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Kazakhstan, 1991-2005; Russia and RussiaAsia, 1992
by Stepan Golosunov March 27, 2016

March 27, 2016

Hi! While searching for the text of the 1988 act "about a change in calculation of time on the territories of Volgograd and Saratov oblasts" I ran into a similarly titled document from 1992 Kazakhstan. Review of the linked documents from http://adilet.zan.kz/ produced the following data for post-1991 Kazakhstan: 0. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR from 04.02.1991 N 20 http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102010545 removed the extra hour ("decree time") on the territory of the USSR starting with the last Sunday of March 1991. It also allowed (but not mandated) Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR and Uzbek SSR to not have "summer" time. The 13.01.1992 act also refers to the act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR from 20.03.1991 N 170 "About the act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR from 04.02.1991 N 20" but I didn't found its text. According to Izvestia newspaper № 68 (23334) from 1991-03-20 (page 6; available at http://libinfo.org/newsr/newsr2574.djvu via http://libinfo.org/index.php?id=58564) on 1991-03-31 at 2:00 during transition to "summer" time: Republic of Georgia, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, SSR Moldova, Estonian SSR; Komi ASSR; Kaliningrad oblast; Nenets autonomous okrug were to move clocks 1 hour forward. Kazakh SSR (excluding Uralsk oblast); Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Tajik SSR; Andijan, Jizzakh, Namangan, Sirdarya, Tashkent, Fergana oblasts of the Uzbek SSR were to move clocks 1 hour backwards. Other territories were to not move clocks. When the "summer" time would end on 1991-09-29, clocks were to be moved 1 hour backwards on the territory of the USSR excluding Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenia, Tajikistan. Apparently there were last minute changes. Apparently Kazakh act N 170 was one of such changes. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0… claims that Sovetskaya Rossiya newspaper on 1991-03-29 published that Nenets autonomous okrug, Komi and Kazakhstan (excluding Uralsk oblast) were to not move clocks and Uralsk oblast was to move clocks forward; on 1991-09-29 Kazakhstan was to move clocks backwards. (Probably there were changes even after that publication. There is an article claiming that Kaliningrad oblast decided on 1991-03-29 to not move clocks.) This implies that on 1991-03-31 Asia/Oral remained on +04/+05 while the rest of Kazakhstan switched from +06/+07 to +05/06 or from +05/06 to +04/+05. It's unclear how Kzyl-Orda oblast moved into the fifth time belt. (By switching from +04/+05 to +05/+06 on 1991-09-29?) Currently tzdata says that all Kazakh zones remained on +04, +05 or +06 during the whole 1991 year. This is inconsistent (except for Asia/Qyzylorda) with the 1992 documents. 1. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 13.01.1992 N 28 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P920000028_ (text includes modification from the 1996 act) introduced new rules for calculation of time, mirroring Russian 08.01.1992 act. It specified that time would be calculated according to time belts plus extra hour ("decree time"), moved clocks on the whole territory of Kazakhstan 1 hour forward on 1992-01-19 at 2:00, specified DST rules. It acknowledged that Kazakhstan was located in the fourth and the fifth time belts and specified the border between them to be located east of Kustanay and Aktyubinsk oblasts (notably including Turgai and Kzyl-Orda oblasts into the fifth time belt). This means switch on 1992-01-19 at 2:00 from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for Asia/Aqtau, Asia/Aqtobe, Asia/Oral, Atyrau and Kustanay oblasts; from +05/+06 to +06/+07 for Asia/Almaty and Asia/Qyzylorda (and Arkalyk). Currently tzdata contains only Asia/Qyzylorda change. 2. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 27.03.1992 N 284 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P920000284_ cancels extra hour ("decree time") for Uralsk and Kzyl-Orda oblasts since the last Sunday of March 1992, while keeping them in the fourth and the fifth time belts respectively. This means change from +05/+06 to +04/+05 for Asia/Oral and from +06/+07 to +05/+06 for Asia/Qyzylorda on 1992-03-29. 3. Order of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 23.09.1994 N 384 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/R940000384_ cancels the extra hour ("decree time") on the territory of Mangystau oblast since the last Sunday of September 1994 (saying that time on the territory would correspond to the third time belt as a result). This means change from +05/+06 to +04/+05 for Asia/Aqtau. Current tzdata guesses the change was done in 1995: # Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time # IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 4. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 08.05.1996 N 575 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P960000575_ amends the 13.01.1992 act to end summer time in October instead of September, mirroring identical Russian change from 23.04.1996 act. 5. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 26.03.1999 N 305 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P990000305_ cancels the extra hour ("decree time") for Atyrau oblast since the last Sunday of March 1999 while retaining the oblast in the fourth time belt. This means change from +05/+06 to +04/+05. There is no zone for Atyrau currently (listed under Asia/Aqtau in zone1970.tab). 6. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 23.11.2000 N 1749 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/archive/docs/P000001749_/23.11.2000 replaces the previous five documents. The only changes I noticed are in definition of the border between the fourth and the fifth time belts. They account for changes in spelling and administrative division (splitting of Turgai oblast in 1997 probably changed time in territories incorporated into Kostanay oblast (including Arkalyk) from +06/+07 to +05/+06) and move Kyzylorda oblast from being in the fifth time belt and not using decree time into the fourth time belt (no change in practice). 7. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 29.12.2003 N 1342 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P030001342_ modified the 23.11.2000 act. No relevant changes, apparently. 8. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 20.07.2004 N 775 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/archive/docs/P040000775_/20.07.2004 modified the 23.11.2000 act to move Kostanay and Kyzylorda oblasts into the fifth time belt and add Aktobe oblast to the list of regions not using extra hour ("decree time"), leaving Kazakhstan with only 2 time zones (+04/+05 and +06/+07). The changes were to be implemented during DST transitions in 2004 and 2005 but the acts got radically amended before implementation happened. 9. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 15.09.2004 N 1059 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P040001059_ modified the 23.11.2000 act to remove exceptions from the "decree time" (leaving Kazakhstan in +05/+06 and +06/+07 zones), amended the 20.07.2004 act to implement changes for Atyrau, West Kazakhstan, Kostanay, Kyzylorda and Mangystau oblasts by not moving clocks during the 2014 transition to "winter" time. This means transition from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for Atyrau oblast (no zone currently), Asia/Oral, Asia/Aqtau and transition from +05/+06 to +06/+07 for Kostanay oblast (Kostanay and Arkalyk, no zones currently) and Asia/Qyzylorda on 2004-10-31 at 3:00. Currently tzdata has some of these transitions on 2015-03-15. 10. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 15.03.2005 N 231 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P050000231_ removes DST provisions from the 23.11.2000 act, removes most of the (already implemented) provisions from the 20.07.2004 and 15.09.2004 acts, comes into effect 10 days after official publication. The only practical effect seems to be the abolition of the summer time. Current tzdata says the change was on 2005-03-15 but the act was not supposed to come into effect until at least 10 days later. It would be simpler to use the 2004-10-31 date. Unamended version of the act of the Government of the Russian Federation N 23 from 08.01.1992 http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102014034&rdk=0 says that every year clocks were to be moved forward on last Sunday of March at 2 hours and moved backwards on last Sunday of September at 3 hours. It was amended in 1996 to replace September with October. Kazakh 13.01.1992 act appears to provide the same rules and 27.03.1992 act was to be enacted on the last Sunday of March 1992. Is there any reason why tzdata contains exception for 1992? Rule Russia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S Rule Russia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - (Hmm. Was the source for the 1992 transitions providing data for Moscow in UTC?)

