January 2003 - tz - lists.iana.org

proposed tz change for Latvia, Lithuania
by Paul Eggert May 25, 2015

May 25, 2015

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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FW: Tonga Daylight Savings Time ENDS...
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) Feb. 21, 2003

Feb. 21, 2003

Pulu 'Anau has been added to the time zone mailing list at Pulu's request. This message arrived before Pulu's addition to the list. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Pulu 'Anau [mailto:pulu@infotech.afe.to] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:43 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Tonga Daylight Savings Time ENDS... Hi, I'm a system administrator in a country that thinks it's funny to constantly play around with the time. To keep the story short, Tonga decided to create daylight savings time to get a jump on everyone for the new millenium. The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. Unfortunately, a good number of the systems I maintain (Debian Linux and OpenBSD) would like to believe the government here is reasonable and doesn't play around with stuff like this. Ha! Anyway, when they implemented daylight savings it took me a few hours to find the zone files and recompile them, and I don't think the changes were officially reflected (at least in Debian) for about a year. I don't really know where else to report this, but considering the vast amount of history that's already available in the data files, I hope this mailing list will work. I've modified the australasia file from the data file as below. I'm not a zic expert so I hope it's appropriate. It fixed the issue here, anyway. Also, in the compiled file that was pre-existing on this system (Debian 3.0), the file for Tongatapu had a bunch of junk in it, basically a help file for vi and some other binary data after the zoneinfo... I don't know if it's a debian thing or not, I'm not near the openbsd machines to take a look at them... Just FYI... If this file is going to explode on me at some later date, I'd really appreciate if someone could write back and let me know. Some of my customers rely on this information to do some dialup internet/mail stuff, and explaining they ought to complain to the government doesn't work because most of them are the government. Pulu as a diff from the file australasia in the tzdata2002d.tar.gz (Oct 15): 402,403c402,404 < Rule Tonga 2000 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S < Rule Tonga 2001 max - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - ---> Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S > Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 -> 408c409,410 < 13:00 Tonga TO%sT --- > 13:00 Tonga TO%sT 2003 > 13:00 - TOT # Daylight savings > expirament fails The appropriate section before: # Tonga # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/ SRule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - Rule Tonga 2000 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2001 max - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time 13:00 - TOT 1999 13:00 Tonga TO%sT And after: # Tonga # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/ SRule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time 13:00 - TOT 1999 13:00 Tonga TO%sT 2003 13:00 - TOT # Daylight savings expirament fails ---- Pulu 'Anau Infotech Tonga Ph: 676-27399

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An official reference for Ukraine
by Garrett Wollman Feb. 7, 2003

Feb. 7, 2003

Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukranian Ministry of Justice, found the legal reference for standard time in Ukraine. -GAWollman ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- From: Igor Karpov <jc(a)minjust.gov.ua> To: freebsd-gnats-submit(a)freebsd.org Cc: Valentin Nechayev <netch(a)netch.kiev.ua>, wollman(a)lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: conf/47468: Sysinstall offers different timezones for Ukraine. Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:41:01 +0200 [deletia] BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's goverment regulations number 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says: "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of October the time at 4am is changing to 3am" Regards, - -- Igor A. Karpov phone: +380(44)238-0624 Unix System Administrator "Cute" rots the intellect. ------- end -------

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Site?
by Bill Bonnett Jan. 24, 2003

Jan. 24, 2003

Where can I get a copy of the database? The site ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ just does not load. Bill Bonnett Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet Email : <mailto:mfeedback@abdicate.net> feedback(a)abdicate.net Web Site : <http://www.abdicate.net/> http://www.abdicate.net ICQ : 110091 Quixtar IBO : 1242957 <http://www.quixtar.com/> http://www.quixtar.com <>< Jesus is Lord ><> ********************************************************************** Information in this email is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee only. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. You should not otherwise copy it, retransmit it or use or disclose its contents to anyone. Thank you for your co-operation. **********************************************************************

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RE: Greenland marked as "America/*" ??
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) Jan. 24, 2003

Jan. 24, 2003

Areas are grouped geographically rather than politically. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Poul-Henning Kamp [mailto:phk@freebsd.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:05 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Greenland marked as "America/*" ?? I'm somewhat surprised to see that Greenland is listed as "America/*" in the Timezone files, to my knowledge Greenland is not normally counted as part of the American continent and it belongs in the Kingdom of Denmark. I would argue that Europe/* would be more than marginally better placement, although I'll agree not 100% correct either. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk(a)FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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UNSUBSCRIBE
by Ken Glidden Jan. 24, 2003

Jan. 24, 2003

-----Original Message----- From: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:49 AM To: List Time Zone (E-mail) Subject: FW: Greenland marked as "America/*" ?? Poul-Henning Kamp is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. -----Original Message----- From: Poul-Henning Kamp [mailto:phk@freebsd.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:05 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Greenland marked as "America/*" ?? I'm somewhat surprised to see that Greenland is listed as "America/*" in the Timezone files, to my knowledge Greenland is not normally counted as part of the American continent and it belongs in the Kingdom of Denmark. I would argue that Europe/* would be more than marginally better placement, although I'll agree not 100% correct either. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk(a)FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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FW: Greenland marked as "America/*" ??
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) Jan. 24, 2003

Jan. 24, 2003

Poul-Henning Kamp is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. -----Original Message----- From: Poul-Henning Kamp [mailto:phk@freebsd.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:05 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Greenland marked as "America/*" ?? I'm somewhat surprised to see that Greenland is listed as "America/*" in the Timezone files, to my knowledge Greenland is not normally counted as part of the American continent and it belongs in the Kingdom of Denmark. I would argue that Europe/* would be more than marginally better placement, although I'll agree not 100% correct either. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk(a)FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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Greenland marked as "America/*" ??
by Poul-Henning Kamp Jan. 22, 2003

Jan. 22, 2003

I'm somewhat surprised to see that Greenland is listed as "America/*" in the Timezone files, to my knowledge Greenland is not normally counted as part of the American continent and it belongs in the Kingdom of Denmark. I would argue that Europe/* would be more than marginally better placement, although I'll agree not 100% correct either. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk(a)FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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Bulletin C number 25
by iers＠hpopa.obspm.fr Jan. 15, 2003

Jan. 15, 2003

INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 Internet : iers(a)obspm.fr Paris, 15 January 2003 Bulletin C 25 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2003. The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is : from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -32 s Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Director Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France

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