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Time-zone file requirement for DST change in Turkey
by Deepak Gupta C Sept. 19, 2016

Sept. 19, 2016

Hi Team, There is a requirement from Government of Turkey to disable the DST in Turkey for 2016 i.e. the current time-zone EEST (GMT+3) should not be changed to EET(GMT+2) after 30th Oct 2016. We need the updated Time-Zone file for the same. Kindly support us to share the updated Time-Zone file. Please let us know in case of any more information required for the same. Regards Deepak Gupta Specialist - Customer Support RMEA T1C Mob: +919582111838

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Uruguay considering DST again
by Carlos M. Martinez Sept. 13, 2016

Sept. 13, 2016

Link in Spanish: [http://www.elobservador.com.uy/evaluan-si-adelantan-la-hora-partir-octubre-…] Last year the Uruguayan Government decided at quite the last minute to *cancel* DST, causing the expected general havoc mostly on mobile phones. tks! -Carlos

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[PROPOSED PATCH] Simplify strftime to pacify GCC 6.2
by Paul Eggert Sept. 12, 2016

Sept. 12, 2016

* strftime.c (strftime): Remove unnecessary checks against NULL that provoke diagnostics from 'gcc -Wnonnull-compare'. --- strftime.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/strftime.c b/strftime.c index f75f9fd..151b2e9 100644 --- a/strftime.c +++ b/strftime.c @@ -137,14 +137,11 @@ strftime(char *s, size_t maxsize, const char *format, const struct tm *t) tzset(); warn = IN_NONE; - p = _fmt(((format == NULL) ? "%c" : format), t, s, s + maxsize, &warn); + p = _fmt(format, t, s, s + maxsize, &warn); #ifndef NO_RUN_TIME_WARNINGS_ABOUT_YEAR_2000_PROBLEMS_THANK_YOU if (warn != IN_NONE && getenv(YEAR_2000_NAME) != NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "\n"); - if (format == NULL) - fprintf(stderr, "NULL strftime format "); - else fprintf(stderr, "strftime format \"%s\" ", - format); + fprintf(stderr, "strftime format \"%s\" ", format); fprintf(stderr, "yields only two digits of years in "); if (warn == IN_SOME) fprintf(stderr, "some locales"); -- 2.7.4

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[PROPOSED PATCH] Update HTML documentation
by Paul Eggert Sept. 9, 2016

