July 2005 - 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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Australia - Broken Hill - Yancowinna
by Oscar van Vlijmen 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Broken Hill, or more precise, the whole county of Yancowinna, differs from the rest of New South Wales, as clearly stated in the TZ database. Problem is: what is the "county of Yancowinna"? The Australian Standard Time Act 1987 mentions this county, but doesn't mention the county boundaries. Once they were known, but they have disappeared from recent maps. Finally I found a scan of an old map from the Land Registry, showing the Yancowinna county. Found on the website of The Sydney Morning Herald: <http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050651816.html?oneclick=true> Click on field number 2 or download the map directly: <http://www.smh.com.au/specials/leases/pdf/map2.pdf> The following places are within the county boundaries: Broken Hill, The Gorge, Mount Gipps, Silverton, Stephens Creek, Wahratta, Yanco Glen. The name "Wahratta" is not perfectly readable from the map, but I've checked the name and location against the Australia file from the GEOnet Names Server <http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/> Oscar van Vlijmen 2005-04-23

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FW: US DST changes?
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

A reminder: mail to tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov is not working (temporarily, I hope). For now, send time-zone stuff to arthur_david_olson(a)nih.gov --ado -----Original Message----- From: John Hawkinson [mailto:jhawk@MIT.EDU] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:15 PM To: tz via ado Subject: Re: US DST changes? Today's WSJ, p. B4, unbylined, "New Daylight Plan is Cut by One Month." "Under pressure from some business interests, a conference committee working on a compromise energy bill has cut by half a proposed two-month extension of daylight savings time and put off the change until March 2007. "The new plan would advance daylight savings time from the first Sunday of April to the second Sunday in March and extend it an additional week, to the first Sunday in November. The compromise includes a proviso that if the Department of Energy finds serious problems with the measure, which is intended to save electricity use, Congress would have the option to revert back to the current period." ... --jhawk(a)mit.edu John Hawkinson

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FW: FW: US DST changes?
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

A reminder: mail to tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov is not working (temporarily, I hope). For now, send time-zone stuff to arthur_david_olson(a)nih.gov --ado -----Original Message----- From: John Hawkinson [mailto:jhawk@MIT.EDU] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 4:07 PM To: arthur_david_olson(a)nih.gov Subject: Re: FW: US DST changes? [ Sent to Arthur, since the list is still down. ftp server works great, though... ] > An article in ran on page D1 of Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, "U.S. > Set to Expand Daylight-Savings Time," discussing the "Energy Policy Act of 2005," > which might extend US DST by 1 month in both directions (Mar-Nov > instead of Apr-Oct). Some updates in the past two days, both in the WSJ. There was a Reuters story on Wednesday, but it seemed very confusing and at-odds with the two SJ stories. Wednesday's WSJ, p. D2, "Daylight-Savings Expansion Plan Is Ripped by Airlines, Churches" by John J. Fialka: "Facing objections from the Bush administration, church groups and others opposed to extending daylight-savings time, House and Senate conferees on the energy bill postponed a decision on the proposal until tomorrow." [i.e. until today, Thursday.] It goes on to cite a letter from the Energy Secretary on behalf of the Bush adminisration requesting the change be dropped because of "serious international harmonization problems for the transportation industry," apparently referring to the coordination of gate slots with Europoean airports, whose DST is currently roughly synchronized with the US's. The article also references church groups who oppose the extension "because it would require children to wait for school buses in the dark." Then, today's WSJ, D2, "Daylight-Savings Plan Might Be Scaled Back," again by Fialka: "The principal sponsor of a proposal to expand daylight-savings time by two months says talks are under way to scale back the change." It goes on to say, "Some senators have complained that the proposed change will be expensive, an issue underscored yesterday as software vendors and utilities arned that computer software and meters with electronic chips that record time will have to be changed, a project that could take years and cost millions of dollars." [Well, ok, that seems excessive.] It then paraphrases David Thewlis of Calconnect.Org, a "consortium of software companies and universities," saying, "the group has no position on the merits of the proposal, which is intended to save energy, but wants Congress to postpone an change until March 2008, to give members and consumers time to make and install the fixes." [Apparently Calconnect.org includes Oracle and Yahoo, as well as MIT and Stanford. Who knew?] --jhawk(a)mit.edu John Hawkinson

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FW: DST for Africa/Tunis
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