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efele.net/tz maps: new map for Mexico
by Eric Muller March 26, 2016

March 26, 2016

I have created a new efele.net/tz map, for Mexico. It uses the recent description of the TZ zones in terms of municipalities. I have not yet folded that map in the world map, that will be for the next round of updates. Eric.

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[PATCH] * northamerica: Correct citation dates in previous change
by Paul Eggert March 26, 2016

March 26, 2016

--- northamerica | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index d18443f..1d7395c 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -2483,7 +2483,7 @@ Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 # in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, # Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros. # See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal, -# 2016-03-02 +# 2016-03-12 # http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-hor… Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 -6:00 - CST 1988 @@ -2508,7 +2508,7 @@ Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 # Chihuahua (near US border) # This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe, # Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides. -# (See the 2016-03-02 El Universal source mentioned above.) +# (See the 2016-03-12 El Universal source mentioned above.) Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 -- 2.5.0

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[PATCH] Give boundaries for Mexican zones observing US DST
by Paul Eggert March 26, 2016

March 26, 2016

* northamerica (America/Matamoros, America/Ojinaga): Document their political boundaries, citing El Universal. --- northamerica | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index 68d29bf..d18443f 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -2476,6 +2476,15 @@ Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 -6:00 Mexico C%sT # Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) +# This includes the following municipalities: +# in Coahuila: Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava, +# Guerrero, Hidalgo. +# in Nuevo León: Anáhuac, Los Aldama. +# in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, +# Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros. +# See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal, +# 2016-03-02 +# http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-hor… Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 -6:00 - CST 1988 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 @@ -2497,6 +2506,9 @@ Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 -6:00 Mexico C%sT # Chihuahua (near US border) +# This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe, +# Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides. +# (See the 2016-03-02 El Universal source mentioned above.) Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 -- 2.5.0

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Turkey DST Starts in 2016
by Soner Gönül March 24, 2016

March 24, 2016

I *might *be missing if this issue was discussed before in here but Turkish government officially announced in 16.03.2016 (with 2016/8589 Law/Decision Number) that clock changes have been published in the official gazette (T.C. Resmi Gazete); - In 27 March 2016 at 03:00, the clock forwards one hour (04:00) - In 30 October 2016 at 04:00, the clock goes back one hour (03:00) http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2016/03/20160316.htm http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2016/03/20160316-6.pdf As far as I can see, in Github, the last clock changes seems as; 2:00 1:00 EEST 2015 Nov 8 1:00u for Turkey in link below. https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/9bb85160e985bf8dc447584e18625e6e5f3b69f7/… -- Soner Gönül http://sonergonul.net http://twitter.com/sonergonul