Sept. 9, 2016

* NEWS: Mention this. * tz-art.htm: Reorder sections to make the order more logical. Use list style for TV episodes and books. * tz-link.htm: Update description of local time on Mars to match current practice. Remove obsolete URLs and update URLs that moved. --- NEWS | 4 +- tz-art.htm | 388 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- tz-link.htm | 92 +++++--------- 3 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 272 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 64233bf..7d994c5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes tz-link.htm mentions JuliaTime (thanks to Curtis Vogt) and Time4J (thanks to Meno Hochschild) and ThreeTen-Extra, and its description of Java 8 has been brought up to date (thanks to - Stephen Colebourne). + Stephen Colebourne). Its description of local time on Mars has + been updated to match current practice, and URLs have been updated + and some obsolete ones removed. Release 2016f - 2016-07-05 16:26:51 +0200 diff --git a/tz-art.htm b/tz-art.htm index 08ef562..0a2b427 100644 --- a/tz-art.htm +++ b/tz-art.htm @@ -24,6 +24,184 @@ into problems that programmers have with timekeeping.</li> Bell Science extravaganza, with Frank Baxter, Richard Deacon, and Les Tremayne. (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154110/">IMDb entry</a>.)</li> </ul> +<h2>Movies</h2> +<ul> +<li> +In the 1946 movie <em>A Matter of Life and Death</em> +(U.S. title <em>Stairway to Heaven</em>) +there is a reference to British Double Summer Time. +The time does not play a large part in the plot; +it's just a passing reference to the time when one of the +characters was supposed to have died (but didn't). +The IMDb page is at +<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/"> +http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/ +</a>. (Dave Cantor) +<li> +The 1953 railway comedy movie <em>The Titfield Thunderbolt</em> includes a +play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants +him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?" +And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time." +IMDb page: +<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/"> +http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/ +</a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) +</li> +<li> +The premise of the 1999 caper movie <em>Entrapment</em> involves computers +in an international banking network being shut down briefly at +midnight in each time zone to avoid any problems at the transition +from the year 1999 to 2000 in that zone. (Hmmmm.) If this shutdown +is extended by 10 seconds, it will create a one-time opportunity for +a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the +crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to +the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the +last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 × 60 = 10.) +IMDb page: +<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/"> +http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/ +</a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) +</li> +<li> +One mustn't forget the +<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo">trailer</a> +(2014; 2:23) for the movie <em>Daylight Saving</em>. +</li> +</ul> +<h2>TV episodes</h2> +<ul> +<li> +An episode of <em>The Adventures of Superman</em> entitled "The Mysterious +Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers +of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time; +doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to +emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. +</li> +<li> +The 1960s ITC television series <em>The Prisoner</em> included an episode +entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to +the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big +Ben" chiming on Polish local time. +</li> +<li> +The series <em>Seinfeld</em> included an episode entitled "The Susie," first +broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time +isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour. +</li> +<li> +The "20 Hours in America" episode of <em>The West Wing</em>, +first aired 2002-09-25, contained a <a +href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc">scene</a> that +saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to +catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes. +</li> +<li> +"In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on +the 1999-11-13 United States airing of <em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?</em>, +and "In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time +zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of +the same show. At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone +question should have been asked 2002-06-04. +</li> +<li> +A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois' +premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episode of <em>Medium</em> +(originally aired 2007-02-28). +</li> +<li> +In the <em>30 Rock</em> episode "Anna Howard Shaw Day" +(first broadcast 2010-02-11), +Jack Donaghy's date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call +received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times. +</li> +<li> +In the "Run by the Monkeys" episode of <em>Da Vinci's Inquest</em> +(first broadcast 2002-11-17), +a witness in a five-year-old fire case realizes they