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Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
by Hank W. April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015

I happened to notice that the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49, Subtitle A, Part 71, Section 71.12 states "...the Hawaii-Aleutian standard time zone, includes the entire State of Hawaii and, in the State of Alaska, that part of the Aleutian Islands that is west of 169 degrees 30 minutes west longitude." The America/Adak Zone data include this change, but the Pacific/Honolulu Zone data do not. Hank Wisniewski, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

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Samoa Standard Time
by Hank W. April 16, 2015

April 16, 2015

FYI: I sent the following message to my U.S. Senators and my U.S. Representative: Whereas there exists a country which has been named Samoa since July 1997, Whereas Samoa is entirely separate from the Territory of American Samoa, Whereas Samoa and American Samoa have had standard times since 1911, Whereas the standard time in Samoa has differed from the standard time in American Samoa since the 30th of December 2011 (in addition to the period from 1911 to 1950, when the time in Western Samoa was known as Samoa Time and the time in American Samoa was known as Nome Standard Time), and Whereas the standard times in both locations continue to be known as Samoa Standard Time, Despite the report in the Samoa Wikipedia article that American Samoans protested Samoa's name change and continue to call it Western Samoa, and Despite the difference between the abbreviations of Samoa's Samoa Standard Time (WSST) and American Samoa's Samoa Standard Time (SST), which is due to the fact that the ISO-3166 international standard abbreviation of Samoa is still WS, In the interest of reducing international confusion, I recommend that the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49, Subtitle A, Part 71, Section 71.13 and the United States Code, Title 15, Chapter 6, Subchapter IX, Section 263 be amended to change the name of the standard time in American Samoa from Samoa standard time to American Samoa standard time. Although I hope they make the change, I'm not holding my breath. I sent a similar message last year to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Executive Department in charge of U.S. time zones, but received no reply. Besides, if we were interested in reducing international confusion, we would have switched to the metric system. Hank Wisniewski, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

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Belarus is listed in MSK timezone
by Dzmitry Kazimirchyk April 13, 2015

April 13, 2015

I am in Belarus and I have recently noticed that my local timezone is displayed as MSK (Moscow Time) instead of FET (Further Eastearn European Time). Belarus has not made any changes to its timezone (daylight saving) policies recently, so I guess the reasoning behind this is that Russia have changed its time effectively putting its internal MSK timezone into the same time Belarus already had. However this doesn't cancel out the fact that Belarus is an independent country and it is very strange for a country to be listed under an internal timezone of some other country... Could anyone please shed some light on the reasoning behind putting Belarus into MSK timezone and if we can get our FET timezone back or at least have MSK changed to something neutral. Best regards, Dzmitry Kazimirchyk

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Luhansk & Donetsk, Ukraine
by Hank W. April 13, 2015

April 13, 2015

timeanddate.com reported that Luhansk and Donetsk, the two easternmost Ukrainian regions, did not switch back to EET with the rest of Ukraine on 26 Oct 2014 but are now "permanently" on MSK. However, the 2015b europe data file does not seem to reflect that. Hank Wisniewski, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

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[tz-announce] 2015c release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert April 13, 2015

April 13, 2015

The 2015c release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects the following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes. Although this release is based on the best information we had when it was made, the daylight-saving situation in Egypt seems to be fluid, and we may need to generate another release soon. Changes affecting future time stamps Egypt's spring-forward transition is at 24:00 on April's last Thursday, not 00:00 on April's last Friday. 2015's transition will therefore be on Thursday, April 30 at 24:00, not Friday, April 24 at 00:00. Similar fixes apply to 2026, 2037, 2043, etc. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) Changes affecting past time stamps The following changes affect some pre-1991 Chile-related time stamps in America/Santiago, Antarctica/Palmer, and Pacific/Easter. The 1910 transition was January 10, not January 1. The 1918 transition was September 10, not September 1. The UTC-4 time observed from 1932 to 1942 is now considered to be standard time, not year-round DST. Santiago observed DST (UTC-3) from 1946-07-15 through 1946-08-31, then reverted to standard time, then switched its time zone to UTC-5 on 1947-04-01. Assume transitions before 1968 were at 00:00, since we have no data saying otherwise. The spring 1988 transition was 1988-10-09, not 1988-10-02. The fall 1990 transition was 1990-03-11, not 1990-03-18. Assume no UTC offset change for Pacific/Easter on 1890-01-01, and omit all transitions on Pacific/Easter from 1942 through 1946 since we have no data suggesting that they existed. One more zone has been turned into a link, as it differed from an existing zone only for older time stamps. As usual, this change affects UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only. The zone's old contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file. The affected zone is America/Montreal. Changes affecting commentary Mention the TZUpdater tool. Mention "The Time Now". (Thanks to Brandon Ramsey.) Here are links to the release files: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2015c.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2015c.tar.gz The files are also available via HTTP as follows: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2015c.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2015c.tar.gz As usual, links to the latest release files are here: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzcode-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdata-latest.tar.gz Each release file has a GPG signature, which can be retrieved by appending ".asc" to the above URLs. Copies of these signatures are appended to this message. This release corresponds to commit 14ef987885fc4355ab03450cca48bb4fad31f957 dated Sat Apr 11 08:55:55 2015 -0700 and tagged '2015c' in the experimental github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. 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Re: [tz] Luhansk & Donetsk, Ukraine
by Hank W. April 13, 2015

