November 2006 - tz - lists.iana.org

Previous erroneous subject
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Nov. 28, 2006

Nov. 28, 2006

Bennett Todd was kind enough to point out that while yesterday's new-version announcement had correct references to the "2006p" versions of files in the text of the message, my subject incorrectly referenced "2006o" versions. --ado

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FW: Faeoroe
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Nov. 28, 2006

Nov. 28, 2006

I'm forwarding this message from Jonas Melian who, after sending it, has subscribed to the time zone mailing list. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Jonas Melian [mailto:jonas.esp@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 6:01 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Faeoroe Hi, In zone.tab is Faeore and its actual name is Faroe. FO +6201-00646 Atlantic/Faeroe http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists /list-en1.html You can see too in Wipikedia as you are redirected from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faeroe_Islands to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands

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proposed tz patch for Western Australia
by Paul Eggert Nov. 28, 2006

Nov. 28, 2006

Here's a proposed patch for the Western Australia change on Dec. 3. It incorporates other minor changes I've been saving up. Changes that affect near-future time stamps: * Western Australia starts DST on December 3. (Thanks to Jesper Norgaard Welen for the initial warning, and to Christopher Hunt for letting us know it was official.) This patch migrates the WA DST idiosyncracies into Rule lines, where they probably belonged anyway. I realize the official legislation specifies dates rather than "Mar lastSun", but we commonly reverse-engineer the underlying rules in other situations and might as well do so consistently here. Changes affecting location data only: * The coordinates for Jersey and Podgorica were off. (Thanks to Andy McDonald for noting this.) Changes affecting the web page only: * Add references to FoxClocks <http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/> and to Time Zone <http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/timezone/>. --- australasia 2006/08/21 13:56:08 2006.11 +++ australasia 2006/11/22 20:43:04 2006.11.0.2 @@ -29,15 +29,25 @@ Zone Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 189 9:00 - CST 1899 May 9:30 Aus CST # Western Australia +# +# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning +# from Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-11-01): +# WA are trialing DST for three years. +# <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/62D4F7C55EA88993482572…> +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 1991 only - Nov 17 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 1992 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul - 8:00 - WST 1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s - 8:00 1:00 WST 1975 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s - 8:00 - WST 1983 Oct lastSun 2:00s - 8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s - 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s - 8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s - 8:00 - WST + 8:00 AW WST # Queensland # # From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): --- zone.tab 2006/10/10 15:31:46 2006.14 +++ zone.tab 2006/11/22 20:34:56 2006.14.0.1 @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ IQ +3321+04425 Asia/Baghdad IR +3540+05126 Asia/Tehran IS +6409-02151 Atlantic/Reykjavik IT +4154+01229 Europe/Rome -JE +4912-00237 Europe/Jersey +JE +4912-00207 Europe/Jersey JM +1800-07648 America/Jamaica JO +3157+03556 Asia/Amman JP +353916+1394441 Asia/Tokyo @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ LY +3254+01311 Africa/Tripoli MA +3339-00735 Africa/Casablanca MC +4342+00723 Europe/Monaco MD +4700+02850 Europe/Chisinau -ME +4247+01928 Europe/Podgorica +ME +4226+01916 Europe/Podgorica MG -1855+04731 Indian/Antananarivo MH +0709+17112 Pacific/Majuro most locations MH +0905+16720 Pacific/Kwajalein Kwajalein --- tz-link.htm 2006/11/06 14:17:39 2006.15 +++ tz-link.htm 2006/11/22 20:34:56 2006.15.0.1 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-ASCII"'> <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul"> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David"> -<meta name="DC.Date" content="2006-10-31"> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2006-11-22"> <meta name="DC.Description" content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time"> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm"> @@ -242,6 +242,17 @@ It is freely available under the <abbr>L </ul> <h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone software</h2> <ul> +<li><a href="http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/">FoxClocks</a> +is an extension for <a +href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Toolkit_API">Mozilla +Toolkit</a> applications like <a +href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox</a>, <a +href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/">Thunderbird</a>, and +<a +href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/">Sunbird</a>. +It displays multiple clocks in the application window, and has a mapping +interface to <a href="http://earth.google.com/">Google Earth</a>. +It is freely available under the <abbr>GPL</abbr>.</li> <li><a href="http://users.skynet.be/Peter.Verthez/projects/intclock/">International clock (intclock)</a> is a multi-timezone clock for @@ -250,6 +261,9 @@ under the <abbr>GPL</abbr>.</li> <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/">Sun Java</a> releases since 1.4 contain a copy of a subset of a recent <code>tz</code> database in a Java-specific format.</li> +<li><a href="http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/timezone/">Time Zone</a> is +a <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> plugin. It is freely +available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li> <li><a href="http://www.veladg.com/velaterra.html">VelaTerra</a> is a Mac OS X program. Its developers