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Due to the Government`s decision daylight saving time adjustment will not be in Azerbaijan - Java
by Anar Qocayev March 24, 2016

March 24, 2016

Dear IANA Due to the Government`s decision daylight saving time adjustment will not be in Azerbaijan. So we need Java(JDK) system in Yapi Kredi Azerbaijan not to adjust the time automatically. Could you please work on it ?. If it takes to pass to the private patch and our support during process we are ready to work parallel. Because of limited time we need your urgent help. It looks like this decision was just made last week, March 17th which is two days after the latest tzdata file has been released by the TimeZone Standards body ICANN/IANA. http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/94137.html http://en.trend.az/azerbaijan/society/2508394.html http://www.contact.az/docs/2016/Social/031700150154en.htm#.VvGf_kZQ0Xg Investigating this decision about Azerbaijan DST decision. I have read the release notes for the latest timezone database release from ( ICANN/ANA 2016b release, March 15th) and it does not mention Azerbaijan http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/ You referance: https://www.iana.org/time-zones Anar Godjaev System & infrastructure Department DataBase Admin [ykb] Tel: + 994 12 497 77 95/ext 8609 www.yapikredi.com.az<http://www.yapikredi.com.az/> TƏLƏBNAMƏ Bu e-mail (elektron poçtu) və ona aid bütün komponentlər (əlavələr və s.) məxfidir və birbaşa ünvanlandığı şəxs üçün nəzərdə tutulmuşdur. Əgər siz bu e-maili yanlışlıqla almısınızsa xahiş edirik cavab göndərərərk bu barədə məlumat verəsiniz və anında serverinizdən siləsiniz. Əgər siz bu emailin unvanlandığı şəxs deyilsinizsə, kopyalamayası, çap və ya hər hansı bir digər şəkildə istifadə edilməsi və\və ya açıqlanması qəti şəkildə qadağan edilir. DISCLAMIER This email and all components (attachments, etc.) are confidential and intended solely for use of the whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail message in error, reply and inform about the situation and immediately delete from your server. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, distribution or other use of this e-mail message or attachments is strictly prohibited.

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[tz-announce] 2016c release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

