February 2007 - tz - lists.iana.org

Pulaski County, Indiana changes time zone effective March 11, 2007
by Nathan Stratton Treadway Feb. 19, 2007

Feb. 19, 2007

As a followup to the discussion on Feb 10: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/1396/focus=1490 here's the DOT ruling related to Pulaski County, Indiana's change from from Central To Eastern effective March 11, 2007: http://dms.dot.gov/search/document.cfm?documentid=450729&docketid=26442 Nathan p.s. I noticed the mailing list archive file at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzarchive.gz was last updated on "02/05/07 15:36:00", two weeks ago. Is it normal for the archive to be that far out of date? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - nathanst(a)ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239

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Using Tru64 cc, compile problems tzcode2007.tar.gz
by Donald.White＠l-3com.com Feb. 19, 2007

Feb. 19, 2007

can compile Makefile using gcc just fine. When compile using Dec Tru64 cc get the following error message. example cc: Error: zic.c, line 2647: In the definition of the function "mkdirs", the promoted type of agrname is incompatible with the type of the corresponding parameter in a prior declaration. char * const argname ------^ " any thoughts..?? Thanks - Don -

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Jordan daylight savings
by hsm6second＠mac.com Feb. 18, 2007

Feb. 18, 2007

A local newspaper article this past Wednesday here in Amman listed Jordan's policy regarding daylight saving as follows: DST starts at midnight on the last Thursday in March (i.e. midnight wed/thu) DST ends at 1:00 am on the last Friday in October This first went into effect in 2006 (see Sept 2006 messages from Steffen Thorsen and myself in TZ mailing list archive) Please note that TZ's current settings need to be updated for DST end. Thanks. Hilal Malawi

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Question on naming convention
by Sameer Tyagi Feb. 17, 2007

Feb. 17, 2007

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Fw: DST rules for Istanbul, Turkey
by Nirav Jk Vora Feb. 14, 2007

Feb. 14, 2007

Hi All, Just following up to see if someone could provide some inputs to my previous mail which is below. Just wanted to check as this is urgent for the customer. With Warm Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nirav J Vora Team member, JVM L3 Support(AIX) IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore ( Office: +91-8025094142 È Mobile: +91-9945383481 + e-Mail: nirav.vora(a)in.ibm.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ JVM Diagnostics Reference @ IBM Internal: http://w3.hursley.ibm.com/java/jim/j2se/ibmproduceddocumentation/javadiagno… External: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/diagnosis/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Forwarded by Nirav Jk Vora/India/IBM on 02/14/2007 08:19 AM ----- Nirav Jk Vora/India/IBM 02/10/2007 08:41 AM To tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov cc Subject Re: DST rules for Istanbul, Turkey Hi All, Thank you all for your replies. I have gone back conveying the same to the customer. Here is what they have had to say: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to following link; http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/european-union/turkey/ turkey time zone settings are as follow which is valid now. Standard Time = GMT+2 Summer Time = GMT+3 According to following link; http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=107&syear=2000 29 Ekim 2006 Pazar, 01:59:59 1 hour +3 hours EEST 29 Ekim 2006 Pazar, 01:00:00 No +2 hours EET DST ends 25 Mart 2007 Pazar, 00:59:59 No +2 hours EET 25 Mart 2007 Pazar, 02:00:00 1 hour +3 hours EEST DST starts which is consistent with the previous information. To support the below information,I have taken the official newspaper of the government which had declared to regulate the time settings.I have talked with the staff of the government. They said that this declaration is the last daylight saving declaration announced by the government with official newspaper and today rules are valid for this declaration. I am sending the image of the fax that is sent by the government. The newspaper is normally in Turkish. I want to explain it briefly: "26 Mart 2000 Pazar günü saat 01:00'den itibaren bir saat ileri al?nmas?" means "clocks will be set 1 hour forward (will be GMT+3 ) on 26 March 2000 Sunday at 01:00" 01:00 is the local time (23:00 GMT Saturday) and "29 Ekim 200 Pazar günü saat 02:00'den itibaren bir saat geri al?nmas?" means "clocks will be set 1 hour back (will be GMT+2 ) on 29 October 2000 Sunday at 02:00" 02:00 is the local time (23:00 GMT Satruday) I think these documents are enough to show the daylight saving policy of Turkey is: Standard Time = GMT+2 Summer Time = GMT+3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So to summarize, the customer has provided a citation from the turkish government which tells about the latest DST rules. I have attached the jpg in this mail. Please review the same and provide your inputs as to whether this information would suffice to change the database timezone rules for Turkey. With Warm Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nirav J Vora Team member, JVM L3 Support(AIX) IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore ( Office: +91-8025094142 È Mobile: +91-9945383481 + e-Mail: nirav.vora(a)in.ibm.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ JVM Diagnostics Reference @ IBM Internal: http://w3.hursley.ibm.com/java/jim/j2se/ibmproduceddocumentation/javadiagno… External: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/diagnosis/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Ilieve <peter(a)aldie.co.uk> 02/01/2007 02:58 PM To Nirav Jk Vora/India/IBM@IBMIN cc tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject Re: DST rules for Istanbul, Turkey > Thanks, but that link says Turkish DST starts at 01:00 GMT (i.e., at > 03:00 local time) and ends at 01:00 GMT (i.e., at 04:00 local time). > This agrees with the current tz database. But Amar Devegowda reported > that Turkish DST actually starts at 01:00 local time and ends at 02:00 > local time. Steffen Thorsen of timeanddate.com agreed, and cited > Turkish newspaper reports from 1996 through 2001. > > I'm inclined to go with Devegowda and Thorsen, but what would be > helpful is an official source (e.g., a citation from Turkish law) that > says exactly when this practice started. So far, all we know is that > the current Turkish practice started before 1996, which is a bit > vague. I don't have any authoritative source but I can add a little context to this. Turkey is attempting to join the European Union (it's listed as a candidate country on the <http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/european-union/> page). This is proving a long and painful process. It may be that Turkey has officially switched to the EU 01:00 UTC clock change time recently as part of this EU application process. It may be that the website is just confused, showing all pages under the european-union directory as using EU rules even if they don't. I would also go with Devegowda and Thorsen, mainly on the basis that I think it's very unlikely that a country that far east would use 01:00 UTC unless forced to by something like EU rules. Newspaper reports of 01:00 local time are much more credible. Peter Ilieve peter(a)aldie.co.uk

