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Bug in yearistype.sh
by Rickard Faith Sept. 1, 1995

Sept. 1, 1995

I'm not sure if this is fixed or not, but I'm passing it on just in case. The yearistype.sh version in question is 7.3. - ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: koop(a)biene.u-strasbg.fr Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 08:52:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Felix A. KOOP" <koop(a)biene.u-strasbg.fr> To: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm(a)nigel.vnet.net> Subject: yearistype in util-linux-2.4 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950901084813.424A-100000(a)biene.u-strasbg.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi, I found something bizarre in the yearistype script in util-linux-2.4. If you are no longer the maintainer, please can you forward it to the person who maintains it now. Thanks. The script reads like this: > 2-nonpres) case $1 in > *[02468][048]|*[13567][26]) exit 1 ;; ^^^ Should be 579 I think > *) exit 0 ;; > esac ;; > 2-odd) case $1 in > *[13579]) exit 0 ;; > *) exit 1 ;; > esac ;; > 2-uspres) case $1 in > *[02468][048]|*[13567][26]) exit 0 ;; ^^^ Here also 579 > *) exit 1 ;; > esac ;; If I'm wrong, can you explain me why? - - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: PGP Signed with PineSign 2.0 iQCVAwUBMEcCGnKYpFAkbPv9AQF0dAQAli7pctlXzX6IsqX/o5kSgfYuO1aW1Es4 PL6CEJfF6Q96bn80+cprZbUwVC588mgzU8A5McG7CJKGQLV2yDJGdFXHrf+XLmof iiueJ/jvG0Ir/HRkvChAW/llx9UlkbF3Ijxk24FGlYk7WnW73kSEl0N8wCKzwqK8 EcSVY3tFkXU= =E/kA - - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Greetings Felix A. Koop (Felix.Koop(a)ensps.u-strasbg.fr) <A HREF="http://sneezy.u-strasbg.fr/~felix/">Felix A. Koop</A> Disclaimer: Any suggestions, comments, or ideas promulgated are absolutely and positively disclaimed to be claimed for the purposes herein, whereas, and therefore. Any resemblance to intelligent ideas are purely coincidental. - ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Win 95 banned in India due to timezone map
by Monty Solomon Aug. 30, 1995

Aug. 30, 1995

FYA Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:35:00 -0400 From: Rod.Holland(a)East.Sun.COM (Rod Holland - Sun BOS Software) Subject: fenestration X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII > > Subject: Really interesting Win 95 banned in India > Content-Length: 1246 > X-Lines: 30 > > Wanted to update you guys on this. Kind of hard to > believe, but this is a real issue. > > The timezone map doesn't display the correct borders for > north region of Kashmir according to the Indian > government. > > This is an area they are at war with Pakistan over. The > map in Win95 is the map used by the UN, so we thought it > correct. The Indian Goverment has banned all sales of > Windows 95 in India and have also threatened to ban all > sales of all MS products in India. (Note that the > difference were talking about is a dozen pixels on the > map.) I've heard this is front page news there too. > > Looks like the solution of disabling the map is ok for > them, so that's what we'll do and re-release a special > English version for India. We'd change the bitmap to > please India, but who knows how long it'd stay correct. In > the future, we'll have a more politically correct timezone > picker that avoids this sort of thing so we don't have to > ship a special Indian version. > > If you have any special advise on how else we might deal > with this, please let me know.I don't have a schedule yet > on when we'll be able to re-release disks and CDs for > India. > > ---End of forwarded mail from Eric Johnson DAD ProjDev, Microsoft. > > Hi Stan, > > Apparently the Microsoft story is true ... > > Tom > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: Windows 95 > Content-Length: 570 > X-Lines: 18 > > Unbelievable, but true. > Looks like the rectification is in the works already(according to the > Economic Times of India) > > Microsoft removes software feature with wrong Indian map (Eco. Times) > > Microsoft will omit the time zone feature in its Windows 95 software > package for the Indian market. This follows the Indian Customs > department's decision not to allow the import of software that has > maps showing Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan and China. Microsoft has > also decided to rectify erroneous maps of India in several of its > other products. >

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Re: Australia/Sydney patch for March 1996
by ado Aug. 29, 1995

Aug. 29, 1995

The file tzdata95f.tar.gz in the anonymous ftp directory on elsie.nci.nih.gov (165.112.73.1) incorporates Paul Eggert's change to the australasia file. --ado

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Australia/Sydney patch for March 1996
by Paul Eggert Aug. 14, 1995

Aug. 14, 1995

In May, Bradley White wrote that next year New South Wales will conform to the other DST-using states of Australia for the autumn change, but I see that this isn't reflected in the latest released tzdata. I assume the change is still on (though with Australian politics one never knows :-). Here is a patch. According to the tables, the last holdout is Tasmania's spring change: it switches the first Sunday in October instead of the last Sunday like the others. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/australasia,v retrieving revision 1994.8 retrieving revision 1994.8.1.1 diff -c -r1994.8 -r1994.8.1.1 *** australasia 1994/12/10 16:26:05 1994.8 --- australasia 1995/08/14 20:28:15 1994.8.1.1 *************** *** 111,117 **** Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 - Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 1:00 - Rule AN 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - ! Rule AN 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 --- 111,118 ---- Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 - Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 1:00 - Rule AN 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - ! Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - ! Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 *************** *** 700,705 **** --- 701,710 ---- # From Arthur David Olson (March 8, 1992): # Sources differ on whether DST ended March 6 or March 20 in 1988; # March 20 (the "confirmed" date) is in the chosen rules. + + # From Bradley White (1995-05-20): + # Prem Bob Carr announced NSW will fall into line with other E states + # and SA and continue daylight savings to the last Sun in Mar. # Yancowinna

