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South Australia trial successful
by Steffen Thorsen April 28, 2009

April 28, 2009

Hello, According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009 summer (southern hemisphere). From http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling for over the last year is now set to be ongoing. Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year. Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year. ... (No changes needed to tzdata though.) We have a wrap-up here: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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FW: Cyprus Timezone Issue
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] April 28, 2009

April 28, 2009

I'm forwarding this message from Glafkos Charalambous who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list please direct replies appropriately. --ado From: Glafkos Charalambous [mailto:glafkos@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 12:11 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Cyprus Timezone Issue Hello, I am sending this email based on the posts I did on 2004 about Cyprus Island. Cyprus is a Europe island near greece and is consider within Europe. It is wrong displayed under Asia Please correct and make Europe Cyprus, Nicosia (City) Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140043 Regards Charalambous Glafkos

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tzdata2009g.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] April 27, 2009

April 27, 2009

The file... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2009g.tar.gz ...is now available; it includes the changes circulated last week on the time zone mailing list to the "asia" file for Cairo. --ado

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permatime.com - a way of representing times as urls (using the tz database)
by Tim Diggins April 27, 2009

April 27, 2009

Hi - just wanted to firstly, let you know of a simple web application, http://permatime.com , that we launched a while ago, which relies on the tz database info (via the ruby tzinfo library). Many thanks to the tz database maintainers (and also to ruby's tzinfo maintainers)! Also... I was wondering if anyone had any ideas if there is a public domain source for mapping city names (and single timezone countries) to timezones? We have manually added a few (including European single timezone countries and some prominent Asian cities) as aliases of timezones, but are always getting requests for a more comprehensive set of cities. kind regards Tim FYI: Permatime.com provides a way of representing times as urls, or "permatimes". Imagine you want to announce an event with participants across different time zones. Simply set the time, in your time zone, and permatime.com will generate a link for it. If you share this link with others, they will see that time in their own local time zone (and any other zones they choose). Use a permatime link to arrange a phone call, timestamp a blog post, announce a webinar... Practical permatime examples • http://permatime.com/US/Central/2008-12-04/11:00/37signals_live?link=http:/… • http://permatime.com/US/Central/2009-01-12/11:00/Next_teleconference

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FW: [Bug 365215] Re: Jakarta is Indonesia West Time Not Central Time
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] April 26, 2009

April 26, 2009

I'm forwarding this message from Aditya Wirayudha, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado From: Aditya Wirayudha [mailto:a.wirayudha@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:15 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: 365215(a)bugs.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Bug 365215] Re: Jakarta is Indonesia West Time Not Central Time The official website is currently down, however this url still accessible from google cache: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:JBpW5TryxxAJ:www.bmg.go.id/dataDetail.… but the real url is: http://www.bmg.go.id/dataDetail.bmg?Jenis=Teks&IDS=7452470612766189439&IDD=… The document states that GMT +7 (jakarta time) is Waktu Indonesia Barat (WIB), GMT +8 is Waktu Indonesia Tengah (WITA), and GMT +9 is Waktu Indonesia Timur (WIT) Thank you for your attention. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt(a)ubuntu.com> wrote: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=108 says "WIT". Perhaps that's wrong as well? Do you have a reference (URL) to an official document stating Jakarta's time zone? Would you mind sending that to tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov as well (CC'ing 365215(a)bugs.launchpad.net) to discuss this upstream? Thank you! ** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Jakarta is Indonesia West Time Not Central Time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365215 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in "tzdata" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: In my desktop (Gnome), Jakarta is showing WIT (Indonesia Central Time) instead of WIB (Indonesia West Time.) Sorry, I have no idea what the package name is.

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Cyprus Timezone Issue
by Glafkos Charalambous April 26, 2009

April 26, 2009

Hello, I am sending this email based on the posts I did on 2004 about Cyprus Island. Cyprus is a Europe island near greece and is consider within Europe. It is wrong displayed under Asia Please correct and make Europe Cyprus, Nicosia (City) Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140043 Regards Charalambous Glafkos

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Re: [Bug 365215] Re: Jakarta is Indonesia West Time Not Central Time
by Aditya Wirayudha April 24, 2009

April 24, 2009

The official website is currently down, however this url still accessible from google cache: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:JBpW5TryxxAJ:www.bmg.go.id/dataDetail.… but the real url is: http://www.bmg.go.id/dataDetail.bmg?Jenis=Teks&IDS=7452470612766189439&IDD=… The document states that GMT +7 (jakarta time) is Waktu Indonesia Barat (WIB), GMT +8 is Waktu Indonesia Tengah (WITA), and GMT +9 is Waktu Indonesia Timur (WIT) Thank you for your attention. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt(a)ubuntu.com>wrote: > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=108 says "WIT". > Perhaps that's wrong as well? Do you have a reference (URL) to an > official document stating Jakarta's time zone? > > Would you mind sending that to tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov as well (CC'ing > 365215(a)bugs.launchpad.net) to discuss this upstream? Thank you! > > ** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > Jakarta is Indonesia West Time Not Central Time > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365215 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “tzdata” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > In my desktop (Gnome), Jakarta is showing WIT (Indonesia Central Time) > instead of WIB (Indonesia West Time.) Sorry, I have no idea what the package > name is. >

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permatime.com - a way of representing times as urls (using the tz database)
by Tim Diggins April 23, 2009

