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Egypt to have DST again
by Steffen Thorsen July 2, 2016

July 2, 2016

Several of our users have reported on new DST plans in Egypt, which is confirmed by several sources that all say Egypt will have DST from July 7 until the end of October. Unfortunately, "end of October" is very vague, but we at timeanddate.com would assume a rule like this for it, based on their historic end dates: Rule Egypt 2016 max - Oct lastThu 23:00s 0 - We also assume it will start at the end of July 7 (midnight between Thursday and Friday). http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/204655/Egypt/Daylight-savings-ti… http://www.nileinternational.net/en/?p=25806 I found it interesting that EgyptAir seems to have assumed DST to start in April (like it previously did in 2010), and therefore this obviously causes problems with the schedules: http://www.egyptair.com/en/about-egyptair/news-and-press/Pages/CANCELLATION… Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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No DST in Egypt anymore
by Amgad Meckawy June 29, 2016

June 29, 2016

Egyptian parliament have just agreed to Cancel the DST so clock won't change 1 hour ahead on next 7th of July. time-fixed would still the same allover the year this decision have been announced just on 28-june-2016 sources --------- http://s.youm7.com/2780068 https://rassd.com/189329.htm http://www.parlmany.com/News/7/98619/%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%A1- %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%89-%D8%A8%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1- %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86 http://www.masrawy.com/News/News_Egypt/details/2016/6/28/876429/%D8%B1%D8% B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3- %D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%82- %D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%A1- %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#NEWS-MOSTREAD-details

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America/Indiana/Vincennes
by Matt Johnson June 23, 2016

June 23, 2016

In zone.tab, the America/Indiana/Vincennes comments were changed to "Eastern - IN (Da, Du, K, Mn)". IMHO, those abbreviations aren't distinct enough to identify specific counties in Indiana. We used to say "Daviess, Dubois, Knox & Martin". Da and Du I might be able to figure out, but K could just as well be Kosciusko County, and Mn could be Madison or Marion. Can we just return them to their names please?

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Asia/Kashgar offset
by stefan.kruzlik.ext＠geodis.com June 23, 2016

June 23, 2016

Hello, Could you please confirm the current usage of offset of +6hours for Asia/Kashgar in your TZ database is correct? Checking any available source on the internet Google (search for 'Kashgar time') Bing (search for 'Kashgar time') http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/china/kashgar https://www.localtimenow.com/china/kashgar/ All show offset of +8hours. Thanks, Stefan Kruzlik SCO IT Geobus Solution Architect Geodis IT Supply Chain Optimisation GEODIS 7-9, allées de l'Europe 92615 - CLICHY / FRANCE Tel. : + 33 (0)1 71 15 65 62 stefan.kruzlik.ext(a)geodis.com | geodis.com

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Asia/Novosibirsk switch from +06 to +07 on 2016-07-24.
by Александр June 22, 2016

June 22, 2016

> The bill for Novosibirsk is here: > http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=1085784-6 > > It has passed the first reading in the State Duma. It needs to pass a second reading, then pass the Federation Council, then be signed into law by the President. Even if this all passes, it's possible the effective date will change along the way. > http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=1085784-6&02 This bill was approved in the second reading today. It moves Novosibirsk oblast from UTC+6 to UTC+7 and is supposed to come into effect on 2016-07-24 at 2:00. The bill needs to be approved in the third readings by the State Duma, approved by the Federation Council, signed by the President and published to become a law. Minor changes in the text are to be expected before the second reading (references need to be updated to account for the recent changes). --- Best regards, Alexander Golikov.

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Asia/Novosibirsk switch from +06 to +07 on 2016-07-03.
by Andrey Kitsul June 16, 2016

June 16, 2016

Hello, Asia/Novosibirsk switch from +06 to +07 on 2016-07-03. https://rg.ru/2016/06/14/reg-sibfo/deputaty-pereveli-chasy-v-novosibirskoj-… -- Kind regards, Andrey Kitsul.

