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New Zealand DST changes
by Colin Sharples April 30, 2007

April 30, 2007

Hi, New Zealand has announced changes to its DST schedule. DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the first Sunday in April. The changes take effect this year, meaning that DST will begin on 30 Sep 2007 and end on 6 Apr 2008. http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Dayl… Regards Colin M Sharples Advisory IT Specialist, IBM Global Business Services, New Zealand Invited Member, A/NZ Technical Experts Council email: sharples(a)nz.ibm.com phone: 64-4-462-3363 mobile: 64-21-402085 fax: 64-4-463-3310

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Turks & Caicos switched to U.S. DST dates?
by Paul Eggert April 28, 2007

April 28, 2007

On 2007-03-15 Chris Dunn reported to the Debian bug list that the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) changed their DST transition dates this year to match the U.S. dates; see Debian bug 415007 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007>. He made no mention of the time, so I guess we should continue to assume transitions at 00:00 local time. It'd be nice if someone could confirm this with a more-authoritative source.

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elsie.nci.nih.gov outages
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] April 27, 2007

April 27, 2007

A fire in another part of the building took out power to our part of the building this last Monday evening (2007-04-23); elsie.nci.nih.gov has been out of service until just now. Permanent repairs are supposed to be done tomorrow (2007-04-28) from noon until 6 p.m. here on the east coast of the United States; elsie.nci.nih.gov will be down at that time as well. Enjoy this brief window of availability. --ado

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DST troubles
by Jesper Norgaard Welen April 23, 2007

April 23, 2007

Now that the bigger part of the early-months DST-hurdle of 2007 seems to have past, with surprisingly few Y2K7 disasters, here is something from the lighter side. Daylight saving can be dangerous too: A 15-year old boy spent 12 days in jail because a bomb threat call was made an hour before he called to a school phone hotline, and he was framed in an apparent mixup over DST http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/boy-jailed-over-daylight-saving-time-mix+ up-253361.php - Jesper

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FW: Question on how to add Mount Athos to timezones
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Mike Petersen, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone list should direct replies appropriately. (Julian calendar support, anyone?) --ado -----Original Message----- From: Mike Petersen [mailto:mgpeter@pcc-services.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 2:01 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Question on how to add Mount Athos to timezones Hello, I get quite a few support emails for Linux systems from people all over the world, and this one stumped me. A monk from Greece would like to set their Suse Linux Systems to Athonite Time, which is basically 13 days behind the rest of the world. For example today is Friday the 20th, but in Athos it is Friday the 7th. Here is more information from the person I am trying to help: Athos is a state in it's own right, a part of Greece, but an exception from Europe (tax exile). It has it's own Government and Police force. I will try to figure out a way to enter this in the glibc source, but I was wondering if you had any tips on how to do this (or if you could quickly do this for me.) For Further questions on Athonite Time, you can email the person who emailed me about it at: evdokimos(a)gmail.com Thanks, Mike Petersen mgpeter(a)pcc-services.com

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2007 Year DST rules for Turkey
by Amar Devegowda April 19, 2007

April 19, 2007

Hi Paul, This is Amar Devegowda from IBM India Software Labs. Recently I had informed you about the change in DST rules for Turkey, and you had provided the Time Tables with the modified rules accordingly. Thanks for the same. I came to know that Turkey has changed again the time at which the DST starts and ends this year 2007 at a very late stage. The DST now starts at 3:00AM on 25th March 2007 and ends at 04:00AM on 28th October 2007 as against 1:00AM on 25th March 2007 and 2:00AM on 28th October 2007 respectively (as per the previous rules). The latest rules are available at - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=107 I have some official information as well on this at the following websites: 1. http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/402029.asp 2. The following link is the Turkish Official Newspaper's page: http://rega.basbakanlik.gov.tr/ Since there was no direct link to DST rules announcement, a Turkish person has provided the below attached document to show you how you can get access to the formal DST announcement in the above link. Can you please update the time zone tables and also let me know when and which Time Zone Table would have the new Turkish DST rules ? Thanks in advance. Regards, Amar Amar Devegowda Java L3 Support for Windows, Java Technology Center, IBM India Software Labs, Bangalore, India Telephone 91-80-25094151

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FW: 2007 Year DST rules for Turkey
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] April 19, 2007

April 19, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Amar Devegowda, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. --ado From: Amar Devegowda [mailto:ADEVEGOW@in.ibm.com] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:59 AM To: eggert(a)CS.UCLA.EDU Cc: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov; Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Subject: 2007 Year DST rules for Turkey Hi Paul, This is Amar Devegowda from IBM India Software Labs. Recently I had informed you about the change in DST rules for Turkey, and you had provided the Time Tables with the modified rules accordingly. Thanks for the same. I came to know that Turkey has changed again the time at which the DST starts and ends this year 2007 at a very late stage. The DST now starts at 3:00AM on 25th March 2007 and ends at 04:00AM on 28th October 2007 as against 1:00AM on 25th March 2007 and 2:00AM on 28th October 2007 respectively (as per the previous rules). The latest rules are available at - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=107 I have some official information as well on this at the following websites: 1. http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/402029.asp 2. The following link is the Turkish Official Newspaper's page: http://rega.basbakanlik.gov.tr/ Since there was no direct link to DST rules announcement, a Turkish person has provided the below attached document to show you how you can get access to the formal DST announcement in the above link. Can you please update the time zone tables and also let me know when and which Time Zone Table would have the new Turkish DST rules ? Thanks in advance. Regards, Amar Amar Devegowda Java L3 Support for Windows, Java Technology Center, IBM India Software Labs, Bangalore, India Telephone 91-80-25094151

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Re: Bangladesh DST
by Chuck Soper April 16, 2007

April 16, 2007

That link was broken, but this one appears to work: http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/11/d70411020528.htm Chuck At 3:14 AM -0500 4/16/07, Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote: >More hot air about the (supposed) DST >implementation in Bangladesh. There seems to be >no firm decisions on this yet: > ><http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/11/d70411020529.htm>http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/11/d70411020529.htm > >Regards, >- Jesper > >Jesper Nørgaard Welen >Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx >Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software >CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo >Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard >Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz >El Batán >Texcoco, Edo. de México >CP 56130 MEXICO >Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 >Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 >Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 >Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: ><http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html>http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html > >

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Bangladesh DST
by Jesper Norgaard Welen April 16, 2007

April 16, 2007

More hot air about the (supposed) DST implementation in Bangladesh. There seems to be no firm decisions on this yet: http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/11/d70411020529.htm Regards, - Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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Question on interpretation of rules intervals
by Liviu Nicoara April 13, 2007

April 13, 2007

Hi all, I have a question about how to interpret the US set of rules. After going through the "zic" man page and the mailing list archive I am still unclear about the meaning of using this: [...] Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S [...] in a zone definition like this: Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 [...] As I see it, the US rule has a transition in 1942 (only), on Feb 9th, where it saved 1 hour. Am I correct in interpreting the gap of 43-44 as: 1. The transition of 1942 was observed up until 1945, Sep 30th, and... 2. The entry for Aug 14th, 1945 transition exists only in order to be used in time zones which did not observe the 1942 transition? Thanks, Liviu

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