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Bangladesh DST end
by ravi-iyer.v＠nokia.com July 7, 2009

July 7, 2009

Hi there, I downloaded tzdata2009j and it does not seem to have the DST end for Bangladesh. I saw couple of threads related to this saying that the end time was still not announced by the Bangladesh government. Is that still the case? Because I can see that timeanddate.com already shows that DST ends on 25th Sep at 12:00am. If this information is correct, when can we expect to see a new version of the database? Regards, Ravi

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FW: Bulletin C number 38
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] July 6, 2009

July 6, 2009

-----Original Message----- From: IERS EOP Product Center [mailto:services.iers@obspm.fr] Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 12:46 To: adresc1(a)arcas.obspm.fr Subject: Bulletin C number 38 INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 Internet : services.iers(a)obspm.fr Paris, 4 July 2009 Bulletin C 38 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2009. The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is : from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -34 s Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Director Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France

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Could I use time zone package in company software?
by Sun, Suping (NSN - CN/Beijing) July 2, 2009

July 2, 2009

hello I develop summer-time feature on company product, could I use compiled binary file zic and zdump in it? is there any license or property right problem? how should I do? thanks for answer in advance.

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GIS Atlas
by John Paulson June 25, 2009

June 25, 2009

Here is the link www.sedo.com/sale/?d=gisatlas.com Kind Regards John Paulson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This electronic transmission is strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, or have otherwise received this transmission in error, you must not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance of this transmission. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender as soon as possible. ======================================================

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(PHP) CEST does not exist in December
by S�bastien WILLEMIJNS June 24, 2009

June 24, 2009

Hello, If anyone has the code to detect than "25 December $year XX:XX:XX CEST" does not exist I has (quicky and maybe badly) think i will compare time between GMT and an hour http://www.php.net/manual/fr/function.timezone-offset-get.php to grab offset (+1 or +2 for me in France) but if anyone has the code od a specific date ;)

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tzdata2009j.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] June 24, 2009

June 24, 2009

The file... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2009j.tar.gz ...is now available; this reflects the Bangladesh change circulated earlier this week on the time zone mailing list (with a short turnaround since the DST change is impending). We'll get to revisit Bangladesh once the end to DST has been set. --ado

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zic produces wrong POSIX style TZ
by Andreas Schwab June 23, 2009

June 23, 2009

The current Bangladesh time zone description is unusual in that it ends with being continuously in DST. This uncovered a bug in zic, which infers a POSIX TZ string of BDST-6 from the rule. This is wrong since a time zone that is continuously in DST cannot be expressed by POSIX rules, so zic should not try to generate such a string. Andreas. --- zic.c.~1~ 2009-04-20 22:17:54.000000000 +0200 +++ zic.c 2009-06-22 18:35:10.000000000 +0200 @@ -1921,7 +1921,7 @@ const int zonecount; if (stdrp != NULL && stdrp->r_hiyear == 2037) return; } - if (stdrp == NULL && zp->z_nrules != 0) + if (stdrp == NULL && (zp->z_nrules != 0 || zp->z_stdoff != 0)) return; abbrvar = (stdrp == NULL) ? "" : stdrp->r_abbrvar; doabbr(result, zp->z_format, abbrvar, FALSE, TRUE); -- Andreas Schwab, aschwab(a)redhat.com GPG Key fingerprint = D4E8 DBE3 3813 BB5D FA84 5EC7 45C6 250E 6F00 984E "And now for something completely different."

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tzselect patch: remove dependency on ksh
by Peter Seebach June 22, 2009