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zdump broken with latest Cairo changes?
by Dave Rolsky June 16, 2016

June 16, 2016

Here's a snippet of "zdump -v Africa/Cairo" with the latest changes: Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 29 21:59:59 2038 UT = Thu Apr 29 23:59:59 2038 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 29 22:00:00 2038 UT = Fri Apr 30 01:00:00 2038 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 23 20:59:59 2038 UT = Thu Sep 23 23:59:59 2038 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 23 21:00:00 2038 UT = Thu Sep 23 23:00:00 2038 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 28 21:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Apr 28 23:59:59 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 28 22:00:00 2039 UT = Fri Apr 29 01:00:00 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 15 20:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Sep 15 23:59:59 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 15 21:00:00 2039 UT = Thu Sep 15 23:00:00 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 20 21:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Oct 20 23:59:59 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 20 22:00:00 2039 UT = Fri Oct 21 01:00:00 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 27 20:59:59 2039 UT = Thu Oct 27 23:59:59 2039 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 27 21:00:00 2039 UT = Thu Oct 27 23:00:00 2039 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 26 21:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Apr 26 23:59:59 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 26 22:00:00 2040 UT = Fri Apr 27 01:00:00 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 6 20:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Sep 6 23:59:59 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Sep 6 21:00:00 2040 UT = Thu Sep 6 23:00:00 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 11 21:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Oct 11 23:59:59 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 11 22:00:00 2040 UT = Fri Oct 12 01:00:00 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 25 20:59:59 2040 UT = Thu Oct 25 23:59:59 2040 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Africa/Cairo Thu Oct 25 21:00:00 2040 UT = Thu Oct 25 23:00:00 2040 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Note that things seem to be fine up to 2038, but then after that it reports 6+ transitions a year for the region. This looks like a bug to me, and my Perl tools that parse the files still come up with just 2 transitions per year. Cheers, -dave /*============================================================ http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) ============================================================*/

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Cairo/Egypt
by Frank Bean June 16, 2016

June 16, 2016

I just saw this update and need to add some detail I think. Africa/Cairo observes DST in 2016 from July 7 to the end of October. Guess October 27 and 24:00 transitions. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) For future years, guess April's last Thursday to October's last Thursday except for Ramadan. Now, this may change next year but the current story from Egypt's government is that they will not be implementing DST until the end of Ramadan going forward.

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the final second before standard time daylight savings time transitions
by Inman, Mark H CIV USARMY HQDA (US) June 15, 2016

June 15, 2016

Hello, Is there any official documentation on the time zone for March 13 2016 in New York City, when the clock says 1:59:59.99991000 ? My guess would be that it is EST or -04:00 offset, but I cannot find anything that discussed the fractions of the last second. We store fractions of seconds, and we need to be able to convert to a particular offset. Thanks for your work and your consideration. P.S. I have enjoyed the notes in the time zone rules. Most Respectfully, Mark Inman Army Analytics Group Email: mark.h.inman2.civ(a)mail.mil Personal Work Phone: 707-863-7150 Personal Cell Phone: 925-324-9864 Personal Cell Text: 9253249864(a)vtext.com

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[tz-announce] 2016e release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert June 14, 2016

