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.
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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.
In yesterday's Los Angeles Times, Dave Wilson wrote a humorous piece
"Drowning in a Sea of Clocks" complaining about the number of clocks
he has to change every spring and fall. He goes on:
Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
shows how much you know, pal.
The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
He finally resolves to disable all his clocks that serve no function.
(His oven clock now blinks 00:00.)
See:
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html
Interesting bit from the new RFC 2822, which supersedes the RFC 822
Internet email header format:
The form "+0000" SHOULD be used to indicate a time zone at
Universal Time. Though "-0000" also indicates Universal Time, it is
used to indicate that the time was generated on a system that may be
in a local time zone other than Universal Time and therefore
indicates that the date-time contains no information about the local
time zone.
[...]
The 1 character military time zones were defined in a non-standard
way in [RFC822] and are therefore unpredictable in their meaning.
The original definitions of the military zones "A" through "I" are
equivalent to "+0100" through "+0900" respectively; "K", "L", and "M"
are equivalent to "+1000", "+1100", and "+1200" respectively; "N"
through "Y" are equivalent to "-0100" through "-1200" respectively;
and "Z" is equivalent to "+0000". However, because of the error in
[RFC822], they SHOULD all be considered equivalent to "-0000" unless
there is out-of-band information confirming their meaning.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
M. H. P. van Genderen is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies
appropriately.
--ado
-----Original Message-----
From: Genderen, M.H.P. van [mailto:M.H.P.v.Genderen@tue.nl]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 2:54 AM
To: 'tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov'
Subject: Time on Jan mayen
Hi,
I asked the crew of the meteorological station on Jan Mayen Island
(janmayen(a)ftd.mil.no) what time they used, and this is their answer:
> We are using the same time as i Norway, and are following the summer and
winter time as i Norway.
> Regards
> Åge-leif Godø
So it seems that the time zone should be changed from East Greenland Time to
Oslo time for Jan Mayen.
Yours, Marcel van Genderen
_______________________________________
Dr. Marcel van Genderen
Assistant Professor
Lab Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry
Room STO 4.45
Eindhoven University of Technology
PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-40-2473139. Fax: +31-40-2451036
E-mail: M.H.P.v.Genderen(a)tue.nl
Homepage: www.chem.tue.nl/toc
Hi,
I asked the crew of the meteorological station on Jan Mayen Island
(janmayen(a)ftd.mil.no) what time they used, and this is their answer:
> We are using the same time as i Norway, and are following the summer and
winter time as i Norway.
> Regards
> Åge-leif Godø
So it seems that the time zone should be changed from East Greenland Time to
Oslo time for Jan Mayen.
Yours, Marcel van Genderen
_______________________________________
Dr. Marcel van Genderen
Assistant Professor
Lab Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry
Room STO 4.45
Eindhoven University of Technology
PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-40-2473139. Fax: +31-40-2451036
E-mail: M.H.P.v.Genderen(a)tue.nl
Homepage: www.chem.tue.nl/toc
Hi Madeleine.
My Global Gazetteer product provides just this link. I am not sure if you
are referring just to the USA or worldwide. If you look at the web site,
there should be a paper in the download section describing how we have
handled time zones.
Best wishes
Alan Pritchard
The GLOBAL GAZETTEER: the world on file
http://www.allm-geodata.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1202 417 477
Madeline Lord is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies
appropriately.
--ado
-----Original Message-----
From: Madeleine Lord [mailto:mlord@goldpocket.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:08 PM
To: 'tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov'
Subject: timezones and zipcodes
found your conversion site, wondering if you know where I can go to find a
table that converts zipcodes to timezone.Thanks
Madeleine Lord
GoldPocket.com
found your conversion site, wondering if you know where I can go to find a
table that converts zipcodes to timezone.Thanks
Madeleine Lord
GoldPocket.com
Dear sirs:
I'm searching for a comprehensive listing of timezones, their
abbreviations and offsets from GMT. Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help.
Ron Woodall
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In a message dated 4/19/01 12:57:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
gwil(a)mindspring.com writes:
> > Do you have a list of countries, states for the US, cities which matches
> > the timezone list.
>
> I've had to do a mapping from locations to time zones for two different
> employers. I've looked for off-the-shelf databases that solve the problem,
> but haven't found anything satisfactory for my purposes.
To my knowledge, we have the only comprehensive database
for time zone information for nearly every location in the 50 states
of the US. It totals over 236,000 locations. Feel free to contact
me off-list for more information.
Cliff Hancuff
www.ClearDaySoftware.com