The 2016c release of the tz code and data is available. Its most urgent change is for Asia/Baku, where the update takes effect this weekend. This release reflects the following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes: Changes affecting future time stamps Azerbaijan no longer observes DST. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) Chile reverts from permanent to seasonal DST. (Thanks to Juan Correa for the heads-up, and to Tim Parenti for corrections.) Guess that future transitions are August's and May's second Saturdays at 24:00 mainland time. Also, call the period from 2014-09-07 through 2016-05-14 daylight saving time instead of standard time, as that seems more appropriate now. Changes affecting past time stamps Europe/Kaliningrad and Europe/Vilnius changed from +03/+04 to +02/+03 on 1989-03-26, not 1991-03-31. Europe/Volgograd changed from +04/+05 to +03/+04 on 1988-03-27, not 1989-03-26. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.) Changes to commentary Several updates and URLs for historical and proposed Russian changes. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov, Matt Johnson, and Alexander Krivenyshev.) Here are links to the release files: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016c.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016c.tar.gz The files are also available via HTTP as follows: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2016c.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016c.tar.gz As usual, links to the latest release files are here: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzcode-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdata-latest.tar.gz Each release file has a GPG signature, which can be retrieved by appending ".asc" to the above URLs. Copies of these signatures are appended to this message. This release corresponds to commit 1284afb4bdc70f97f265ac2f49188217778413ef dated Wed Mar 23 00:51:27 2016 -0700 and tagged '2016c' in the experimental github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. Here are the SHA-512 checksums for the release files: 813309b46e4214cbe7d22b9951bad15536f5d394d2f651b60ae66c14dd8c232d51991ad80f7f02c324f896e680c7efb0321a9e4799c96735f1a82e258a87dff7 tzcode2016c.tar.gz 03eab77c8b3176da1dd17d1d9062b151036b01d224f1e4b60f34a2db6899150431f34f4d9f39652648aae3a55326fd6f85d6deefe3f27b36eaed9ef39ed3f53c tzdata2016c.tar.gz Here are the GPG checksums for the release files: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJW8kvPAAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40jpMQAJEISYMBgL9Vcx3U1IuTo5mI dBs0XW6cjgzefG3DdWK95VILUUXDEhtZGOkwdbEZVuH4uv0CApwtoW24w6X0w/qm y4xZZYpvzClrySVszcJFMgRQC4MeOxQ0KUmSLRMzV3TKSI01AmewZblftxC3FSAK GrOD2Z86ObGf9pbpcOBycFyhyy4QNd65SxiOZ70uhgZejoNE6T7zb/KHto6PzjD4 CzAhn8w1bqeglTM4zrfiEmSDGEZM+3OgLNHgmTvOQcYwB3fxdvQasSioyCb9axfj MJYNm2oBslanWwPXjwssBQeSPyLN8tYHcICsn7Qu+4iVCvMJBlrzXhBNla7Dmxdk Bl02fXKivnQ3S3s7/K7RZyMV87DthPDY9NQtUrKCkg1unBn7vbJ2e+kKe13qzFmi z7LAgKoJII34PoLhBrEF0M643DMTT0xEA3jbFSOIUoI5LawjlC57M8FhOgVD7dbA bxzgOMyYzUwhJLOk5pFzkMmifVhwcbUCSl52kBI8H+TBkR9g11gb1PQ4PF2f9H2R YcJaYP5kNzoPU8a2lStfxVLqx3iwJ9i5FwpVnMQxinySFvLAnrZ7YBYqJjYdYsn4 LV//V12VctwvF84VtaX3iK53Z79rLYM2Zz2x4AVjfSaAtF4ZDPC/ZauZIhqSLked rkdqvg2CgR2jn1qVhS3E =ohkH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJW8kvPAAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40RNkQALaqvu+Htes5GqYguOlXTjHK SEuSiAX/8NytW2xq0d640AODLoMp0hdj5fbyWn+b7kwwOH22w/83l1aYLrVwDihA JCDzHk2Z+/ryBVNzBDYq09O070m2z3LHl4hJknbReMBWem6Ar5El4kJAxO7xVZik MS9LCNHoMQ1v1inWpU1A0LY9uFcDAMiFl4JCS/Z9RkJYmjP4fBZlviz26BrIW1vz q1YdG9jSLuiJUVxVRftrDrHcmBFdy1jssW5KAof3eQpynZ61O9LAYR1py+nKydox UsQe+QNXybQXLNnk9l5nO9yNHp1y9zbzoz3LKgnqhXuyayA74qkHQEPywW0F3Q1F wkjqBsHP9bS6mdA1LTwDMLmC+l4x/7gyRttRzeEdhV0KPktMW2xCKC9EWEyzYBny zeQ80WGKHYf6j9Gmnw1HnRAi99NZKBg00Zu5bgdireYctqFA53fNLz48ib8SC/WY 4eBXNypmv80VHjOie/VJIXgdwuiEhl8T2mf/WTiSjY0NRmhuMB6QP9OGsS+48Qhz LWlaNa9qRRIJlV0PquzPRE03WTVdEocp0XIKCrhRebYQNhB4GhlDc2iz8SqufetA 5Pfr2ws/oLAxPqa/bkLo60JJLtBds9B8loZ6FjfKj6q/2YdbOen9eOiIAbF5Zl/r hd53qVMRzG0VTWf3VYr9 =jrsu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tz-announce mailing list tz-announce(a)iana.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz-announce

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DST reestablished in Chile
by Mauricio Ubilla March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Dear Paul Eggert, IANA community. The chilean government recently reestablished DST for Chile, for a period of 3 months, "from the second saturday of May to the second saturday of August. This change is starting this year, in May 14th. Here's the official link to the decree law 253 published on March 16th, stating this change: http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1088502 I would like to know if this has been previously informed (I just joined the mailing list) and if is scheduled to be fixed in the next update to the TZ Database. Thanks in advance. -- Mauricio Ubilla Carvajal

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Re: [tz] 404 for tz-how-to.html at IANA
by Kim Davies March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Hi there, On 3/22/16, 2:54 PM, "Matt Johnson" <mj1856(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >tz-link.html has a link to tz-how-to-html. However, when viewed on iana.org, the link gives a 404. > >http://www.iana.org/time-zones > >points at: >http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html > >points at: >http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-how-to.html This should now be fixed. Thanks for the report! kim

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Morocco Ramadan 2016
by Matt Johnson March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

We are currently guessing DST will be suspended in Morocco from Sunday June 5th at 03:00 to Sunday July 10th at 02:00. Does anyone have any confirmation on this yet? Thanks, Matt

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[PATCH] Update Kirov and Tomsk commented-out old data
by Paul Eggert March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

* europe (Europe/Kirov, Asia/Tomsk): Adjust early parts of these commented-out entries to match Shanks. --- europe | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/europe b/europe index 0187263..456c8dc 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -2580,12 +2580,9 @@ Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 # The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). # # Europe/Kirov is still in draft form and for now is commented out. -# Its pre-2002 data were cloned from Europe/Volgograd and need to -# be updated for Kirov. # -#Zone Europe/Kirov 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 +#Zone Europe/Kirov 3:18:48 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 # 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 -# 4:00 - +04 1961 Nov 11 # 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1989 Mar 26 2:00s # 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s # 4:00 - +04 1992 Mar 29 2:00s @@ -2738,9 +2735,7 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 # 70 RU-TOM Tomsk Oblast # # Asia/Tomsk is still in draft form and for now is commented out. -# Its pre-1993 data were cloned from Asia/Novosibirsk and need to be -# updated for Tomsk. Also, Tomsk may be changing time zones this year -# (not decided yet). +# Tomsk may be changing time zones in 2016 (not decided yet). # From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): # Tomsk is still 4 hours ahead of Moscow. @@ -2755,7 +2750,7 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 # with time zones in 2011 with different numberings (there was a # 2-hour gap between second and third zones in 2011-2014). -#Zone Asia/Tomsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 +#Zone Asia/Tomsk 5:39:52 - LMT 1919 Dec 22 # 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 # 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1991 Mar 31 2:00s # 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1992 Jan 19 2:00s -- 2.5.0

