December 2001 - tz - lists.iana.org

proposed tz change for Latvia, Lithuania
by Paul Eggert 25 May '15

25 May '15

It's March Madness time for daylight-saving rule changes. Here's a proposed change to the tz database to keep up with the latest political development, which affects time stamps starting March 29: * Latvia and Lithuania will not observe DST, starting this year. Thanks to Andrei Ivanov for this info. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/europe,v retrieving revision 2000.3 retrieving revision 2000.3.0.1 diff -pu -r2000.3 -r2000.3.0.1 --- europe 2000/03/04 15:31:08 2000.3 +++ europe 2000/03/08 17:48:59 2000.3.0.1 @@ -1135,6 +1135,12 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino # 1997-01-21 on transition to Summer time ... established the same order of # daylight savings time settings as in the States of the European Union. +# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06): +# This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in +# <a href="http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm"> +# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of +# 29-Feb-2000 (#79)</a>, in Latvian for subscribers only). + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - @@ -1151,7 +1157,8 @@ Zone Europe/Riga 1:36:24 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar lastSun 2:00s 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep lastSun 2:00s 2:00 Latvia EE%sT 1997 Jan 21 - 2:00 EU EE%sT + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 Feb 29 + 2:00 - EET # Liechtenstein # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -1178,6 +1185,11 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun # motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was # already done by Estonia. +# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06): +# I've heard that Ministers of three Baltic countries on their summit +# somewhere in February decided not to switch to summer time starting from +# this spring. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time @@ -1192,7 +1204,8 @@ Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u - 2:00 EU EE%sT + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 Feb + 2:00 - EET # Luxembourg # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.

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DST
by Maysoon Al-Kurbasi 24 Dec '01

24 Dec '01

Dear Sir, I should be most grateful if you would kindly help me get this information. I need an updated list with the names of world states that stopped observing daylight saving time (DST). I found your email address while surfing the Internet in search of the information. Thank you very much for your cooperation. Best regards, Maysoon

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Corrections of zone.tab for CN entries
by yaoz＠vidar.niaaa.nih.gov 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Hi, Thanks for the effort to maintain the tz packages. Recently, I've seen people complain that in file zone.tab, entries regarding China (CN) are not right. They are: CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin north Manchuria CN +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai China coast CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chungking China mountains CN +4348+08735 Asia/Urumqi Tibet & Xinjiang CN +3929+07559 Asia/Kashgar Eastern Turkestan There are several problems: 1. City names are in old form. Now there is a standard way (pinyin) to write it and it should be used; 2. Comments are not quite right. This may due to the historic reasons. Because of these problems, when users in China are presented a form to pick a time zone, they are very confused. To correct this, the first thing should be noted is that there is only ONE timezone in China. This is well documentd in file asia. Second, to reflect the current practice, zone.tab may be modified as: CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin Beijing Time - Heilongjiang CN +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai Beijing Time CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chongqing Beijing Time - Sichuan CN +4348+08735 Asia/Urumqi Beijing Time - Xinjiang CN +3929+07559 Asia/Kashi Beijing Time - Xinjiang Or just one Beijin Time entry. But I really don't know how zone.tab and asia files are related to each other. So the above changes should only be a reference. Best regards, Yao Zhang

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Re: Corrections of zone.tab for CN entries
by Oscar van Vlijmen 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Uigur, uygur, uighur, weiwuer, uyghur? ----------------------------------------------- From: http://www.uyghurinfo.com/media_advisory.html "The Uyghur Information Agency (UIA) would like to advise the international media to adopt the correct Uyghur terms and names when it covers and writes issues related to the Uyghur people and Eastern Turkestan. First of all, we advise all the international media to use the correct spelling of our ethnic name--Uyghur. ... Second of all, we advise the international media to use the correct Chinese designation for Eastern Turkestan--"Xinjiang". ... Its official Chinese name is "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region" or "XUAR". ..." Advise: don't use just xinjiang, because this means "new territory", nothing more. Use at least xinjiang uyghur. Macau -------- >From the US State Department: http://www.state.gov/www/regions/dependencies.html "Under the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau signed in 1987, Macau reverted to Chinese control on December 20, 1999. It is now a semi-autonomous entity that exists pursuant to international agreement and maintains its own government apart from the People's Republic of China." Oscar van Vlijmen 2001-12-20

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man pages
by George Kraft IV 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Are there Linux man pages for __daylight, __timezone, and __tzname? We would like to include them in the Linux Standard Base. http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/gLSB/gLSB/libcman.html -- George Kraft IV gk4(a)austin.ibm.com Senior Software Engineer IBM Linux Technology Center Chairman of the Linux Standard Base

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IERS Message No. 19: IERS Analysis Campaign
by central_bureau＠iers.org 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