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FYI: The Chronos Date/Time Library
by Alan L. Lovejoy Feb. 14, 2007

Feb. 14, 2007

The Chronos Date/Time Library is a Smalltalk class library that has its own tz compiler (which compiles tz source into a proprietary time zone format.) There is also a utility that converts Chronos' native time zone files into an XML-encoded representation <http://www.date-time-zone.com/> (http://www.date-time-zone.com/) More information is available from the Chronos web <http://www.chronos-st.org/> site (http://www.chronos-st.org/) --Alan

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Tzcode2007b.tar.gz and tzdata2007b.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Feb. 12, 2007

Feb. 12, 2007

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2007b.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007b.tar.gz ...are now available. Tzcode2007b.tar.gz reflects Paul Eggert's proposed change to the quotation handling logic in zic.c. Tzdata2007b.tar.gz includes changes to the commentary in "leapseconds" reflecting the IERS announcement that there is to be no positive leap second at the end of June 2007. --ado

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Re: fuzz testing tzcode
by Paul Eggert Feb. 12, 2007

Feb. 12, 2007

Curtis Doty <Curtis(a)GreenKey.net> writes: > Of course there aren't unmatched quotes in any tzdata files, but > still... the authors' analysis shouldn't go ignored, no? Certainly not. Here's a trivial patch. Thanks for reporting it. 2006-02-11 Paul Eggert <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> * zic.c (getfields): Catch bug reported in Barton P. Miller, Gregory Cooksey, and Fredrick Moore, An empirical study of the robustness of MacOS applications using random testing, Proc. 1st int. workshop on random testing, Portland, ME (2006) <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1145735.1145743>. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/zic.c,v retrieving revision 2006.8 retrieving revision 2006.8.0.1 diff -pu -r2006.8 -r2006.8.0.1 --- zic.c 2006/07/20 21:06:31 2006.8 +++ zic.c 2007/02/12 03:41:51 2006.8.0.1 @@ -2451,9 +2451,12 @@ register char * cp; else while ((*dp = *cp++) != '"') if (*dp != '\0') ++dp; - else error(_( + else { + error(_( "Odd number of quotation marks" )); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } } while (*cp != '\0' && *cp != '#' && (!isascii(*cp) || !isspace((unsigned char) *cp))); if (isascii(*cp) && isspace((unsigned char) *cp))