may not have set +their clock back when daylight saving ended on the day of the fire, +introducing the possibility of an hour when arson might have occurred. +</li> +<li> +In "The Todd Couple" episode of <em>Outsourced</em> (first aired 2011-02-10), +Manmeet sets up Valentine's Day teledates for 6:00 and 9:00pm; +since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan, +hilarity ensues. +(Never mind that this should be 7:30am in Mumbai, yet for some reason the show +proceeds as though it's also mid-evening there.) +</li> +<li> +In the "14 Days to Go"/"T Minus..." episode of +<em>You, Me and the Apocalypse</em> +(first aired 2015-11-11 in the UK, 2016-03-10 in the US), +the success of a mission to deal with a comet +hinges on whether or not Russia observes daylight saving time. +(In the US, the episode first aired in the week before the switch to DST.) +</li> +<li> +"The Lost Hour", <em>Eerie, Indiana</em>, episode 10, NBC, 1991-12-01. +Despite Indiana's then-lack of DST, Marshall changes his clock with +unusual consequences. +</li> +<li> +"Time Tunnel", <em>The Adventures of Pete & Pete</em>, season 2, episode 5, +Nickelodeon, 1994-10-23. +The two Petes travel back in time an hour on the day that DST ends. +</li> +<li> +"King-Size Homer", <em>The Simpsons</em>, episode 135, Fox, 1995-11-05. +Homer, working from home, remarks "8:58, first +time I've ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight +savings days. Lousy farmers." +</li> +<li> +"Tracks", <em>The Good Wife</em>, season 7, episode 12, +CBS, 2016-01-17. +The applicability of a contract hinges on the +time zone associated with a video time stamp. +</li> +</ul> +<h2>Books, plays, and magazines</h2> +<ul> +<li> +Jules Verne, <em>Around the World in Eighty Days</em> +(<em>Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours</em>). +Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot. +European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in +deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once +reading a paper. +Available versions include +<a href="http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">an English +translation</a>, and +<a href="http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">the original French</a> +"with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition". +</li> +<li> +Nick Enright, <em>Daylight Saving</em>, 1989. +A fast-paced comedy about love and loneliness as the clocks turn back. +</li> +<li> +Umberto Eco, <em>The Island of the Day Before</em> +(<em>L'isola del giorno prima</em>), 1994. +"...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island +on the International Date Line. Time and time zones play an integral +part in the novel." (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22) +</li> +<li> +John Dunning, <a +href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Two-OClock-Eastern-Wartime/John-Dunning/9…"><em>Two +O'Clock, Eastern Wartime</em></a>, 2001. +Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio. +</li> +<li> +Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103 +of the 1999-11 <em>Atlantic Monthly</em>. +</li> +<li> +"Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of <em>Time</em> +magazine's 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed +year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair. +</li> +</ul> <h2>Music</h2> <p> Data on recordings of "Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI:</p> @@ -254,216 +432,6 @@ Supernaw.</td></tr> <tr><td>Notes</td><td>Includes the piece "What Time Is It" ("He knew what time it was everywhere...that counted").</td></tr> </table> - -<h2>TV episodes</h2> - -<ul> -<li> -An episode of <em>The Adventures of Superman</em> entitled "The Mysterious -Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers -of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time; -doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to -emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. -</li> -<li> -The 1960s ITC television series <em>The Prisoner</em> included an episode -entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to -the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big -Ben" chiming on Polish local time. -</li> -<li> -The series <em>Seinfeld</em> included an episode entitled "The Susie," first -broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time -isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour. -</li> -<li> -The "20 Hours in America" episode of <em>The West Wing</em>, -first aired 2002-09-25, contained a <a -href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc">scene</a> that -saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to -catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes. -</li> -<li> -"In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on -the 1999-11-13 United States airing of <em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?