ADT Atlantic +# -3:00 WGT WGST Western Greenland* +# -1:00 EGT EGST Eastern Greenland* +# 0:00 GMT BST BDST Greenwich, British Summer +# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer +# 0:00 WET WEST WEMT Western Europe +# 0:19:32.13 AMT NST Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)* +# 0:20 NET NEST Netherlands (1937-1940)* +# 1:00 CET CEST CEMT Central Europe +# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)* +# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe +# 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow # # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain, # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). @@ -558,20 +558,30 @@ Zone Europe/Andorra 0:06:04 - LMT 1901 1:00 EU CE%sT # Austria + +# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-28): Shanks gives 1918-06-16 and +# 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and # +Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged" # +date of 1945-04-12 with no time. For the 1980-04-06 transition # +Shanks gives 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV, and guess 02:00 # +for 1945-04-12. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Austria 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Austria 1920 only - Sep 13 2:00s 0 - -Rule Austria 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S -Rule Austria 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 - Rule Austria 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Austria 1946 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule Austria 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Austria 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Jun 16 3:00 - 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00 - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1920 + 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00s + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Apr 12 2:00s + 1:00 - CET 1946 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1981 1:00 EU CE%sT @@ -654,7 +664,7 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 1:00 EU CE%sT # Bosnia and Herzegovina -# see Yugoslavia +# see Serbia and Montenegro # Bulgaria # @@ -681,7 +691,7 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 2:00 EU EE%sT # Croatia -# see Yugosloavia +# see Serbia and Montenegro # Czech Republic # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -750,7 +760,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 # introduced. # From Rives McDow (2001-11-01): -# +# # I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at # the time to clarify the situation in Thule. Unfortunately, I have # not heard back from them regarding my recent letter. [But I have @@ -991,25 +1001,29 @@ Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar # From Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> (1998-09-29): # The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische # Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916. -# -# <a href="http://www.ptb.de/english/org/4/43/432/lega.htm"> -# Realisation of Legal Time in Germany -# </a> +# [See tz-link.htm for the URL.] + +# From Joerg Schilling (2002-10-23): +# In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by <a # +href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/"> +# General [Nikolai] Bersarin</a>. + +# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08): +# <a +href="http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee85256623004…"> +# says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20. +# However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so +# this was equivalent to CEMT (GMT+3), not GMT+4. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Germany 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S -# Shanks says 05-24 2:00 to 09-24 3:00 for DDST; go with the PTB, who quotes -# the Archiv fuer publizist. Arbeit (Munzinger-Archiv) 652 (Zeitsystem) -# (1961-11-25), which gives dates only. Guess 3:00 transition times. -Rule Germany 1945 only - May 31 3:00 2:00 M # Midsummer -Rule Germany 1945 only - Sep 23 3:00 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1945 only - May 24 2:00 2:00 M # Midsummer +Rule Germany 1945 only - Sep 24 3:00 1:00 S Rule Germany 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 - Rule Germany 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Germany 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - Rule Germany 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule Germany 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S -# The PTB gives 3:00 CET and 3:00 CEST for the midsummer transition times; -# go with Shanks. Rule Germany 1947 only - May 11 2:00s 2:00 M Rule Germany 1947 only - Jun 29 3:00 1:00 S Rule Germany 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S @@ -1341,6 +1355,15 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun # Fact File, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism # </a> (2000-03-27): Local time is GMT+2 hours ..., no daylight saving. +# From a user via Klaus Marten (2003-02-07): +# As a candidate for membership of the European Union, Lithuania will # +observe Summer Time in 2003, changing its clocks at the times laid # +down in EU Directive 2000/84 of 19.I.01 (i.e. at the same times as its +# neighbour Latvia). The text of the Lithuanian government Order of # +7.XI.02 to this effect can be found at # +http://www.lrvk.lt/nut/11/n1749.htm + + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time @@ -1355,7 +1378,8 @@ Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u - 2:00 - EET + 2:00 - EET 2003 Jan 1 + 2:00 EU EE%sT # Luxembourg # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks. @@ -1393,7 +1417,7 @@ Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 190 1:00 EU CE%sT # Macedonia -# see Yugoslavia +# see Serbia and Montenegro # Malta # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -1979,11 +2003,27 @@ 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 +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 + 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s +# Metod Kozelj <metod.kozelj(a)rzs-hm.si> reports that the legal date of +# transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the +time. # Shanks doesn't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj. + 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana # Slovenia +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo # Bosnia and Herzegovina +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje # Macedonia +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia + # Slovakia Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava # Slovenia -# see Yugoslavia +# see Serbia and Montenegro # Spain # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -2191,6 +2231,15 @@ Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880 Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. # Ukraine +# +# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukranian Ministry of Justice, # +via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27): # BTW, I've found the official +document on this matter. It's goverment # regulations number 509, May +13, 1996. In my poor translation it says: # "Time in Ukraine is set to +second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday # of March at 3am the +time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of # October the time at +4am is changing to 3am" + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # Most of Ukraine since 1970 has been like Kiev. Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880 @@ -2249,22 +2298,6 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 188 3:00 - MSK 1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 EU EE%sT -# Yugoslavia -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 - 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s - 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s -# Metod Kozelj <metod.kozelj(a)rzs-hm.si> reports that the legal date of -# transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time. -# Shanks doesn't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj. - 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 - 1:00 EU CE%sT -Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana # Slovenia -Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo # Bosnia and Herzegovina -Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje # Macedonia -Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia - ############################################################################### # One source shows that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, and Greece observe DST from =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/iso3166.tab,v retrieving revision 2002.4 retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1 diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1 --- iso3166.tab 2002/10/15 17:12:42 2002.4 +++ iso3166.tab 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1 @@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ # # @(#)iso3166.tab 1.9 # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert(a)twinsun.com> (2002-05-28): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert(a)twinsun.com> (2003-02-04): # # 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-5 (2002-05-20). See: +# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-7 (2003-01-14). See: # <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html"> # ISO 3166 Maintenance agency (ISO 3166/MA) # </a>. @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ WF Wallis & Futuna WS Samoa (Western) YE Yemen YT Mayotte -YU Yugoslavia +YU Serbia and Montenegro ZA South Africa ZM Zambia ZW Zimbabwe =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/northamerica,v retrieving revision 2002.3 retrieving revision 2002.3.0.1 diff -pu -r2002.3 -r2002.3.0.1 --- northamerica 2002/04/04 16:55:20 2002.3 +++ northamerica 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.3.0.1 @@ -88,6 +88,23 @@ # of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in # London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. +# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. +From # Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los +Angeles Times: # # ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word +of Japan's surrender. # Any announcement from Asia would reach St. +John's New York newsroom on a # wire service teletype machine, which +had prescribed signals for major news. # Associated Press, for example, +would ring five bells before spewing out # typed copy of an important +story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental # importance." +# +# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open +# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell, +# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over. +# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms." +# +# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S @@ -189,10 +206,11 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 # US eastern time, represented by New York # Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, -# Georgia, far southeastern Indiana, eastern Kentucky, Maine, -# Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North -# Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern -# Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia +# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, and # +Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, # New +Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, # Pennsylvania, +Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, # Vermont, Virginia, +West Virginia # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D @@ -211,10 +229,11 @@ Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 188 # US central time, represented by Chicago # Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle, Illinois, western Indiana -# corners, Iowa, most of Kansas, western Kentucky, Louisiana, -# Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern Nebraska, eastern North -# Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, western Tennessee, most of -# Texas, Wisconsin +# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, # +Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western # +Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern # +Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, # +western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D @@ -357,12 +376,32 @@ Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 19 # Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. # Arizona mostly uses MST. + +# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20): +# +# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the # +<a href="http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm"> +# Daylight Saving Time web page (2002-01-23)</a> maintained by the # +Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. # Between +1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard # time, +but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military # +personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to # +observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix # +Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was # +the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of # +Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as # +mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona # +Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. # +# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. +# Go with the Arizona State Library instead. + Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 00:01 - -7:00 - MST 1944 Mar 17 00:01 + -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 00:01 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 00:01 -7:00 - MST 1967 - -7:00 US M%sT 1968 + -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21 -7:00 - MST # From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): # A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., @@ -522,7 +561,7 @@ Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky # <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&doc…"> # Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), page 50154-50158. # </a> -# +# Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 -6:00 - CST 1968 =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 2002.4 retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1 diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1 --- southamerica 2002/10/15 17:03:12 2002.4 +++ southamerica 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1 @@ -584,6 +584,10 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1 # 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. +# 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. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Chile 1918 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1919 only - Jul 2 0:00 0 - =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/tz-link.htm,v retrieving revision 2002.4 retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1 diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1 --- tz-link.htm 2002/10/15 16:59:28 2002.4 +++ tz-link.htm 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1 @@ -40,12 +40,13 @@ including <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>, <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>, +<a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>, <a href="http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/">DJGPP</a>, <a href="http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/">HP-UX</a>, -<a href="http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/irix.html">IRIX</a>, -<a href="http://www.caldera.com/products/openunix/">Open UNIX/UnixWare</a>, -<a href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a>, and -<a href="http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/">Tru64</a>.</p> +<a href="http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/irix/">IRIX</a>, +<a href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a>, +<a href="http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/">Tru64</a>, and +<a href="http://www.sco.com/products/unixware/">UnixWare</a>.</p> <p> Each location in the database represents a national region where all clocks keeping local time have agreed since 1970. @@ -97,10 +98,6 @@ Here are some recent links that may be o <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 throughout the world.