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DST in the news
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 29, 1999

March 29, 1999

The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of sleep on 1999-03-28--when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched to DST--and one more hour on 1999-04-04--when the announcers will have returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) The current "northamerica" file shows Cuba switching 1999-04-04; in view of Hunter's comment, a change may be needed in the file. --ado

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Re: tzcode1999c.tar.gz and tzdata1999c.tar.gz
by Andreas Jaeger March 25, 1999

March 25, 1999

>>>>> NCI writes: > I tried and failed to reproduce the proglem reported by Andreas Jaeger; > if anyone has insights please pass them on to both the time zone list and > Andreas (who's not on the list). How did you try to reproduce it? With glibc 2.1, I can easily reproduce it with tzdata1999c (just downloaded): $ zic asia "asia", line 307: unruly zone "asia", line 307: %s in ruleless zone but `zic asia europe' works Btw. how can I subscribe to the tz list? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a)arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger(a)informatik.uni-kl.de for pgp-key finger ajaeger(a)aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de

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FW: tzdata1999b
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 25, 1999

March 25, 1999

-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger [SMTP:aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de] Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 2:16 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: tzdata1999b This morning I added tzdata1999b to glibc 2.1 and got the following failure when running make check: /usr/glibc/src/buildreport/19990319/timezone/zic -d /usr/glibc/src/buildreport/19990319/timezone/testdata -y ./yearistype asia "asia", line 308: unruly zone "asia", line 308: %s in ruleless zone The problem is: Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 2:00 EU EE%sT EU isn't defined in asia and EUAsia is used instead. The appended patch fixes my problem. --- timezone/asia.~1~ Fri Mar 19 10:28:45 1999 +++ timezone/asia Fri Mar 19 18:45:04 1999 @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep - 2:00 EU EE%sT + 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT # IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. # Georgia -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a)arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger(a)informatik.uni-kl.de for pgp-key finger ajaeger(a)aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de

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FW: update to the timezone database (Chile)
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 22, 1999

March 22, 1999

-----Original Message----- From: Julio Pacheco T. [SMTP:jpacheco@atenea.ipvg.udec.cl] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 9:30 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: update to the timezone database (Chile) Because of the same drought , the government decided to end DST later, on April 3, (one-time change) New line on the file: Rule Chile 1999 only - Apr 4 0:00 0 - -- +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Julio I. Pacheco Troncoso | "Todo programa no trivial contiene | | Ingenieria (E) en Comp. e Inf. | al menos un error." | | Instituto Profesional Virginio Gomez | PGP key: | | mailto:jpacheco@atenea.ipvg.udec.cl | http://www.ipvg.udec.cl/~jpacheco | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+

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Israel 1999 Daylight Savings Times -- Official Announcement
by Ephraim Silverberg March 22, 1999

March 22, 1999

The official announcement for the 1999 dates for DST in Israel has been released and scanned in to ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1999.ps.gz. The only change to the 'asia' file is in the comments. -----------------------------------CUT-HERE----------------------------------- *** asia Mon Feb 1 22:29:31 1999 --- asia.new Mon Mar 22 11:22:32 1999 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)asia 7.41 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)asia 7.42 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to *************** *** 562,574 **** # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz # # The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. - # The official announcement for the year 1997 can be viewed at: # ! # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1997.ps.gz # ! # The official announcement for the year 1998 can be viewed at: # ! # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1998.ps.gz # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D --- 562,573 ---- # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz # # The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. # ! # The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at: # ! # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz # ! # where YYYY is the relevant year. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D ----------------------------------UNTIL-HERE---------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CS System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-6585439 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim(a)cs.huji.ac.il

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tzdata1999b
by Andreas Jaeger March 19, 1999

March 19, 1999

This morning I added tzdata1999b to glibc 2.1 and got the following failure when running make check: /usr/glibc/src/buildreport/19990319/timezone/zic -d /usr/glibc/src/buildreport/19990319/timezone/testdata -y ./yearistype asia "asia", line 308: unruly zone "asia", line 308: %s in ruleless zone The problem is: Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 2:00 EU EE%sT EU isn't defined in asia and EUAsia is used instead. The appended patch fixes my problem. --- timezone/asia.~1~ Fri Mar 19 10:28:45 1999 +++ timezone/asia Fri Mar 19 18:45:04 1999 @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep - 2:00 EU EE%sT + 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT # IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. # Georgia -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a)arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger(a)informatik.uni-kl.de for pgp-key finger ajaeger(a)aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de

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update to the timezone database (Chile)
by Julio Pacheco T. March 19, 1999

March 19, 1999

Because of the same drought , the government decided to end DST later, on April 3, (one-time change) New line on the file: Rule Chile 1999 only - Apr 4 0:00 0 - -- +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Julio I. Pacheco Troncoso | "Todo programa no trivial contiene | | Ingenieria (E) en Comp. e Inf. | al menos un error." | | Instituto Profesional Virginio Gomez | PGP key: | | mailto:jpacheco@atenea.ipvg.udec.cl | http://www.ipvg.udec.cl/~jpacheco | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+

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How widespread is this time-conversion bug?
by D. J. Bernstein Feb. 7, 1999

Feb. 7, 1999

Dennis Ritchie reported on comp.lang.c.moderated that Plan 9's gmtime() didn't believe that 2000 was a leap year. The problem is that it was working with tm_year instead of tm_year + 1900. Peter Seebach reported that BSD/OS had the same problem. I wonder when these bugs were added. The tz code looks fine. I thought BSD/OS was using tz; did they switch to another library? ---Dan

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standard time in Japanese antarctic stations
by Hideyuki Suzuki Feb. 6, 1999

Feb. 6, 1999

I'd like the following information about Japanese antarctic stations to be written in tzdata. Japan has two year-round bases: Syowa and Dome Fuji. (http://www.delm.tas.gov.au/comnap/members.html#Japan) In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. (http://www.crl.go.jp/uk/uk201/basyo.htm (Japanese) and information from KAMO Hiroyasu <wd(a)ics.nara-wu.ac.jp>) Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. The location of these stations are: Showa: -690022+0393524 Dome Fuji: -771901+0394212 (http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/jare.html, http://www.nipr.ac.jp/jp/station/station.html (Japanese)) I noticed that the URL http://earth.agu.org/amen/nations.html at the beginning of the file antarctica does not exist. There is the corresponding page at COMNAP: http://www.delm.tas.gov.au/comnap/station.html -- hideyuki

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FW: Brazilian Summer Time
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Feb. 4, 1999

Feb. 4, 1999

-----Original Message----- From: Daniel C. Sobral [SMTP:dcs@newsguy.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 8:08 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Brazilian Summer Time I have noticed a comment on the change from ARDT to ARST (Daylight savings to Summer time). In Brazil we also call it Summer time, though I'm not sure what impact any change in the naming would have on existing systems. I thought I ought to note this to you, anyhow. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs(a)gns.com.br For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

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