June 22, 2009

This was done against the copy in glibc, the eglibc folks suggested I send it on to you as the upstream. Basic synopsis: This allows tzselect to be used on hosts (such as embedded systems) with only a POSIX shell. --- glibc-2.8.orig/timezone/tzselect.ksh 2009-06-22 11:23:11.000000000 -0700 +++ glibc-2.8/timezone/tzselect.sh 2009-06-22 11:52:26.000000000 -0700 @@ -1,27 +1,16 @@ -#! @KSH@ +#! @SH@ -# '@(#)tzselect.ksh 8.1' +# '@(#)tzselect.sh 8.1' # Ask the user about the time zone, and output the resulting TZ value to stdout. # Interact with the user via stderr and stdin. # Contributed by Paul Eggert. -# Porting notes: -# -# This script requires several features of the Korn shell. -# If your host lacks the Korn shell, -# you can use either of the following free programs instead: -# -# <a href=ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/> -# Bourne-Again shell (bash) -# </a> -# -# <a href=ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca/pub/pdksh/pdksh.tar.gz> -# Public domain ksh -# </a> -# -# This script also uses several features of modern awk programs. +# func_select allows this script to run on shells (such as busybox ash) +# which lack the ksh "select" builtin. + +# This script uses several features of modern awk programs. # If your host lacks awk, or has an old awk that does not conform to Posix.2, # you can use either of the following free programs instead: # @@ -33,6 +22,70 @@ # mawk # </a> +# Implement ksh-style select in POSIX shell + +# We need a mostly-portable echo-n. +case `echo -n "foo\c"` in +*n*c*) func_echo_n() { echo "$*"; } ;; +*n*) func_echo_n() { echo "$*\c"; } ;; +*) func_echo_n() { echo -n "$*"; } ;; +esac + +# Synopsis: Replace "select foo in list" with "while func_select foo in list" +# and this works just like ksh, so far as I know. +func_select () { + func_select_args=0 + if expr "$1" : "^[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*$" > /dev/null; then + func_select_var=$1 + else + echo >&2 "func_select: '$1' is not a valid variable name." + return 1 + fi + shift 1 + case $1 in + in) shift 1;; + *) echo >&2 "func_select: usage: func_select var in ... (you must provide +arguments)"; return 1;; + esac + case $# in + 0) echo >&2 "func_select: usage: func_select var in ..."; return 1;; + esac + for func_select_arg + do + func_select_args=`expr $func_select_args + 1` + eval func_select_a_$func_select_args=\$func_select_arg + done + REPLY="" + while : + do + if test -z "$REPLY"; then + func_select_i=1 + while test $func_select_i -le $func_select_args + do + eval echo "\"\$func_select_i) \$func_select_a_$func_select_i\"" + func_select_i=`expr $func_select_i + 1` + done + fi + func_echo_n "${PS3-#? }" >&2 + if read REPLY; then + if test -n "${REPLY}"; then + if expr "$REPLY" : '^[1-9][0-9]*$' > /dev/null; then + if test "$REPLY" -ge 1 && test "$REPLY" -le $func_select_args; then + eval $func_select_var=\$func_select_a_$REPLY + else + eval $func_select_var= + fi + else + eval $func_select_var= + fi + return 0 + fi + else + eval $func_select_var= + return 1 + fi + done +} # Specify default values for environment variables if they are unset. : ${AWK=awk} @@ -62,7 +115,7 @@ # Work around a bug in bash 1.14.7 and earlier, where $PS3 is sent to stdout. -case $(echo 1 | (select x in x; do break; done) 2>/dev/null) in +case $(echo 1 | (while func_select x in x; do break; done) 2>/dev/ null) in ?*) PS3= esac @@ -82,7 +135,7 @@ echo >&2 'Please select a continent or ocean.' - select continent in \ + while func_select continent in \ Africa \ Americas \ Antarctica \ @@ -162,7 +215,7 @@ case $countries in *"$newline"*) echo >&2 'Please select a country.' - select country in $countries + while func_select country in $countries do case $country in '') echo >&2 'Please enter a number in range.';; @@ -201,7 +254,7 @@ *"$newline"*) echo >&2 'Please select one of the following' \ 'time zone regions.' - select region in $regions + while func_select region in $regions do case $region in '') echo >&2 'Please enter a number in range.';; @@ -278,7 +331,7 @@ echo >&2 "Is the above information OK?" ok= - select ok in Yes No + while func_select ok in Yes No do case $ok in '') echo >&2 'Please enter 1 for Yes, or 2 for No.';; -- Peter Seebach <peter.seebach(a)windriver.com> Listen, get this. Nobody with a good compiler needs to be justified.

