March 2014 - tz - lists.iana.org

US feds & Y2K
by Arthur David Olson April 11, 2014

April 11, 2014

In line with this morning's proposed 1998 change: "The Defense Department, General Services Administration and NASA are proposing that a 1997 [Y2K] acquisition rule--and all related clauses--be deleted from federal regulations." http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/fedbiz_daily/2014/03/its-2014-is… @dashdashado

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Missing link to America/Montreal
by Paul_Koning＠Dell.com April 1, 2014

April 1, 2014

Apologies for not catching this sooner: In 2013, between 2013e and 2013i, America/Montreal was eliminated. But there is not, as is usually done, a link in the “backward” file. Some others I looked at, like Antarctica/South_Pole, did get an entry in backward. Is the an oversight or was it intentional? paul

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Re: [tz] Crimea switches to Moscow time at 22:00 local time March 29, 2014
by Paul Eggert March 31, 2014

March 31, 2014

Anatoly Zaytsev wrote: > It was only symbolic act, not official clock shift. Yes, thanks, that's the simplest interpretation. I've reverted the most recent change to the experimental repository, so the Crimean data has gone back to that of 2014b.

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Crimea to switch to Moscow Time as of March 30, 2014
by Alexander Krivenyshev March 30, 2014

March 30, 2014

According to the news, Republic of Crimea (Simferopol, Sevastopol, Kerch, Yalta, Yevpatoriya) will change its clock 2 hours forward (to the Moscow time) on March 30, 2014. Crimea to switch to Moscow Time as of March 30 http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_17/Crimea-to-switch-to-Moscow-Time-as- of-March-30-8334/ or http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_crimea01.html Alexander Krivenyshev, http://www.worldtimezone.com

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Asia rules change
by Oleksii Nochovnyi March 28, 2014

March 28, 2014

Hi there! I'm agree with this comment in asia rules file: # From Phil Pizzey (2009-04-02): # ...I think I may have spotted an error in the timezone data for # Jordan. # The current (2009d) asia file shows Jordan going to daylight # saving # time on the last Thursday in March. # # Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S # # However timeanddate.com, which I usually find reliable, shows Jordan # going to daylight saving time on the last Friday in March since 2002. # Please see # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=11"> # http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=11 # </a> It's real that Jordan makes transition to DST on last Friday of march. For this reason I've changed 2 rules Rule Jordan 2000 2001 - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Jordan 2014 max - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S To Rule Jordan 2000 2001 - Mar lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Jordan 2014 max - Mar lastFri 24:00 1:00 S I'va attached my copy of changed file. Best regards, Oleksii Nochovnyi Software Engineer [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: http://c.softserveinc.com/mail/signature-logo.gif] 22 Karl Marks av., Dnipropetrovs'k 49000, Ukraine Tel: +380-56-270-2272 x 3776 Tel: +380-32-240-9090 x 3776 Fax: +380-32-240-9080 website<http://www.softserveinc.com/> | onoch(a)softserveinc.com<mailto:onoch@softserveinc.com> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: http://c.softserveinc.com/mail/linkedin.jpg]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/softserve> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: http://c.softserveinc.com/mail/facebook.jpg]<http://www.facebook.com/pages/SoftServe/336445732845> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: http://c.softserveinc.com/mail/twitter.jpg]<http://twitter.com/SoftServeInc>

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Re: [tz] Ukraine 1990
by Bogdan Krusiński March 28, 2014

March 28, 2014

Hello, http://search.ligazakon.ua/l_doc2.nsf/link1/T217600.html excuse us for the earlier confusion, the text from 11 june 1990 we sent was reotroactively decreed in 1992 to remove the words "Moscow time minus 1 hour". The version we sent was version after retroactive edition of 1992 year after decree ordering to remove these words was issued. The original Original text from June of 1990 was: "1. Установити з 1 липня 1990 року на території Української РСР час другого часового поясу без додання однієї години, московський час мінус одна година." "1. Introduction from 1st of July 1990 on territory of Ukrainian SSR time zone of two hours without summer time, Moscow time minus 1 hour". with best regards Bogdan Krusinski -----Original Message----- From: Bogdan Krusiński Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:47 AM To: 'tz(a)iana.org' Subject: Ukraine 1990 Hello, the contenst of decree at http://search.ligazakon.ua/l_doc2.nsf/link1/T001500.html contain only one point: "1. Установити з 1 липня 1990 року на території Української РСР час другого часового поясу без додання однієї години." "1. Intorduction from 1st of July 1990 on territory of Ukrainian SSR time of two hours without addition of one hour". I'm a bit disturbed because I was directed by astro.com to these archives where it is translated as: "Set on 1 July 1990 in the Ukrainian SSR, the second time zone with the addition of one hour." "without" is not "with". Pozdrawiam serdecznie Bogdan Krusiński

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Cygwin
by Arthur David Olson March 27, 2014

