August 2000 - tz - lists.iana.org

easy question: when dst transition occurs at 00:00 hours...
by Thomas Carey Aug. 16, 2000

Aug. 16, 2000

many locales undergo DST transition at midnight - for instance - on Thu 21 Sept 2000 19:30 - DST will end in Tehran, and local time will go from 00:00->23:00 (actually, from 23:59 to 23:00). My question is whether this extra hour occurs (locally) on thursday or friday. I'd assume thursday, as 00:00 doesn't arrive before the transition. can anyone confirm? thanks tc

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FW: Update on Australian Time Zone changes for Olympics
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Aug. 15, 2000

Aug. 15, 2000

Eric Ulevik is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Ulevik [SMTP:eauz@zip.com.au] > Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 1:19 AM > To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov > Subject: Update on Australian Time Zone changes for Olympics > > Source: Sydney's Sun Herald newspaper, 13 August 2000 page 29 > > * NSW (and Victoria, Tas, ACT) going onto DST at 2am 27 August 2000 > > * As usual, no DST in WA, NT and Queensland > > Some parts of NSW are different: > > - Broken Hill starting DST on 29 September 2000 (following South > Australia) > > - Twin Towns Services Club (in Tweed Heads, near the Queensland border) > will maintain Queensland time. The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie > is encouraging northern NSW towns to use Queensland time. > > Regards, > > Eric Ulevik >

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Iraq bugfix
by Vadim Vygonets Aug. 15, 2000

Aug. 15, 2000

I wonder how it was not caught until now. Not enough users in Iraq, perhaps. ----------> --- asia.old Thu Aug 10 16:31:50 2000 +++ asia Wed Aug 16 03:17:46 2000 @@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ # IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo. # Shanks says Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997 or 1999 on; ignore this. Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D -Rule Iraq 1991 max - Oct 1 3:00s 0 D +Rule Iraq 1991 max - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time? <---------- Vadik. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of troff, for it is subtle and quick to anger.

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zoneinfo
by Claudio A. Pacciarini Aug. 14, 2000

Aug. 14, 2000

Dear Sir, zoneinfo for Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA is wrong, it's GMT-3 but zoneinfo believes it's -4. Any ideas what is and how can I correct the appropiated file ? Many thanks Claudio Pacciarini

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Update on Australian Time Zone changes for Olympics
by Eric Ulevik Aug. 12, 2000

Aug. 12, 2000

Source: Sydney's Sun Herald newspaper, 13 August 2000 page 29 * NSW (and Victoria, Tas, ACT) going onto DST at 2am 27 August 2000 * As usual, no DST in WA, NT and Queensland Some parts of NSW are different: - Broken Hill starting DST on 29 September 2000 (following South Australia) - Twin Towns Services Club (in Tweed Heads, near the Queensland border) will maintain Queensland time. The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW towns to use Queensland time. Regards, Eric Ulevik

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USNO leap seconds mailing list
by Markus Kuhn Aug. 11, 2000

Aug. 11, 2000

A new LEAPSECS(a)CLOCKDEV.USNO.NAVY.MIL mailing list for the discussion of the future of UTC and leap seconds is available on http://clockdev.usno.navy.mil/archives/leapsecs.html 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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"GPS and Leap Seconds; Time to Change?" now on the Web
by Paul Eggert Aug. 10, 2000

Aug. 10, 2000

Dennis D. McCarthy and William J. Klepczynski's proposal to do away with leap seconds, originally published in GPS World last November, is now available on the Web in PDF form at: http://clockdev.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A3=ind0007&L=leapsecs&P=26737&…

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SAST/africa and attribution
by Mark Murray Aug. 10, 2000

Aug. 10, 2000

Hi No hurry on this one, but could you please change the reference to my email address "Mark R V Murray <markm(a)iafrica.com>" to "Mark R V Murray <mark(a)grondar.za>" in the "africa" file? If you want to verify that I am the same person, I am happy to reply to mail sent to the iafrica.com address. Thanks! M

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Correction to availability announcement
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Aug. 10, 2000

Aug. 10, 2000

The newly available files are named ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2000f.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2000f.tar.gz (rather than having the "2000e" names mentioned in a previous letter today). Thanks to Klaus Klein for catching the error! --ado

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RE: Timezone utility
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Aug. 10, 2000

Aug. 10, 2000

> ] $ zdump -v Australia/Hobart | grep 2000 > ] Australia/Hobart Sat Mar 25 15:59:59 2000 UTC = Sun Mar 26 02:59:59 > 2000 EST isdst=1 > ] Australia/Hobart Sat Mar 25 16:00:00 2000 UTC = Sun Mar 26 02:00:00 > 2000 EST isdst=0 > ] Australia/Hobart Sat Aug 26 15:59:59 2000 UTC = Sun Aug 27 01:59:59 > 2000 EST isdst=0 > ] Australia/Hobart Sat Aug 26 16:00:00 2000 UTC = Sun Aug 27 03:00:00 > 2000 EST isdst=1 > > It would be nice if you could say > $ zdump -y 2000 Australia/Hobart > and get the same output, especially if this was clearly documented > in zdump(8). > I come down on the side of classic UNIX philosophy here--if the job can be done with existing command-line tools (such as grep), don't reinvent the wheel. --ado

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