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NIST Time and Frequency FAQ
by Dave Cantor June 22, 2009

June 22, 2009

In support of the current decision to allow the use of 2400 to indicate midnight at the end of a day, here's a pointer to an article published by NIST. http://tf.nist.gov/general/misc.htm Perhaps, this pointer, or an excerpt of the article, should appear somewhere in the theory file. Dave C.

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Brazil considering a common time zone
by Steffen Thorsen June 21, 2009

June 21, 2009

There is a proposal to have all of Brazil follow Brasilia's time zone. The proposal received a Senate committee approval on Tuesday, June 16, 2009, it is No 486, 2008 is available in PDF (and Portuguese) here: http://legis.senado.gov.br/mate/servlet/PDFMateServlet?s=http://www.senado.… It will probably be debated, and there are no dates yet for when such a possible change will be observed from. We provide some background info about it here: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-one-time-zone.html Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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Please correct time zone information for Bangladesh
by mn4net＠gmail.com June 20, 2009

June 20, 2009

Please refer to the following links http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=73 http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html Thanks and regards

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FW: Updated file is not working[BDT to BDST]
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] June 18, 2009

June 18, 2009

I'm forwarding this message from Mohammed Zahid Hossain; MZH was not on the time zone mailing list when the message was sent, but is now. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Mohammed Zahid Hossain [mailto:zahid@allbd.com] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:03 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Updated file is not working[BDT to BDST] Hello, Updating with the given zoneinfo [Asia/Dhaka] datafile changing nothing but the time initial BDT to BDST. I've tried to edit the earlier data file [tzdata2009i.tar.gz] and with little change found following: $zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2009 /etc/localtime Fri Jun 19 16:59:59 2009 UTC = Fri Jun 19 22:59:59 2009 BDT isdst=0 gmtoff=21600 /etc/localtime Fri Jun 19 17:00:00 2009 UTC = Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 2009 BDST isdst=1 gmtoff=25200 /etc/localtime Tue Sep 29 16:59:59 2009 UTC = Tue Sep 29 23:59:59 2009 BDST isdst=1 gmtoff=25200 /etc/localtime Tue Sep 29 17:00:00 2009 UTC = Tue Sep 29 23:00:00 2009 BDT isdst=0 gmtoff=21600 #Here is the tzdata/asia file # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Bang 2009 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - Rule Bang 2009 only - Jun 19 23:00 1:00 S Rule Bang 2009 only - Sep 30 00:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time 6:00 Bang BD%sT But still having problem with backward. Thanks, -- Mohammed Zahid Hossain System Administrator & Head of Operation ====================================== Onenet Communications Limited(ABSCO) (The ISP division of OneTel) Bulu Ocean Tower (14th Floor) 40 Kemal Ataturk Avenue Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh. Tel: (880-2) 885-3164, 886-0861, 882-1486, 989-8391 Web: http://www.onenetbd.com/

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Updated file is not working[BDT to BDST]
by Mohammed Zahid Hossain June 18, 2009

June 18, 2009

Hello, Updating with the given zoneinfo [Asia/Dhaka] datafile changing nothing but the time initial BDT to BDST. I've tried to edit the earlier data file [tzdata2009i.tar.gz] and with little change found following: $zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2009 /etc/localtime Fri Jun 19 16:59:59 2009 UTC = Fri Jun 19 22:59:59 2009 BDT isdst=0 gmtoff=21600 /etc/localtime Fri Jun 19 17:00:00 2009 UTC = Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 2009 BDST isdst=1 gmtoff=25200 /etc/localtime Tue Sep 29 16:59:59 2009 UTC = Tue Sep 29 23:59:59 2009 BDST isdst=1 gmtoff=25200 /etc/localtime Tue Sep 29 17:00:00 2009 UTC = Tue Sep 29 23:00:00 2009 BDT isdst=0 gmtoff=21600 #Here is the tzdata/asia file # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Bang 2009 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - Rule Bang 2009 only - Jun 19 23:00 1:00 S Rule Bang 2009 only - Sep 30 00:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time 6:00 Bang BD%sT But still having problem with backward. Thanks, -- Mohammed Zahid Hossain System Administrator & Head of Operation ====================================== Onenet Communications Limited(ABSCO) (The ISP division of OneTel) Bulu Ocean Tower (14th Floor) 40 Kemal Ataturk Avenue Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh. Tel: (880-2) 885-3164, 886-0861, 882-1486, 989-8391 Web: http://www.onenetbd.com/

