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Re: [tz] more on Palm Springs
by Paul Eggert March 18, 2018

March 18, 2018

Steve Allen wrote: > If inserting the Palm Springs story into tzdb is going to happen then > UCR has scanned copies of the local paper. Thanks for the URLs. Another city of two-timers, eh? Proposed patches attached.

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[PATCH] * backzone: Chillicothe, city of two-timers.
by Paul Eggert March 18, 2018

March 18, 2018

--- backzone | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/backzone b/backzone index 71cb066..de247f0 100644 --- a/backzone +++ b/backzone @@ -274,6 +274,16 @@ Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time -5:00 - EST +# United States +# +# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-18): +# America/Chillicothe would be tricky, as it was a city of two-timers: +# "To prevent a constant mixup at Chillicothe, caused by the courthouse +# clock running on central time and the city running on 'daylight saving' +# time, a third hand was added to the dial of the courthouse clock." +# -- Ohio news in brief. The Cedarville Herald. 1920-05-21;43(21):1 (col. 5) +# https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarville_herald/794 + # Canada Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 - LMT 1884 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1946 -- 2.14.3

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Keeping track of Japanese Era data
by Florian Weimer March 17, 2018

March 17, 2018

Would the tz project be interested in keeping track of the Japanese Era information? glibc currently stores it as part of its locale data, but I think this causes some issues (particularly with downstream builds). Thanks, Florian

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Palestine summer time 2018
by Sharef Mustafa March 16, 2018

March 16, 2018

Hi, Palestine summer time will start on Mar 24th 2018 by advancing the clock by 60 minutes as per Palestinian cabinet decision published on the offical website, though the decree did not specify the exact time of the time shift., http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/Website/AR/NDecrees/ViewFile.ashx?ID=e7a… this affects Asia/Gaza & Asia/Hebron time zones. BR Sharef Mustafa

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Phone glitch leaves some Hobartians behind the times
by Gilmore Davidson March 16, 2018

March 16, 2018

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-16/time-glitch-leaves-some-hobart-reside… <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-16/time-glitch-leaves-some-hobart-reside…> “[National telecom provider] Telstra has apologised for a fault that caused thousands of Tasmanian customers to have the wrong time displayed on their phones. The issue affecting Android operating systems caused widespread confusion, with many people reporting being late to work after their phones were running an hour early."

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Casey time zone change
by Steffen Thorsen March 14, 2018

March 14, 2018

Australian Antarctic Division informed us: With the conclusion of the Australian Antarctica Division’s aviation program for the 2017/18 season, please change your time for Casey station to *UTC +8* on Sunday 11th March (this change will take place on 11th March at 4am (UTC +11)). Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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Permanent DST in Florida: step 2 of 4 completed
by Arthur David Olson March 12, 2018

March 12, 2018

"The Florida Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act on Tuesday, three weeks after the state’s House of Representatives, and sent it to Gov. Rick Scott..." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/daylight-saving-time-florida.html?smi… (I have hopes for a new CBS hit series, "DST: Miami.") (Less frivolously, discussions about using EDT, AST, or FST--and how to set tm_isdst--can begin in earnest.) @dashdashado

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[PATCH] * tz-art.html: Add a Veep episode.
by Paul Eggert March 12, 2018

March 12, 2018

--- tz-art.html | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/tz-art.html b/tz-art.html index 480b9e1..9624d8c 100644 --- a/tz-art.html +++ b/tz-art.html @@ -81,19 +81,19 @@ doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. </li> <li> -The 1960s ITC television series The Prisoner included an episode -entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to +"The Chimes of Big Ben", The Prisoner, episode 2, ITC, 1967-10-06. +Our protagonist tumbles to the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big Ben" chiming on Polish local time. </li> <li> -The series Seinfeld included an episode entitled "The Susie," first -broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time +"The Susie", Seinfeld, season 8, episode 15, NBC, 1997-02-13. +Kramer decides that daylight saving time isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour. </li> <li> -The "20 Hours in America" episode of The West Wing, -first aired 2002-09-25, contained a <a +"20 Hours in America", The West Wing, season 4, episodes 1–2, +2002-09-25, contained a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc">scene</a> that saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes. @@ -165,6 +165,11 @@ CBS, 2016-01-17. The applicability of a contract hinges on the time zone associated with a video timestamp. </li> +<li> +"Justice", Veep, season 6, episode 4, HBO, 2017-05-07. +Jonah's inability to understand DST ends up impressing a wealthy +backer who sets him up for a 2020 presidential run. +</li> </ul> <h2>Books, plays, and magazines</h2> <ul> -- 2.14.3

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Regarding timezone upgrade from 2017c to 2018c
by Debananda Pal March 12, 2018

March 12, 2018

Hi, While upgrading to 2018c timezone, I found below changes : ./etc/localtime ./etc/localtime ==> Newly added ./etc/zoneinfo/localtime -> GMT ==> This entry is removed ./etc/zoneinfo/GMT ./etc/zoneinfo/GMT ==> Changed to ==> ./etc/zoneinfo/GMT link ./etc/localtime ./etc/zoneinfo/US/Pacific-New -> ../America/Los_Angeles ==> This entry is removed ./etc/zoneinfo/Africa/Sao_Tome -> ../Atlantic/St_Helena ==> Changed to ==> ./etc/zoneinfo/Africa/Sao_Tome ./etc/zoneinfo/Africa/Sao_Tome Please let me know, if the above changes are expected according to 2018c TZ database change. Regards, D Pal

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Misspelling of Kyiv in the Time Zone Database
by Mykola Moroziuk March 5, 2018

March 5, 2018

Greetings. I noticed that name of the capital of Ukraine is misspelled. In the Time Zone Database it's written as "Kiev" which is wrong. This spelling is wrong since it's transliteration of russian variant of the city's name - "Киев". The right spelling of the city's name is "Kyiv", since in Ukrainian it's written as "Київ", and pronunciation of "Kyiv" is the closest to the "Київ". Please, consider changing the name of the city from "Kiev" to "Kyiv", Thanks. Respectfully, Mykola Moroziuk

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