</em>, -and "In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time -zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of -the same show. At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone -question should have been asked 2002-06-04. -</li> -<li> -A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois' -premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episode of <em>Medium</em> -(originally aired 2007-02-28). -</li> -<li> -In the <em>30 Rock</em> episode "Anna Howard Shaw Day" -(first broadcast 2010-02-11), -Jack Donaghy's date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call -received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times. -</li> -<li> -In the "Run by the Monkeys" episode of <em>Da Vinci's Inquest</em> -(first broadcast 2002-11-17), -a witness in a five-year-old fire case realizes they may not have set -their clock back when daylight saving ended on the day of the fire, -introducing the possibility of an hour when arson might have occurred. -</li> -<li> -In "The Todd Couple" episode of <em>Outsourced</em> (first aired 2011-02-10), -Manmeet sets up Valentine's Day teledates for 6:00 and 9:00pm; -since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan, -hilarity ensues. -(Never mind that this should be 7:30am in Mumbai, yet for some reason the show -proceeds as though it's also mid-evening there.) -</li> -<li> -In the "14 Days to Go"/"T Minus..." episode of -<em>You, Me and the Apocalypse</em> -(first aired 2015-11-11 in the UK, 2016-03-10 in the US), -the success of a mission to deal with a comet -hinges on whether or not Russia observes daylight saving time. -(In the US, the episode first aired in the week before the switch to DST.) -</li> -</ul> - -<table> -<tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>The Lost Hour</td> -<tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>Eerie, Indiana</em></td> -<tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>10</td> -<tr><td>Network</td><td>NBC</td> -<tr><td>Air date</td><td>1991-12-01</td> -<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Despite Indiana's then-lack of DST, Marshall changes his clock with unusual consequences.</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td></tr> - -<tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>Time Tunnel</td> -<tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>The Adventures of Pete & Pete</em></td> -<tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>5, season 2</td> -<tr><td>Network</td><td>Nickelodeon</td> -<tr><td>Air date</td><td>1994-10-23</td> -<tr><td>Notes</td><td>The two Petes travel back in time an hour on the day that DST ends.</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td></tr> - -<tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>King-Size Homer</td> -<tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>The Simpsons</em></td> -<tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>135</td> -<tr><td>Network</td><td>Fox</td> -<tr><td>Air date</td><td>1995-11-05</td> -<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Homer, working from home, remarks "8:58, first -time I've ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight -savings days. Lousy farmers."</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td></tr> - -<tr><td>TV episode title</td><td>Tracks</td></tr> -<tr><td>TV series</td><td><em>The Good Wife</em></td></tr> -<tr><td>TV episode number</td><td>12, season 7</td></tr> -<tr><td>Network</td><td>CBS</td></tr> -<tr><td>Air date</td><td>2016-01-17</td></tr> -<tr><td>Notes</td><td>The applicability of a contract hinges on the -time zone associated with a video time stamp.</td></tr> -</table> - -<h2>Books, plays, and magazines</h2> - -<table> -<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Jules Verne</td></tr> -<tr><td>Book</td><td><em>Around the World in Eighty Days</em> -(<em>Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours</em>)</td></tr> -<tr><td>Notes</td><td>Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot. -European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in -deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once -reading a paper. -An on-line French-language version of the book -"with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition" -is available at -<a href="http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j</a> -An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at -<a href="http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Nick Enright</td></tr> -<tr><td>Play</td><td><em>Daylight Saving</em></td></tr> -<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1989</td></tr> -<tr><td>Notes</td><td> -A fast-paced comedy about love and loneliness as the clocks turn back. -</td></tr> - -<tr><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Umberto Eco</td></tr> -<tr><td>Book</td><td><em>The Island of the Day Before</em> -(<em>L'isola del giorno prima</em>)</td></tr> -<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>1994</td></tr> -<tr><td>Notes</td><td> -"...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island -on the International Date Line. Time and time zones play an integral -part in the novel." (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22) -</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td>Artist</td><td>John Dunning</td></tr> -<tr><td>Book</td><td><a -href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Two-OClock-Eastern-Wartime/John-Dunning/9…"><em>Two -O'Clock, Eastern Wartime</em></a></td></tr> -<tr><td>Copyright Date</td><td>2001</td></tr> -<tr><td>Notes</td><td> -Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio. -</td></tr> -</table> -<hr> -<ul> -<li> -Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103 -of the 1999-11 <em>Atlantic Monthly</em>. -</li> -<li> -"Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of <em>Time</em> -magazine's 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed -year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair. -</li> -</ul> -<h2>Movies</h2> -<ul> -<li> -In the 1946 movie <em>A Matter of Life and Death</em> -(U.S. title <em>Stairway to Heaven</em>) -there is a reference to British Double Summer Time. -The time does not play a large part in the plot; -it's just a passing reference to the time when one of the -characters was supposed to have died (but didn't). -The IMDb page is at -<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/"> -http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/ -</a>. (Dave Cantor) -<li> -The 1953 railway comedy movie <em>The Titfield Thunderbolt</em> includes a -play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants -him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?" -And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time." -IMDb page: -<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/"> -http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/ -</a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) -</li> -<li> -The premise of the 1999 caper movie <em>Entrapment</em> involves computers -in an international banking network being shut down briefly at -midnight in each time zone to avoid any problems at the transition -from the year 1999 to 2000 in that zone. (Hmmmm.) If this shutdown -is extended by 10 seconds, it will create a one-time opportunity for -a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the -crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to -the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the -last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 × 60 = 10.) -IMDb page: -<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/"> -http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/ -</a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) -</li> -<li> -One mustn't forget the -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo">trailer</a> -(2014; 2:23) for the movie <em>Daylight Saving</em>. -</li> -</ul> <h2>Comics</h2> <ul> <li> diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm index 52bb492..8964490 100644 --- a/tz-link.htm +++ b/tz-link.htm @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ content="Sources for time zone and daylight saving time data"> <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul"> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David"> -<meta name="DC.Date" content="2016-09-05"> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2016-09-09"> <meta name="DC.Description" content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time"> <meta name="DC.Identifier" @@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ title="Advanced Interactive eXecutive">AIX</abbr></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_10">BlackBerry 10</a>, <a href="http://www.apple.com/ios/"><abbr title="iPhone OS">iOS</abbr></a>, -<a href="http://windows.microsoft.com">Microsoft Windows</a>, +<a href="http://www.apple.com/macos/"><abbr +title="Mac Operating System">macOS</abbr></a>, +<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, <a href="http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/">Open<abbr title="Virtual Memory System">VMS</abbr></a>, -<a href="https://www.oracle.com/database/index.html">Oracle Database</a>, -<a href="http://oracle.com/solaris">Oracle Solaris</a>, and -<a href="http://www.apple.com/osx/"><abbr title="Operating System Ten">OS -X</abbr></a>.</p> +<a href="https://www.oracle.com/database/index.html">Oracle Database</a>, and +<a href="https://www.oracle.com/solaris">Oracle Solaris</a>.</p> <p> Each location in the database represents a region where all clocks keeping local time have agreed since 1970. @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ for time stamps after 1960 this is more precisely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">Coordinated Universal Time</a> (<abbr>UTC</abbr>). The database also records when daylight saving time was in use, -along with alphabetic time zone abbreviations such as <abbr>EST</abbr> +along with some time zone abbreviations such as <abbr>EST</abbr> for Eastern Standard Time in the <abbr>US</abbr>.</p> <p> The following <a @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ of the <a href="http://www.iana.org">Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)</a>. An <a href="https://github.com/eggert/tz">unofficial development repository</a> of the code and data is available -in <a href="http://git-scm.com">Git</a> form +in <a href="https://git-scm.com">Git</a> form from <a href="https://github.com">GitHub</a>; be careful, as this repository is less well tested and probably contains more errors. <p> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ the Timing of Time Zone Changes</a> gives examples of problems caused by inadequate notice by governments of time zone and daylight saving rule changes.</li> <li><a -href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzon…">A +href="https://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzo…">A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database</a> comments on the database's style.</li> </ul> @@ -244,15 +244,14 @@ names and shows location maps.