March 1998 - tz - lists.iana.org

[worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk] libc/537: Zone file for London is incorrect
by Ulrich Drepper March 30, 1998

March 30, 1998

Hi, We got today the appended bug report. The time code seems to work correctly according to the timezone data and since the reporter seems to be from the UK the data might be wrong. Any comment on this? Thanks, -- Uli ---------------. drepper at gnu.org ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Cygnus Solutions `--' drepper at cygnus.com `------------------------

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Timezones for Romania
by Matei Conovici March 29, 1998

March 29, 1998

Hi! While trying to understand why some of our machines did not switch to DST, I noticed this part in the "europe" file ... # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct 1:44 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT 2:00 Romania EET%s 1981 Mar 29 2:00s 2:00 M-Eur EET%s # This may change to `E-Eur' soon, for EC compatibility. And I can certify that M-Eur was indeed changed to E-Eur, I believe since last october (not sure though). Anyway, today (29 Mar -> lastSun), 3:00 local time turned into 4:00 local time. This looks like it's E-Eur, and not M-Eur: Rule M-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 " DST" Rule M-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule E-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 3:00s 1:00 " DST" Rule E-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 3:00s 0 - I found the file on a solaris machine. Where can one find the most recent timezone definitions ? All the best, --------- Matei CONOVICI, YO3GEK, MC4471, MC151-RIPE, MC2-6BONE cmatei(a)roedu.net, cmatei(a)pub.ro, cmatei(a)edu.ro, cmatei(a)lbi.ro

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FW: lengthening days
by Olson, Arthur David March 27, 1998

March 27, 1998

Note that Mathew is not on the time zone mailing list (and note the space in the return address?); be sure to direct any replies to this message appropriately. --ado ---------- From: Mathew Englander[SMTP:"mathew "@ican.net] Sent: Friday, March 27, 1998 3:51 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: lengthening days On my local TV news tonight, they said that NASA thinks El Niño has slowed dow the Earth's rotation, making days 1/10 of a second longer. Surely this can't be right -- if it is, why don't we have three leap seconds a month? At CNN Interactive there is a news story (http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9803/26/nasa.el.nino/index.html) quoting the time of rotatin as being "a fraction of a second" longer. But in a transcript of a CNN program (http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/9803/26/ee.07.html) where a NASA oceanographer is interviewed, the interviewer for some reason puts the fraction at 2/3 of a second. What gives? Mathew Englander

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British Summer Time - completing the legislative jigsaw
by Joseph S. Myers March 26, 1998

March 26, 1998

I have located the 1922 Summer Time Order (Statutory Rules and Orders 1922 number 264), the last remaining untraced piece of UK legislation on Summer Time, in the Public Record Office (PRO: HO 45/11079/418515). This confirms the start and end of British Summer Time in 1922 to be Sunday 26 March to Sunday 8 October, both at 02:00 GMT. The file contains ten copies of the Order (one signed and bearing a seal), and one of the 1921 Order, but none of the Isle of Man order (S. R. & O. 1922 no. 290), which is as yet untraced. The papers in that file include letters instructing that copies of the Order be communicated to the Channel Islands, which suggests that Summer Time may have been used there. There are several files on Summer Time in HO 45 (Home Office Registered Papers) that I have not yet looked at; these are indexed under "Daylight Savings" with no cross-reference from "Summer Time". HO 380 (Summer Time and Calendars) contains files from 1962 to 1967. (The Order states that the termination of the War was defined as 31 August 1921 (!), which means that it was made within the powers of the War Emergency Laws (Continuance) Act.) People seeking copies of the Summer Time Orders should note that the following are not in the annual volumes: SR&O 1917 No. 362, SR&O 1921 No. 363, SR&O 1921 No. 364 - get from the Statutory Publications Office. SR&O 1922 No. 264 - get from the PRO (in HO 45/11079/418515). SR&O 1922 No. 290 - untraced. SR&O 1940 No. 172, SR&O 1944 No. 932, SR&O 1945 No. 312, SI 1948/495, SI 1949/373, SI 1950/518, SI 1951/430, SI 1951/451 - get from the British Library. -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28(a)cam.ac.uk >From "mathew "@ican.net Fri Mar 27 03:51:09 1998 Return-Path: <"mathew "@ican.net> Received: from mail0.tor.acc.ca ([204.92.54.110]) by elsie.nci.nih.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05269; Fri, 27 Mar 98 03:51:09 EST Received: from 142.154.112.51 (ppp-157.m2-2.van.ican.net [142.154.112.157]) by mail0.tor.acc.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA02950 for <tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov>; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 03:51:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199803270851.DAA02950(a)mail0.tor.acc.ca> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:51:08 -0800 From: Mathew Englander <"mathew "@ican.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: lengthening days Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mail0.tor.acc.ca id DAA02950 Status: RO Content-Length: 637 Lines: 15 On my local TV news tonight, they said that NASA thinks El Ni=F1o has slowed dow the Earth's rotation, making days 1/10 of a second longer. Surely this can't be right -- if it is, why don't we have three leap seconds a month? At CNN Interactive there is a news story (http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9803/26/nasa.el.nino/index.html) quoting the time of rotatin as being "a fraction of a second" longer. But in a transcript of a CNN program (http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/9803/26/ee.07.html) where a NASA oceanographer is interviewed, the interviewer for some reason puts the fraction at 2/3 of a second. What gives? Mathew Englander

