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Pakistan plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time on June 1, 2008.
by Alex Krivenyshev May 15, 2008

May 15, 2008

Here is an article that Pakistan plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time on June 1, 2008 for 3 months. "... The federal cabinet on Wednesday announced a new conservation plan to help reduce load shedding by approving the closure of commercial centres at 9pm and moving clocks forward by one hour for the next three months. ...." http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html OR http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5- 2008_pg1_4 Alex Krivenyshev, http://www.WTZ.com http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/ New York, NY

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Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time
by Alex Krivenyshev May 12, 2008

May 12, 2008

Here is an article that Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time between 1 June, 2008 and 27 September, 2008. "... Morocco is to save energy by adjusting its clock during summer so it will be one hour ahead of GMT between 1 June and 27 September, according to Communication Minister and Gov ernment Spokesman, Khalid Naciri...." http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_morocco01.html OR http://en.afrik.com/news11892.html Alex Krivenyshev, http://www.WTZ.com http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/ New York, NY

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FW: time zones in Brazil
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] May 12, 2008

May 12, 2008

I'm forwarding this message from Luiz Fernando Ranghetti, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: ¡ElCheVive! [mailto:elchevive68@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 1:25 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: time zones in Brazil Hi all! I have some suggestions to do for you. It's regarding the "official" timezone of Brazil which is not on your database. I have made this suggestions from my linux distro and they suggest me to send this e-mail for you, You can see my sugestions here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377513 and for the Brasilia timezone (Brazil's official one) from comment 5 and others.. Regards, Luiz Fernando Ranghetti

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time zones in Brazil
by ¡ElCheVive! May 12, 2008

May 12, 2008

Hi all! I have some suggestions to do for you. It's regarding the "official" timezone of Brazil which is not on your database. I have made this suggestions from my linux distro and they suggest me to send this e-mail for you, You can see my sugestions here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377513 and for the Brasilia timezone (Brazil's official one) from comment 5 and others.. Regards, Luiz Fernando Ranghetti

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What about Western Sahara time ?
by Alex Krivenyshev May 9, 2008

May 9, 2008

Is Western Sahara (part which administrated by Morocco) going to follow Morocco DST changes ? Any information? What about other part of Western Sahara - under administration of POLISARIO Front (also named SADR Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic) ? Alex Krivenyshev, http://www.WTZ.com New York, NY

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UTC offset for Asia/Choibalsan
by Deborah Goldsmith May 4, 2008

May 4, 2008

We received a bug report claiming that the tz database UTC offset for Asia/Choibalsan (GMT+09:00) is incorrect, and that it should be GMT +08:00 instead. Different sources appear to disagree with the tz database on this, e.g.: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026 http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx both say GMT+08:00. Do we have any independent confirmation of the correct offset for Asia/ Choibalsan? Thanks, Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. goldsmit(a)apple.com

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No backward zone name entries in zone.tab
by Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski May 2, 2008

May 2, 2008

Hi, Currently it seems timezone in general has a problem related to backward zone names and entries in zone.tab. Every time the name of a zone changes, its entry is replaced in zone.tab file and added to backward file as a Link, until now no problem, but after you install timezone how you can get the zone.tab entry when using the old zone name? Is there a way to do this, or shouldn't both the new and old zone name stay in zone.tab? For now I made this set of commands to add back zone names to zone.tab based on backward file: chmod +w zone.tab echo -e "\n# zone info for backward zone names" >> zone.tab cat backward | grep Link | while read link curr old; do if [ -z "$curr" -o -z "$old" ]; then echo "Error processing backward entry for zone.tab" exit 1 fi cat zone.tab | grep -v '^#' | grep "$curr" | \ while read l; do if [ "`echo \"$l\" | awk 'BEGIN { FS = \"[\t]\" } \ { print $3 }'`" = "$curr" ]; then echo "$l" | sed "s|$curr|$old|" >> zone.tab \ || echo ERROR >> zone.tab else echo ERROR >> zone.tab fi done done if grep -q "^ERROR" zone.tab; then echo "Error adding backward entries to zone.tab" exit 1 fi Without old zone names in zone.tab, problems like this can happen when applications still use old zone names: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40184 Other solution would be to just install backward file in the system to allow applications to know the zone that changed names and use the new name. -- []'s Herton

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Daylist savings letter modifiers for zone format in Australia
by Mark Rodrigues May 2, 2008

May 2, 2008

Hi, This is my first post in this mailing list so please redirect me to an etiquette page if I do anything wrong :) I am using the tzdata2008b.tar.gz distribution from the 24/03/2008. Using the Australia/Melbourne zone, it seems to imply that the format of the zone is EST regardless whether I am in day light savings or not. According to this article [http://www.australia.gov.au/Time_Zones] the format should be AEST except during daylight savings in which case it is AEDT. It also indicates that there may be problems with all the zones in the Australian region. So a couple of questions: 1. What is the best way for me / us to verify this is right? Is that fact that it is on a government web-site enough? 2. If this is correct what is the best way to update the data file. I am more than happy to change it and send back for review and incorporation if required / appropriate. If you need any more from me please let me know. Thanks and kind regards Mark Rodrigues http://www.codeplex.com/zoneinfo

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