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Update URL for 2000/84/EC directive governing current EU DST
by Colin Watson June 18, 2009

June 18, 2009

The 'europe' file in tzdata-2009i has this link: # The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See: # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html"> # Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council # of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements. # </a> The URL given there no longer works properly. Here's an updated one, which Ian Jackson found by way of a search engine: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXn… Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson(a)debian.org]

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Bolivia may change Time Zone from GMT-04 to GMT-05 in the winter.
by Alexander Krivenyshev June 17, 2009

June 17, 2009

According to various news reports Bolivia is considering to change Time Zone from GMT-04 to GMT-05 in the winter 2009/2010 to prevent the spread of colds and the new seasonal influenza A strain H1N1. It would be the first time in Bolivian history that changes the time zone. Analizan en Bolivia cambiar el huso horario de invierno para evitar gripes (spanish) http://www.adn.es/sociedad/20090616/NWS-1425-Analizan-Bolivia-invierno-hora… cambiar.html El Gobierno quiere frenar incremento de los resfríos cambiando el huso horario (spanish) http://www.erbol.com.bo/noticia1.php?identificador=1689&bdatos=notiportada1 or (Spanish) http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bolivia01.html Alexander Krivenyshev, http://www.worldtimezone.com

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proposed time zone package change for Bangladesh
by Arthur David Olson June 17, 2009

June 17, 2009

First a note that tzdata2009i.tar.gz does seem to do the expected thing here on the mother system: Script started on Mon Jun 15 06:34:58 2009 lecserver$ ./zdump -v Asia/Dhaka | grep 2009 Asia/Dhaka Fri Jun 19 17:59:59 2009 UTC = Fri Jun 19 23:59:59 2009 BDT isdst=0 Asia/Dhaka Fri Jun 19 18:00:00 2009 UTC = Sat Jun 20 01:00:00 2009 BDST isdst=1 lecserver$ exit script done on Mon Jun 15 06:35:15 2009 However, given this morning's note about DST starting at 23:00... Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). No DST end date has been announced yet. ...and as a way to both simplify the change and avoid glitches, below find a proposed change to the "asia" file. Feedback both on the usefulness of the change and when to push it is welcome. --ado ------- asia ------- *** /tmp/geta26023 Mon Jun 15 06:44:15 2009 --- /tmp/getb26023 Mon Jun 15 06:44:15 2009 *************** *** 1,5 **** # <pre> ! # @(#)asia 8.34 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. --- 1,5 ---- # <pre> ! # @(#)asia 8.35 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. *************** *** 165,173 **** # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html # </a> ! # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S ! Rule Bang 2009 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - ! Rule Bang 2009 only - Jun 20 0:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 --- 165,176 ---- # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html # </a> ! # From A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat (2009-06-15): ! # Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start ! # time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh ! # Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). ! # ! # No DST end date has been announced yet. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 *************** *** 176,183 **** 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time ! 6:00 - BDT 2009 # Bangladesh Time ! 6:00 Bang BD%sT # Bhutan # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] --- 179,186 ---- 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time ! 6:00 - BDT 2009 Jun 19 23:00 # Bangladesh Time ! 6:00 1:00 BDST # Bhutan # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]

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Time zone references in art
by Dave Cantor June 16, 2009

June 16, 2009

A possible addition to tz-art.htm : In the 1946 "A Matter of Life and Death", 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 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/ Dave Cantor Groton, CT

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FW: Re: tzdata2009i - Bangladesh
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] June 15, 2009