</li> </ul> <h2>Network protocols for <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> data</h2> <ul> -<li>The <a href="http://www.ietf.org">Internet Engineering Task Force</a>'s +<li>The <a href="https://www.ietf.org">Internet Engineering Task Force</a>'s <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tzdist/charter/">Time Zone Data Distribution Service (tzdist) working group</a> defined <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7808">TZDIST</a> (Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 7808), a time zone data distribution service, along with a <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7809">calendar access protocol for transferring time zone data by reference</a> -(Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 7809). This work was based -on the iCalendar and CalConnect efforts described below.</li> +(Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 7809).</li> <li>The <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545"> Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)</a> (Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 5445) @@ -261,35 +260,12 @@ data; see its VTIMEZONE calendar component. The iCalendar format requires specialized parsers and generators; a variant <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6321">xCal</a> (Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 6321) uses -<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/"><abbr +<a href="https://www.w3.org/XML/"><abbr title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr></a> format, and a variant <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7265">jCal</a> (Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 7265) uses <a href="http://www.json.org"><abbr -title="JavaScript Object Notation">JSON</abbr></a> format. -<a href="https://www.calconnect.org">CalConnect, The Calendaring and Scheduling -Consortium</a> is promoting further work in this area. <a -href="http://calconnect.org/publications/icalendartimezoneproblemsandrecommendati…">iCalendar -TIMEZONE Problems and Recommendations</a> offers guidelines and -recommendations for the use of VTIMEZONE and <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>.</li> -<li>The <a -href="http://calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecommendation…">Timezone -Registry and Service Recommendations</a> of CalConnect's -<a href="https://www.calconnect.org/about/technical-committees/tc-timezone">TIMEZONE -Technical Committee</a> discusses a -strategy for defining and deploying a time zone -registration process that would establish unique names for each -version of each <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> zone, along with a polygonal -representation of the geographical area corresponding to the -zone.</li> -<li>The <a -href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/">www-rdf-calendar</a> -list discusses <a -href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/"><abbr -title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</abbr></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><abbr>tz</abbr></code>.</li> +title="JavaScript Object Notation">JSON</abbr></a> format.</li> </ul> <h2>Other <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> compilers</h2> <ul> @@ -423,7 +399,8 @@ has an independent, thread-safe implementation of a <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> binary file reader. This library is freely available under the LGPL and is widely used in <abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux systems.</li> -<li><a href="https://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a>'s Glib has +<li><a href="https://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a>'s +<a href="https://developer.gnome.org/glib/">GLib</a> has a <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> binary file reader written in C that creates a <code>GTimeZone</code> object representing sets of <abbr>UT</abbr> offsets. @@ -542,7 +519,8 @@ is another time zone database.</li> <li><a href="http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html">World Time Zones</a> contains data from the Time Service Department of the <abbr>US</abbr> Naval Observatory.</li> -<li>The <a href="http://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/ssim.aspx">Standard +<li>The <a +href="http://www.iata.org/publications/store/Pages/standard-schedules-information…">Standard Schedules Information Manual</a> of the International Air Transport Association gives current time zone rules for airports served by commercial aviation.</li> @@ -613,7 +591,7 @@ common.</li> </ul> <h2>Civil time concepts and history</h2> <ul> -<li><a href="http://www.nist.gov/pml/general/time/index.cfm">A +<li><a href="http://physics.nist.gov/time">A Walk through Time</a> surveys the evolution of timekeeping.</li> <li><a href="http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/">About Daylight @@ -622,8 +600,6 @@ is an overall history of <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li> <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/timezone/">Working with Time Zones</a> contains guidelines and best practices for software applications that deal with civil time.