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RE: proposed tz changes for Mongolia, Jan Mayen, Chagos, Indonesia, etc.
by Jesper Nørgaard June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

A few comments on the proposed tz changes ... Check out my free program World Time Explorer: http://www20.Brinkster.com/timezone50/index.htm ---------- From: Paul Eggert[SMTP:eggert@twinsun.com] Sent: Jueves 31 de Mayo de 2001 3:00 To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: proposed tz changes for Mongolia, Jan Mayen, Chagos, Indonesia, etc. >Here are proposed changes to the tz code and data. The most pressing >ones are those for Mongolia, Jan Mayen, and Chagos, as the current UTC >offsets are incorrect. Also, these changes affect the current time >zone abbreviations for Indonesia. >* Jan Mayen observes Oslo time, not -01:00. Also, add commentary about > time in Svalbard and Jan Mayen since 1925. > (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen for this.) Actually I would have liked to take credit for that, at least the first part, but I don't deny that Steffen is the expert (by birth, I presume) of norwegian issues :-) ... >* Southwest Borneo switched from +08:00 to +07:00 on 1988-01-01. > This entails a new zone 'Asia/Pontianak'. > (Thanks to Gwillim Law for this.) Funny, I had it all along right under my nose without noticing it. I send a screenshot from my program World Time Explorer which shows the region. And the line down the middle of Borneo from Malaysia actually *is* a time zone border - I just hadn't realized it, since the line towards Malaysia is a country border, not a time zone border. Can anyone confirm that Palangkaray (with population 148,700 latitude -2.19 and longitude 113.82) is also on GMT+7 just like Pontianak, and that Bandjarmasin (with population 534,600 and latitude -3.34, longitude 114.57) is on GMT+8? The screenshot I send is BorneoSouthWest.gif. The map was developed by Manifold, check out http://www.manifold.net/download/freemaps.html. >* Time Zone Converter has moved. The new name will be World Time Explorer 1.6 further down on page http://www20.brinkster.com/timezone50/index.htm you can find 3 download buttons for this program, which has maps included from which the graphic that I attach to the mail were taken. Note that it's a beta version, mainly because I want to put some more functionality into the program before releasing it officially, but also because the help file is not up-to-date at all. But the existing functions should work. Note that you can take a snapshot of world time from all distinct time zones in Time Calculator. And by the way, you need a Windows computer to use it ... Regards Jesper Nørgaard Welen

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