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Azerbaijan timezone settings
by Chingiz Sadigov March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Hello, I would like to inform you that starting from 17 March this year Azerbaijan decided not use daylight saving settings for our timezone Asia/Baku. Link for news: http://e-qanun.az/framework/32383 Is it possible to update information on your site according this? Regards, [Email Signatures_etcp-02] [cid:image002.jpg@01D18514.526B2A10] [Ericsson]<http://www.ericsson.com/> CHINGIZ SADIGOV Senior Services Engineer BAZ - Ericsson AB Branch Office Azerbaijan Ericsson 44, J.Jabbarly str. AZ1065, Azerbaijan Phone +994125963838 Mobile +994502210861 Office 863217 chingiz.sadigov(a)ericsson.com www.ericsson.com [http://www.ericsson.com/current_campaign]<http://www.ericsson.com/current_campaign> Legal entity: BAZ - Ericsson AB Branch Office Azerbaijan, registered office in Baku. This Communication is Confidential. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer<http://www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer>

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Daylight Saving time will not be applied in Azerbaijan
by Burak AYDIN March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Dear Sir, Daylight saving time is cancelled in Azerbaijan. Here is the related information published from government: http://azertag.az/xeber/936300 Normally DST will be active on 27th of March 2016. I have updated the "asia" file as displayed below. # Azerbaijan # From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23): # According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997 # From Paul Eggert (2015-09-17): It was Resolution No. 21 (1997-03-17). # http://code.az/files/daylight_res.pdf # From Burak AYDIN, Kentkart A.S. (2016-03-23) # According to law change http://azertag.az/xeber/936300 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan Time 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 2016 4:00 - AZT The file is also attached. I will appreciate if you can check and publish new version of tz database. Best Regards, Burak AYDIN --- GIZLILIK NOTU: Bu e-posta mesaji kisiye özel olup, gizli bilgiler içeriyor olabilir. Eger bu e-posta mesaji size yanlislikla ulasmissa, içerigini hiç bir sekilde kullanmayiniz ve ekli dosyalari açmayiniz. Bu durumda lütfen e-posta mesajini kullaniciya hemen geri gönderiniz ve tüm kopyalarini mesaj kutunuzdan siliniz. Bu e-posta mesaji, hiç bir sekilde, herhangi bir amaç için çogaltilamaz, yayinlanamaz ve para karsiligi satilamaz. Bu e-posta mesajindaki görüsler yalnizca gönderen kisiye aittir ve Kentkart Sirketler Grubunun görüslerini yansitmayabilir. Bu e-posta mesaji virüslere karsi anti-virüs sistemleri tarafindan taranmistir. Ancak Kentkart Sirketler Grubu, bu e-posta mesajinin -virüs koruma sistemleri ile kontrol ediliyor olsa bile- virüs içermedigini garanti etmez ve meydana gelebilecek zararlardan dogacak hiç bir sorumlulugu kabul etmez. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed , and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or you receive this mail by mistake, you should refrain from making any use of the contents and from opening any attachment. In that case, please notify the sender immediately and return the message to the sender, then, delete and destroy all copies. This e-mail message, cannot be copied, published or sold for any reason. Any opinions presented in this email are solely those of the sender and may not necessarily reflect those of Kentkart Group of Companies. This e-mail message has been scanned by anti-virus systems for the presence of computer viruses. In doing so, however, Kentkart Group of Companies does not warrant that virus or other forms of data corruption and do not take any responsibility in any occurrence. ---

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Reference to EWT
by Dave Cantor March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Here's a photo of a Maui newspaper announcing the end of WWII at 7 pm Eastern War Time. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good enough picture to get the article detail, but I'll try again next I'm where this picture hangs. Dave C. The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any other MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer. If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance. ---- File information ----------- File: WWIIends7pmEWT.jpg Date: 22 Mar 2016, 18:00 Size: 6144 bytes. Type: JPEG-image

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404 for tz-how-to.html at IANA
by Matt Johnson March 22, 2016

March 22, 2016

tz-link.html has a link to tz-how-to-html. However, when viewed on iana.org, the link gives a 404. http://www.iana.org/time-zones points at: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html points at: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-how-to.html 404

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tzdata2016c
by Patsy Franklin March 21, 2016

March 21, 2016

Hi Paul, Any ETA for this update? Thanks! Patsy

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efele.net/tz maps updated for TZ 2016b
by Eric Muller March 21, 2016

