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[PROPOSED PATCH] Add xkcd
by Paul Eggert March 6, 2016

March 6, 2016

* tz-art.htm: Add xkcd. Add URLs for specific comic strips or panels. --- tz-art.htm | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tz-art.htm b/tz-art.htm index 57d9092..127ab69 100644 --- a/tz-art.htm +++ b/tz-art.htm @@ -353,10 +353,17 @@ broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour. </li> <li> -The syndicated comic strip Dilbert featured an all-too-rare example of -time zone humor on 1998-03-14. +The syndicated comic strip Dilbert featured an +<a href='http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-03-14'>all-too-rare example of +time zone humor</a> on 1998-03-14. </li> <li> +The webcomic xkcd has the strip +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/673/'>The Sun</a>" (2009-12-09) and the panels +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1017/'>Backward in Time</a>" (2012-02-14), +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1061/'>EST</a>" (2012-05-28), and +"<a href='https://xkcd.com/1335/'>Now</a>" (2014-02-26). +<li> Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103 of the 1999-11 Atlantic Monthly. </li> @@ -515,7 +522,7 @@ Peppermint Patty: "What if the world comes to an end tonight, Marcie?" Marcie: "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir ... in fact, it's already tomorrow in Australia!" -(Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, 1980-06-13) +(Charles M. Schulz, <a href='http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1980/06/13'>Peanuts, 1980-06-13</a>) </li> </ul> </body> -- 2.5.0

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Time Lord Judah Levine
by Brian Inglis March 4, 2016

March 4, 2016

Wondered if you might want to give a mention in one of the HTML docs to the person responsible for providing our leap-seconds.list from NIST (courtesy of Tom Van Baak on Time-Nuts): https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2016-March/096401.html a couple of the articles quoted are more textual rather than Youtube link introductions: https://jila.colorado.edu/faculty/judah-levine http://cuindependent.com/2011/08/23/the-nations-time-lord/ -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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[PATCH] Broken link: Website has disappeared
by Sanjeev March 1, 2016

March 1, 2016

* tz-link.htm --- tz-link.htm | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm index bd92f64..c519669 100644 --- a/tz-link.htm +++ b/tz-link.htm @@ -200,9 +200,6 @@ time zone converter.</li> <li><a href="http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdatepick.html">Date and Time Gateway</a> lets you see the <code><abbr>TZ</abbr></code> values directly.</li> -<li><a -href="http://convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/World_Time/Current_Time.ASP">Current -Time in 1000 Places</a> uses descriptions of the values.</li> <li><a href="http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc">Time Zone Converter</a> uses a pulldown menu.</li> -- 2.7.0

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2015g: Is the 1:00 under Pacific/Norfolk "Rules" a typo?
by Marvel, Jim (CPCOE) March 1, 2016

March 1, 2016

Hello, Is the 1:00 under Pacific/Norfolk "Rules" a typo? # Norfolk # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time 11:30 - NFT 1974 Oct 27 02:00 # Norfolk T. 11:30 1:00 NFST 1975 Mar 2 02:00 11:30 - NFT 2015 Oct 4 02:00 11:00 - NFT thanks Jim Marvel

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[PROPOSED PATCH] * NEWS: × → x, to pacify ‘make check_character_set’.
by Paul Eggert Feb. 28, 2016

Feb. 28, 2016

--- NEWS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f3499d7..e4dc2b5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Comments in zone tables have been improved. (Thanks to J William Piggott.) tzselect again limits its menu comments so that menus fit on a - 24×80 alphanumeric display. + 24x80 alphanumeric display. In the Theory file, the description of possible time zone abbreviations in tzdata has been cleaned up, as the old description was unclear and -- 2.5.0

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[PATCH] Allow use of <direct.h> from Microsoft Windows to fix mkdir() parameters
by Ian Abbott Feb. 28, 2016

Feb. 28, 2016

This is an alternative to a patch by Esben Haabendal, titled "Fix MinGW builds by adding MKDIR_TAKES_ONE_ARG", posted on Feb 23. Esben's patch made "private.h" optionally include <sys/stat.h> to get at Microsoft's mkdir function, but I think that only works in MinGW, and relies on MinGW's <io.h> header (included by <sys/stat.h>) optionally declaring the mkdir function. The mkdir function is also deprecated by Microsoft. New code should call _mkdir instead. Both functions only take a single parameter. This patch makes "private.h" optionally include <direct.h> (and also <io.h>, due to MinGW's behavior), controlled by the HAVE_DIRECT_H macro, and defines mkdir(path, mode) as macro calling _mkdir(path). With this patch, tz builds successfully in a MSYS2 MingW-w64 Win32 or Win64 environment using the following command line: make CFLAGS="-DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=0 -DHAVE_DIRECT_H=1 -DHAVE_LINK=0 -DHAVE_SYMLINK=0 -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R=0" There are some warnings about 'tzname' being redeclared without dllimport attribute, when compiling zdump.c and localtime.c, but the resulting zdump executable seems to work. -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti(a)mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Web: http://www.mev.co.uk/ )=-