</li> -<li><a href="http://energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html">Saving Time, -Saving Energy</a> discusses a primary justification for <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li> <li><a href="http://seizethedaylight.com/dst/">A Brief History of Daylight Saving Time</a> summarizes some of the contentious history of <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li> @@ -681,7 +657,7 @@ 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 <a -href="http://www.dia.govt.nz/Daylight-Saving-History">History of +href="https://www.dia.govt.nz/Daylight-Saving-History">History of Daylight Saving</a>. The privately-maintained <a href="http://astrologyschool.com/nztime.html">History of New Zealand time</a> has more details.</dd> @@ -714,7 +690,8 @@ title="Network Time Protocol">NTP</abbr>: The Network Time Protocol</a> discusses how to synchronize clocks of Internet hosts.</li> -<li>The <a href="http://www.nist.gov/el/isd/ieee/ieee1588.cfm">Precision +<li>The <a +href="https://www.nist.gov/intelligent-systems-division/ieee-1588">Precision Time Protocol</a> (<abbr title="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers">IEEE</abbr> 1588) can achieve submicrosecond clock accuracy on a local area network.</li> @@ -726,11 +703,6 @@ specifies a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol"><abbr>DHCP</abbr></a> option for a server to configure a client's time zone and daylight saving settings automatically.</li> -<li><a href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/GMT.UT.and.the.RGO.html">A Few Facts -Concerning <abbr>GMT</abbr>, <abbr>UT</abbr>, and -the <abbr title="Royal Greenwich Observatory">RGO</abbr></a> -answers questions like "What is the -difference between <abbr>GMT</abbr> and <abbr>UTC</abbr>?"</li> <li><a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~rfisher/Ephemerides/times.html">Astronomical Times</a> explains more abstruse astronomical time scales like @@ -739,7 +711,7 @@ Times</a> explains more abstruse astronomical time scales like <abbr title="Barycentric Dynamic Time">TDB</abbr>. <a href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html">Time Scales</a> goes into more detail, particularly for historical variants.</li> -<li>The <a href="http://iau.org"><abbr +<li>The <a href="http://www.iau.org"><abbr title="International Astronomical Union">IAU</abbr></a>'s <a href="http://www.iausofa.org"><abbr title="Standards Of Fundamental Astronomy">SOFA</abbr></a> @@ -753,10 +725,8 @@ code for converting among time scales like Space Flight – Reference Systems – Time Conventions</a> briefly explains interplanetary space flight timekeeping.</li> <li><a -href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html">Technical -Notes on Mars Solar Time as Adopted by the Mars24 Sunclock</a> briefly -describes Mars Coordinated Time (<abbr -title="Mars Coordinated Time">MTC</abbr>) and the +href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html">Mars24 Sunclock +– Time on Mars</a> describes Airy Mean Time (<abbr>AMT</abbr>) and the diverse local time scales used by each landed mission on Mars.</li> <li><a href="http://leapsecond.com">LeapSecond.com</a> is @@ -772,7 +742,7 @@ when leap seconds occur.</li> <li>The <a href="https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs">Leap Second Discussion List</a> covers <a -href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.november99.pdf">McCarthy +href="http://www2.unb.ca/gge/Resources/gpsworld.november99.pdf">McCarthy and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a>, discussed further in <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/metrologia-leapsecond.pdf">The @@ -790,7 +760,7 @@ zone names, abbreviations, identifiers, and formats. For example, it contains French translations for "Eastern European Summer Time", "<abbr title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</abbr>", and "Bucharest". Its -<a href="http://unicode.org/cldr/charts/by_type/index.html">by-type +<a href="http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/by_type/">by-type charts</a> show these values for many locales. Data values are available in both <abbr title="Locale Data Markup Language">LDML</abbr> (an <abbr>XML</abbr> format) and <abbr>JSON</abbr>. @@ -834,10 +804,10 @@ practice. For example, in English-speaking North America but in China it denotes 8 hours ahead of <abbr>UTC</abbr>, and French-speaking North Americans prefer "<abbr title="Heure Normale du Centre">HNC</abbr>" to -"<abbr>CST</abbr>". For <abbr>POSIX</abbr> the <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> -database contains English abbreviations for all time stamps but in -many cases these are merely inventions of the database -maintainers.</li> +"<abbr>CST</abbr>". The <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> +database contains English abbreviations for many time stamps; +unfortunately some of these abbreviations were merely the database maintainers' +inventions, and are gradually being removed.</li> <li>Numeric time zone abbreviations typically count hours east of <abbr>UTC</abbr>, e.g., +09 for Japan and −10 for Hawaii. However, the <abbr>POSIX</abbr> @@ -852,7 +822,7 @@ settings like <code><abbr>TZ</abbr>="Asia/Tokyo"</code> and confusion, handle old time stamps better, and insulate you better from any future changes to the rules. One should never set <abbr>POSIX</abbr> <code><abbr>TZ</abbr></code> to a value like -<code>"GMT-9"</code>, though, since this would falsely claim that +<code>"GMT-9"</code>, though, since this would incorrectly imply that local time is nine hours ahead of <abbr>UTC</abbr> and the time zone is called "<abbr>GMT</abbr>".</li> </ul> -- 2.7.4