March 21, 2016

I have updated the efele.net/tz maps (http://efele.net/maps/tz) to TZ 2016b. Eric

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Chile goes back to DST (...)
by Juan Correa March 18, 2016

March 18, 2016

Today the Chilean Ministry of Energy announced that they will go back to a DST scheme this year. That means clocks will go back 1 hour at 0:00 May 15th (jumping back to May 14th); and will go forward by 1 hour on 0:00, August 14th. This was decided after a public outcry during winter, when the sunrise for Santiago went as late as 8:45 AM Some media outlets carrying the news (in Spanish): - http://www.soychile.cl/Santiago/Sociedad/2016/03/13/380779/Vuelve-el- horario-de-invierno-a-partir-de-la-segunda-semana-de-mayo.aspx - http://www.biobiochile.cl/2016/03/13/gobierno-retrocede-y-decreta-el- regreso-del-horario-de-invierno.shtml - http://www.t13.cl/noticia/nacional/chile-volvera-implementar-horario- invierno There is no official decree yet; or confirmation whether this decision will be only for 2016, or will be carried from now on (or until the next goverment :P) -- Juan Correa Poblete PS Labs (http://www.pslabs.cl)

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Discrepancies in European part of Russia (and nearby)
by Stepan Golosunov March 18, 2016

March 18, 2016

Hi, I compared Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Ulyanovsk and https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8F_%D0%B2_%D0%A0%… , noticed some discrepancies and decided to look a bit closer. 1. Europe/Astrakhan, 1961 transition. That one appears to be void and looks like an artifact of Stalingrad -> Volgograd renaming. 2. Europe/Samara, KUYT in 1991. Europe/Samara currently has KUYT between 1991-09-29 and 1991-10-20. But the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR about renaming Kuybyshev to Samara is dated 1991-01-25: http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102010448 I also wanted to check the date of the 1991-10-20 transition but did not found any sources. 3. Europe/Chisinau, 1990 transitions. While googling for Soviet era documents for Russian zones I found the act of the government of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 132 from 04.05.1990 http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=2&id=298782 It says that since 1990-05-06 on the territory of the Moldavian SSR time would be calculated as the standard time of the second time belt plus one hour of the "summer" time. To implement that clocks would be adjusted one hour backwards at 1990-05-06 2:00. After that "summer" time would be cancelled last Sunday of September at 3:00 and reintroduced last Sunday of March at 2:00. I believe that means UTC+0400 -> UTC+0300 transition at 1990-05-06 02:00 and that UTC+0300 -> UTC+0200 transition on 1990-09-30 was expected, while current Europe/Chisinau says UTC+0300 -> UTC+0200 at 1990-05-06 00:00 and no transitions on 1990-03-25 and 1990-09-30. 4. Asia/Barnaul, 1995. Letter of Bank of Russia from 25.05.1995 http://www.bestpravo.ru/rossijskoje/lj-akty/y3a.htm suggests that Altai Republic transitioned to Moscow+3 on 1995-05-28. Currently Asia/Barnaul guesses it was on Moscow+3 since 1992-01-19. http://regnum.ru/news/society/1957270.html has some historical data for Altai Krai: before 1957: west part on UTC+6, east on UTC+7 after 1957: UTC+7 since 1995: UTC+6 http://barnaul.rusplt.ru/index/pochemu_altajskij_kraj_okazalsja_v_neprivych… confirms that and provides more details including 1995-05-28 transition date. 5. Tomsk, 2002. http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102075743 transitions Tomsk to the time of the fifth time belt at 2002-05-01 03:00. Tomsk currently is listed under Asia/Novosibirsk with transition to Moscow+3 on 1993-05-23. 6. Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Volgograd, 1991-1992 UTC+0400. Wikipedia provides different guess for these dates but explicitly says it's a guess. Are there any sources? 7. 