September 2000 - tz - lists.iana.org

Timezone and Daylight Saving Time data
by Sara Eline Eide & Odin Roll-Hansen Sept. 15, 2000

Sept. 15, 2000

Hello At the moment I am making an astrology computer program using Delphi 3 in a Windows 95 environment. I am in need of historic and present datas for timezones and daylight saving time of the countries of the world. Can you help me? Yours sincerely Odin Roll-Hansen

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Re: Fw: (Cyprus), Nicosia is in Europe not Asia.
by Dik.Winter＠cwi.nl Sept. 15, 2000

Sept. 15, 2000

[] > I realise that the tz archive should actually be following "standard > geographical practice" but is it not wrong to ignore basic facts such > as Cyprus' participation in the European arena? Cyprus is politically, > culturally and historically part of Europe and participates in most of > its institutions (it has been a full member of the Council of Europe > since 1961). How about Cyprus' potential future admission into the EU? Similar claims can be made by Israel, that does not make Israel an European country. But I would not oppose to make Cyprus part of both Europe and Asia, we have also Turkey in that position (but for that country the position is of course stronger). dik -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/

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FW: New daylight savings time in Brazil
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Sept. 14, 2000

Sept. 14, 2000

Andre Gerhard is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Andre Gerhard [mailto:andre@mail.lme.usp.br] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 5:59 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: New daylight savings time in Brazil Hello, This patch corrects a typo mistake in Brazil's timezone for 1999, and also introduces the new time zones for daylight savings time in 2000/2001, a decree from 09/06/2000. The daylight savings time for 1999/2000 is also included. Patch created with the command "diff -Naur tzdata/southamerica tzdata.new/southamerica", timezone is UTC0. The site http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/principal_ano.htm seems to be the "official" decrees site in Brazil, the site http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html is from the time service but apparently is storing a copy from the information of the site above (the DST information for this year was released first in the first site cited). Sincerely, Andre Gerhard System/Network Administrator University of Sao Paulo - Brazil --- tzdata/southamerica Thu Sep 14 18:08:11 2000 +++ tzdata.new/southamerica Thu Sep 14 14:11:44 2000 @@ -364,11 +364,16 @@ # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3150.gif">3,150</a> # (1999-08-23) adopted by same states. # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV99.gif">3,188</a> (1999-09-30) -# adds SE, AL, PE, PR, RN, CE, PI, MA and RR. +# adds SE, AL, PE, PB, RN, CE, PI, MA and RR. +Rule Brazil 1999 only - Oct 3 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Brazil 2000 only - Feb 27 0:00 0 - +# Decree <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/D3592.htm">3592</a> (2000-09-06) adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, GO, MT, MS, TO, BA, SE, AL, PE, PB, RN, CE, PI, MA and DF. +Rule Brazil 2000 only - Oct 8 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Brazil 2001 only - Feb 18 0:00 0 - # These give only one year's rules. After that, the rules are guesses # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. -Rule Brazil 1999 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Brazil 2000 max - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Brazil 2001 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Brazil 2002 max - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]

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Cyprus
by Manavendra Thakur Sept. 14, 2000

Sept. 14, 2000

My vote is to list Cyprus under both Europe and Asia. Users can then navigate to Cyprus' timezone settings via whichever path their inclinations lead them to use. Manavendra Thakur

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Cyprus
by Oscar van Vlijmen Sept. 13, 2000

Sept. 13, 2000

Cyprus would like to be a European coutry, not an Asian coutry: -------------------------------- >From the website of the Cypriotic government: http://www.pio.gov.cy/cyprus/facts.htm International Relations Cyprus is a member of: United Nations Organisation (UN) 1960, Council of Europe (CoE) 1961, Commonwealth of Nations 1961, Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) 1975, Non-Aligned Movement 1960, World Trade Organisation (WTO) 1995, and many other organisations, Relations with the European Union (EU) Customs Union Agreement 1987, Application for EU membership 1990, Commencement of substantive accession talks with EU 1998 -------------------------------- Still not a member of the European union though. Oscar van Vlijmen 2000-09-13

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FW: (Cyprus), Nicosia is in Europe not Asia.
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Sept. 12, 2000

Sept. 12, 2000

Yiango is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado > -----Original Message----- > From: Yiango [SMTP:yiango@programmer.net] > Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 6:36 AM > To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov > Subject: (Cyprus), Nicosia is in Europe not Asia. > > Hello all, > > [Please CC: replies as I am not on the mailing list] > > For some reason Nicosia has been listed as being in Asia and not in > Europe. Can this please be changed? > > The tz database is obviously being used by sourceforge.net where I noticed > this error -- They redirected me to this list after reporting the bug. > > Thanks, > > -- > Yiango <yiango(a)programmer.net> [0xD818E622]

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Re: (Cyprus), Nicosia is in Europe not Asia.
by Gwillim Law Sept. 12, 2000

Sept. 12, 2000

I wrote, > ... The > Columbia Encyclopedia's article on Asia says, "The conventional boundary > with Europe--which may be said geographically to be a peninsula of the > Eurasian land mass--lies approximately along the Ural mts., the Ural river, > and the Caspian Sea. Thus defined, Asia, including Ceylon but excluding the > islands of Japan, ...". I didn't find any reference books that place Ceylon > in Europe. I'm sorry, my mind was wandering. The Encyclopedia does say Ceylon, which is irrelevant to the thread. It doesn't mention Cyprus at all. In the last sentence, I meant to write Cyprus instead of Ceylon. Yours, Gwillim Law

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FW: time converters
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Sept. 12, 2000

Sept. 12, 2000

Y. garcia is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Y. Garcia [mailto:yyhg@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 12:06 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: time converters Do you know of any resources that convert time between different world zones for years prior to 1970 (at least as early as 1936)? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

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time converters
by Y. Garcia Sept. 12, 2000

Sept. 12, 2000

Do you know of any resources that convert time between different world zones for years prior to 1970 (at least as early as 1936)? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

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FW: change in Brazil TS: diff -u
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Sept. 11, 2000

Sept. 11, 2000

Marcos is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcos Tadeu von Lützow Vidal [SMTP:marcos@Microlink.com.br] > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 7:48 PM > To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov > Subject: change in Brazil TS: diff -u > > --- southamerica.orig Thu Aug 10 10:31:37 2000 > +++ southamerica Fri Sep 8 20:25:06 2000 > @@ -365,10 +365,17 @@ > # (1999-08-23) adopted by same states. > # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV99.gif">3,188</a> > (1999-09-30) > # adds SE, AL, PE, PR, RN, CE, PI, MA and RR. > +Rule Brazil 1999 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 > S > +Rule Brazil 2000 only - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 > - > # These give only one year's rules. After that, the rules are guesses > # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. > -Rule Brazil 1999 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 > S > -Rule Brazil 2000 max - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 > - > +# > +# From Marcos Tadeu <marcos(a)telecom.uff.br> (2000-09-08): > +# Decree 3,592 (2000-08-09): > +# adopted by the states: RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, GO, MT, MS, TO, > +# BA, SE, AL, PE, PB, RN, CE, PI, MA, RR and DF. > +Rule Brazil 2000 max - Oct Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 > S > +Rule Brazil 2001 max - Feb Sun>=14 0:00 0 > - > > > # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]

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