*************************************************************************** IERS Message No. 19 December 20, 2001 *************************************************************************** IERS Analysis Campaign to align EOPs to ITRF2000 / ICRF Call for Participation Objective: The intention is to create EOP series with highest possible consistency with ITRF2000 / ICRF and to achieve an overall accuracy of 0.1 mas. This will lead to an intermediate solution until a rigorous combination of EOP, ITRF and ICRF is possible. Therefore, we have to analyse and understand the origin of systematic errors due to the reference frame realization. This campaign will be organized in two major steps: 1. Generation of EOP series that are aligned to ITRF2000 / ICRF by the Analysis Center of the individual techniques (Technique Centers) or other interested groups. 2. Analysis of the aligned series by the Combination Research Centers or other interested groups. Generation of EOP series (step 1): In the first step of this campaign, the Technique Centers or other interested groups are asked to produce EOP series using the ITRF2000 / ICRF as reference frame. Solutions with different constraints on ITRF2000 (ICRF) should be generated as follows: - heavily constrained coordinates + velocities - constraining with formal uncertainties - minimal constraints (NNR, ...) - selected set of sites / quasars for constraints The submitted series will be archived and made available to all participating groups for the second step, the analysis. Analysis of EOP series (step 2): The analysis should consist of: - comparisons with official IERS / EOP series - study consistency of the series and make improvements if necessary - recommendations for future realizations of reference frames The first results may be presented at the EGS General Assembly in Nice, France in April 2002. If you are interested in producing and / or analysing such EOP series or contribute to this campaign in another way, please download the call for participation form from http://www.iers.org/iers/about/ac/campaign.pdf or send a request for the form to central_bureau(a)iers.org . Please submit your proposal by January 18, 2002. Markus Rothacher IERS Analysis Coordinator <markus.rothacher(a)bv.tum.de> Munich, December 20, 2001 *************************************************************************** IERS Messages are edited and distributed by the IERS Central Bureau. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please write to <central_bureau(a)iers.org>. Archives: http://www.iers.org/iers/publications/messages/ ***************************************************************************

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IERS Message No. 18: IERS Annual Report 2000
by central_bureau＠iers.org 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

*************************************************************************** IERS Message No. 18 December 20, 2001 *************************************************************************** IERS Annual Report 2000 An online version of the IERS Annual Report 2000 is available at http://www.iers.org/iers/publications/reports/2000/ The report is presented as PDF file(s), to be read/downloaded completely or by chapters. The report will also be printed and distributed to all subscribers. In case that you are interested in the printed version and do not know whether your address is on our distribution list for annual reports, please feel free to contact us. Please let us also know about address changes during the last two years. Two technical hints on reading the PDF files may be useful: (1) In case that you do not have the Acrobat Reader, there is a link at the annual report page where to get it for free. (2) It is recommended not to use the Acrobat Reader us a plug-in to your browser, because it happens that large PDF files are not shown. This concerns Chapters IV.2 and IV.4, as well as the file with the complete 152 pages. You may set the options of Acrobat Reader so that it will be activated outside the browser (Edit > Preferences > Options > Display PDF in Browser [deactivate]). However, this may not necessarily happen on all computers, so that you may try first to read the documents before changing the options. We wish you and your families a peaceful, happy and successful year 2002, Bernd Richter and Wolfgang Dick IERS Central Bureau *************************************************************************** IERS Messages are edited and distributed by the IERS Central Bureau. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please write to <central_bureau(a)iers.org>. Archives: http://www.iers.org/iers/publications/messages/ ***************************************************************************

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Some bug-fixing
by Vsevolod Novikov 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

To whom it will concern, I've downloaded your tz code and tried to make it. My compiler (gcc 2.95.4) has found some errors in the code. The patch is attached. See for instance ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E) C Standart Second Edition 1999-12-01. 6.5.3 Unary operators Syntax 1 unary-expression: postfix-expression ++ unary-expression -- unary-expression unary-operator cast-expression sizeof unary-expression sizeof ( type-name ) The best regards, Vsevolod Novikov Programmer Consul-Incom Ltd. Russia diff -u -r tz.old/difftime.c tz/difftime.c --- tz.old/difftime.c Fri Oct 5 01:01:13 2001 +++ tz/difftime.c Tue Dec 18 18:58:59 2001 @@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ time_t delta; time_t hibit; - if (sizeof time_t < sizeof double) + if (sizeof(time_t) < sizeof(double)) return (double) time1 - (double) time0; - if (sizeof time_t < sizeof long_double) + if (sizeof(time_t) < sizeof(long_double)) return (long_double) time1 - (long_double) time0; if (time1 < time0) return -difftime(time0, time1);

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Time Zone Email Request
by Craig Husman 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

