March 1999 - tz - lists.iana.org

FW: Time Zones
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) July 7, 1999

July 7, 1999

-----Original Message----- From: Daniel C. Sobral [SMTP:dcs@newsguy.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 8:18 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Time Zones I'd like to point out that what you call "Zone America/Sao_Paulo", the brazilian "legal time", is actually known as _Brasilia_ time zone in Brazil. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs(a)gns.com.br To see you is to sympathize.

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US vs. European Date Notation
by Markus Kuhn June 8, 1999

June 8, 1999

May be someone on this list has some insight about this topic: A journalist of the Wall Street Journal has contacted me as part of his research for a feature article about date notations. He noted that more and more Americans now start to use the European day, month, year notation instead of the traditional month, day, year, and he now realizes that thanks to ISO 8601 all this is moving into the wrong direction anyway. He would be very interested into any pointers of the history of these three date notations, and actually I am quite interested as well. Why do Americans write dates as "December 31, 1999" while Europeans write "31 December 1999", etc.? Why are in East Asia Bigendian dates more common? Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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storing timestamp data
by Lee Geoff April 1, 1999

April 1, 1999

Maiden email from a new subscriber. My interest is less in the intricacies of a complete world view of time zone settings and more in best practice for the storage of timestamp data in computer systems. I'm interested in storing date/time data in Ingres databases which are running on Unix servers. We are recording timed events on Unix servers as well as Windows 3.1 and NT PCs. I have had problems with the apparent miss-handling of data when viewed before or after a DST transition. Can anyone point me at words of wisdom or good advice? Geoff Lee

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FW: compiled zoneinfo files
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 30, 1999

March 30, 1999

Please ensure that any replies go to Connie Maeder, who's not on the time zone mailing list. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Connie Maeder [SMTP:cmaeder@swissinfo.net] Sent: Monday, March 29, 1999 7:03 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: compiled zoneinfo files Sirs, I would like to update my zoneinfo directory on a BSDI system. Please make a tar file with the entire compiled zoneinfo files. The update would be much easier if we could just replace the zoneinfo dir. Thanks Connie Maeder SI Online

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tzcode1999d.tar.gz and tzdata1999d.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 30, 1999

March 30, 1999

The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode1999d.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1999d.tar.gz are now available. These include the changes circulated this week on the time zone mailing list by Paul Eggert; the Makefile's "make public" rule has also been changed to do a test compile of each individual time zone data file (which should help avoid problems such as the one we had with Nicosia). --ado

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tzcode1999c.tar.gz and tzdata1999c.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 29, 1999

March 29, 1999

The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode1999c.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1999c.tar.gz are now available. These include the changes circulated by Paul Eggert on the time zone mailing list, most importantly the change for Chile. I tried and failed to reproduce the proglem reported by Andreas Jaeger; if anyone has insights please pass them on to both the time zone list and Andreas (who's not on the list). --ado

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compiled zoneinfo files
by Connie Maeder March 29, 1999

March 29, 1999

Sirs, I would like to update my zoneinfo directory on a BSDI system. Please make a tar file with the entire compiled zoneinfo files. The update would be much easier if we could just replace the zoneinfo dir. Thanks Connie Maeder SI Online

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DST in the news
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 29, 1999

March 29, 1999

The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of sleep on 1999-03-28--when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched to DST--and one more hour on 1999-04-04--when the announcers will have returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) The current "northamerica" file shows Cuba switching 1999-04-04; in view of Hunter's comment, a change may be needed in the file. --ado

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Re: tzcode1999c.tar.gz and tzdata1999c.tar.gz
by Andreas Jaeger March 25, 1999

March 25, 1999

>>>>> NCI writes: > I tried and failed to reproduce the proglem reported by Andreas Jaeger; > if anyone has insights please pass them on to both the time zone list and > Andreas (who's not on the list). How did you try to reproduce it? With glibc 2.1, I can easily reproduce it with tzdata1999c (just downloaded): $ zic asia "asia", line 307: unruly zone "asia", line 307: %s in ruleless zone but `zic asia europe' works Btw. how can I subscribe to the tz list? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a)arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger(a)informatik.uni-kl.de for pgp-key finger ajaeger(a)aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de

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FW: tzdata1999b
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 25, 1999

March 25, 1999

-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger [SMTP:aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de] Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 2:16 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: tzdata1999b This morning I added tzdata1999b to glibc 2.1 and got the following failure when running make check: /usr/glibc/src/buildreport/19990319/timezone/zic -d /usr/glibc/src/buildreport/19990319/timezone/testdata -y ./yearistype asia "asia", line 308: unruly zone "asia", line 308: %s in ruleless zone The problem is: Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 2:00 EU EE%sT EU isn't defined in asia and EUAsia is used instead. The appended patch fixes my problem. --- timezone/asia.~1~ Fri Mar 19 10:28:45 1999 +++ timezone/asia Fri Mar 19 18:45:04 1999 @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep - 2:00 EU EE%sT + 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT # IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. # Georgia -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a)arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger(a)informatik.uni-kl.de for pgp-key finger ajaeger(a)aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de

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