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OpenVMS to support tz
by Paul Eggert Aug. 5, 1995

Aug. 5, 1995

In <news:3vipkg$u9n@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, Ken Cowan of Digital Equipment Corporation <cowan(a)rtl.enet.dec.com> writes ``The DEC C library interface to timezones should be available in the first field test of OpenVMS V7.0''. DEC will supply zic, and users should be able to use the latest master tz tables, or tweak their own.

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tzdata95e.tar.gz
by ado July 8, 1995

July 8, 1995

tzdat95e.tar.gz is now available for anonymous ftp from elsie.nci.nih.gov (165.112.73.1) in the ~ftp/pub directory. The only change is a leap second at the end of this year. Thanks to Bradley White for forwarding news on the leap second. --ado

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timezone - data
by halanek＠ibm.net July 4, 1995

July 4, 1995

Hi, 1) I discovered your ftp server, where you have an excellent list of timezones. I am making an astronomy program, which I want to sell (when it's complete), and I want to use some of your data. Because I can't find any copyright, I want to ask you, if you allow me to do this, and if yes, if I must write your name,address,... into the copyright of my program ? 2) Do you know where I can get a list of as many cities as possible, with there name (german and or english), there geographical position and timezone (for the timezones, I would like to use your list (see above)). 3) Do you know where I can get an exact digital worldmap ? The map should not be saved as a picture, but the continets should be saved as points => I want to zoom to the map, and I want to show it as a globe, ... Thanks a lot. Bye/2 FROM Rainer WITH OS/2 3.00

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tzdata95d.tar.gz
by ado July 3, 1995

July 3, 1995

Paul Eggert's changes have been incorporated into tzdata95d.tar.gz, available by anonymous ftp from elsie.nci.nih.gov (165.112.73.1) in the ~ftp/pub directory. I should obviously avoid doing time zone work on a holiday weekend :-) --ado

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tzdata95c.tar.gz
by ado July 3, 1995

July 3, 1995

The file tzdata95c.tar.gz is now available for anonymous ftp from elsie.nci.nih.gov (165.112.73.1) in the ~ftp/pub directory. It incorporates changes to "asia", "backward", "europe", and "southamerica" (read: northamericacentrics need not apply). --ado

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Argentinian time zones
by Hernan G. Otero June 26, 1995

June 26, 1995

Hi! > # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, > # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to > # tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). I am sending modifications to the Argentinian time zone table... please check comments below to find out the source used. We did three modifications: * The table was completed for the missing years 1989-1993. * The name of the time zone was changed from America/Buenos_Aires to Argentina/Buenos_Aires * The (short) names where changed from E%sT to AR%s (AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina). --- 8< ----------------------------------------------------------- ############################################################################### # Argentina # From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988): # Argentina: first Sunday in October to first Sunday in April since 1976. # Double Summer time from 1969 to 1974. Switches at midnight. # From U. S. Naval Observatory (January 19, 19889): # ARGENTINA 3 H BEHIND UTC # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Arg 1930 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1931 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1931 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1932 1940 - Mar 1 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1932 1939 - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1940 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1941 only - Jun 15 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1941 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1943 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1943 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1946 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1946 only - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1963 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1963 only - Dec 15 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1967 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1967 1968 - Oct Sun<=7 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1968 1969 - Apr Sun<=7 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1974 1976 - Oct Sun<=7 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1975 1977 - Apr Sun<=7 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1985 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1986 only - Mar 14 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1986 1987 - Oct 25 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1987 only - Feb 13 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1988 only - Feb 7 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1988 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 D # # These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A., # obtaining the data from the: # Talleres de Hidrografia Naval Argentina # (Argentinian Naval Hidrography Institute) # Rule Arg 1989 only - Mar 5 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1989 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1990 only - Mar 4 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1990 only - Oct 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1991 only - Mar 3 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1991 only - Oct 20 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1992 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 S Rule Arg 1992 only - Oct 18 0:00 1:00 D Rule Arg 1993 only - Mar 7 0:00 0 S # # From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving # time corrections was derogated and no more modifications # to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made. # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Nov -4:17 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time -4:00 - AST 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg A%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%s --- 8< ----------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hernan G. Otero InterSoft Argentina S.A. Senior Software Engineer Av. Cordoba 883 Piso 13 hernan(a)isoft.com.ar (1054) Buenos Aires - Argentina http://www.isoft.com.ar/~hernan Voice: +54-1-318-8900 ,,, Fax: +54-1-318-8999 0(o o)0 -------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------

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