August 1996 - tz - lists.iana.org

Sri Lanka, Arthur C. Clarke
by Chris Carrier Aug. 15, 1996

Aug. 15, 1996

Did anyone get a response from anyone in Sri Lanka concerning the daylight- time situation? I've been subscribing to soc.culture.sri-lanka and haven't seen anything there other than Paul's posting, as the ng seems to be mostly about Sinhalese and Tamils living outside Sri Lanka cheering on their respective home teams and accusing each other of war crimes. Also, I wonder if Arthur C. Clarke, who lives in Sri Lanka and has made comments on time zoning, has had anything to say about it. The future of time zoning is of interest to me, especially since I live in California, and Clarke in the novel IMPERIAL EARTH (1976) projected that in 2276 we would have only four time zones. Although not explicitly stated, I believe that the times he used were GMT-5 for both American continents, GMT+1 for Europe and Africa, GMT+7 for Asia, and either GMT+13 or -11 for Australia/NZ/Pacific Ocean. Chris Carrier

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Year 2000
by ado Aug. 12, 1996

Aug. 12, 1996

One thought is to provide the GNU folks with code to support a compilie-time option that checks strftime arguments and warns about warn about two-digit-year format specifications (along the lines of the checking now done of printf and scanf formats). Another thought is to set up strftime to warn about two-digit-year format specifications if a sufficiently obscurely named environment variable is present. Does anyone know of prior art in these (or other) areas? --ado

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Re: Supplying names for timezones in the data files
by ado Aug. 5, 1996

Aug. 5, 1996

> # ZONE-DESCR America New_York United_States Eastern time > > Good idea, but how about a format like this instead? > > America/New_York +404251-0740023 US US Eastern time > > where the columns are: > > * zone name in tz database > * latitude and longitude (in ISO 6709 format) of the zone's main location > * country code (in ISO 3166 2-letter format) > * an (English) comment describing the zone One approach would be to, for example, Link America/New_York Coords/+404251-0740023 Link America/New_York Descrips/US_Eastern_time --ado

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S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2 for Developers
by Burchard Steinbild Aug. 5, 1996

Aug. 5, 1996

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Mailing list
by Ulrich Drepper Aug. 2, 1996

Aug. 2, 1996

Hi, could you please add drepper(a)gnu.ai.mit.edu to your mailing list about the time zone code. I'm now maintaining GNU libc and the time code is part of this. Thanks, -- Uli --------------. drepper(a)cygnus.com ,-. Rubensstrasse 5 Ulrich Drepper \ ,--------------------' \ 76149 Karlsruhe/Germany Cygnus Support `--' drepper(a)gnu.ai.mit.edu `------------------------

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