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FW: time in southeastern Western Australia
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Feb. 10, 2007

Feb. 10, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Alex Livingston who, after sending it, has subscribed to the time zone mailing list. --ado -----Original Message----- From: LIVINGSTON Alex [mailto:lial@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:57 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: time in southeastern Western Australia Apologies if this has already been covered. I checked the latest tzdata file and there seems to be no mention of it. I have been meaning to write this for nearly four years; it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway, which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern coast of the continent. I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is the largest population centre in this zone, having a population of "40 or 50" (from memory what the proprietor of the roadhouse said when I asked him); it even has named side streets off the highway, and a very modern meteorological observatory and office. The other settlements, Cocklebiddy, Madura, Mundrabilla, and the border village, have much smaller permanent populations (around a dozen at most). So if a new zone were to be added to the tz database it should be called "Australia/Eucla". To back up my assertions I was going to refer to photographs I took of the three clocks at the border crossing (showing, Perth, local, and Adelaide time, respectively) and of the clearly "official" sign (galvanised-steel posts and frame, well-cut rectangular sheet-metal plate with rounded corners, stencilled lettering, and reflective paint) proclaiming "Central Western Time" that is seen just after leaving Caiguna heading east, but I have not published them yet and I do not have the time to check them now. (I think the sign also says, in smaller lettering, "Advance Clocks 45 Minutes".) This zone is also shown on the excellent map at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Timezones_optimized.png (obviously based on the CIA time-zone map). "Central Western Time" is mentioned in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone, where an estimated population for this region of 200 (according with what I would have guessed) is also given. (Unfortunately the phrase "Western Central Standard Time" is used in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Australia to refer to the same thing.) Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I just called the border village [+61 (0)8 9039-3474; from online white pages] and confirmed that indeed they have, meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45. There is one more curiosity to report about this isolated part of the world. The old Eyre telegraph station, just behind the coastal sand dunes southeast of Cocklebiddy, is now run as a bird observatory as well as a weather station and guest house. Its permanent population is 2 (a caretaker couple). I stayed there for a night on my way through and noticed that they kept a time different both from Perth and "the highway" (phrase used by caretaker; see below); they have a clock in their kitchen with a Dymo label on it stating "Eyre Std. Time" (I took a picture). It was UT+09:00, meaning a whole hour ahead of Perth, making their checking and reporting of weather data (which the Perth weather bureau expects to be done according to Perth time) simpler. I have just called them [+61 (0)8 9039-3450, also from online white pages], and they too have advanced their clocks with the rest of the state, putting them on UTC+10:00 and maintaining their one-hour difference from Perth. As far as I'm concerned this warrants another time zone, Australia/Eyre, despite the tiny permanent population! I seem to remember that what matters to this list is what time people actually keep, not statutory status. I hope the hour or two I've spent preparing and writing this turns out to be of some value.

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FW: DST rules for Istanbul, Turkey
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Feb. 10, 2007

Feb. 10, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Nirav J Vora, 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: Nirav Jk Vora [mailto:nirav.vora@in.ibm.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:16 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: DST rules for Istanbul, Turkey Hi, I am Nirav from the Java Technology Centre, IBM. I am working for the L3 team here. Sometime back, one of my colleagues Amar Devegowda, had mailed regarding updation of the DST rules for Istanbul,Turkey. Actually as per the current rule that is being used in the JVM Daylight saving was supposed to start at 3.00AM . But as per the latest rule from the below link, Daylight timings start from 1.00AM. We were asked to provide an official link where these changes were stated. I hope this link will serve the purpose so that the database can be updated with the latest DST rules for Istanbul. http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/european-union/turkey/ Please do contact me for any further queries that may be there. With Warm Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nirav J Vora Team member, JVM L3 Support(AIX) IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore ( Office: +91-8025094142 È Mobile: +91-9945383481 + e-Mail: nirav.vora(a)in.ibm.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ JVM Diagnostics Reference @ IBM Internal: http://w3.hursley.ibm.com/java/jim/j2se/ibmproduceddocumentation/javadiagno… External: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/diagnosis/ ------------------------------------------------------------------

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