</li> -<li><a href="http://sandbox.xerox.com/stewart/tzconvert.cgi">Timezone -Converter</a> is a similar interface, with source code -written in <a href="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</a>, using what Paul -Stewart calls the "20-line hack no one will let me forget".</li> <li>Fancier web interfaces, roughly in ascending order of complexity, include: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.hilink.com.au/times/">Local Times Around the @@ -111,29 +108,44 @@ World</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.holidayfestival.com/">The Worldwide Holiday & Festival Site</a> lists DST-related clock changes along with holidays.</li> -<li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock</a> +<li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock - +Time Zones</a> is a web interface to a time zone database derived from <code>tz</code>'s.</li> </ul> +<h2>Other time zone database formats</h2> +<ul> +<li>The <a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2445.txt"> +Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification +(iCalendar)</a> specification published by the <a +href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html">IETF +Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group (calsch)</a> covers time zone +data; see its VTIMEZONE calendar component.</li> <li>The <a +href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/"><samp>www-rdf-calendar</samp></a> +list discusses <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a>-based calendar +and group scheduling systems, and has a <a +href="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/#tzd">workspace on time zone +data</a> converted from <code>tz</code>. An earlier <a +href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo">schema</a> was sketched out by <a +href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim Berners-Lee</a>.</li> +<li><a +href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-calsch-many-xcal-02.txt">XCal</a> +is a draft <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a> document type +definition that corresponds to iCalendar. <a +href="http://www.panix.com/~gmcgath/sosigenes/">Sosigenes</a> is a <a +href="http://java.sun.com/">Java</a> package for reading XCal +calendars; it is distributed under the terms of the <a +href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/academic.php">Academic Free +License</a>.</li> +</ul> <h2>Other <code>tz</code> compilers</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~damon/icalendar/">Olson -> VTIMEZONE Converter</a> describes a program Vzic that -compiles <code>tz</code> source into VTIMEZONE text as specified by -the <a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/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 +compiles <code>tz</code> source into iCalendar format. 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 <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 -href="http://developer.iplanet.com/docs/wpapers/calendar/ietf.txt">another</a> -used by the <a -href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/calendar_srvr/home_calendar.html">Sun -ONE Calendar Server</a>.</li> </ul> <h2>Other <code>tz</code> binary file readers</h2> <ul> @@ -147,6 +159,10 @@ and is widely used in GNU/Linux systems. <li><a href="http://www.bmsi.com/java/#TZ">ZoneInfo.java</a> is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Java. It is freely available under the GNU LGPL.</li> +<li><a href="http://s.keim.free.fr/tz/doc.html">Python time zones</a> +is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in <a +href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>. It is freely available under +a BSD-style license.</li> </ul> <h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone conversion software</h2> <ul> @@ -154,13 +170,13 @@ It is freely available under the GNU LGP href="http://www1.tip.nl/~t876506/AboutTimeZonesHC.html">HyperCard time zones calculator</a> is a HyperCard stack.</li> <li><a -href="http://www.cimmyt.org/timezone/">Time Zone Converter</a> is a +href="http://www.cimmyt.org/timezone/">World Time Explorer</a> is a Microsoft Windows program.</li> </ul> <h2>Other time zone databases</h2> <ul> -<li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e">Astrodienst -- Atlas Query</a> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's +<li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e">Atlas +Query +- Astrodienst</a> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's excellent time zone history atlases published in both <a href="http://astrocom.com/software/pcatlas.php">computer</a> and <a href="http://astrocom.com/books/xrefa.php#SHANKS">book</a> form by <a @@ -178,8 +194,8 @@ for the <code>usno*</code> files in the <li><a href="http://www.airportcitycodes.com/aaa/">Airlines, Airplanes and Airports</a> lists current standard times for thousands of airports around the world. This seems to be derived from -the <a href="http://www.iata.org/sked/ssim.htm">Standard -Schedules Information Manual</a> of the +the <a href="http://www.iata.org/sked/publications/">Standard +Schedules Information Manual (SSIM)</a> of the the <a href="http://www.iata.org/">International Air Transport Association</a>, which gives current time zone rules for @@ -189,7 +205,7 @@ all the airports served by commercial av <ul> <li>The <a href="http://www.odci.gov/">United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)</a> publishes a <a -href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ref/pdf/802801.pdf">time +href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference_maps/pdf/ +time_zones.pdf">time zone map</a>; the <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world.html">Perry-Castañeda @@ -220,7 +236,7 @@ Zones of the United States</a> in the pu href="http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/features/timezones/">International Time Zones and Time Zone Data</a>.