I would be interested in subscribing to your TimeZone emails. Thank you. Craig Husman Stopwatch Maps 6353 N. Rosebury Ave. St. Louis, MO 63105 (800)348-6277 http://www.stopwatchmaps.com/ <http://www.stopwatchmaps.com/>

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FW: Corrections of zone.tab for CN entries
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

-----Original Message----- From: Anthony Fok [mailto:anthony@thizlinux.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:19 PM To: Paul Eggert Cc: mgy1912(a)home.com; tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov; yaoz(a)vidar.niaaa.nih.gov Subject: Re: Corrections of zone.tab for CN entries On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 04:23:42PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > > b. Kashgar is also in Xinjiang and there is no such region as > > "Eastern Turkestan". That region is commonly call "Southern > > Xinjiang". > > In English, the region is far more commonly called Eastern Turkestan, > even today. At least, that's what Google says (2650 hits versus 766). Actually, if my understanding is correct, the term "Eastern Turkestan" refers to the historic name of the region, as a country, when it was outside China's rule for brief periods in history. This region returned to Chinese rule in the 19th century during the Qing Dynasty, and called "Xinjiang", Chinese for "New Territory". Nowadays, the whole province is called Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Reasons that "Eastern Turkestan" came up more often than "southern Xinjiang" include: * Eastern Turkestan = Xinjiang, not just southern Xinjiang (AFAIK). Try a search on Xinjiang vs. Eastern Turkestan, and Xinjiang is far far more common by orders of magnitude. Google says 103000 hits versus 3160. (and 2600 for "east turkestan", 1190 for "southern xinjiang"... Wow, Google has grown! :-) * The term Xinjiang is relatively newer (since 19th century), and most history books written before that period uses the old name. Xinjiang was called Xiyu (the West Region), Huigu, and a few other names in Chinese literature. * There are some vocal separatist movements who want to "Free Eastern Turkestan", not too unlike "Free Tibet"... Indeed, it seems that nowadays only the separatists are calling the modern Xinjiang province as "Eastern Turkestan", to be interpreted as the Eastern Country of the Turks. Needless to say, at least some Chinese would find that offensive. Also, as a Hong-Kong Chinese myself, I had no idea what "Eastern Turkestan" is until I actually looked it up on the Internet. I am sure most Chinese, including the Uygur and Han people, would be scratching their heads wondering what "Eastern Turkestan" is. Besides, it appears that Eastern Turkestan = the whole Xinjiang, not just part of it, so again, it is not appropriate to call that timezone "Eastern Turkestan" when it is just the westmost region surrounding Kashgar that is within that timezone. Therefore, I recommend changing the comment to something more informative west Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Eastern Turkestan), China That should better suit the needs of both Chinese and non-Chinese. :-) I have also revised other comment entries for China to make them more informative. Seriously, we Chinese are utterly confused when we are asked to choose a timezone during Linux installation. I myself had no idea why the 5 cities were chosen until I finally compared a world timezone map with a China map. :-) In fact, ALL major Chinese Linux distributions have edited zone.tab to add Asia/Beijing and to revise the comments. (Turbolinux Chinese and Red Flag Linux, for instance.) So, this does point to a real usability (not political) problem. Therefore, I have made all 5 comments more verbose. They may be long, but not as long as a few entries for Canada. :-) I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-) 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese). See www.macau.gov.mo, for example. 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say "Macao". 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French. 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits. A patch is attached in this message. Please verify and apply. Many thanks! :-) > merely a matter of which city is the largest in a particular region. > For more details, please see the Theory file. > > > On TV, radio, it is always saying "It is now 20' clock Beijing Time." > > I haven't heard of "China time" before. > > Interesting. Are these announcements in the Chinese language, or in > the English language? I would guess both. Let me watch CCTV more often. :-) Anyhow, it would actually sound weird if someone says "Xianzai shi Zhongguo shijian xiawu liang dianzhong." (It is now 2 o'clock China Time.) > It's not clear to me that "Kashi" versus "Kashgar" is a pinyin versus > non-pinyin issue, as the name "Kashgar" is not a Chinese one. "Kashi" > is the pinyin version of the Chinese name for "Kashgar". The city's > population is about 3/4 Uighur, so calling it "Kashi" is a bit like > calling the capital of Mongolia "Ulan Bator" (the anglicization of the > Russian name). According to the Xinjiang provincial web site, "Kashi" is short for "Kashige'er", which is the long-form Chinese name for "Kashgar". Anyhow, personally, I think "Kashige'er" and "Kashgar" are close enough, so I am not too worried about it either. :-) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling ThizLinux Laboratory <anthony(a)thizlinux.com> http://www.thizlinux.com/ Debian Chinese Project <foka(a)debian.org> http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp! http://www.olvc.ab.ca/

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