January 2016 - tz - lists.iana.org

About Time Zone
by Chenshiwei (Yona) Jan. 7, 2016

Jan. 7, 2016

Hi, Dear IANA I met some problem in time zone data. >From the timeanddate.com, we know the time zone have some changes. [cid:image001.png@01D1488F.C9B0DEB0] But it seemed that iana.org did not update the time zone data about two months. [cid:image002.png@01D1488F.C9B0DEB0] So, I'd like to know if iana.org stop maintaining the time zone data. Could you give some suggestion about this.

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Pakistan DST in 2002
by Matt Johnson Jan. 2, 2016

Jan. 2, 2016

The Pakistan rules for 2002 have the transition at 0:01 instead of 0:00. This disagrees with the commentary: # From Rives McDow (2002-03-13): # I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a # TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002 # and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was # told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the # 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on. The remaining rules in the file are at 0:00. Also, our friends at timeanddate.com have it at midnight as well. http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/pakistan/karachi?year=2002 Of course, the problem with any fall-back transition after 0:00 and before 1:00 is that it implies the calendar date goes forward, then back, then forward again. In this case going from Oct 6, back to Oct 5, then forward to Oct 6 again. While there are indeed areas where this certainly occurred, we should be careful not to introduce that artificially. If there is uncertainty between 0:00 and 0:01, we should assume 0:00 (IMHO). Thanks, Matt

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Zabaykalsky Krai (Chita) time zone changes to UTC+9 on March 27, 2016
by Alexander Krivenyshev Jan. 2, 2016

Jan. 2, 2016

On December 30, 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the federal law changing the time zone in the Trans-Baikal Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai) - Asia/Chita from UTC+8 to UTC+9. Effective date will be March 27, 2016 at 2:00am. Official publication on: http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201512300107? index=0&rangeSize=1 Alexander Krivenyshev (worldtimezone.com)

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