</li> </ul> -<h2>Daylight saving time concepts and history</h2> +<h2>Civil time concepts and history</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://physics.nist.gov/time">A Walk through Time</a> surveys the evolution of timekeeping.</li> @@ -235,13 +251,20 @@ The time zone map is out of date, howeve <li><a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm">A History of the International Date Line</a> tells the story of the most important time zone boundary.</li> -<li>A few countries have well-documented histories of legal time. +<li><a href="http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/tconcept.html">Basic Time +Zone Concepts</a> discusses terminological issues behind time +zones.</li> </ul> <h2>National histories of legal time</h2> <dl> <dt>Australia</dt> <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>Austria</dt> +<dd>The Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying publishes a table of +<a href="http://www.metrologie.at/pdf/sommerzeit.pdf" +hreflang="de">daylight saving time in Austria (in German)</a>.</dd> <dt>Belgium</dt> <dd>The Royal Observatory of Belgium maintains a table of <a href="http://www.astro.oma.be/GENERAL/INFO/nli001a.html" @@ -254,8 +277,12 @@ 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> +href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/time_services/daylight_savings_e. +html">Time +Zones and Daylight Saving Time</a>.</dd> +<dt>Chile</dt> +<dd>The Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service has a <a +href="http://www.shoa.cl/shoa/faqhoraoficial.htm" +hreflang="es">history of official time (in Spanish)</a>.</dd> <dt>Germany</dt> <dd>The National Institute for Science and Technology maintains the <a href="http://www.ptb.de/en/org/4/43/432/lega.htm">Realisation of @@ -273,6 +300,10 @@ hreflang="es">history of Mexican local t <dd><a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm" hreflang="nl">Legal time in the Netherlands (in Dutch)</a> covers the history of local time in the Netherlands from ancient times.</dd> +<dt>New Zealand</dt> +<dd>The Department of Internal Affairs maintains a brief history <a +href="http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Resource-material-I +nformation-We-Provide-About-Daylight-Saving">about +daylight saving</a>.</dd> <dt>United Kingdom</dt> <dd><a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/">History of @@ -281,8 +312,7 @@ with perhaps the best-documented history The National Physical Laboratory also maintains an <a href="http://www.npl.co.uk/time/summer_time_archive.html">archive of summer time dates</a>.</dd> -</dl></li> -</ul> +</dl> <h2>Precision timekeeping</h2> <ul> <li><a @@ -315,13 +345,14 @@ International Earth Rotation Service, th when leap seconds occur.</li> <li>The <a href="http://rom.usno.navy.mil/archives/leapsecs.html">Leap -Second Discussion List</a> covers <a -href="http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0BPW/11_10/57821998/p1/article.jhtml">McCarthy -and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a>. +Second Discussion List</a> covers McCarthy and Klepczynski's proposal +to discontinue leap seconds, published in <a +href="http://www.gpsworld.com/">GPS World</a> <strong>10</strong>, 11 +(1999-11), 50–57. 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 IAU -has plans to report on this proposal by 2003.</li> +has plans to report on this proposal in 2003.</li> </ul> <h2>Time notation</h2> <ul> @@ -358,10 +389,11 @@ maintainers.</li> </ul> <h2>Related indexes</h2> <ul> +<li><a href="tz-art.htm">Time and the Arts</a></li> <li><a href="http://dmoz.org/Reference/Time/">Open Directory - Reference: Time</a></li> -<li><a href="tz-art.htm">Time and the Arts</a></li> -<li><a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time/Time_Zones/">Yahoo! - Science:Measurements and Units:Time:Time Zones</a></li> +<li><a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Time/">Google +Directory - Reference > Time</a></li> <li><a +href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time/Time_Zones/">Yahoo! Science > Measurements and Units > Time > Time Zones</a></li> </ul> </body> </html> =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/zone.tab,v retrieving revision 2002.4 retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1 diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1 --- zone.tab 2002/10/15 17:00:59 2002.4 +++ zone.tab 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1 @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ AN +1211-06900 America/Curacao AO -0848+01314 Africa/Luanda AQ -7750+16636 Antarctica/McMurdo McMurdo Station, Ross Island AQ -9000+00000 Antarctica/South_Pole Amundsen-Scott Station, South Pole +AQ -6734-06808 Antarctica/Rothera Rothera Station, Adelaide Island AQ -6448-06406 Antarctica/Palmer Palmer Station, Anvers Island AQ -6736+06253 Antarctica/Mawson Mawson Station, Holme Bay AQ -6835+07758 Antarctica/Davis Davis Station, Vestfold Hills