March 27, 2014

Changes to private.h and zdump.c, for the benefit of Cygwin setups which lack glibc but have stdint.h; both attached and tab-mangled (below) @dashdashado *** tz2014braw/private.h 2014-03-20 17:34:32.000000000 -0400 --- tz2014bcooked/private.h 2014-03-25 13:41:48.769742400 -0400 *************** *** 119,127 **** --- 119,131 ---- ** (glibc 2.1 and later have stdint.h, even with pre-C99 compilers.) */ #ifndef HAVE_STDINT_H + #ifdef __CYGWIN__ + #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1 + #else #define HAVE_STDINT_H \ (199901 <= __STDC_VERSION__ || \ 2 < (__GLIBC__ + (0 < __GLIBC_MINOR__))) + #endif #endif /* !defined HAVE_STDINT_H */ #if HAVE_STDINT_H *** tz2014braw/zdump.c 2013-10-20 19:20:23.000000000 -0400 --- tz2014bcooked/zdump.c 2014-03-25 13:46:25.124227800 -0400 *************** *** 35,43 **** --- 35,47 ---- */ #ifndef HAVE_STDINT_H + #ifdef __CYGWIN__ + #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1 + #else # define HAVE_STDINT_H \ (199901 <= __STDC_VERSION__ || 2 < (__GLIBC__ + (0 < __GLIBC_MINOR__))) #endif + #endif #if HAVE_STDINT_H # include "stdint.h" #endif

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"make clean" leaves "libtz.a" behind
by Arthur David Olson March 26, 2014

March 26, 2014

Doing a "make clean" does not remove "libtz.a"--a fix is attached (and appears in mangled form below). @dashdashado *** tz2014braw/Makefile 2014-03-25 00:30:17.000000000 -0400 --- tz2014bcooked/Makefile 2014-03-26 18:53:56.650329500 -0400 *************** *** 443,449 **** clean_misc: rm -f core *.o *.out \ ! date tzselect version.h zdump zic yearistype clean: clean_misc rm -fr tzpublic --- 443,449 ---- clean_misc: rm -f core *.o *.out \ ! date tzselect version.h zdump zic yearistype libtz.a clean: clean_misc rm -fr tzpublic

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tz changes linux debian caused sync diff
by John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell March 26, 2014

March 26, 2014

hello first background the Question is last i just spent an hour trying to edit America/New_York only to find US had been changed my two hosts disagreed by 1 hr and daylight savings time but not UTC prev US section used "max". apparently (i dont' have all tz revisions) someone change the last US rule this changes assumptions made in all rules of states using US in their Rules meaning one host assumes NY follows US from (19xx) forward, so does the other: but since US chaned they are an hour off -------------------------------------- Question: why was that a good idea ? and what if new Rules file becomes incompat with my libc and i cannot zic/compile and load "new localtime assumptions" ?? it seems rediculous however i'm guessing there is a good answer

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Re: [tz] confirmation of historical DST changes in Ukraine
by David Cochrane March 26, 2014

