December 1998 - tz - lists.iana.org

changes for Nicaragua and Fiji
by Steffen Thorsen Dec. 29, 1998

Dec. 29, 1998

Dear Sirs, Nicaragua seems to be back at -6:00 but I have not been able to find when they changed from -5:00, so I have not included any patch for this change. (I got this information from a citizen in Managua. I've also tried telnet ibw.com.ni 13 which is located there, and it shows -6:00 to UTC) It seems like Fiji has started using DST now, but they provide information only for the change this year. I have tried to make a diff for australasia and had to make a new rule for "Fiji" because of the DST. Patch for Fiji is included at the end. Leo Brandewie <lbrand(a)earthlink.net> got this information from the Fiji Government: Forwarded: Here's what I got back from the Fijian Government. Note that it fails to provide general rules, and due to a nasty coincidence we cannot infer them without risk. Since Nov. 1 and Feb 28 are both Sundays, we can assume but not prove that it starts on the first Sun. in Nov. and ends on the last Sun. in Feb. Hope this helps, Leo [ Part 2: "Included Message" ] Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:20:20 +0000 From: Fiji Government <info(a)fiji.gov.fj> To: Leo Brandewie <lbrand(a)earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Leo Below is a Government press release on the 5th of October on Daylight Savings. "The Minister for Labour and Industrial Relations, Mr Vincent Lobendahn declared Daylight Saving to commence on November 1st, 1998. This means that at 2am on Sunday 1 November, clocks will be put forward to 3am and at 3am on Sunday 28 February 1999, clocks will be put back to 2am. The concept of daylight saving means that extra daylight will be available at the end of each day during the daylight saving period. The advantages of of daylight saving include: more time for sport, family recreation, gardening and other outdoor activities, savings in respect of electricity, reduction in nightime road accidents, increase in economic activity, with longer daylight hours for productive work activities, benefits to tourism by making best use of available daylight. According to a spokesman from the Ministry of Labour and Industrial Relations, Sunday morning has been chosen to ensure the least disruption to work activities as only shift workers employed at that time will be affected. The spokesman said the people will have to put their clocks forward by one hour before they go to bed on Saturday 31 October, which will ensure their time is correct when they wake up on Sunday morning. The same will apply on Saturday, 27 February next year, except that people will need to put their clocks back by one hour before they go to bed. However, shift workers employed at the time that clocks are officially changed will be affected. This means that a shift worker working an eight hour night shift starting at 10pm on Saturday 31 October and finishing at 6am on Sunday, 1 November 1998 will start and finish at those times but will work only seven hours due to the change in time. However, the person will still be entitled to eight hours pay. And a person who works the same shift from 10pm on Saturday 27 February until 6am on Sunday 28 February 1999 will work nine hours due to the change in time. The person must be paid for the extra hour and if the contract of service provides for overtime to be paid after eight hours, he or she would be entitled to the overtime rate of pay for the ninth hour of work." -END- diff -u australasia.old australasia --- australasia.old Thu Sep 24 16:46:09 1998 +++ australasia Tue Dec 29 11:31:06 1998 @@ -197,9 +197,15 @@ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time # Fiji + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Fiji 1998 only - Nov 1 2:00 1:00 - +Rule Fiji 1999 only - Feb 28 3:00 0:00 - + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva - 12:00 - FJT # Fiji Time + 12:00 - FJT 1998 Nov 1 + 12:00 Fiji FJT # Fiji Time # French Polynesia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]

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New labels in EOP IERS/CB solutions
by IERS/CB Dec. 28, 1998

Dec. 28, 1998

Subject : Change in the labelling of the IERS/BC EOP solutions on January 1 >From D. Gambis Dear Colleagues, Please note the following labelling changes in the EOP solutions of the IERS Central Bureau: In order to avoid confusion, starting from 1 JANUARY 1999, the LABELS of IERS/BC solutions EOP(IERS) 97 C 01, 02, 03, 04 will be changed to: EOP(IERS) C 01 EOP(IERS) C 02 EOP(IERS) C 03 EOP(IERS) C 04 I hope that this will not introduce any problem in your data handling. Best Wishes to all for 1999. D. Gambis

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Israel Timezone -- Dates for 1999
by Ephraim Silverberg Dec. 28, 1998

Dec. 28, 1998

Here are the dates for Israel for 1999. The main changes are starting in 1999, the Friday morning changeover to DST will take place at 2 a.m. instead of midnight and the change back will also be on a Friday morning at 2 a.m. instead of Saturday night at midnight. The following are context diffs for the file 'asia' extracted from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1998i.tar.gz -----------------------------Begin Context Diff------------------------------ *** asia Thu Sep 24 16:46:09 1998 --- asia.new Mon Dec 28 12:26:31 1998 *************** *** 509,530 **** Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim(a)cs.huji.ac.il> ! # (1997-03-04 and 1998-03-16): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. ! # Each year they decide anew what havoc to wreak on the country. However, ! # there is a "supposed" set of rules which is subject to change depending ! # on the party the Minister of Interior, the size of the coalition ! # government, the phase of the moon and the direction of the wind. Hence, ! # changes may need to be made on a semi-annual basis. One thing is entrenched ! # in law, however: that there must be at least 150 days of daylight savings ! # time annually. Ever since 1993, the change to daylight savings time is ! # on a Thursday night from midnight IST to 1 a.m IDT. The change back to ! # standard time is on a Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time ! # to 11 p.m. standard time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the ! # change back to standard time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday ! # night to avoid conflicts with the Jewish New Year. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D --- 509,529 ---- Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim(a)cs.huji.ac.il> ! # (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16 and 1998-12-28): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. ! # One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150 ! # days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to ! # daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to ! # 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a ! # Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard ! # time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard ! # time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid ! # conflicts with the Jewish New Year. Starting in 1999, the change to ! # daylight savings time will still be on a Friday morning but from ! # 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time ! # will now also be on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D *************** *** 570,588 **** Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S ! # From Member of Knesset Avraham Poraz, as quoted in Ha'aretz (1998-09-02): ! # [The 1998-09-06 transition is to] serve the interests of a small minority ! # of ultra-Orthodox Sephardic Jews who, during the [Hebrew] month of Elul, ! # recite Slihot penitential prayers in the early morning hours ! # and thus find daylight time inconvenient. # From Paul Eggert (1998-01-12): ! # Here are guesses for rules after 1998. # They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S ! Rule Zion 1999 max - Mar Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 D ! Rule Zion 1999 max - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 --- 569,589 ---- Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S + Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D + Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S ! # Due to imminent elections in 1999, there are no dates for the year 2000 ! # and beyond. There was a move to legislate the DST rules in Israel, but ! # due to the government's fall, it most likely won't be brought to the Knesset ! # for first reading before the elections and will probably be altered by the ! # newly elected government. # From Paul Eggert (1998-01-12): ! # Here are guesses for rules after 1999. # They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S ! Rule Zion 2000 max - Mar Fri>=15 2:00 1:00 D ! Rule Zion 2000 max - Sep Fri>=1 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 ------------------------------End Context Diff------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CS System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-6585439 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim(a)cs.huji.ac.il

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