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East Timor - Leste?
by Jesper Nørgaard March 9, 2003

March 9, 2003

I have noticed that some sources insist that there was a name change of East Timor to (the more portuguese correct) Timor Leste or Timor-Leste. Even official sources are not consistant in the naming, but I have noted that two important sources http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.htm and http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49chang.htm are consistently using Timor-Leste. I presume that this is also where the recent East Timor (or Timor-Leste) abbreviations TLS (ISO 3-letter country code) and TL (ISO 2-letter country code) are derived from. Should we make a name change? Regards, 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 (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 Download the free program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.cimmyt.org/timezone/index.htm

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FW: Error: end of DST Vienna 1918 is not in Jun
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) March 5, 2003

March 5, 2003

Janko Stamenovic is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Janko Stamenovic [mailto:janko@teletrader.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:17 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Error: end of DST Vienna 1918 is not in Jun In the file Europe, lines: > Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr > 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Jun 16 3:00 Should be: > Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr > 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Sep 16 3:00 source: http://www.metrologie.at/pdf/sommerzeit.pdf Regards, Janko

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RE: FW: Error: end of DST Vienna 1918 is not in Jun
by Janko Stamenovic March 3, 2003

March 3, 2003

As far as I understand, the text means the following (my German is not perfect): "1945 daylight saving ended without particular decree, because of the end of the war. That transaction was given by the entrance of the occupation forces and occurred therefore in different parts of the country on different times, for example in Vienna apparently on 2. April 1945." I though that maybe it can be understood that it doesn't mean only that the daylight saving ended then, but that the occupation forces brought "their time", which was different in different parts of the country, since there were different troops? That is, that every Army had its own time rules? The other problem is that borders between the Armies certainly changed through the time. On http://www.magwien.gv.at/english/history/vhisaf.htm we can find about Vienna: "The political context was no less complicated, the Allied Occupation Forces refusing to accept the Nazis' territorial expansion. The bottom line was that those districts which had existed until 1938 were divided into four Allied zones and the inner-city district was administered by all four powers, as the so-called "Inter-allied Zone". Districts 22 - 26, namely the 97 Lower Austrian communities which had been merged with Vienna in October 1938, were considered to form part of Lower Austria and, hence, came under Soviet control." Therefore I deliberately pointed only to error in 1918, since it seems too hard point to solve without more information. Btw, BEV is Austrian "Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying". http://www.bev.gv.at so I guess their "?" really means that it's difficult to set some reasonable time. But something has to be set. There's one more difference between their info and zoneinfo, since one transition happens by them on 1946-10-07 (Monday) although 1946-10-06 as it is in zoneinfo looks better since it's Sunday (like the previous April transition, although it appears that they really almost always moved the clocks on Mondays (I don't know why) before and during WWII). Best regards, Janko Stamenovic > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@twinsun.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 06:20 > To: Janko Stamenovic > Cc: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov > Subject: Re: FW: Error: end of DST Vienna 1918 is not in Jun > > > > From: Janko Stamenovic <janko(a)teletrader.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:17 AM > > > > http://www.metrologie.at/pdf/sommerzeit.pdf > > Thanks for the reference and for the correction. It also appears to > me that the current data are wrong for 1945 in Vienna, and for 1980 in > Austria. The BEV seems to be saying that in Vienna daylight-saving > was observed for only 10 days in 1945, allegedly. So I'll propose > something like the following patch to the "europe" file in my next > batch of changes, which is due soon. > > @@ -558,20 +558,30 @@ > 1:00 EU CE%sT > > # Austria > + > +# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-28): Shanks gives 1918-06-16 and # > +1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and # > +Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the alleged # > +date of 1945-04-12 with no time. For the 1980-04-06 transition # > +Shanks gives 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV, and > guess 02:00 > +# for 1945-04-12. > + > # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON > AT SAVE LETTER/S > Rule Austria 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00s > 1:00 S > Rule Austria 1920 only - Sep 13 2:00s > 0 - > -Rule Austria 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s > 1:00 S > -Rule Austria 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s > 0 - > Rule Austria 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s > 1:00 S > Rule Austria 1946 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s > 0 - > Rule Austria 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s > 1:00 S > Rule Austria 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s > 1:00 S > +Rule Austria 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 > 1:00 S > +Rule Austria 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 > 0 - > # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] > Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr > - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Jun 16 3:00 > - 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00 > - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 > + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1920 > + 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00s > + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s > + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Apr 12 2:00s > + 1:00 - CET 1946 > 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1981 > 1:00 EU CE%sT > >

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Europe/Vilnius zone change
by Paulius Bulotas Feb. 28, 2003

Feb. 28, 2003

Hello, from this years January 1st, Lithuania is using daylight saving. As information sources could be: http://www.tourism.lt/informa/ff.htm Local time is GMT+2 hours (e.g. Helsinki, Riga, Tallin), daylight saving from 2003 Spring. and in lithuanian: http://www3.lrs.lt/cgi-bin/preps2?Condition1=192813 Patch for europe file attached. Paulius Bulotas

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Error: end of DST Vienna 1918 is not in Jun
by Janko Stamenovic Feb. 26, 2003

Feb. 26, 2003

In the file Europe, lines: > Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr > 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Jun 16 3:00 Should be: > Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr > 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Sep 16 3:00 source: http://www.metrologie.at/pdf/sommerzeit.pdf Regards, Janko