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Timezone Database Online?
by rwk＠americom.com March 26, 1998

March 26, 1998

I ran across your this address as a source of up to date timezone information, world wide. Can you refer me to a URL with more information... Or one for a complete up-to-date and authoritative database of timezones, their names, offsets from GMT, and when/if they use summer hours (daylight savings time)? Can you tell me also... Are the dates "summer hours" go into effect standardized worldwide? And if not, is there any source for this information? We would like to be able to compute the current time (in any timezone) taking the possibility of "summer hours" into account. Thanks for any help, Dick Kreutzer AmeriCom Inc.

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FW: tz code
by Olson, Arthur David March 25, 1998

March 25, 1998

Note that the sender is not on the time zone mailing list; be sure that any responses to this note include the sender if appropriate. --ado ---------- From: Michael Shalayeff[SMTP:mickey@script.9netave.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 2:19 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: tz code re suddenly i stepped upon a time conversion code that is in use by the OpenBSD OS as a part of libc, i made a patch that would be good for systems w/ a smart (; malloc which can handle zero sized memory allocations, so that would be good to get rid of ialloc.c functions (what is done by this patch). that is in order to simplify future time conversion package integrations and to make this benefitiary for other systems using this package i'm asking you to include this patch in future releases. 10x cu

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tz code
by Michael Shalayeff March 25, 1998

March 25, 1998

re suddenly i stepped upon a time conversion code that is in use by the OpenBSD OS as a part of libc, i made a patch that would be good for systems w/ a smart (; malloc which can handle zero sized memory allocations, so that would be good to get rid of ialloc.c functions (what is done by this patch). that is in order to simplify future time conversion package integrations and to make this benefitiary for other systems using this package i'm asking you to include this patch in future releases. 10x cu

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FW: Antarctica/Davis info
by Olson, Arthur David March 25, 1998

March 25, 1998

Note that Craig is now on the time zone list. --ado ---------- From: Craig Bevins[SMTP:craigb@bitcom.net.au] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 7:40 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Antarctica/Davis info I notice info for Davis is missing from the data. Davis station is on UT+7. Source: been there + ANARE Handbook Cheers, Craig

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Antarctica/Davis info
by Craig Bevins March 25, 1998

March 25, 1998

I notice info for Davis is missing from the data. Davis station is on UT+7. Source: been there + ANARE Handbook Cheers, Craig

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Timezones
by lbc＠longsol.com March 19, 1998

March 19, 1998

Do you know of a file that I can download that will give me the 1998 and 1999 timezone and DST information? Thanks for you help. Lita Campbell Lita

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Israel Timezone -- Final Dates for 1998
by Ephraim Silverberg March 16, 1998

March 16, 1998

The dates I posted on December 31 are now finalised so the only thing I've changed in the data file is the comments. The following are context diffs for the file 'asia' extracted from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1998c.tar.gz -----------------------------Begin Context Diff------------------------------ *** asia.orig Sat Feb 28 19:32:25 1998 --- asia Mon Mar 16 11:26:28 1998 *************** *** 507,513 **** Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim(a)cs.huji.ac.il> ! # (1997-03-04 and 1997-12-31): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. --- 507,513 ---- 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. *************** *** 557,565 **** # # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1997.ps.gz # ! # According to the Office of the Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Interior, ! # the dates for 1998 are tentative and are still subject to final approval ! # (probably in late February/early March of 1998). # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D --- 557,565 ---- # # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1997.ps.gz # ! # The official announcement for the year 1998 can be viewed at: ! # ! # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1998.ps.gz # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D ------------------------------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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The National Legal Video Association-survey
by info＠nlva.com March 16, 1998

March 16, 1998

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time zone humor
by ado March 15, 1998

March 15, 1998

The 1998-03-14 instance of the syndicated comic strip "Dilbert" contains an (all-too-rare) example of time zone humor. The on-line version lags behind the paper version by about a week, but should be available shortly as http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert930314.html --ado

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(no subject)
by John Dixon March 5, 1998

March 5, 1998

John John S. Dixon, Technical Support, Global One Communications Voice: +44 1256 798781 Fax: +44 1256 814350 Email: john.dixon(a)global-one.co.uk This E-Mail has been successfully scanned for virus's. MIMEsweeper/McAfee Antivirus software.

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Punctuation error in australasia file
by Alex LIVINGSTON March 2, 1998

March 2, 1998

# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite it's location on the Can the apostrophe be removed, please? _______________ Alex LIVINGSTON Macintosh Support Information Technology (IT) Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) The University of New South Wales (UNSW) [Sydney] NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA E-mail : alex(a)agsm.unsw.edu.au; cit(a)agsm.unsw.edu.au (IT) Facsimile: +61 2 9931-9349 Telephone: +61 2 9931-9264 Time : UTC + 10 (Sun. Mar. 25-31 - Sat. Oct. 24-30) or 11 hours

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