June 14, 2016

The 2016e 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: Changes affecting future time stamps Africa/Cairo observes DST in 2016 from July 7 to the end of October. Guess October 27 and 24:00 transitions. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) For future years, guess April's last Thursday to October's last Thursday except for Ramadan. Changes affecting past time stamps Locations while uninhabited now use '-00', not 'zzz', as a placeholder time zone abbreviation. This is inspired by Internet RFC 3339 and is more consistent with numeric time zone abbreviations already used elsewhere. The change affects several arctic and antarctic locations, e.g., America/Cambridge_Bay before 1920 and Antarctica/Troll before 2005. Asia/Baku's 1992-09-27 transition from +04 (DST) to +04 (non-DST) was at 03:00, not 23:00 the previous day. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) Changes to code zic now outputs a dummy transition at time 2**31 - 1 in zones whose POSIX-style TZ strings contain a '<'. This mostly works around Qt bug 53071 <https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-53071>. (Thanks to Zhanibek Adilbekov for reporting the Qt bug.) Changes affecting documentation and commentary tz-link.htm says why governments should give plenty of notice for time zone or DST changes, and refers to Matt Johnson's blog post. tz-link.htm mentions Tzdata for Elixir. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.) Here are links to the release files: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016e.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016e.tar.gz The files are also available via HTTP as follows: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2016e.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016e.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 ddb14859b156e72bb2daff70ff2fe59d6d82d545 dated 2016-06-14 08:46:16 -0700 and tagged '2016e' in the experimental github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. Here are the SHA-512 checksums for the release files: dcaf615ada96920e60ffb336253f53541861153decc156d41661f43e0bfb128c6c231b0b776bbe3f2176549346275fc5a879074f4977d5141228e58cb33a41c6 tzcode2016e.tar.gz dace0f6fc87a73879ca3a1b143d7dcf9c50803e23e6b8c91f83711704e28129af776676c547c42f14dee7f1e8e285ce25296e53a52d11f4c8f155b5f80f4beb3 tzdata2016e.tar.gz Here are the GPG checksums for the release files: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJXYCdTAAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40EK8P/iKELbSZ0ZbgcqAkWRuh8OeG v/T8qkbK3pHeHi9+eELqR24ZODPe/KIORFZxXaxsn+JBUo8QdAlgyZc/5/MkISV1 AvJlk3SAe5TgyKRIQfmVeLpjPHx8w1fcHU3yc7ssMqcv8vhPXXZHGWhmoDoiJOwW ocnToizAWdjNQlqK29Ra33qCEYZuTjLg/a+gvJGqMV9d3zEtA4qOZNSyl9h8pKZo lUYIk+Vj56QSqw3iwZ83MrwhXw7/R8NpfjqAgXw3Au04CRYscvVLlKutdp3+B515 bjnX0ghtgvzolVQLRIPXLjDKXx5FduvW83yTfqFk8gPRgcCplE4mC1zZKfv8CXs9 tR4F+in7iLr23+7o4wjD3yolI9hgY0D8/XTuXs7XWzAaHjCcKAwT460AVmY3MkaL 130TQonnLuWPdfg6EWJHRxHr4du3s6Sg8aMO6tZiSf9eL2oOGPq7A0Yl3XkR01pb 9UEuVEsA0w1MxDl6jAIBZq9vZkbj5vehPD5yzmrXQbgMEeongY5eun0UYIJH8M/X P05+DnpnG9u88/U+yzZmOWLYL97JA2SQal/nfL8lIFkRnmVQnSlHzvi2MGkuYPcz jnhNQOkOGxTiZ5TTNqDPOe1wJ7nVfNJoaIoklnQXLES0necZDQJJ354+EjzzC+jK GuWBNHojTrArRXSkITEK =1NuU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJXYCdYAAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40yasP/18erUr4JDpff6WZWh/YN5uo 6D6aoDIvjgeC1L+OeUX4jEO2Iinc04rP4atMHqHueXYdSYhz9fJpRF+MawUP2Crf ccZEqN+zd4/x9M8JC7QjDFlYJQa7Z4O5YcAN69vGE6PBKLyc3C2oX5mh/OG5bQTR VfocXsCcCW5EJz8jVfQt+uEd8ZZPyVIDyNJG0eTXNupwTqYpErpj5LrpsHycEMRj iIDaSQMmHI30HJI/O5MGOWVZXUt9zkaXNVTy/O1T0Bg0/k2+1/zGynNyxTP88vlv qvHihVHr2E7cFTSka3pVnwF2lmQVuOmf3/Z2aj2c9ldgQCkmVYdnmiIk6ysvv1Lv qTh0680vdY++lVg8zhd59589lHMf4DZF0rve5hQjUU/E6Vh6cUPBHiQ3a/2yO0Y0 McHebPpGmho2p33Cx4xNE7jhcwcFNTbD2HV6P/gVCkteF3yvpjQHIdD+pZZj50mt FjH2+JMegXpaTNN/B0uk1krgguUf3LSyV3IpReg25ISE2giRNgciOePm/72/333r BKTKZPzEiHo/Ey6levNHkrhAKg0oaaaohw88AqGBO2OkCqfWrzdJL4kWi6I68UBE E/5y9fxdjInGKK7hbYGha+pQluLVF3AFY1dqn3JoGgYp0zKh8+kUy5vcEheCmJpu FUU381uQENicZ9FsYL+e =T1kv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tz-announce mailing list tz-announce(a)iana.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz-announce

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