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FW: Patch for zic(8)
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) Feb. 24, 2003

Feb. 24, 2003

Mike Heffner is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. Mike's fix is to a modified version of zic.c, so it doesn't apply to the version archived at elsie.nci.nih.gov; I'm sending it along for those of you who are using the modified version. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Mike Heffner [mailto:mheffner@vt.edu] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:26 PM To: wollman(a)freebsd.org; tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Patch for zic(8) Hi, The attached patch prevents 'zic -m foobar' from segfaulting and also fixes a memory leak. Can this be applied to FreeBSD's zic codebase or the vendor codebase? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Heffner <mheffner(a)[acm.]vt.edu> <mikeh(a)FreeBSD.org> Index: zic.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/zic/zic.c,v retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -r1.14 zic.c --- zic.c 18 Jul 2001 11:27:04 -0000 1.14 +++ zic.c 22 Feb 2003 18:24:41 -0000 @@ -500,7 +500,11 @@ case 'm': { void *set = setmode(optarg); + if (set == NULL) + errx(EXIT_FAILURE, +_("invalid file mode")); getmode(set, mflag); + free(set); break; } case 'p':

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Patch for zic(8)
by Mike Heffner Feb. 22, 2003

Feb. 22, 2003

Hi, The attached patch prevents 'zic -m foobar' from segfaulting and also fixes a memory leak. Can this be applied to FreeBSD's zic codebase or the vendor codebase? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Heffner <mheffner(a)[acm.]vt.edu> <mikeh(a)FreeBSD.org>

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FW: Tonga Daylight Savings Time ENDS...
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) Feb. 22, 2003

Feb. 22, 2003

Pulu 'Anau has been added to the time zone mailing list at Pulu's request. This message arrived before Pulu's addition to the list. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Pulu 'Anau [mailto:pulu@infotech.afe.to] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:43 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Tonga Daylight Savings Time ENDS... Hi, I'm a system administrator in a country that thinks it's funny to constantly play around with the time. To keep the story short, Tonga decided to create daylight savings time to get a jump on everyone for the new millenium. The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. Unfortunately, a good number of the systems I maintain (Debian Linux and OpenBSD) would like to believe the government here is reasonable and doesn't play around with stuff like this. Ha! Anyway, when they implemented daylight savings it took me a few hours to find the zone files and recompile them, and I don't think the changes were officially reflected (at least in Debian) for about a year. I don't really know where else to report this, but considering the vast amount of history that's already available in the data files, I hope this mailing list will work. I've modified the australasia file from the data file as below. I'm not a zic expert so I hope it's appropriate. It fixed the issue here, anyway. Also, in the compiled file that was pre-existing on this system (Debian 3.0), the file for Tongatapu had a bunch of junk in it, basically a help file for vi and some other binary data after the zoneinfo... I don't know if it's a debian thing or not, I'm not near the openbsd machines to take a look at them... Just FYI... If this file is going to explode on me at some later date, I'd really appreciate if someone could write back and let me know. Some of my customers rely on this information to do some dialup internet/mail stuff, and explaining they ought to complain to the government doesn't work because most of them are the government. Pulu as a diff from the file australasia in the tzdata2002d.tar.gz (Oct 15): 402,403c402,404 < Rule Tonga 2000 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S < Rule Tonga 2001 max - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - ---> Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S > Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 -> 408c409,410 < 13:00 Tonga TO%sT --- > 13:00 Tonga TO%sT 2003 > 13:00 - TOT # Daylight savings > expirament fails The appropriate section before: # Tonga # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/ SRule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - Rule Tonga 2000 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2001 max - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time 13:00 - TOT 1999 13:00 Tonga TO%sT And after: # Tonga # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/ SRule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time 13:00 - TOT 1999 13:00 Tonga TO%sT 2003 13:00 - TOT # Daylight savings expirament fails ---- Pulu 'Anau Infotech Tonga Ph: 676-27399

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