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About decision of Turkey to end DST ...
by askin senel Sept. 9, 2016

Sept. 9, 2016

Hello, When do you plan to update the tz database with recent Turkish decision to end DST. See https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/turkey-scraps-dst-2016.html Kind Regards. Askin

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tzdist and tz@iana
by Alexander Belopolsky Sept. 8, 2016

Sept. 8, 2016

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:04 AM, Jon Skeet <skeet(a)pobox.com> wrote: > (Then there's tzdist of course, but that's a whole other matter...) I have been looking at RFC 7808 (aka tzdist) and I wonder what is the relationship between the proposed distribution standard and this project. While RFC 7808 mentions "Olson" as a possible "primary-source", it does not look like the proposed JSON format is capable of carrying all information provided by Olson raw files. The distribution format looks like a text variant of the binary zoneinfo files, but it is not clear whether or not the distributed data includes timezone abbreviations. Are there any plans to support the tzdist format in tzcode? Will IANA run its own "Time Zone Data Server"?

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Rangoon to Yangon
by David Massoud Sept. 8, 2016

Sept. 8, 2016

Myanmar's former capital and most populous city is currently known as Yangon. In 1989 Burma was renamed Myanmar (which you have reflected in the Asia data file). At the same time, Rangoon was renamed Yangon, which is currently not reflected in the codebase. http://www.forbestravelguide.com/yangon-myanmar/whats-the-difference-betwee… . -- David Massoud http://lnked.in/DavidMassoud

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Turkey to keep permanent DST
by Even Scharning Sept. 8, 2016

Sept. 8, 2016

Turkey will stay on DST, canceling October's transition back to UTC +2 standard time, according to Hürriyet, Turkey's "leading news source". http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kis-saati-uygulamasi-yururlukten-kaldirildi-4021… Time in Turkey: http://time.is/Turkey Even Scharning Time.is - exact time for any time zone http://time.is/

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Google search results displaying wrong time for Egypt
by Andrew Paprocki Sept. 7, 2016

Sept. 7, 2016

If you search for "current time in Egypt" (at least for me in NYC), it will display a UTC+3 time as if DST was applied (tzdata2016f not being used). In case there are any Googlers on the list want to raise awareness internally... -Andrew

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[PROPOSED PATCH 1/5] zic now omits some mkdir and stat system calls
by Paul Eggert Sept. 6, 2016

Sept. 6, 2016

* NEWS: Document this. * zic.c (mkdirs): Do not mkdir a root directory. Avoid unnecessary stat call. --- NEWS | 2 ++ zic.c | 24 +++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f5a0b13..192deb7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes stamps on the reference platform. (Thanks to Alexander Belopolsky for reporting the bug and suggesting a way forward.) + zic now avoids some unnecessary mkdir and stat system calls. + zdump has a new -i option to generate transitions in a more-compact but still human-readable format. This option is experimental, and the output format may change in future versions. diff --git a/zic.c b/zic.c index b8bd0a6..5ff78b4 100644 --- a/zic.c +++ b/zic.c @@ -3027,25 +3027,27 @@ mkdirs(char *argname) if (argname == NULL || *argname == '\0') return true; cp = name = ecpyalloc(argname); - while ((cp = strchr(cp + 1, '/')) != 0) { - *cp = '\0'; + + /* Do not mkdir a root directory, as it must exist. */ #ifdef HAVE_DOS_FILE_NAMES - /* - ** DOS drive specifier? - */ - if (is_alpha(name[0]) && name[1] == ':' && name[2] == '\0') { - *cp = '/'; - continue; - } + if (is_alpha(name[0]) && name[1] == ':') + cp += 2; #endif + while (*cp == '/') + cp++; + + for (; (cp = strchr(cp, '/')) != 0; cp++) { + *cp = '\0'; /* ** Try to create it. It's OK if creation fails because ** the directory already exists, perhaps because some - ** other process just created it. + ** other process just created it. For simplicity do + ** not check first whether it already exists, as that + ** is checked anyway if the mkdir fails. */ if (mkdir(name, MKDIR_UMASK) != 0) { int err = errno; - if (itsdir(name) <= 0) { + if (err != EEXIST && itsdir(name) <= 0) { char const *e = strerror(err); warning(_("%s: Can't create directory" " %s: %s"), -- 2.7.4

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