April 23, 2009

Hi - just wanted to firstly, let you know of a simple web application, http://permatime.com , that we launched a while ago, which relies on the tz database info (via the ruby tzinfo library). Many thanks to the tz database maintainers (and also to ruby's tzinfo maintainers)! Also... I was wondering if anyone had any ideas if there is a public domain source for mapping city names (and single timezone countries) to timezones? We have manually added a few (including European single timezone countries and some prominent Asian cities) as aliases of timezones, but are always getting requests for a more comprehensive set of cities. kind regards Tim FYI: Permatime.com provides a way of representing times as urls, or "permatimes". Imagine you want to announce an event with participants across different time zones. Simply set the time, in your time zone, and permatime.com will generate a link for it. If you share this link with others, they will see that time in their own local time zone (and any other zones they choose). Use a permatime link to arrange a phone call, timestamp a blog post, announce a webinar... Practical permatime examples • http://permatime.com/US/Central/2008-12-04/11:00/37signals_live?link=http:/… • http://permatime.com/US/Central/2009-01-12/11:00/Next_teleconference

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America/Caracas
by Mark Jennings April 23, 2009

April 23, 2009

Hi, # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Caracas -4:27:44 - LMT 1890 -4:27:40 - CMT 1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time? -4:30 - VET 1965 # Venezuela Time -4:00 - VET 2007 Dec 9 03:00 -4:30 - VET This is what I get when encoding with zic, 0000000 5a54 6669 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000010 0000 0000 0000 0300 0000 0300 0000 1800 0000020 0000 0300 0000 0300 0000 0800 1e93 3c2c <- timecnt, typecnt, charcnt 0000030 98f6 48ec 5b47 8792 0201 ff01 c1ff 0044 0000040 ff00 c0ff 00b8 ff04 c7ff 00c0 4304 544d 0000050 5600 5445 0400 58b2 0000 0000 0501 eca4 0000060 0001 0000 0702 1f86 0082 0000 0903 5367 0000070 0003 0000 0b04 8648 0084 0000 0d05 0b2b 0000080 0085 0000 0f06 3f0c 0006 0000 1007 72ed 0000090 0087 0000 1208 a6ce 0008 0000 1509 ca9f 00000a0 0089 0000 170a fe80 000a 0000 190b 3162 00000b0 008b 0000 1d0c ea25 000c 0000 210d e5da 00000c0 000d 0000 250e 9d9e 008e 0000 270f d17f 00000d0 000f 0000 2a10 f550 0090 0000 2c11 2932 00000e0 0011 0000 2e12 5c13 0092 0000 3013 24e7 00000f0 0013 0000 3314 48b8 0094 0000 3615 108c 0000100 0015 0000 4316 1bb7 0096 0000 4917 075c 0000110 0097 0000 0018 0000 0000 0000 Why is timecnt 3 ? I have written my own parser, but because timecnt = 3, it is not recognising that the offset should be -4:30. Many thanks Mark

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proposed time zone package change to africa file for Cairo
by Arthur David Olson April 23, 2009

April 23, 2009

Below is a proposed change (thanks to Petr Machata) for the end of DST in Egypt in 2009 and forward. If not problems are found, this change should show up in the ftpable version a week from today. --ado ------- africa ------- *** /tmp/geta10010 Mon Apr 20 16:34:24 2009 --- /tmp/getb10010 Mon Apr 20 16:34:24 2009 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)africa 8.18 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)africa 8.19 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 236,243 **** # unless discontinued, next DST may end Thursday 28 August 2008. # From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): # For lack of better info, assume the new rule is last Thursday in August. - Rule Egypt 2008 max - Aug lastThu 23:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct 2:00 Egypt EE%sT --- 236,282 ---- # unless discontinued, next DST may end Thursday 28 August 2008. # From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): # For lack of better info, assume the new rule is last Thursday in August. + # From Petr Machata (2009-04-06): + # The following appeared in Red Hat bugzilla[1] (edited): + # + # > $ zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo | grep 2009 + # > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 21:59:59 2009 UTC =3D Thu = + # Apr 23 + # > 23:59:59 2009 EET isdst=3D0 gmtoff=3D7200 + # > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 22:00:00 2009 UTC =3D Fri = + # Apr 24 + # > 01:00:00 2009 EEST isdst=3D1 gmtoff=3D10800 + # > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 27 20:59:59 2009 UTC =3D Thu = + # Aug 27 + # > 23:59:59 2009 EEST isdst=3D1 gmtoff=3D10800 + # > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 27 21:00:00 2009 UTC =3D Thu = + # Aug 27 + # > 23:00:00 2009 EET isdst=3D0 gmtoff=3D7200 + # + # > end date should be Thu Sep 24 2009 (Last Thursday in September at 23:59= + # :59) + # > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958729/ + # + # timeanddate[2] and another site I've found[3] also support that. + # + # [1] <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D492263"> + # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D492263 + # </a> + # [2] <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=3D53"> + # http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=3D53 + # </a> + # [3] <a href="http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/"> + # http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/ + # </a> + + # From Arthur David Olson (2009-04-20): + # In 2009 (and for the next several years), Ramadan ends before the fourth + # Thursday in September; Egypt is expected to revert to the last Thursday + # in September. + Rule Egypt 2008 only - Aug lastThu 23:00s 0 - + Rule Egypt 2009 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct 2:00 Egypt EE%sT

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