1988 and 1989 changes. Wikipedia and other sources refer to the Act of the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 04.01.1988 No. 5 and the Act of the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 14.03.1989 No. 227 I did not found full texts of these acts. For the 1989 one we have title at http://base.garant.ru/70754136/ : "About change in calculation of time on the territories of Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR and Estonian SSR, Astrakhan, Kaliningrad, Kirov, Kuybyshev, Ulyanovsk and Uralsk oblasts". And http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt appears to contain quotes from both acts: Since last Sunday of March 1988 rules of the second time belt are installed in Volgograd and Saratov oblasts. Since last Sunday of March 1989: a) Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, Estonian SSR, Kaliningrad oblast: second time belt rules without extra hour (Moscow-1); b) Astrakhan, Kirov, Kuybyshev, Ulyanovsk oblasts: second time belt rules (Moscow time) c) Uralsk oblast: third time belt rules (Moscow+1). Currently Europe/Riga, Europe/Tallinn, Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Samara, Europe/Ulyanovsk and Asia/Oral agree with the acts; Europe/Volgograd, Europe/Vilnius and Europe/Kaliningrad disagree. The 1989 act is mentioned in the comments for Latvia. 8. Europe/Kaliningrad, 1989-1992. Contemporary article reproduced at http://www.rgo.ru/ru/kaliningradskoe-oblastnoe-otdelenie/ob-otdelenii/publi… confirms that the 1989 change to Moscow-1 was implemented. (The article, though, is misattributed to 1990 while saying that summer->winter transition would be done on the 24 of September. But 1990-09-24 was Monday, while 1989-09-24 was Sunday as expected.) 2014 article at http://www.kaliningradka.ru/site_pc/cherez/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=40091 says that Kaliningrad switched to Moscow-1 on 1989-03-26, avoided at the last moment switch to Moscow-1 on 1991-03-31, switched to Moscow on 1991-11-03, switched to Moscow-1 on 1992-01-19. Europe/Kaliningrad currently disagrees with this between 1989-03-26 and 1991-11-03. 9. Europe/Vilnius, 1989. Lithuania most probably did switch to Moscow-1 on 1989-03-26 but this is not reflected in Europe/Vilnius. 10. Europe/Volgograd, 1988-1989. Volgograd and Saratov supposedly switched to Moscow time on 1998-03-27. Kirov supposedly switched on 1989-03-26. Europe/Volgograd currently says switch happend on 1989-03-26. 11. Regions-violators, 1981-1982. Wikipedia refers to http://maps.monetonos.ru/maps/raznoe/Old_Maps/Old_Maps/Articles/022/3_1981.… and http://besp.narod.ru/nauka_1981_3.htm . The second link provides two articles scanned from the Nauka i Zhizn magazine No. 3, 1981 and a scan of the short article attributed to the Trud newspaper from Feburary 1982. The first link provides the same Nauka i Zhizn articles converted to the text form (but misses time belt changes map). The second Nauka i Zhizn article says that in addition to introduction of summer time on 1981-04-01 there are some time belt border changes on 1981-10-01, mostly affecting Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Yakutia, Magadan Oblast and Chukotka according to the provided map (colored one). In addition to that "time violators" (regions which were not using rules of the time belts in which they were located) would not be moving off the DST on 1981-10-01 to restore the decree time usage. (Komi ASSR was supposed to repeat that move in October 1982 to account for the 2 hour difference.) Map depicting "time violators" before 1981-10-01 is also provided. The article from Trud says that 1981-10-01 changes caused problems and some territories would be moved to pre-1981-10-01 time by not moving to summer time on 1982-04-01. Namely: Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkar, Kalmyk, Komi, Mari, Mordovian, North Ossetian, Tatar, Chechen-Ingush and Chuvash ASSR, Krasnodar and Stavropol krais, Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Vologda, Voronezh, Gorky, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Lipetsk, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov, Tyumen and Yaroslavl oblasts, Nenets and Evenk autonomous okrugs, Khatangsky district of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug. As a result Evenk Autonomous Okrug and Khatangsky district of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug would end up on Moscow+4, Tyumen Oblast on Moscow+2 and the rest on Moscow time. http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt attributes the 1982 changes to the Act of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 126 from 18.02.1982. 1980-925.txt also adds Udmurtia to the list of affected territories and lists Khatangsky district separately from Taymyr Autonomous Okurg. Probably erroneously. The affected territories are currently listed under Europe/Moscow, Asia/Yekaterinburg and Asia/Krasnoyarsk. 12. Udmurtia The fact that Udmurtia is depicted as a violator in the Nauka i Zhizn article hints at Izhevsk being on different time from Kuybyshev before 1981-10-01. Udmurtia is not mentioned in the 1989 act. http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt implies Udmurtia was on Moscow time after 1982-04-01. Wikipedia implies Udmurtia being on Moscow+1 until 1991.

