December 1997 - tz - lists.iana.org

FW: Non Delivery Report
by Olson, Arthur David Dec. 10, 1997

Dec. 10, 1997

Note that Denis is not on the time zone list; you may want to include Denis in any replies. --ado ---------- From: Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr[SMTP:Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 11:00 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Cc: Denis.Excoffier(a)ens.fr Subject: europe France 1891 Extracted from the "europe" file : # Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Whitman's more precise 0:09:05. Should be 0:09:21 instead. By the way, is there somewhere a lastest version of those files ? Another question : my zdump seems to be broken (mentions 1970 too often). Ever heard about this ? (solaris2.5, sparc20) Have a nice day, Scof.

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europe France 1891
by Denis.Excoffier＠ens.fr Dec. 10, 1997

Dec. 10, 1997

Extracted from the "europe" file : # Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Whitman's more precise 0:09:05. Should be 0:09:21 instead. By the way, is there somewhere a lastest version of those files ? Another question : my zdump seems to be broken (mentions 1970 too often). Ever heard about this ? (solaris2.5, sparc20) Have a nice day, Scof.

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Timezone settings for rarotonga wrong.
by Alan Brown Dec. 2, 1997

Dec. 2, 1997

This may have already been corrected. Rarotonga stopped using Daylight Savings Time at least 6 years ago, probably 8 years ago. It's tropical, so there's no sense in them using it. Daylight savngs was used to keep them in sync with New Zealand's daylight savings changes. (Rarotonga is the main island of the Cook Islands - a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand) It's also 10 hours behind GMT/UTC, not ahead of it. Regards Alan Brown.

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FW: Time zone data
by Olson, Arthur David Dec. 1, 1997

Dec. 1, 1997

Charlie Hendricksen is not on the time zone list; please be sure that Charlie is included in any replies. --ado ---------- From: Charlie Hendricksen[SMTP:veritas@u.washington.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 27, 1997 2:58 PM To: ao1d(a)nih.gov Subject: Time zone data Mr. Olson, I found a reference to your timezone work in Bill Thoen's page. I poked around in the ftp server and noticed five files, all nice and big! I experienced difficulty in extracting the tzarchive.gz. so I thought I would contact you before trying any of the other files. I am interested in obtaining a file of the geocoded boundaries of the time zones. I realize that time zones are marvelously complex and frequently changing, so I don't expect perfection. Since I have access to Arc/Info, I prefer the GIS approach to laborious entry of data into a spreadsheet. Can you steer me in the right direction? -- Charlie Hendricksen veritas(a)u.washington.edu

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