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Time zone converter
by Dee Ann Abel May 20, 1998

May 20, 1998

I'd like to announce a time zone converter that I have available. The URL is: http://www.burbs.com/cgi-bin/tzconvert.pl Is there an archive or FAQ available for this list? Thanks :) Dee Ann Abel

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Re: FW: tz interface problems
by Ulrich Drepper May 20, 1998

May 20, 1998

"Olson, Arthur David" <OLSONA(a)dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes: > 2. I'm sure you're aware that BSD and Linux now include your routines. Wrong. For Linux using glibc we have our own functions. > Unfortunately, they don't make it easy for typical users to regenerate > the time-zone files. Users could download new files, but that's a > megabyte of data. Also not true. We distribute the database in glibc and whoever wants to update her/his system manually can use the diffs generated for each new version of glibc. -- Uli ---------------. drepper at gnu.org ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Cygnus Solutions `--' drepper at cygnus.com `------------------------

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Update of the CIA World Factbook : no more TZ map
by Antoine Leca May 19, 1998

May 19, 1998

Hi all, While browsing the CIA World factbook, I noticed that they have upgraded to 1997 version, which is very nice IMHO. <http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html> However, from our point point of view, this is not *that* nice, because they removed completely (unless I missed something) the TZ map of the world (and TZ informations about the countries as well, except a note about Kiribati moving the intl' date line). So the file www.htm should be updated to remove completely the present links. I do not know if we should keep the reference to this work. Note there is another reference to this map in the `asia' file (about Mongolia), which should be removed too. Antoine

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tzcode1998d.tar.gz and tzdata1998d.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David May 14, 1998

May 14, 1998

The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode1998d.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1998d.tar.gz are now available. The only differences between these and the 1998c files are changes to comments (in particular, elimination of references to CIA maps). "Arts.htm", "WWW.htm", "asia", and "australasia" are the only places where changes occur. --ado

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Saudi Arabia does not observe DST
by Paul Eggert April 13, 1998

April 13, 1998

I Followed up on the recent report that Kingdom of Saudi Arabia observes daylight saving time by asking the Saudi Embassy to the United States about it. They replied that DST is not observed there. ------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: Saeed Alahmed <saa(a)embassy.saudi.net> To: Paul Eggert <eggert(a)twinsun.com> Subject: RE: Does Saudi Arabia observe daylight saving time? Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:30:24 -0400 Return-Receipt-To: Saeed Alahmed <saa(a)embassy.saudi.net> Dear Sir, Saudi Arabia does not observe the daylight saving time. The time difference is 8 hours ahead of the USA and during the first weekend of April you would use the daylight time saving. ------- End of forwarded message -------

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FW: Time Zone Database
by Paul Stewart April 9, 1998

April 9, 1998

Clarissa is not on the time zone mailing list, but would like to be added (how does one do that again?) ------- Forwarded Message From: "Clarissa Gammel" <cg(a)pc-plus.de> To: Stewart(a)networks.ecse.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:59:44 PDT Subject: Time Zone Database Hi Paul, I do not succeed. Would you please forward the questions below to the people with the unreachable adress tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov. and have me subscribed? Thank you very much in advance Clarissa Hello, I have some questions to the Time Zone Database: How often are there changes to the time difference information (approximately)? How many countries are there with different time zones in one country? Who provides that information? Is it a governmental institution? (contact adress) When in general are the dates for those changes? Are they regular, or each year different? Are there any rules? Which countries do or don't have summer or winter time? Thanks for helping me Clarissa ------- End of Forwarded Message

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FW: Question of time :-)
by Olson, Arthur David April 8, 1998

April 8, 1998

Note that Guenther is not on the time zone mailing list. --ado ---------- From: Guenther Grau[SMTP:Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 12:36 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Question of time :-) Hi, I don't know if this is correct address to send this to, but I hope you'll be able to redirect me in case it's not :-) In my application I need to know, the time difference between any given time in any given timezone, and UTC. Is this possible to do WITHOUT changing the TZ environment variable? I cannot do this, because this is in a multithreaded program, and changing TZ would affect other threads. I cannot fork another process, as this takes too much time and resources. I need a program, that does sth. like this: > echo $TZ MET > date Tue Apr 7 18:31:42 MET DST 1998 > calculateUtcDifference "1.2.1998 12:13 EST" 5 hours I would be great if you knew a portable solution (solaris/hp-ux). Thanx in advance Guenther

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Question of time :-)
by Guenther Grau April 7, 1998

April 7, 1998

Hi, I don't know if this is correct address to send this to, but I hope you'll be able to redirect me in case it's not :-) In my application I need to know, the time difference between any given time in any given timezone, and UTC. Is this possible to do WITHOUT changing the TZ environment variable? I cannot do this, because this is in a multithreaded program, and changing TZ would affect other threads. I cannot fork another process, as this takes too much time and resources. I need a program, that does sth. like this: > echo $TZ MET > date Tue Apr 7 18:31:42 MET DST 1998 > calculateUtcDifference "1.2.1998 12:13 EST" 5 hours I would be great if you knew a portable solution (solaris/hp-ux). Thanx in advance Guenther

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URL for coverage of Athens, Ohio DST disturbance
by Olson, Arthur David April 7, 1998

April 7, 1998

See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-04/06/062l-040698-idx.html for coverage of the 1998-04-05 Athens, Ohio DST disturbance. (The URL is likely to expire within two weeks.) --ado

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Dangers of DST
by Olson, Arthur David April 6, 1998

April 6, 1998

A story on page A10 of the Washington Post for today, April 6, 1998, tells of five Athens, Ohio police officers injured when rowdiness erupted in a crowd "gathered outside downtown bars...before the 2 a.m. closing, half an hour earlier than usual because of the time change..." The story was part of a collection "compiled from news services." Your correspondent also heard a report of the incident on CBS radio news the morning of April 5, 1998. --ado

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