October 2007 - tz - lists.iana.org

FW: Syria DST
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Oct. 26, 2007

Oct. 26, 2007

The sister center ICARDA of my work CIMMYT is confirming that Syria DST will not take place 1.st November at 0:00 o'clock but 1.st November at 24:00 or rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sence than having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend. I know this is semi-official information, but that is the best I can do. I hope you will be able to receive the graphics "Winter Time.jpg" if not here is the essential part of the text (it's a scanned letter with ICARDA letterhead): "Winter local time in Syria will be observed at midnight of Thursday 1 November 2007, and the clock will be put back 1 hour." Regards, - Jesper Nørgaard Welen

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Cuba to end DST on Sunday
by Steffen Thorsen Oct. 25, 2007

Oct. 25, 2007

Hello, Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006. He supplied these references: http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-86… http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cam… Best regards, Steffen / timeanddate.com

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Australian Daylight Saving Time Changes
by Eric Ulevik Oct. 25, 2007

Oct. 25, 2007

The states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory will now have summer time from 2am standard time on the first Sunday in October to 2am standard time on the first Sunday in April. These changes start with the end of summer time in 2008, and will result in the above locations having the same summer time as Tasmania. References: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/bill/stasb2007371/ http://www.gazette.vic.gov.au/Gazettes2007/GG2007G035.pdf http://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/R/DAYLIGHT%20SAVING%20REGULATIONS%202… http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/ni/2007-253/current/pdf/2007-253.pdf The ACT and South Australia legislation only cover the next summer time period but they are expected to follow the other states. The south-east part of the state of Queensland is in favour of adopting daylight saving time, but no actions have been taken yet. http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Qld-could-split-for-daylight-savings… Regards, Eric Ulevik

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FW: DST for Australian timezones not working
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 23, 2007

Oct. 23, 2007

I'm (belatedly) forwarding this message from Prabhuram K, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zome mailing list should direct replies appropriately. --ado From: Prabhuram K [mailto:prabhuram.k@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:35 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: DST for Australian timezones not working Hi, I wanted to update my linux box with the recent DST changes in Australia/Newzealand. I downloaded the latest tzdata from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ and I compiled 'australasia' using zic compiler. I replaced the latest timezone settings for Australia under /usr/share/zoneinfo. zdump shows the recent DST changes for Australian time zones. (from 2008, daylight savings starts on the first Sunday in October and end on the first Sunday in April) [root@a10-10-4-61 root]# zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2008 /etc/localtime Sat Apr 5 16:29:59 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 02:59:59 2008 CST isdst=1 gmtoff=37800 /etc/localtime Sat Apr 5 16:30:00 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 02:00:00 2008 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=34200 /etc/localtime Sat Oct 4 16:29:59 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 5 01:59:59 2008 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=34200 /etc/localtime Sat Oct 4 16:30:00 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 5 03:00:00 2008 CST isdst=1 gmtoff=37800 [root@a10-10-4-61 root]# Now my problem is, DST settings for Australia starts correctly on first sunday of October, but it is not ending at first sunday of April. DST START: (working perfectly) --------- [root@a10-10-4-61 root]# date Sun Oct 5 01:59:59 CST 2008 [root@a10-10-4-61 root]# date Sun Oct 5 03:00:00 CST 2008 [root@a10-10-4-61 root]# DST END: (not working) -------- [root@a10-10-4-61 root]# date Sun Apr 6 02:59:59 CST 2008 [root@a10-10-4-61 root]# date Sun Apr 6 03:00:00 CST 2008 [root@a10-10-4-61 root]# To cross verify, I tried the same thing in Fedora Core 7 without the patch, there also I observed the same behavior. i.e., without the patch, DST correctly starts on last Sunday of October, but not ending at last Sunday of march. Is this an known issue? Not sure if I am doing something wrong. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks for your time, Prabhu

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FW: Information about Brazilian DZT schedule for 2007-2008
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 23, 2007

