December 2008 - tz - lists.iana.org

Nepal timezone spelling
by Phil Vandry Dec. 4, 2008

Dec. 4, 2008

Hello, I propose that the name of the Asia/Katmandu zone be changed to Asia/Kathmandu. Although Katmandu is an acceptable alternate spelling, I can attest, having recently returned from a holiday in Nepal, that it is hardly ever used. In fact, I saw no occurence at all of the spelling 'Katmandu' while inside the country. This patch keeps the Katmandu spelling for backward compatibility. After trying Asia/Kathmandu and then grepping the whole database for Kathmandu, I nearly concluded that this timezone definition was missing from the database before finally finding it under the alternate spelling! -Phil --- asia.orig 2008-10-08 08:35:57.000000000 -0400 +++ asia 2008-12-04 16:05:36.000000000 -0500 @@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@ # Nepal # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920 +Zone Asia/Kathmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920 5:30 - IST 1986 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time --- backward.orig 2008-09-09 22:33:26.000000000 -0400 +++ backward 2008-12-04 16:05:28.000000000 -0500 @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Link Asia/Ashgabat Asia/Ashkhabad Link Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking Link Asia/Dhaka Asia/Dacca +Link Asia/Kathmandu Asia/Katmandu Link Asia/Kolkata Asia/Calcutta Link Asia/Macau Asia/Macao Link Asia/Jerusalem Asia/Tel_Aviv

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Posix Timezone format
by Louis Guindon Dec. 2, 2008

Dec. 2, 2008

Hi All, My goal is to provide a user interface showing the information derived from the TZ zone name. Based on the selected TZ zone name by the user, I will assign the corresponding POSIX time zone string to the Linux /tmp/TZ file. This way the local time will show up properly for the user. However, I am having difficulty to find a reliable source for POSIX time zone string representation for each defined time zone in the Olson database. Also, the Olson database is changing many times a year which is making it difficult to hardcode anything in advance. I am sure that my problem already encountered by someone on this mailing list and I am wandering if there is a way to query the current version of the Olson database with some tool to return the related POSIX representation for the requested time zone. I don't know if there is an alternative way, but I am also wandering if the TZ time zone name can used directly without going through the POSIX representation of the time zone. Note: POSIX time zone representation for me is the following. The TZ zone name America/Los_angeles is represented as PST8PDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0. Regards, Louis Guindon PMC-Sierra Senior System Design Engineer

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Re: zdump loop problem
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Dec. 2, 2008

Dec. 2, 2008

So...in the real world, does changing the zic.c lines reading... if (t >= cuthitime) break; newt = t + SECSPERHOUR * 12; if (newt >= cuthitime) break; ...to read... if (t >= cuthitime || t >= cuthitime - SECSPERHOUR * 12) break; newt = t + SECSPERHOUR * 12; ...result in working code? I'd particularly appreciate feedback from Andreas Radke or other ArchLinux users. --ado

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Time WRONG for Australia\Perth
by Vera Tong Dec. 2, 2008

Dec. 2, 2008

Hi, Reckon the Time's wrong for Australia\Perth, The place is now in DST, and the time should be GMT+9 Thanks, ____________________________________________ Vera Tong Maximo System Manager Tungsten Group Pty Ltd Level 3, 100 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, 3207 Phone +61 3 9697 0022 Fax +61 3 9686 7999 Mobile +61 439 345 025 www.tungstengroup.com <http://www.tungstengroup.com/> Tungsten is a division of Programmed Maintenance Services Limited. This e-mail (and any attachments to this e-mail) is for the exclusive use of the person, firm or corporation to which it is addressed and may contain information that by law is privileged, confidential or protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for the delivering of this e-mail to the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, disclosure, distribution, printing or copying of this e-mail transmission is prohibited by law and that the contents must be kept strictly confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately or respond to the sender by return e-mail. The original of this e-mail must be destroyed. P Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments.

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