March 26, 2014

Sorry, I did not post this to the correct thread. My apologies. David Cochrane ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Cochrane" <davidc(a)astrosoftware.com> To: <tz(a)iana.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:35 AM Subject: confirmation of historical DST changes in Ukraine > Gary How wrote: > >> The question for tz >> database is whether the switch to Urumqi Time in Xinjiang is on 1975 >> (when >> it was first announced) or 1986 (when it was more commonly implemented). > > Just a confirmation that Urumqi time was implemented in Urumqi on 1 Feb > 1986: > > http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960684,00.html > > I did not subscribe or log in to the site but from the part of the article > on this page, it suggests that the article will confirm the Feb 1, 1986 > date > for the date when people began observing Urumqi time (even if a regulation > had already been passed in 1975). > > I am fairly new to this group. I also have some confirmation of the DST > changes in the Ukraine from newspaper articles in Russian that confirm > that the laws passed were put into practice. I can send these as well if > this is useful information. I can also gradually submit other historical > research information for countries that I have which I believe is not in > the TZ database files. > > David Cochrane > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary How" <hytar(a)outlook.com> > To: <tz(a)iana.org> > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 8:26 AM > Subject: Re: [tz] China time zones 1949 - 1980: appeal to speakers > ofMandarin > > >> Alois Treindl <alois <at> astro.ch> writes: >> >>> >>> This seems to be a relevant source: >>> Guo, Qingsheng (2003) "Beijing Time at the Beginning of PRC", China >>> Historical Materials of Science and Technology 24(1) >>> >> >> Hi Alois and Paul, I purchased the journal article (finally after days of >> figuring out which service allows payment from outside China). From the >> points Alois raised in his recent email, I try to clarify by using that >> article, quoting/paraphrasing its English translation. >> >>> >>> Various sources claim that this unified country-wide timezone was >>> already introduced in 1949 or early 1950 >>> >> >> This particular source says the first meeting of the Chinese People's >> Political Consultative Conference passed the resolution of "making >> Beiping >> the capital, changing Beiping to Beijing." That was 27 September 1949. On >> the same day, Beiping Xinhua Radio was renamed with Beijing at the >> beginning. The next day, that station started using Beijing in its >> timekeeping call. The earliest written instance of "Beijing Time" found >> by >> the author was on 7 October 1949, through a newspaper posting from Xi'an >> People's Radio. That said, the author inferred that Beijing Time was >> established on 27 September 1949. >> >>> >>> It seems to me that the only source claiming the continuation of 5 time >>> zones for China is the International Atlas by Shanks and Pottenger. The >>> overall work of these authors is extremely valuable, but they do not >>> give a source for their China information. >>> >>> Paul Eckert says in tz/asia file: >>> # From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30): >>> # There seems to be a good chance China switched to a single time zone >>> in 1949 >>> # rather than in 1980 as Shanks & Pottenger have it, but we don't have a >>> # reliable documentary source saying so yet, so for now we still go with >>> # Shanks & Pottenger. >>> >> >> For time zones in the rest of China after that, Qing-sheng Guo has >> another >> journal article in 2001 that discussed these in detail, entitled "A Study >> on >> the Standard Time Changes for the Past 100 Years in China," from China >> Historical Materials of Science and Technology 22(3). >> >> Earlier I mentioned Xi'an radio station referencing Beijing Time. Another >> written source for this was from the Xi'an People's Government dated 2 >> November 1949, announcing to stop using Longshu Time (aka Kansu-Szechuan >> Time, GMT+7) and change to Beijing Time from 3 November 1949 onwards. >> >>> 10/16/2010 by Jonathan.Hassid <at> uts.edu.au who writes: >>> "The government in Chengdu (capital of Sichuan province) announced the >>> switch (from "Shulong" (Gansu/Sichuan) time) to Beijing time on 27 Dec. >>> 1949. >> >> As for Chengdu, the date 27 December 1949 is stated in the article as >> "being >> liberated" during the Communist Revolution. The switch to Beijing Time >> "was >> announced ten days or so after that." The author referenced a notice from >> the Chengdu Garrison Command dated 6 January 1950, to request citizens to >> adjust their watches through daily sirens at noon Beijing Time. For most >> other parts of China, they "have used standard time of 120° longitude >> around >> the year 1950 to 1953." He dubbed it the "chaotic period", since no >> government agency announced and enforced this rule of time, instead the >> cities synced to the unified time at their pace. >> >> In the 2003 article, Guo obtained two independent sources that verified >> the >> Beijing Time of 1949 was using apparent/true solar time (GMT+7:56) and >> not >> mean solar time (7:46) or standard time of 120° longitude (8:00). >> However, >> he had doubts about that, since he thought apparent solar time is a step >> back to time measurements in the early 20th century, and standard time >> signals can be obtained easily from overseas stations at the time. The >> 1954 >> Chinese Astronomical Almanac mentioned that "except Xinjiang and Tibet, >> the >> whole country uses standard time of 120° longitude." He has yet to find >> out >> exactly when did Beijing Time switch back to GMT+8 between 1949 and 1954 >> in >> the article. I will try to look for later articles that reference this >> work. >> >> For Tibet, the standard time of 90° longitude was used prior to March >> 1959, >> also known as Lhasa Time. After the Tibetan Uprising that month and the >> Panchen Lama took over, the author surmised that the transition from >> Lhasa >> Time to Beijing Time happened at the second half of 1959. He tried to >> look >> for "first-hand accounts" on this, but found none so far. On the other >> hand, >> Guo said time zone changes for Xinjiang is relatively well documented. >> >> The Revolutionary Committee of Xinjiang and Xinjiang military notified on >> 9 >> June 1969, that starting from 1 July 1969, Beijing Time would be put into >> effect for the entire Xinjiang province. On 7 April 1975, the same >> committee >> put out a notice to be enforced on 1 May, that except military, >> rail-road, >> civil aviation, postal and telecommunication services, the schedules for >> government, factories, mines, businesses and schools would use Urumqi >> Time. >> Due to poor implementation of this notice, they again informed on 10 June >> 1977 that "schedules for work, meeting etc. should only use Urumqi Time >> for >> the whole province." >> >> In the end, the Xinjiang People's Government decided that starting 1 >> February 1986, the entire province would use Urumqi Time. Whenever >> Beijing >> Time is used, they should be stated explicitly. According to Guo, this >> particular rule is more effectively put into practice. The question for >> tz >> database is whether the switch to Urumqi Time in Xinjiang is on 1975 >> (when >> it was first announced) or 1986 (when it was more commonly implemented). >> >> To conclude, all of China currently is in the UTC+8:00 time zone except >> for >> Xinjiang province, according to the articles. The central Chinese >> government >> still did not made a law to enforce the unified time zone, although it >> was >> widely accepted that China has one official time zone. Whether or not the >> locals all around China follow that standard time, we do not know for >> sure. >> >> The 2001 article by Guo also has details about Chinese time zones from >> the >> 1900s to 1949. We can start a new thread on this if necessary. > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 9596 (20140326) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 9597 (20140326) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 9597 (20140326) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

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