A reminder: mail to tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov <mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov> is not working (temporarily, I hope). For now, send time-zone stuff to arthur_david_olson(a)nih.gov <mailto:arthur_david_olson@nih.gov> --ado _____ From: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com [mailto:webmaster@timezoneconverter.com] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:36 PM To: arthur_david_olson(a)nih.gov Subject: FW: DST for Africa/Tunis I am forwarding this message that I have been trying to send to the list for a few days but was unsuccessful. --Rich Shockney _____ From: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com [mailto:webmaster@timezoneconverter.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:11 PM To: 'tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov' Cc: 'Arthur David Olson' Subject: DST for Africa/Tunis **Second attempt: The message I sent over the weekend was bounced as undeliverable... I had a site visitor from France state that he had called the Tunisian Embassy and they claimed that Tunis time is the same as France during the Summer. I recall that there was some discussion on this list about whether Tunis would observe DST in 2005. Did this ever get resolved? Is an update needed to the rules for Tunisia? Rich Shockney TimeZoneConverter.com

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Electronic mail challenge
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

As noted in an earlier message today, John Hawkinson reported difficulty sending a message to the mailing list. I've checked elsie's logs; sendmail hasn't logged any messages from outside NIH since July 12th. I'm guessing that something at the NIH firewall changed on that date. I'll investigate further then see if I can resolve the issue with bureaucracy central. In the meantime, please send stuff destined for the time zone list to... arthur_david_olson(a)nih.gov ...and I'll forward it. Thanks! --ado

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FW: US DST changes?
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

John is on the time zone mailing list; I'm checking on why his message did not go through. --ado ----- Forwarded message from John Hawkinson <jhawk(a)MIT.EDU> ----- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:59:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200507201359.j6KDxfH1002941(a)multics.mit.edu> To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: US DST changes? From: John Hawkinson <jhawk(a)MIT.EDU> An article in ran on page D1 of Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, "U.S. Set to Expand Daylight-Savings Time," discussing the "Energy Policy Act of 2005," which might extend US DST by 1 month in both directions (Mar-Nov instead of Apr-Oct). The bill in question was originally H.R.1640 (last year), and is now H.R.6/S.10. The House version includes the DST extension as Section 111.: SEC. 111. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. (a) Repeal- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- (1) by striking `April' and inserting `March'; and (2) by striking `October' and inserting `November'. (b) Report to Congress- Not later than 9 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy shall report to Congress on the impact this section on energy consumption in the United States. (text from http://thomas.loc.gov) The Senate version does not include that section. The WSJ article, by John J. Fialka, says, "The idea has now been agreed upon by House and Senate committee staffs, with the approval of both Republican chairmen and ranking Democrats. That means it is likely to be approved by the full House-Senate conference committee, which begins squaring the differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill this week." It would take effect this fall. It seems to me awful fast -- is it reasonable to expect the major OS vendors to update their DST tables in 3 months? [not to mention that the clock doesn't start ticking until the bill is actually signed into law...] --jhawk(a)mit.edu John Hawkinson ----- End forwarded message -----

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Tzcode2005k.tar.gz and tzdata2005k.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2005k.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2005k.tar.gz ...are now available. The "leapseconds" file has been edited to reflect the recently announced leap second at the end of 2005. I've also deleted electronic mail addresses from the files as an anti-spam measure. I'm waiting to hear from the heavyweights before incorporating the recent 64-bit stuff (the new version that tacks both 64-bit data and a POSIX TZ string on to the end of traditional timezone data files). --ado

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FW: Bulletin C number 30 (fwd)
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Long overdue! --ado -----Original Message----- From: Joseph S. Myers [mailto:jsm@polyomino.org.uk] Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 1:25 PM To: LEAPSECS(a)ROM.USNO.NAVY.MIL; tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Bulletin C number 30 (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 15:27:31 +0200 From: "services.iers(a)obspm.fr" <services.iers(a)obspm.fr> To: adresc1(a)callisto.obspm.fr Subject: Bulletin C number 30 INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE 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 e-mail : services.iers(a)obspm.fr http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc Paris, 4 July 2005 Bulletin C 30 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time UTC TIME STEP on the 1st of January 2006 A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2005. The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 59s 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 60s 2006 January 1, 0h 0m 0s The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2006 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 32s from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 33s 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 Head Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France

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Bulletin C number 30 (fwd)
by Joseph S. Myers 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 15:27:31 +0200 From: "services.iers(a)obspm.fr" <services.iers(a)obspm.fr> To: adresc1(a)callisto.obspm.fr Subject: Bulletin C number 30 INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE 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 e-mail : services.iers(a)obspm.fr http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc Paris, 4 July 2005 Bulletin C 30 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time UTC TIME STEP on the 1st of January 2006 A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2005. The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 59s 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 60s 2006 January 1, 0h 0m 0s The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2006 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 32s from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 33s 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 Head Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France

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