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[colsen@usa.net: conf/1150: /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/north]
by Garrett Wollman April 19, 1996

April 19, 1996

This error is present in tzdata96e on elsie... -GAWollman ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- Message-Id: <199604191457.IAA00442(a)mach5.compus.com> From: colsen(a)usa.net Sender: owner-bugs(a)freebsd.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit(a)freebsd.org Subject: conf/1150: /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica file for Denver is wrong Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 08:57:58 -0600 (MDT) >Number: 1150 >Category: conf >Synopsis: /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica file for Denver is wrong >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 19 08:00:01 PDT 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Christopher B. Olsen >Organization: COMPUS Services Corp. >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386 >Environment: Tracking current. 32Mb, 166Mhz Pentium, 4Gb MICROP SCSI-2 Fast/Wide, BusLogic BT-956 >Description: The northamerica timezone file contains a bogus description for the Mountain time zone. >How-To-Repeat: link /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Denver. And check the time. you will get EDT or EST. >Fix: *** northamerica Fri Apr 19 09:42:41 1996 - --- northamerica.bak Fri Apr 19 09:42:41 1996 *************** *** 162,172 **** Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 ! -7:00 US M%sT 1920 ! -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 ! -7:00 US M%sT 1946 ! -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967 ! -7:00 US M%sT # ZONE-DESCR America Denver United_States Mountain time (except Arizona) # US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles - --- 162,172 ---- Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 ! -7:00 US E%sT 1920 ! -7:00 Denver E%sT 1942 ! -7:00 US E%sT 1946 ! -7:00 Denver E%sT 1967 ! -7:00 US E%sT # ZONE-DESCR America Denver United_States Mountain time (except Arizona) # US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: ------- end -------

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2 questions about the list
by Chris Carrier April 16, 1996

April 16, 1996

I would like to ask a couple of questions about this list. About how many people are on it? Also, I see it is from nci.nih.gov. Exactly who runs it? NIH sounds like National Institute of Health, but why would they be running a time zone mailing list? (Sleep deprivation perhaps :) )

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DST and accidents
by Chris Carrier April 6, 1996

April 6, 1996

On 04-Apr-96 20:52 PST Arthur David Olson (ado(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov) wrote about: DST in the news >Page A9 of the Thursday, April 4, 1996 Washington Post has a story headlined >"Daylight Savings May Be Motorists' Loss," .. about a letter to >the New England Journal of Medicine from Stanley Coren of the University of >British Columbia. The article notes that "Moving clocks forward an hour... >causes more traffic accidents the next day, according to [Coren's] study." Hmmm. I remember when the 1986 amendment to the Uniform Time Act was passed which started DST earlier, one of the arguments in favor was that it would REDUCE traffic accidents in the month of April. I was opposed to the 1986 amendment extending DST, even though I don't mind DST in April. I opposed it because I would like to see DST end not later than the last Sunday in September, and to have the time zones brought closer to where they astronomically ought to be to prevent the post-8 a.m. sunrises parts of the country are plagued with in October. Since the amendment didn't touch this (and in fact, the bill that passed the House would have made it worse, extending DST to the 1st Sunday in November) I was against it.

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Re: timezone for Mexico
by Alan.Perry＠Eng.Sun.COM April 5, 1996

April 5, 1996

> From mallen(a)kin.cyborg.com.mx Fri Apr 5 13:50:34 1996 > > I just checked and this year will have a "horario de verano" from > april first to october 27 (both sundays) in central Mexico and the change > will be made at two am in the next day. > > I don't know if this will remain unchanged in the next years as it is > stupid to change time in places with latitudes between the tropics as the > length of the day does not change much. It seems that people in FIDE know > little about Geography/Astronomy. Since this came from a Presidential Decree, I would say that it is the Mexican Administration that knows little about Geography/Astronomy. I am unfamiliar with the parties involved, so I will reserve judgment. I think the Mexico entry in northamerica should be changed to refer to the Decree in the 4 Jan Mexico national newspaper (that I posted to this list, but have since deleted) rather than the FIDE comment. alan

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timezone for Mexico
by Guillermo Mallen F. April 5, 1996

April 5, 1996

I just checked and this year will have a "horario de verano" from april first to october 27 (both sundays) in central Mexico and the change will be made at two am in the next day. I don't know if this will remain unchanged in the next years as it is stupid to change time in places with latitudes between the tropics as the length of the day does not change much. It seems that people in FIDE know little about Geography/Astronomy. Regards Guillermo M. Mallen mallen(a)kin.cyborg.com.mx

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DST in the news
by ado April 4, 1996

April 4, 1996

Page A9 of the Thursday, April 4, 1996 Washington Post has a story headlined "Daylight Savings May Be Motorists' Loss," a Reuter dispatch about a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine from Stanley Coren of the University of British Columbia. The article notes that "Moving clocks forward an hour... causes more traffic accidents the next day, according to [Coren's] study." --ado

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Re: EU daylight time
by Peter Ilieve April 3, 1996

April 3, 1996

On Apr 3, 9:51pm, Chris Carrier wrote: > Subject: EU daylight time > I am given to understand that the countries of the European Union > have decided to extend their 'summer-time period' until the last > Sunday in October. I would like to ask: > > Can individual EU countries choose to opt out of daylight time > entirely, as American states can opt out of DST under our own > Uniform Time Act of 1966, as amended 1972? I don't believe so, but I am no lawyer. The legal authority for the summer time dates is an EC Directive. This is supposed to have the force of law and EU member states are required to enact national legislation to put directives into effect. Countries are sometimes slow in doing this in other areas but I don't know of any countries not doing so where summer time is concerned. The process of making a directive involves the European Commission agreeing on the terms of it. It is then put to the Council of Ministers for final approval. Both the Commission and the Council are made up of appointees of the national governments. The Commissioners are supposed to ignore their contriy's national interests and work for the EU as a whole but the Council members can and do vote on things based on their own national interest. As a result of all this it is unlikely that a summer time directive would emerge that any country wouldn't agree with. We are now moving towards a system of `qualified majority voting' in the Council so in theory a country's national interest could be out-voted, but I don't know if the summer time directives are covered by this procedure. Countries would not have much incentive to opt out of this summer time end date change as a survey was conducted a few years ago as part of the seventh EC directive setting process and it found the people of Europe to be in favour of moving the date by a large majority. Peter Ilieve peter(a)aldie.co.uk

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EU daylight time
by Chris Carrier April 3, 1996

April 3, 1996

I am given to understand that the countries of the European Union have decided to extend their 'summer-time period' until the last Sunday in October. I would like to ask: Can individual EU countries choose to opt out of daylight time entirely, as American states can opt out of DST under our own Uniform Time Act of 1966, as amended 1972? Chris Carrier

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No summer time in PRC
by cml1001＠cus.cam.ac.uk March 30, 1996

March 30, 1996

Hello. P.R. of China has abolished summer time for a few years. Perhaps this is because summer time is not used in Hong Kong and Macau, so summer time in China caused much confusion. -- William - Have a good time all the time :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://club.eng.cam.ac.uk/~92cml

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Re: patch for Europe/Lisbon bug in tzdata96d
by ado March 19, 1996

March 19, 1996

The latest change to portugal is incorporated in tzdata96e.tar.gz, available for anonymous ftp from elsie.nci.nih.gov (165.112.73.1) in the ~ftp/pub directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 ado 73436 Mar 19 17:37 tzdata96e.tar.gz Timezone caballeros are warned to be braced for our busy April season. --ado

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