October 1999 - tz - lists.iana.org

Lithuanian time zone changed (again)
by Marius Gedminas 31 Oct '99

31 Oct '99

Hello, I'd like to inform that Lithuanian time zone is changed back to EET again. A patch (for tzdata1999e package) follows: --- europe.orig Wed Aug 25 09:00:01 1999 +++ europe Sun Oct 31 12:23:36 1999 @@ -1702,7 +1702,8 @@ 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u - 1:00 EU CE%sT + 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u + 2:00 EU EE%sT # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it # is # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here # too. @@ -1710,6 +1711,9 @@ # From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin(a)pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07): # I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone # (Europe/Vilnius) was changed. + +# From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin(a)takas.lt> (1999-10-31): +# Changing timezones seems to be popular among Lithuanian politics. # Luxembourg # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with # Shanks. Best Regards, Marius Gedminas -- Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

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Iqaluit council backs down on time zone issue
by Paul Eggert 29 Oct '99

29 Oct '99

Today's Nunatsiaq News reports that the Iqaluit town council has decided to go along with the rest of Nunavut and switch to central time on October 31. No change to the tz database should be needed. Please see: http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt91029_21.html

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Date Line
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) 26 Oct '99

26 Oct '99

Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appears on page 103 of the November, 1999 Atlantic Monthly. --ado

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Brazil timezone changes for Oct1999 and Feb 2000 and a question
by Marcus Chase 20 Oct '99

20 Oct '99

Hello Timezone, Brazil/East time changes for Oct1999 and feb 2000 occured for Rule Brazil 1999 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1 D Rule Brazil 2000 only - Feb Sun>=26 0:00 0 S The time is not certain. I have yet to see a governement rule that firmly states at what specific hour to time change is to occur. We have TZ=Brazil/East. The original southamerica file on our system had "Rule Brazil 1988 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1 D" In late September I changed max to only for the 1988 rule and added the 1999 and 2000 rules. But my system only changed to EDT on Sun the 17th of October. I ran ´truss -a -f -wall -vall -rall date´, which revealed that date opens /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/Brazil/East, but does not open southamerica. After updating the southamerica file do I have to ´rebuild´ the Brazil/East file in some way? Attached is my southamerica file. Cheers, Marcus Chase

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None
by Naji M. Khudairi 18 Oct '99

18 Oct '99

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64FR55892 Relocation of Standard Time Zone Boundary in the State of Kentucky (fwd)
by Garrett Wollman 15 Oct '99

15 Oct '99

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Time Zones for Cities (argh)
by Rich Shockney 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

The subject of determining the correct time zone for any city has come up before in this forum. I am interested in pursuing whether some city -> time zone mapping might be possible, but wanted to get the opinions of others here before heading down the wrong path. So, a couple of questions: (1) Has anyone successfully done this? I realize that trying to maintain this mapping manually introduces a technique that will most likely be error-prone. (2) The tz database lists a long/lat for each time zone. If I know the long/lat for a particular location anywhere in the world, is it possible to accurately interpolate the time zone given this information in the database? If so, does anyone know of a good source for long/lat data for major/minor cities? Is this even possible to achieve? Is there a better way? And, I'm only interested in current time/time zone mapping and not worried about historical data, in case that might make the task any easier. Thanks. Rich Shockney

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Database - TimeZones
by Ramakrishna Ravulapalli 12 Oct '99

12 Oct '99

Hi, Can you kindly send me the current Timezone related database please. Thanks a lot in advance. Cheers and Regards Ramki Ramakrishna Ravulapalli Integral Development Corporation (Europe) Limited Direct Line : +44 207 330 1119 Main Line : +44 207 330 1100 Email : ramakrishna.ravulapalli(a)integral.com http://www.integral.com

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FW: Tasmania to start DS with NSW etc. in 2000
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

-----Original Message----- From: Alex LIVINGSTON [SMTP:alex@agsm.edu.au] Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 8:38 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Tasmania to start DS with NSW etc. in 2000 I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard, has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000 instead of the first Sunday in October. Would someone else like to look around for written confirmation of this? --Alex

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Romania (and perhaps Moldova) use EU rules for daylight saving
by Paul Eggert 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

It seems that Romania used the EU rules as of fall 1998. See: http://www.nineoclock.ro/POL/1778pol.html I'm guessing that Moldova syncs with Romania, so unless we get better info I'll propose a patch switching those two countries to EU rules in 1997, the same year as Bulgaria.

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