April 2012 - tz - lists.iana.org

Russia questions regarding 2010 and 2011
by Tobias Conradi April 29, 2012

April 29, 2012

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson...> wrote: > 1. Some areas of Russia reportedly changed time zones in 2011. Does anyone > know the exact instants at which these changes were made (both date and time > for each affected region, since the instant at which the change was made may > vary from region to region)? Could you name what areas you refer to, so people can search more precisely for what you want to know? Which reports do you refer to? In 2011 there were talks on the mailing list about issues with Yakutia and with Sakhalin. I myself did suggest new zones that may be needed, given the old information in the tzdb was correct: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2011-September/008799.html > 2. In 2010 much of Russia did not turn its clocks back in the fall. Can you cite a reference for that claim? > Does > anyone know whether folks in Russia now think of themselves as being on > "permanent daylight saving time" or think of themselves as having new, > different standard times? "folks" sounds quite unspecific. Do you mean people living in areas that "did not turn its clocks back in the fall" as claimed in the first sentence? -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com

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Samoa error in backward file
by Timo Kähkönen April 7, 2012

April 7, 2012

Hi, I downloaded the file ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdata-latest.tar.gz and noticed one error in a text file named "backward". Backward file has two zones, which both link to Pacific/Pago_Pago. These are the two rows: Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Samoa Link Pacific/Pago_Pago US/Samoa I'm not sure, but I assume that the record is wrong. There are two countries: 1. Samoa (WS), which Capital is Apia. Timezone UTC+13, Summer Time UTC+14 (Note! The same offsets than in Pacific/Apia) 2. American Samoa (AS), whose capital is Pago Pago. Timezone Samoa Standard Time (SST), UTC-11 (Note! THe same offsets than in Pacific/Pago_Pago. So, I assume that the rows should be: Link Pacific/Apia Pacific/Samoa Link Pacific/Pago_Pago US/Samoa Please correct if I'm wrong. Timo Kähkönen

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Paul Eggert as new coordinator?
by Arthur David Olson April 7, 2012

April 7, 2012

I've been in touch with Paul Eggert; Paul is willing to serve as time zone coordinator. Paul has been part of the time zone community since the early 1990s; folks can read the database files to see the depth of Paul's involvement. I'd appreciate reactions to Paul's offer; please respond within the next week. (I hope to have a new coordinator in place sooner rather than later.) --ado

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tzdata2012c released
by Robert Elz April 1, 2012

April 1, 2012

The file ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/tzdata2012c.tar.gz is now available. This reflects the changes circulated last week by the tz co-ordinator (Arthur David Olson). Just in case it isn't obvious, this is a data only update (no code changes) tzcode2012b remains the current code version. The executive summary of the changes: africa Summer time changes for Morocco (to start late April 2012) asia Changes for 2012 for Gaza & the West Bank (Hebron) and Syria northamerica Haiti following US/Canada rules for 2012 (and we're assuming, for now anyway, for the future). Crypto hashes using several algorithms from NetBSD's pkgsrc digest program are appended, you can use these to verify that you have successfully fetched the same file that I intended to distribute (which is a tar.gz file that ado sent me to distribute). A few words on the logistics of all of this ... my term maintaining this stuff ended when ado & Paul returned after the law suit was withdrawn. For now, Arthur is the co-ordinator again, but as you have all seen on the list, the plan is for Paul to take over soon, in accordance with Arthur's long stated plan to retire sometime this year. The files are still being distributed from munnari.oz.au as (as I understand it) elsie is no longer available for this function, and arrangements to make it convenient to use the IANA site as a distribution point will probably not be made until after Paul has taken over. I expect the file will be copied to the IANA site sometime later today. kre MD5 (tzdata2012c.tar.gz) = cfdc2710bd05c26dbd624441d57028f6 RMD160 (tzdata2012c.tar.gz) = cf38b711231e0ddba2b4c0f7be4d18658d751774 SHA1 (tzdata2012c.tar.gz) = e0cd9c2cc0ac8d90ed842133b910d4bb3bc1a6dd SHA512 (tzdata2012c.tar.gz) = c43630f0bf1973b368229c788da90965d7c8b0d6dc8aa0f4bcbfac018a8c8291e1eb21cae05282df2eba6ec9a647c53c02fd92fea91fd5cb93855808387e52b9 TIGER (tzdata2012c.tar.gz) = 75f21b8b8645630cf679fbdd37f5d5789ace4ad69ebe9f26 WHIRLPOOL (tzdata2012c.tar.gz) = 119d8076a88287eb5063bd977aa63eaf918310e33b1d1f4fc60ad9ad72ed9b1d62918345e6f5786ca0ce6d5b938db1e33d05c0bdfdf70d1bd22a10ee825cf99d

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