January 2014 - tz - lists.iana.org

Fiji to end DST one hour earlier
by Steffen Thorsen Jan. 10, 2014

Jan. 10, 2014

In a press release from the Fijian Government, they announce Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00: http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-… > The Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment is reminding > the public that daylight savings will end on the 19th of January, 2014. > Labour Minister, Jone Usamate said that the public will need to move their > clocks one hour backwards at 2am on the same day. Interesting enough they said 3 am in their previous announcement in August: http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-O… > Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 and end at > 3am on Sunday 19th January, 2014. Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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Timezones in Jordan
by Michael Gardiner Jan. 3, 2014

Jan. 3, 2014

Can you explain the current situation with regards to timezone data for Jordan. I work in the Australian Embassy in amman Jordan and am having a lot of issues with setting the correct time. On our computers when we use a NTP source such as: server 0.pool.ntp.org 120.88.46.10 server 1.pool.ntp.org server 2.pool.ntp.org server 3.pool.ntp.org It sets the clock 1 hour ahead of the correct time so I have to set them all manually which is not good. I have had a look at TZDATA2013i and it had the time as UTC +2 which should give us the correct time. Any Advise would be great. Regards Michael Gardiner First Secretary Technical Australian Embassy Amman Screen shot of using NTP server advances time by 1 hour: Having to Manually set the time (+4 minutes is writing the email): --

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India gets its second time zone as Assam turns its clock ahead by an hour | NDTV.com
by Deborah Goldsmith Jan. 3, 2014

Jan. 3, 2014

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/india-gets-its-second-time-zone-as-assam-… FYI. Deborah Goldsmith Apple, Inc.

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India might get a second time zone
by Steffen Thorsen Jan. 2, 2014

Jan. 2, 2014

India might get a second time zone, the Government of Assam wants to move 1 hour ahead of the rest of India. So that will be a time zone of UTC+6:30 in that case. Date for the change is not yet announced, and it might need approval from central government, but from the news sources it sounds like it is quite likely to happen. Some sources: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/india-gets-its-second-time-zone-as-assam-… http://www.livemint.com/Politics/Zd39EOMva038W5RJPFlXHM/Assam-moves-an-hour… Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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[PATCH] Initialize sp->defaulttype in tzparse()
by Logan Chien Jan. 2, 2014

Jan. 2, 2014

Hi, I found that sometimes the localtime() won't work properly, if sp->defaulttype is not set properly. For example, given the following code: time_t epoch = 0; setenv("TZ", "UTC+00", 1); tzset(); printf("%s", ctime(&epoch)); // (a) setenv("TZ", "Asia/Taipei", 1); tzset(); printf("%s", ctime(&epoch)); // (b) setenv("TZ", "UTC+00", 1); tzset(); printf("%s", ctime(&epoch)); // (c) The expected output should be: Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Thu Jan 1 08:00:00 1970 Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 However, the output is: Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Thu Jan 1 08:00:00 1970 Thu Jan 1 08:00:00 1970 This is due to the fact that sp->defaulttype is set to 1 when we are using "Asia/Taipei" as the timezone, but it is not reset after we change the timezone to "UTC+00". As the result, the old value in sp->types[sp->defaulttype] is incorrectly used. The attached patch should resolve this issue. Please have a look. Thanks. Sincerely, Logan

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