Oct. 23, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Gustavo Dalla Nora, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. --ado From: Gustavo Dalla Nora [mailto:thegud@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:10 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Information about Brazilian DZT schedule for 2007-2008 Hi, We are facing some problems regarding date/time issues in Java Applications. We found out Time zone info data for JRE is not up to date regarding 2007 brazilian DST schedule. As of 2007 brazilian DST schedule goes from 2007-10-14 to 2008-02-17. We had to update our file using the following rules: Rule Brazil 2007 only - Oct 14 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 2008 only - Feb 17 0:00 0 - Official government information can be found at: http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV6212.gif Is it possible to update Time zone info source files? Thanks, Gustavo Dalla Nora thegud(a)gmail.com

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Information about Brazilian DZT schedule for 2007-2008
by Gustavo Dalla Nora Oct. 23, 2007

Oct. 23, 2007

Hi, We are facing some problems regarding date/time issues in Java Applications. We found out Time zone info data for JRE is not up to date regarding 2007 brazilian DST schedule. As of 2007 brazilian DST schedule goes from 2007-10-14 to 2008-02-17. We had to update our file using the following rules: Rule Brazil 2007 only - Oct 14 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 2008 only - Feb 17 0:00 0 - Official government information can be found at: http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV6212.gif Is it possible to update Time zone info source files? Thanks, Gustavo Dalla Nora thegud(a)gmail.com

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IATA Airport Identifiers
by Crewsware Oct. 13, 2007

Oct. 13, 2007

Hi, I maintain a file that maps the zone name for about 1800 airports to their IATA, ICAO and FAA identifiers. For instance: # Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Pearson International Airport Link America/Toronto IATA/YYZ Link America/Toronto ICAO/YYZ Link America/Toronto FAA/CYYZ We append this data to tz's backward file and it simplifies life for us, since we deal extensively with aircraft routing information. I haven't been able to find anyone else that doing a similar thing and would like to make this data publicly available in the event that it would be of use. The need to do time calculations by airport ID isn't all that common, but if you need to, these mappings are really, really, helpful. Is there a central repository of other such add-ons to the tz database or some other way to let people know that this data exists? Rikk Salamat Crewsware Software Inc.

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RE: FW: Dead Links
by Robert Elz Oct. 12, 2007

Oct. 12, 2007

I received the following reply from Bert ... (originally it included a copy of me message, ,which I deleted here). kre ------- Forwarded Message From: "Bert van Heerde" <bert(a)insyde.nl> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:07:51 +0200 To: "'Robert Elz'" <kre(a)munnari.OZ.AU> Subject: RE: FW: Dead Links Hi Robert, You're absolutely right. I checked the tool and it does indeed flag ftp links with the same color as redirects (to be exact: forbidden or forwarded links). Sorry for the false alarm on those links. kind regards, Bert ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Dead Links
by Bert van Heerde Oct. 9, 2007

Oct. 9, 2007

Dear Twin Sun employee, I was looking for places to submit links for my site world-map.nl and saw your page and the request for corrections. I was a bit bored, so analyzed the page :-) Below you will find the deadlinks on the page: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm Maybe this linkchecker can help you out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/532 since W3C tool http://validator.w3.org/checklink is a bit slow. Have nice day! Bert Dead Links: <http://unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/by_type/names.zone.html> By-Type Chart: names.zone <http://www.metrologie.at/pdf/sommerzeit.pdf> daylight saving time in Austria (in German). <http://mozware.free.fr/devtools/xmlDate/> xmlDate <http://www.calconnect.org/dstlinks.html> Extended Daylight Saving Time Links, Advisories and Changes Redirects: <ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/> FTP distribution <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz/> archived older versions of code and data <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2445.txt> Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/> announcements (in Hebrew). <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-timezone-option-04. txt> A Timezone Option for DHCP <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2822.txt> Internet RFC 2822 <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2616.txt> HTTP <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3339.txt> Internet RFC 3339

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FW: End of DST 2007 in Cuba?
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 8, 2007

Oct. 8, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Dirk Losch, who's on the time zone mailing list at a different address than that shown below. Direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Losch [mailto:dirk.losch@gmx.de] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 5:17 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: End of DST 2007 in Cuba? Hello, according to tzdata2007h the end of DST for Cuba is at the first Sunday in November: Rule Cuba 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D Rule Cuba 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S But some airlines use 2007-08-28 for the end of DST. So what is correct? Best regards dirk -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail

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