April 13, 2015

Sorry, here is a direct link to the article: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/luhansk-donetsk-moscow-time.html From: Hank W. [mailto:hankw1@austin.rr.com] Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 17:43 To: Time Zone Group Subject: Luhansk & Donetsk, Ukraine timeanddate.com reported that Luhansk and Donetsk, the two easternmost Ukrainian regions, did not switch back to EET with the rest of Ukraine on 26 Oct 2014 but are now "permanently" on MSK. However, the 2015b europe data file does not seem to reflect that. Hank Wisniewski, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

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TZ for Egypt Change
by Ahmed Mekawy April 11, 2015

April 11, 2015

Good day, According to several news reports, Egypt will start DST on midnight after Thursday, April 30, 2015. This is based on a law (no 35) from May 15, 2014 saying it starts the last Thursday of April. This means we will to change the rule to "lastThu 24:00s" instead of "lastFri 0:00s". Clocks will still be turned back for Ramadan, but dates not yet announced. Some sources (Arabic): http://www.masralarabia.com/%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%… 547833-30-%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9 %D9%85%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8% B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 Our English summary: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/egypt/cairo The latest IANA data was pointing the change will happen 24th April. But now it seems it will be changing to 1st May Thanks, Ahmed -- HYPERLINK "http://www.oracle.com/us/support/best-practices/overview/index.html"cid:part1.09080109.00060709@oracle.com HYPERLINK "http://www.oracle.com/" \nOracle Ahmed Mekawy | Principal Technical Account Manager Phone: HYPERLINK "tel:+971%2043%20909%20356"+202 3535 0211 | Mobile: HYPERLINK "tel:+971%2043%20909%20356"+2 01060064214 Oracle Global Systems Support ORACLE Egypt | 2 ElHegaz St., CEDARE Building | 11737 Cairo HYPERLINK "http://www.oracle.com/commitment" \nGreen OracleOracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment

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Egypt’s PM orders poll over implementing Daylight saving time
by WorldTimeZone April 11, 2015

April 11, 2015

According to some news http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/127434/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt- to-hold-national-poll-on-daylight-saving-tim.aspx http://amwalalghad.com/en/news/egypt-news/34800-egypts-pm-orders-poll-over- implementing-daylight-saving-time.html Egypt to hold national poll on daylight saving time The cabinet previously announced that clocks would go forward one hour starting on 1 May Alexander Krivenyshev http://www.WorldTimeZone.com

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Egypt to hold national poll on daylight saving time
by Alexander Krivenyshev April 11, 2015

April 11, 2015

According to some news http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/127434/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt- to-hold-national-poll-on-daylight-saving-tim.aspx http://amwalalghad.com/en/news/egypt-news/34800-egypts-pm-orders-poll-over- implementing-daylight-saving-time.html Egypt to hold national poll on daylight saving time The cabinet previously announced that clocks would go forward one hour starting on 1 May Alexander Krivenyshev http://www.WorldTimeZone.com

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Leap seconds puzzle
by Paul_Koning＠dell.com April 9, 2015

April 9, 2015

Gentlepeople, I’ve been sorting to a flurry of questions about leap seconds from colleagues (triggered by the recent announcement of an upcoming leap second). That sent me to the Theory file, and some experiments. Those experiments leave me puzzled. I apologize for going a bit off topic for this list, but the expertise is clearly here. The Theory file says that POSIX requires leap seconds to be ignored. And indeed, if I set my system timezone to a POSIX zone description and ask it to convert a time value that’s an integer multiple of 86400, I end up at an exact hour (or half hour) multiple, for example exactly midnight if UTC. And similarly, if I set my zone to a “right” one and do the conversion, I get a time that’s a few seconds shy of the exact multiple, as expected. I can also see that my default timezone definitions on my various Unix machines are POSIX ones, again as expected. So here is the puzzle. I would expect WWV, and www.time.gov, to reflect leap seconds. So why would they give me a time that matches, to the second, the POSIX time on my workstation? Does NTP send POSIX seconds since epoch rather than real ones? paul

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