June 15, 2009

I'm forwarding this message from A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado From: A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat [mailto:kamrus.saadat@aamra.com.bd] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 7:42 To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Cc: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: RE: Re: tzdata2009i - Bangladesh Hi, For credibility issue, I am just sending scan copy of the official mail and one link. Please see the official letter written in Bengali from BTRC in the attached email. Currently no English version of this mail is available. Also please find the following link with the new start time information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972423 Thanks, Kamrus -----Original Message----- From: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:38 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Cc: kamrus.saadat(a)aamra.com.bd Subject: FW: Re: tzdata2009i - Bangladesh I'm forwareding this message from Kamrus Saadat, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat [mailto:kamrus.saadat@aamra.com.bd] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:37 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: tzdata2009i - Bangladesh Hi, Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). No DST end date has been announced yet. Thanks, Kamrus From: A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat [mailto:kamrus.saadat@aamra.com.bd] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:12 PM To: Muralidhar.Indraganti(a)Sun.COM Cc: sun.technologies(a)aamra.com.bd Subject: RE: Case:id-11355164-Sun Fire E6900: Need TZUpdater tool for Bangladesh DST rule-reg Hi Murali, Please see the official letter written in Bengali from BTRC in the attached email. Currently no English version of this mail is available. Also please find the following link with the new start time information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972423 Thanks, Kamrus From: Muralidhar.Indraganti(a)Sun.COM [mailto:Muralidhar.Indraganti@Sun.COM] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:04 PM To: A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat Cc: sun.technologies(a)aamra.com.bd Subject: Re: Case:id-11355164-Sun Fire E6900: Need TZUpdater tool for Bangladesh DST rule-reg Hi Kamrus, Does it mean that the information on http://www.bangladesh.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=172 is out-dated? Can you provide any public link like above/ scanned copy stating that DST start time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00. Wanted to make sure that BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission) is 100% correct on this. We would need an official/ public document to make the changes happen. Thanks, Murali. On 06/15/09 16:02, A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat wrote: Hi Murali, Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 (previous start time was 20th June 2009 00:00) from BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). End date is not announced yet. So, we'll be in a big trouble if we need to update the rule manually for more than 500 servers belongs to Ericsson within a short period of time (only 3 days left). Could you please provide us the compiled Dhaka.dat file with the new DST rule where start time should be 19th June 2009 23:00 ? For the work around 1, Ericsson second line comments that it would be too difficult to implement. Changes to every application's start script would be required and these changes may be wiped after the next CU/EC/EU upgrade. So they want to go for the work around 2. What's your comments regarding this? Thanks, Kamrus From: Muralidhar.Indraganti(a)Sun.COM [mailto:Muralidhar.Indraganti@Sun.COM] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:50 PM To: A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat Subject: Re: Case:id-11355164-Sun Fire E6900: Need TZUpdater tool for Bangladesh DST rule-reg Hi Kamrus, Let me know how the workaround works for you. We have filed a Bug/ Change Request (CR): 6848989 (tz) Embed tzdata2009i into the tzupdater tool We Escalated this to the Engineering for a fix. Will be embeded tzdata2009i into the tzupdater tool. PS: This is not yet tested & certified by Sun Q&A. This is NOT for Production use. Please test this on your Test machine and let us know how it works for you. Thanks, Murali.

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RE: Re: tzdata2009i - Bangladesh
by A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat June 15, 2009

