tz

Download

tz@iana.org

July 2014

47 participants
51 discussions

[PATCH] A few more fixes related to AEST/AEDT etc. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.)
by Paul Eggert June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

* Theory: Use CST instead of EST in the example, so that it matches the current database. * antarctica (Antarctica/Casey): AWST, not WST. * asia (Asia/Jayapura): ACST, not CST. * australasia: Prepend "[A]" to "EST" in quote about EST. --- Theory | 6 +++--- antarctica | 8 ++++---- asia | 4 ++-- australasia | 2 +- 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Theory b/Theory index a956d85..05a9f65 100644 --- a/Theory +++ b/Theory @@ -542,10 +542,10 @@ in decreasing order of importance: in some sense, asleep. Application writers should note that these abbreviations are ambiguous -in practice: e.g. 'EST' has a different meaning in Australia than +in practice: e.g. 'CST' has a different meaning in China than it does in the United States. In new applications, it's often better -to use numeric UT offsets like '-0500' instead of time zone -abbreviations like 'EST'; this avoids the ambiguity. +to use numeric UT offsets like '-0600' instead of time zone +abbreviations like 'CST'; this avoids the ambiguity. ----- Calendrical issues ----- diff --git a/antarctica b/antarctica index 26a6219..101e9c7 100644 --- a/antarctica +++ b/antarctica @@ -103,13 +103,13 @@ Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - zzz 1969 - 8:00 - WST 2009 Oct 18 2:00 - # Western (Aus) Standard Time + 8:00 - AWST 2009 Oct 18 2:00 + # western Australia time 11:00 - CAST 2010 Mar 5 2:00 # Casey Time - 8:00 - WST 2011 Oct 28 2:00 + 8:00 - AWST 2011 Oct 28 2:00 11:00 - CAST 2012 Feb 21 17:00u - 8:00 - WST + 8:00 - AWST Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 13 7:00 - DAVT 1964 Nov # Davis Time 0 - zzz 1969 Feb diff --git a/asia b/asia index 54a8dc7..3f7d019 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ # 9:00 WIT east Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Timur) # 9:00 JST JDT Japan # 9:00 KST KDT Korea -# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time +# 9:30 ACST Australian Central Standard Time # # See the 'europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. @@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 # Maluku Islands, West Papua, Papua Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 9:00 - WIT 1944 Sep 1 - 9:30 - CST 1964 + 9:30 - ACST 1964 9:00 - WIT # Iran diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 69f61f1..1fd7cb1 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb # # From Arthur David Olson (2013-05-23): # The 1919 transition is overspecified below so pre-2013 zics -# will produce a binary file with an EST-type as the first 32-bit type; +# will produce a binary file with an [A]EST-type as the first 32-bit type; # this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by # pre-2013 versions of localtime. Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - zzz 1899 Nov -- 1.9.1

2 2