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[tz-announce] 2016b release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert March 17, 2016

March 17, 2016

The 2016b release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects the following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes. A last-minute note: some 2016b data entries cause zic implementations derived from tz releases 2005j through 2015e to issue warnings like "time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+03)". These warnings should not otherwise affect zic's output and can safely be ignored on today's platforms, as the warnings refer to a restriction in POSIX.1-1988 that was removed in POSIX.1-2001. One way to suppress the warnings is to upgrade to zic derived from tz releases 2015f and later. Changes affecting future time stamps New zones Europe/Astrakhan and Europe/Ulyanovsk for Astrakhan and Ulyanovsk Oblasts, Russia, both of which will switch from +03 to +04 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00 local time. They need distinct zones since their post-1970 histories disagree. New zone Asia/Barnaul for Altai Krai and Altai Republic, Russia, which will switch from +06 to +07 on the same date and local time. Also, Asia/Sakhalin moves from +10 to +11 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00. (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev for the heads-up, and to Matt Johnson and Stepan Golosunov for followup.) As a trial of a new system that needs less information to be made up, the new zones use numeric time zone abbreviations like "+04" instead of invented abbreviations like "ASTT". Haiti will not observe DST in 2016. (Thanks to Jean Antoine via Steffen Thorsen.) Palestine's spring-forward transition on 2016-03-26 is at 01:00, not 00:00. (Thanks to Hannah Kreitem.) Guess future transitions will be March's last Saturday at 01:00, not March's last Friday at 24:00. Changes affecting past time stamps Europe/Chisinau observed DST during 1990, and switched from +04 to +03 at 1990-05-06 02:00, instead of switching from +03 to +02. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.) 1991 abbreviations in Europe/Samara should be SAMT/SAMST, not KUYT/KUYST. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.) Changes to code tzselect's diagnostics and checking, and checktab.awk's checking, have been improved. (Thanks to J William Piggott.) tzcode now builds under MinGW. (Thanks to Ian Abbott and Esben Haabendal.) tzselect now tests Julian-date TZ settings more accurately. (Thanks to J William Piggott.) Changes to commentary Comments in zone tables have been improved. (Thanks to J William Piggott.) tzselect again limits its menu comments so that menus fit on a 24x80 alphanumeric display. A new web page tz-how-to.html. (Thanks to Bill Seymour.) In the Theory file, the description of possible time zone abbreviations in tzdata has been cleaned up, as the old description was unclear and inconsistent. (Thanks to Alain Mouette for reporting the problem.) Here are links to the release files: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016b.tar.gz The files are also available via HTTP as follows: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2016b.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016b.tar.gz As usual, links to the latest release files are here: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzcode-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdata-latest.tar.gz Each release file has a GPG signature, which can be retrieved by appending ".asc" to the above URLs. Copies of these signatures are appended to this message. This release corresponds to commit 70161f48bc212678c58490f7faabc286c90b2a05 dated Sat Mar 12 17:30:14 2016 -0800 and tagged '2016b' in the experimental github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. 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Azerbaijan cancels DST
by Steffen Thorsen March 17, 2016

March 17, 2016

According to several news sources, the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers has cancelled switching to daylight saving time. This seems to be valid immediately. http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/94137.html http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/Azerbaijani-Cabinet-of-Ministers-cancels-day… http://en.apa.az/xeber_azerbaijan_abolishes_daylight_savings_ti_240862.html Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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Building tzcode on Windows / MinGW
by Matt Johnson March 16, 2016

March 16, 2016

With the recent contributions to tzcode, I understand that building under MinGW should now be possible. However, I've gone through all the docs I could find on various ways to set up an environment for this, and despite my best efforts and several hours of frustration, I could not get a successful build. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could either respond with a quick "how to", or post a blog or something explaining the minimal setup needed to make this work. Which distribution do I download (MinGW, MinGW-w64), what environment do I need (cygwin, msys, bare windows), what minimal toolchain or cygwin packages, or msys packages, etc do I need? Do I need "Win-builds" (win-build.org)? Also, is compiling under Visual Studio possible? At the end of the day, I want a zic.exe that I can run against a specific set of tzdata source files, and a zdump.exe I can run on the binary output of zic. I'd like to be able to run both on Windows without having to have anything special on the machine at runtime. Thanks, Matt

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Re: [tz] Status in the Carribean
by Steve Jones March 15, 2016

March 15, 2016

>At 09:18 AM 3/15/2016, Paul_Koning(a)Dell.com wrote: >>A limitation of that format is that it doesn't show that DST rules >>vary from one country to another, so while there is a whole stripe >>of EST/EDT, the transition may not occur all at once across that whole stripe. Paul: Yes, that is a significant limitation. On the exceptions page (http://ontimezone.com/exceptions.php#dst) it says "...most North American locations follow DST (not necessarily on the same schedule)." Then it lists the exceptions. I haven't found a simple, intuitive way to present that data on the map. I've tried, and it just seems to further obfuscate an already confusing topic. Within the limited scope of OnTimeZone.com (http://ontimezone.com/images/na.gif) all DST observance is on the same schedule with the sole exception of that portion of Mexico outside the states of Sonora and Quintana Roo (which do not observe DST) and the poorly defined areas near the US border (20km + various specific locales), which observe DST on the US schedule. Steve Jones OnTimeZone.com

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Re: [tz] Status in the Carribean
by Steve Jones March 15, 2016

March 15, 2016

At 06:20 PM 3/14/2016, Clinton Roy wrote: >(404's for me :) Argh! Apologies, and thanks for the heads-up. It's working now: http://OnTimeZone.com/images/caribbean.gif Steve Jones OnTimeZone.com

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2016b is on GitHub
by Paul Eggert March 15, 2016

March 15, 2016

Given the urgency of the Haiti rule change in a few hours, I've prepared a new tz version 2016b. It is available at <https://github.com/eggert/tz> as commit 70161f48bc212678c58490f7faabc286c90b2a05. Although this is intended to be the next release, published as usual, it can take a bit of time to turn the crank so I thought I'd give the mailing list a heads-up. 2016b does not incorporate all changes recently circulated. Notably it's missing historical changes for Russia contributed by Stepan Golosunov, which I haven't had time to proofread carefully. I'd like to get all this stuff fixed soon, although we may have to wait until the spring silly season is over.

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