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[PATCH] zic: don't warn about link creation failure if not supported
by Ian Abbott Feb. 25, 2016

Feb. 25, 2016

Hi, The attached patch suppresses some warnings output by zic when compiled without support for hard links and/or symbolic links. When linking zone files in dolink(from, to), zic first tries to create hard links, falling back to creating symbolic links, falling back to creating copies. If HAVE_LINK is 0, link(from, to) is defined as a macro that always fails, so in that case, don't issue the warning "hard link failed, symbolic link used" when symbolic links are successfully created in place of hard links. If HAVE_SYMLINK is 0, symlink(from, to) is defined as a macro that always fails, so in that case, don't issue the warning "link failed, copy used" when copies are successfully created in place of symbolic links. -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti(a)mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Web: http://www.mev.co.uk/ )=-

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NIST leap-second file not yet updated
by Martin Burnicki Feb. 23, 2016

Feb. 23, 2016

Hi all, please note the NIST leap-second file at ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/ has not yet been updated according to IERS bulletin C 51. It's still the version which has been published in July 2015, and will expire in June 2016. I saw that also tzdata2016a.tar.gz which has been published 2016-01-26 still contains the old leap second file even though bulletin C 51 has already been published 2016-01-11. I've dropped Judah Levine a similar note, but eventually you can include the IERS version of the file into the TZ DB distribution. The IERS file has already been updated and expires 2016-12-28. Regards, Martin -- Martin Burnicki Senior Software Engineer MEINBERG Funkuhren GmbH & Co. KG Email: martin.burnicki(a)meinberg.de Phone: +49 (0)5281 9309-14 Fax: +49 (0)5281 9309-30 Lange Wand 9, 31812 Bad Pyrmont, Germany Amtsgericht Hannover 17HRA 100322 Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Günter Meinberg, Werner Meinberg, Andre Hartmann, Heiko Gerstung Web: http://www.meinberg.de

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[PATCH] Fix MinGW builds by adding MKDIR_TAKES_ONE_ARG
by esben.haabendal＠gmail.com Feb. 23, 2016

Feb. 23, 2016

From: Esben Haabendal <esben(a)haabendal.dk> On MinGW, we have non-standard mkdir() which only takes one argument. Signed-off-by: Esben Haabendal <esben(a)haabendal.dk> --- Makefile | 1 + private.h | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 568f7f6..a789fee 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ LDLIBS= # -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=0 if your compiler lacks a "sys/wait.h" # -DHAVE_TZSET=0 if your system lacks a tzset function # -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=0 if your compiler lacks a "unistd.h" (Microsoft C++ 7?) +# -DMKDIR_TAKES_ONE_ARG if your mkdir takes one arg (MinGW) # -DNO_RUN_TIME_WARNINGS_ABOUT_YEAR_2000_PROBLEMS_THANK_YOU=1 # if you do not want run time warnings about formats that may cause # year 2000 grief diff --git a/private.h b/private.h index 1c176e6..b2e7ecb 100644 --- a/private.h +++ b/private.h @@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ #define HAVE_UTMPX_H 1 #endif /* !defined HAVE_UTMPX_H */ +#ifdef MKDIR_TAKES_ONE_ARG +#include <sys/stat.h> +#define mkdir(path,mode) mkdir(path) +#endif + #ifndef NETBSD_INSPIRED # define NETBSD_INSPIRED 1 #endif -- 2.7.1

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Ulyanovsk, Altai Krai and Altai republic on their way to change time zones
by Alexander Krivenyshev Feb. 23, 2016

Feb. 23, 2016

Ulyanovsk, Altai Krai and Altai republic on their way to change time zones by March 27, 2016 at 2am. Today (Feb. 17, 2016) Russian State Duma passed the bill in the first reading for 3 more regions to change their time zones (http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/) - Ulyanovsk Oblast / Ulyanovsk from MSK to MSK+1 (UTC+3 to UTC+4) same as Astrakhan Oblast - Altai republic / Gorno-Altaysk MSK+3 to MSK+4 (UTC+6 to UTC+7) to Krasnoyarsk time zone - Altai Krai / Barnaul MSK+3 to MSK+4 (UTC+6 to UTC+7) to Krasnoyarsk time zone 920582-6 On Amendments to Article 5 of the Federal Law "On the Calculation of Time" (on reference of the Ulyanovsk Oblast / Ulyanovsk to the 3rd time zone, MSK+1, UTC+4) 02/17/2016- The State Duma passed the bill in the first reading; 935532-6 On Amendments to Article 5 of the Federal Law "On the Calculation of Time" (on reference of the Altai republic / Gorno-Altaysk to the 6th time zone, MSK+4, UTC+7) 02/17/2016- The State Duma passed the bill in the first reading; 944348-6 On Amendments to Article 5 of the Federal Law "On the Calculation of Time" (on reference of the Altai Krai / Barnaul to the 6th time zone, MSK+4, UTC+7) 02/17/2016- The State Duma passed the bill in the first reading; With 95% certainty these 3 more regions will change their time zones by March 27, 2016 at 2am. Alexander Krivenyshev http://www.worldtimezone.com

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