December 1996 - tz - lists.iana.org

tzcode1996n.tar.gz
by ado Dec. 16, 1996

Dec. 16, 1996

The file ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode1996n.tar.gz is now available; it incorporates the link snapping fix from Bruce Evans (via Garrett Wollman). --ado

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[Bruce Evans: fix for zic following obsolete links]
by Garrett Wollman Dec. 13, 1996

Dec. 13, 1996

Patch from a FreeBSD contributor... -GAWollman ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- Message-Id: <199612131138.WAA30698(a)godzilla.zeta.org.au> From: Bruce Evans <bde(a)zeta.org.au> To: wollman(a)freebsd.org Subject: fix for zic following obsolete links Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:38:49 +1100 zic made a mess of my /usr/share/zoneinfo by not snapping obsolete links (mostly in America/Indiana and Etc). Bruce diff -c2 src/usr.sbin/zic/zic.c~ src/usr.sbin/zic/zic.c *** src/usr.sbin/zic/zic.c~ Fri Jul 19 10:27:13 1996 - --- src/usr.sbin/zic/zic.c Thu Dec 12 21:22:16 1996 *************** *** 1424,1427 **** - --- 1424,1438 ---- (int) (strlen(directory) + 1 + strlen(name) + 1)); (void) sprintf(fullname, "%s/%s", directory, name); + + /* + * Remove old file, if any, to snap links. + */ + if (!itsdir(fullname) && remove(fullname) != 0 && errno != ENOENT) { + const char *e = strerror(errno); + (void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Can't remove %s: %s\n"), + progname, fullname, e); + (void) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + if ((fp = fopen(fullname, "wb")) == NULL) { if (mkdirs(fullname) != 0) ------- end -------

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RE: Russian data
by PYMCCART＠ECUVAX.CIS.ECU.EDU Dec. 3, 1996

Dec. 3, 1996

The Eastern Orthodox Churches are evidently individuated by states/nations, being most prominent in eastern Europe and Russia. The autonomy of statehood seems reflected also in some of the practices of state churches, the calendar being a rather divisive issue among them. A schism between Old and New Calendarists developed in this century, when in 1923 several state churches approximated the Gregorian Reform of 1582. The Russian and Greek churches were among those represented at an ecumenical council in which the reform proposal was approved. Technically, they did not fall into step with the Greogrian calendar, even though they skipped the requisite number of days to agree with it. They additionally adopted the new leap-year rule Chris Carrier has mentioned: Leap year every four years except years which leave remainders of 200 or 600 when divided by 900. (http://ecuvax.cis.ecu.edu/~pymccart/orthodox-reform.html) Not all state churches agreed to the reform, and some churches split internally over it. I have read that a subsequent compromise has been attempted, whereby the New Calendarists have readopted the Julian calendar for fixing moveable feasts related to Easter (the principal issue of contention), but observe other feasts, like Christmas, in agreement with the Gregorian calendar. As for the Orthodox church of Finnland, I have seen it mentioned in a few places as a lone exception, having adopted the Gregorian dates for all feasts. The explanation given is usually that the Christian population of Finnland is overwhelmingly Western in orientation, so the Orthodox in Finnland prefer to fit in. As for the FORMULA for computing Orthodox Easter, it would be the same as the Western formula, since both Churches regard the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD as authoritative. But because of the differences in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the date of the Vernal Equinox (March 21) differs by about two weeks. There's another difference, too: relating to when/WHERE the moon is full. (http://cssa.stanford.ecu/~marcos/ortheast.html) --Rick McCarty

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Russian data
by Chris Carrier Dec. 3, 1996

Dec. 3, 1996

Paul Eggert wrote: Thanks. I edited your message down to the following: is it OK if I include this in a future revision of the `europe' file? # From Chris Carrier <72157.3334(a)CompuServe.COM> (1996-12-02): # On 1929-10-01 the Soviet Union instituted an ``Eternal Calendar'' # with 30-day months plus 5 holidays, with a 5-day week. # On 1931-12-01 it changed to a 6-day week; in 1934 it reverted to the # Gregorian calendar while retaining the 6-day week; on 1940-06-27 it # reverted to the 7-day week. With the 6-day week the usual days # off were the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th of the month. # (Source: Evitiar Zerubavel, _The Seven Day Circle_) This is OK; I didn't know how much material to include, because the topic of discussion of the list is the clock, not the calendar, but Gregorian and the 5 and 6 day week experimental calendars were mentioned so I thought I should refine the data. I think the reason that the Russian Orthodox adhere to the Julian calendar, even today, is because Easter is getting steadily later under it. Easter is, after all, a spring festival, and late March in most of Russia is still snowy and very cold. By placing Easter in the date range April 4 - May 8 instead of March 22 - April 25 it's more springlike. Chris Carrier

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Russian calendar data
by Chris Carrier Dec. 2, 1996

Dec. 2, 1996

Some Russian information of interest to the list, and a question. We have Russia adopting a five-day calendar week in 1929 and a six-day week in 1932. The exact date for the adoption of the five day week was 1929-10-01 and for the six day week, 1931-12-01, not 1932. The 1940-06-27 date for the re- adoption of the seven day week is accurate; however they re-adopted their version of the Gregorian Calendar several years earlier (slightly different from ours in how it handles leap centuries; in the Gregorian, leap centuries are in those years divisible by 400; in their system, leap centuries are those in years divisible by either 200 or 600 mod 900, which makes the two calendars even until 2800- 02-28, when we have a leap year and they do not). The six day week was not always six days, but an integral part of the month; the usual days off were the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th of the month. (Source: Evitiar Zerubavel, THE SEVEN DAY CIRCLE, a book about the history of the week.) Question: we have Greece on the Gregorian Calendar in 1846. I thought they were the last holdout, not adopting the Gregorian Calendar until 1923, which is when the Eastern Orthodox Churches got together and adopted the mod-900 version of the Gregorian Calendar described above. (The transition was made by making the day after 1923-09-30 Julian 1923-10-14 Gregorian.) Chris Carrier

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