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Mongolia not on DST in 2007
by Jesper Norgaard Welen March 3, 2007

March 3, 2007

Ganbold was kind enough to send me this link in Mongolian about Mongolia not applying DST this year. I guess it's the only web reference we have about this at the moment: >Good question. It wasn't Parliament resolution, it was >Mongolian government resolution and government members >made decision not to have daylight-saving. I couldn't access >Mongolian Government web site, I could only find some >mongolian references which I guess is not helpful to anybody >other than Mongolian. > >http://www.mongolnews.mn/index.php?module=unuudur&sec=view&id=15742 Regards, 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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Microsoft exec says Namibia and Iran have recently changed DST rules
by Paul Eggert March 3, 2007

March 3, 2007

In an interview Microsoft published yesterday <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-01DaylightSaving.…> Rich Kaplan, Vice President of Microsoft Customer Service, Partners and Automation said "Namibia and Iran ratified changes even more recently" than December 2006. Has anyone else heard about this, or was Mr. Kaplan merely misinformed? Kaplan is also quoted as saying that Brazil and Israel are not on the Gregorian calendar, so I'm inclined to think the information got garbled a bit in translation....

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Cuba changing DST spring switch date this year to equal the US
by Paul Eggert March 3, 2007

March 3, 2007

On Wednesday, Granma, the official organ of the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, wrote that this year Cuba will advance its clocks on midnight, March 10. See <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>. The official announcement was published (in Spanish) yesterday <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/03/01/nacional/artic01.html>. The announcement doesn't say when the clocks switch back, but for lack of better info I guess we should assume that Cuba will use the US dates for spring and autumn, but switch at midnight standard time, which is their recent tradition. I'll send out a proposed patch soon. PS. I still haven't been able to find any official confirmation for the theory that Haiti will not observe DST this year. The IATA and timeanddate.com are consistent with this theory, but worldtimezone.com disagrees.

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Nunavut (2007)
by Chris Walton March 2, 2007

March 2, 2007

Looks like Nunavut (Territory in northern Canada) has finally decided to follow the rest of Canada and the United States. An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007. See page 18 of February's the Nunavut Gazette: http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf All of the assumptions that were made in the TZ database are now correct; no further changes are required. As per usual, I have updated my Canadian DST web page at http://www3.sympatico.ca/c.walton/canada_dst.html P.S. I came accross a little news article from Northern News Services dated November 13/2006. It claims that the community of Resolute (located on Conrnwallis Island in Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of daylight saving. It is not clear whether or not the clocks will change again on March 11 of if they will stay fixed on Eastern Standard Time. Technically this requires a new zone. Ouch. Is it worth it for a population of of 215 people? http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html -chris

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Atlantic/Faroe DST
by michael March 2, 2007

March 2, 2007

Hello, According to wikipedia authors, DST is observed in Faroe Islands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_islands According to TZ, it is not: Atlantic/Faroe Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 Atlantic/Faroe isdst=0 gmtoff=0 Atlantic/Faroe Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 Atlantic/Faroe isdst=0 gmtoff=0 Atlantic/Faroe Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 Atlantic/Faroe isdst=0 gmtoff=0 I don't have any additional evidence to say which is correct, but I thought it worth noting. Thanks, Michael

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