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File format
by Philip Warner Nov. 28, 2006

Nov. 28, 2006

Another silly question, but is the format of the zone text files (eg. australasia etc) documented somewhere...I have a quick look in the files themselves, but could not find much....apologies if the answer is obvious, but I've looked in several files.

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Tzcode2006o.tar.gz and tzdata2006o.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Nov. 27, 2006

Nov. 27, 2006

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2006p.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2006p.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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Suggestions about separation and ISO code
by Jonas Melian Nov. 27, 2006

Nov. 27, 2006

Some suggestions: 1) To using ISO 3166 3-character country code becasuse is more readable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 For any person it's easier to identify a country by the code of 3-letters that by the one of 2-letters. 2) Columns separated by another character different of a tab, as ':'. So it's more readable for humans and too for the machines. And so it's easier to maintain that table. I comment you these suggestions because I have something of experience with this type of tables as you can see here: http://webda.python-hosting.com/browser/trunk/data Greetings!

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Faeoroe
by Jonas Melian Nov. 27, 2006

Nov. 27, 2006

Hi, In zone.tab is Faeore and its actual name is Faroe. FO +6201-00646 Atlantic/Faeroe http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/li… You can see too in Wipikedia as you are redirected from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faeroe_Islands to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands

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Updated timezone info for Western Australia DST trial
by Mark Glossop Nov. 27, 2006

Nov. 27, 2006

Hello, I've recently been tasked with managing the update of our Unix machines to cope with the recently announced (re)introduction of DST in Western Australia - yes, we've been given less than 2 weeks to prepare for the start of the trial period this year :-( Please find attached a copy of the updated "australasia" file that contains the appropriate modifications (it's based on the 2006o timezone information.) Feel free to contact me with any questions or clarifications - I've tested this file as best I can but would not be surprised if more experienced eyes see problems with it. Best regards, Mark -- Mark Glossop Systems Administrator FAHSS Faculty Computing, UWA E: Mark.Glossop(a)uwa.edu.au P: +61 8 6488 2092 M: +61 4 0028 3252 IM: theonlycueball(a)mac.com (AIM)

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Daylight savings time change in Western Australia
by Benno Rice Nov. 24, 2006

Nov. 24, 2006

Western Australia is trialling daylight savings for the next three years. They're planning to switch in on December 3 and then follow the same sort of rules as most of the other Australian states that use DST. The attached diff should implement this, at least for the trial period. -- Benno Rice benno(a)jeamland.net http://jeamland.net/

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Western Australia Daylight Savings Trial
by Clark, Ian R Nov. 23, 2006

Nov. 23, 2006

Hi, You probably recived heaps of mails about this, but I thought I'd send it just in case. The Western Australian State Government has voted to impement daylight savings on a trial basis for three years, starting on 3rd of December this year - Heaps of notice! "4. Trial period of daylight saving Despite the Standard Time Act 2005, from - (a) the hour of 2 a.m. on 3 December 2006 until the hour of 2 a.m. on 25 March 2007; and (b) the hour of 2 a.m. on 28 October 2007 until the hour of 2 a.m. on 30 March 2008; and (c) the hour of 2 a.m. on 26 October 2008 until the hour of 2 a.m. on 29 March 2009, summer time shall, throughout the State, be one hour in advance of standard time and shall be observed accordingly." Full parlimentary Guff at : http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA5482 5721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf Ian Clark Process Automation Service & Facilities Operations Network Services, Telstra Services Phone: 03 8549 1530 Mobile: 0418 131 611 e-mail: ian.r.clark(a)team.telstra.com Network Services.......your single operator of choice

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