June 15, 2009

Hi, For credibility issue, I am just sending scan copy of the official mail and one link. Please see the official letter written in Bengali from BTRC in the attached email. Currently no English version of this mail is available. Also please find the following link with the new start time information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972423 Thanks, Kamrus -----Original Message----- From: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:38 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Cc: kamrus.saadat(a)aamra.com.bd Subject: FW: Re: tzdata2009i - Bangladesh I'm forwareding this message from Kamrus Saadat, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat [mailto:kamrus.saadat@aamra.com.bd] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:37 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: tzdata2009i - Bangladesh Hi, Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). No DST end date has been announced yet. Thanks, Kamrus From: A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat [mailto:kamrus.saadat@aamra.com.bd] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:12 PM To: Muralidhar.Indraganti(a)Sun.COM Cc: sun.technologies(a)aamra.com.bd Subject: RE: Case:id-11355164-Sun Fire E6900: Need TZUpdater tool for Bangladesh DST rule-reg Hi Murali, Please see the official letter written in Bengali from BTRC in the attached email. Currently no English version of this mail is available. Also please find the following link with the new start time information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972423 Thanks, Kamrus From: Muralidhar.Indraganti(a)Sun.COM [mailto:Muralidhar.Indraganti@Sun.COM] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:04 PM To: A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat Cc: sun.technologies(a)aamra.com.bd Subject: Re: Case:id-11355164-Sun Fire E6900: Need TZUpdater tool for Bangladesh DST rule-reg Hi Kamrus, Does it mean that the information on http://www.bangladesh.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.bangladesh.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=172> &task=view&id=172 is out-dated? Can you provide any public link like above/ scanned copy stating that DST start time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00. Wanted to make sure that BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission) is 100% correct on this. We would need an official/ public document to make the changes happen. Thanks, Murali. On 06/15/09 16:02, A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat wrote: Hi Murali, Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 (previous start time was 20th June 2009 00:00) from BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). End date is not announced yet. So, we'll be in a big trouble if we need to update the rule manually for more than 500 servers belongs to Ericsson within a short period of time (only 3 days left). Could you please provide us the compiled Dhaka.dat file with the new DST rule where start time should be 19th June 2009 23:00 ? For the work around 1, Ericsson second line comments that it would be too difficult to implement. Changes to every application's start script would be required and these changes may be wiped after the next CU/EC/EU upgrade. So they want to go for the work around 2. What's your comments regarding this? Thanks, Kamrus From: Muralidhar.Indraganti(a)Sun.COM [mailto:Muralidhar.Indraganti@Sun.COM] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:50 PM To: A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat Subject: Re: Case:id-11355164-Sun Fire E6900: Need TZUpdater tool for Bangladesh DST rule-reg Hi Kamrus, Let me know how the workaround works for you. We have filed a Bug/ Change Request (CR): 6848989 (tz) Embed tzdata2009i into <http://monaco.sfbay/detail.jsf?cr=6848989> the tzupdater tool We Escalated this to the Engineering for a fix. Will be embeded tzdata2009i into the tzupdater tool. PS: This is not yet tested & certified by Sun Q&A. This is NOT for Production use. Please test this on your Test machine and let us know how it works for you. Thanks, Murali.

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FW: Re: tzdata2009i - Bangladesh
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] June 15, 2009

June 15, 2009

I'm forwareding this message from Kamru Saadat, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat [mailto:kamrus.saadat@aamra.com.bd] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:37 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: tzdata2009i - Bangladesh Hi, Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). No DST end date has been announced yet. Thanks, Kamrus

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tzdata2009i - Bangladesh
by Jesper Nørgaard June 15, 2009

June 15, 2009

Bangladesh is applying DST this 20.th.of June. In file tzdata2009i this is the attempt to implement it: Rule Bang 2009 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - Rule Bang 2009 only - Jun 20 0:00 1:00 S Now that doesn't make sense to me at all. Bangladesh has not had anything close to "DST" since 1951, and then we zero-set DST January 1st. 2009? Then after implementation of DST next Saturday we leave it dangling for the next millenium? Probably this is really just a "typo" for Rule Bang 2010 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - Rule Bang 2009 only - Jun 20 0:00 1:00 S So Bangladesh leaves DST with year end of 2009, since we have no authoritative information. But this is not a very good guess in my opinion, in fact Steffen Thorsen mentions semi-authoritative information: "On another note, Bangladesh's minister for power said earlier in 2009 that the new timing might continue until the end of September. Timeanddate.com will provide an update on the DST end date when it becomes available." Any guess in the end of September seems better to me, or October 1.st. 2009 at 0:00? ... perhaps this was why Dave Rolsky's test cases were blowing up? :) - Jesper Nørgaard Welen

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2009i - Bangladesh suddenly switches to UTC
by Martin Pitt June 15, 2009

