October 2006 - tz - lists.iana.org

Corrections to latitudes/longitudes in zone.tab
by Andy McDonald Oct. 31, 2006

Oct. 31, 2006

Hi, I've run across a couple of inaccurate latitudes/longitudes in tz's zone.tab (2006n): Approx true lat/long zone.tab lat/long Europe/Jersey +4912-00207 +4912-00237 Europe/Podgorica +4227+01916 +4247+01928 Jersey perhaps looks like a typo.; Podgorica's latitude looks like a typo., but not the longitude. The corrected values come from playing with my Firefox time zone extension (http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/) and Google Earth, and are of course entirely subjective. Regards, Andy McDonald

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FW: tz database help
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 30, 2006

Oct. 30, 2006

I'm forwarding this message from Joseph Thurakal, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list: please direct replies appropriately. JT: the idea if you're writing a C language program is to set the time zone environment variable to the value associated with the US central time zone location of interest, fill in a "struct tm" with the values associated with the instant of interest, call "mktime" to find the "time_t" value associated with the filled-in structure, then re-set the time zone enviroment variable to the appropriate "another time zone" value and feed mktime's returned time_t value to "localtime." --ado ________________________________ From: Joseph Thurakal [mailto:josephthurakal@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:55 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: tz database help Hi, My name is Joseph Thurakal and I am new to tz database. I am trying to figure out how to convert historic US central time zone times into another time zone, and I can't figure this out from the readme files. Could you outline how to do this or point me to a good source? Thanks for your help. Joe

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tz database help
by Joseph Thurakal Oct. 27, 2006

Oct. 27, 2006

Hi, My name is Joseph Thurakal and I am new to tz database. I am trying to figure out how to convert historic US central time zone times into another time zone, and I can't figure this out from the readme files. Could you outline how to do this or point me to a good source? Thanks for your help. Joe

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One letter change in tz data
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Oct. 26, 2006

Oct. 26, 2006

There is news about the revival of DST in Cuba (after 3 years of inactivity). An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html (note there are both spanish and english versions of this article). A few quotes: "AFTER three years of remaining on a summer daylight savings time schedule, Cubas National Electrical Union decided to go back to its normal schedule during this month of October. On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00 , watches should be set back one hour going back to 00:00 hours returning to the normal schedule, which in Cuba is known as the winter schedule ... In Cuba, because of electricity generation shortages, it was decided to maintain the summer daylight savings schedule for three years; however, the country is now in a position to produce all the energy it needs, which is why it was decided to go back to the regular schedule." We are in the lucky position to be able to change this with a single letter change, from "7" to "6": -Rule Cuba 2007 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S +Rule Cuba 2006 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S Regards, Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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DST in West Australia?
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Oct. 25, 2006

Oct. 25, 2006

These four links talk about DST as a possibility in Queensland and West Australia: http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20642132-5006789,00.ht ml http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20640810-5006789,00.ht ml http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20637822-5006789,00.ht ml http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20635587-5006789,00.ht ml The status quo at the moment seems to be that Queensland will stay with no DST, while West Australia is likely to approve a three year trial, beginning DST December 1, 2006, outside the schedule of any other state of Australia (mainland states that use DST are in-synch, while Tasmania and Lord Howe Island have their own variations of DST). There are apparently two bills which might be merged into one. Anyways, for the moment there are no definitive decisions yet, although it seems an individual count of MPs votes in West Australia favor the approval of the new DST. Stay tuned! Regards, - Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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FW: Beijing Time?
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 24, 2006

Oct. 24, 2006

I'm forwarding this message from Emma Baillie, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list should direct replies appropriately. (Emma Baillie: within... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2006n.tar.gz ...there's a "Theory" file explaining the principles behind naming zones. Shanghai is used because it's the most populous city--at least by some measures--in the time zone of interest. Note that the eastern United States time zone where I live is known as "America/New_York" and not "America/Washington"--we're not singling out China for different treatment.) --ado -----Original Message----- From: Emma Baillie [mailto:ebaillie@aconex.com] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:19 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Beijing Time? My workplace has recently included data form the tz database into our web services, which are used in various different countries around the world including (recently) China. Our Chinese customers are quite unhappy about the fact that their timezone is specified as "Asia/Shanghai" not "Asia/Beijing". As one customer commented: "Every one knows whole china has only one time zone which was officially named Beijing Time Zone, My client told me that Chinese people really can not understand why we missed our Capital City Time Zone on the list. They think it is disrespectful." I see from the official Chinese government website, that this also refers to the Chinese time zone as "Beijing Time" http://english.gov.cn/2005-08/25/content_26048.htm. I'm wondering if there is any reason (other than historical) to continue to refer to the time zone in China as "Asia/Shanghai". Should it not be updated to reflect current Chinese usage? Of course, in my own particular instance I can simply change it in our application (and will!) But this seems like a change which would be more generally useful. thanks emma baillie

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Beijing Time?
by Emma Baillie Oct. 23, 2006

Oct. 23, 2006

My workplace has recently included data form the tz database into our web services, which are used in various different countries around the world including (recently) China. Our Chinese customers are quite unhappy about the fact that their timezone is specified as "Asia/Shanghai" not "Asia/Beijing". As one customer commented: "Every one knows whole china has only one time zone which was officially named Beijing Time Zone, My client told me that Chinese people really can not understand why we missed our Capital City Time Zone on the list. They think it is disrespectful." I see from the official Chinese government website, that this also refers to the Chinese time zone as "Beijing Time" http://english.gov.cn/2005-08/25/content_26048.htm. I'm wondering if there is any reason (other than historical) to continue to refer to the time zone in China as "Asia/Shanghai". Should it not be updated to reflect current Chinese usage? Of course, in my own particular instance I can simply change it in our application (and will!) But this seems like a change which would be more generally useful. thanks emma baillie

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Brazilian "summer time" and elections.
by Andre Oct. 19, 2006

Oct. 19, 2006

Hello! Again, Brazilian "summer time" is different this year... From Nov 5th, 2006 to Feb 25th, 2007. http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHv5920.gif http://pcdsh01.on.br/HvInic06.htm And it is kind of urgent because every body's computer is already set with summer time when it should not. :-) Well, as a Brazilian I am ashamed of all this lack of organization: well, voting machines don't work well with summer time... change the summer time! Thank you, André Caldas.

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Oct. 12, 2006

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Tzcode2006n.tar.gz and tzdata2006n.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 11, 2006

Oct. 11, 2006

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2006n.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2006n.tar.gz ...are now available; these reflect the changes circulated last week by Paul Eggert on the time zone mailing list. --ado

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