June 15, 2009

Hello, with 2009i, which was supposed to fix DST in Bangladesh, I get a very strange result: | $ zdump -v Asia/Dhaka | Asia/Dhaka -9223372036854775808 = NULL | Asia/Dhaka -9223372036854689408 = NULL | Asia/Dhaka Tue Dec 31 17:58:19 1889 UTC = Tue Dec 31 23:59:59 1889 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=21700 | Asia/Dhaka Tue Dec 31 17:58:20 1889 UTC = Tue Dec 31 23:51:40 1889 HMT isdst=0 gmtoff=21200 | Asia/Dhaka Tue Sep 30 18:06:39 1941 UTC = Tue Sep 30 23:59:59 1941 HMT isdst=0 gmtoff=21200 | Asia/Dhaka Tue Sep 30 18:06:40 1941 UTC = Wed Oct 1 00:36:40 1941 BURT isdst=0 gmtoff=23400 | Asia/Dhaka Thu May 14 17:29:59 1942 UTC = Thu May 14 23:59:59 1942 BURT isdst=0 gmtoff=23400 | Asia/Dhaka Thu May 14 17:30:00 1942 UTC = Thu May 14 23:00:00 1942 IST isdst=0 gmtoff=19800 | Asia/Dhaka Mon Aug 31 18:29:59 1942 UTC = Mon Aug 31 23:59:59 1942 IST isdst=0 gmtoff=19800 | Asia/Dhaka Mon Aug 31 18:30:00 1942 UTC = Tue Sep 1 01:00:00 1942 BURT isdst=0 gmtoff=23400 | Asia/Dhaka Sat Sep 29 17:29:59 1951 UTC = Sat Sep 29 23:59:59 1951 BURT isdst=0 gmtoff=23400 | Asia/Dhaka Sat Sep 29 17:30:00 1951 UTC = Sat Sep 29 23:30:00 1951 DACT isdst=0 gmtoff=21600 | Asia/Dhaka Thu Mar 25 17:59:59 1971 UTC = Thu Mar 25 23:59:59 1971 DACT isdst=0 gmtoff=21600 | Asia/Dhaka Thu Mar 25 18:00:00 1971 UTC = Fri Mar 26 00:00:00 1971 BDT isdst=0 gmtoff=21600 | Asia/Dhaka Fri Jun 19 17:59:59 2009 UTC = Fri Jun 19 23:59:59 2009 BDT isdst=0 gmtoff=21600 | Asia/Dhaka Fri Jun 19 18:00:00 2009 UTC = Fri Jun 19 18:00:00 2009 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0 | Asia/Dhaka 9223372036854689407 = NULL | Asia/Dhaka 9223372036854775807 = NULL Note the third last line: It suddenly switches to UTC/gmtoff=0. This doesn't look right? Thank you for any enlightening, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)

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FW: Typos, duplicates, old/new names
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] June 12, 2009

June 12, 2009

I'm forwarding this message from Naoko McCracken, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Naoko McCracken [mailto:info@nao-net.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:01 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Typos, duplicates, old/new names Hi, I was directed to your project when I reported issues with WordPress language file. They use your timezone database via the php function timezone_identifiers_list() to fetch country names for: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/pot/trunk/wordpress-continents- cities.pot My post: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-polyglots/2009-May/003435.html Reply: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-polyglots/2009-May/003439.html There are a couple more things reported by another language file maintainer: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-polyglots/2009-May/003443.html I'm totally new here and not sure if I'm sending this to the right place. I'd appreciate it if someone can help me through to get these issues straightened. Thank you, --- Naoko McCracken http://ja.wordpress.org/

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Typos, duplicates, old/new names
by Naoko McCracken June 11, 2009

June 11, 2009

Hi, I was directed to your project when I reported issues with WordPress language file. They use your timezone database via the php function timezone_identifiers_list() to fetch country names for: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/pot/trunk/wordpress-continents-cit… My post: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-polyglots/2009-May/003435.html Reply: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-polyglots/2009-May/003439.html There are a couple more things reported by another language file maintainer: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-polyglots/2009-May/003443.html I'm totally new here and not sure if I'm sending this to the right place. I'd appreciate it if someone can help me through to get these issues straightened. Thank you, --- Naoko McCracken http://ja.wordpress.org/

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tz file format
by russ June 9, 2009

June 9, 2009

Hi, I hope i'm not wasting your time. I'm attempting to read the tz database into a c# application, and I'm not sure how to interpret this entry: Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb 10:00 Aus EST 1967 10:00 AT EST What is the significance of the "1:00" on the row ending in "1917 Feb". Do I just add this to the 10:00 offset? Thanks, Russell

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