October 2018 - tz - lists.iana.org

[PROPOSED] * tz-link.html, theory.html: Remove outdated info, fix links and dates.
by Paul Eggert Oct. 18, 2018

Oct. 18, 2018

--- theory.html | 2 +- tz-link.html | 12 +++--------- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/theory.html b/theory.html index 6e4a14e..8dd58db 100644 --- a/theory.html +++ b/theory.html @@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ Sources for time on other planets: Matt Williams, "<a href="https://www.universetoday.com/37481/days-of-the-planets/">How long is a day on the other planets of the solar system?</a>" - (2017-04-27). + (2016-01-20). </li> </ul> </section> diff --git a/tz-link.html b/tz-link.html index eef7b63..8593ba6 100644 --- a/tz-link.html +++ b/tz-link.html @@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ including C Library</a> (used in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux"><abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux</a>), <a href="https://www.android.com">Android</a>, -<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/B2G_OS">B2G -<abbr title="Operating System">OS</abbr></a>, <a href="https://www.freebsd.org">Free<abbr title="Berkeley Software Distribution">BSD</abbr></a>, <a href="https://netbsd.org">Net<abbr>BSD</abbr></a>, @@ -68,8 +66,7 @@ name of the largest city within the region containing the clocks. For example, <code>America/New_York</code> represents most of the <abbr title="United States">US</abbr> eastern time zone; <code>America/Phoenix</code> represents most of Arizona, which -uses mountain time without daylight saving time (<abbr -title="daylight saving time">DST</abbr>); +uses mountain time without daylight saving time (<abbr>DST</abbr>); <code>America/Detroit</code> represents most of Michigan, which uses eastern time but with different <abbr>DST</abbr> rules in 1975; and other entries represent smaller regions like Starke County, @@ -548,7 +545,7 @@ href="https://www.oracle.com/java/index.html">Oracle Java</a> contains a copy of a subset of a recent <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> database in a Java-specific format.</li> -<li><a href="https://www.relativedata.com/time-zone-master">Time Zone +<li><a href="https://relativedata.com/page/Time-Zone-Master">Time Zone Master</a> is a Microsoft Windows clock program that can automatically download, compile and use <code>tz</code> releases. The Basic version is free.</li> @@ -574,9 +571,6 @@ its own <code>tztab</code>(4) format.</li> <a href="#System.TimeZoneInfo">above</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://www.worldtimeserver.com">World Time Server</a> is another time zone database.</li> -<li><a href="http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html">World Time Zones</a> -contains data from the Time Service Department of the -<abbr>US</abbr> Naval Observatory.</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.iata.org/publications/store/Pages/standard-schedules-informatio…">Standard Schedules Information Manual</a> of the @@ -762,7 +756,7 @@ href="ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements" hreflang="he">announcements (in Hebrew)</a>.</dd> <dt>Italy</dt> <dd>The National Institute of Metrological Research maintains a -<a href="http://www.nanospin.eu/res/tf/ora_legale_i.shtml">table of civil time +<a href="http://oldsite.inrim.it/res/tf/ora_legale_i.shtml">table of civil time (in Italian)</a>.</dd> <dt>Macau</dt> <dd>The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau maintains a -- 2.17.1

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[TZDB for Delphi] Encountered issue using TBundledTimezone on LINUX
by Jean Frauciel Oct. 17, 2018

Oct. 17, 2018

Hello, I'm working on the development of a software that uses the TZDB for Delphi to deal with the timezones' management, and I'd like to have your opinion about a problem that we are facing. In a procedure, in order to decompose the periods of a timezone, we have to know the timezone's year of a UTC DateTime. To do so, we are using these commands : thisBundledTimezone := TBundledTimeZone.GetTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles'); timeZoneYear := YearOf(IncMinute(aUTCDateTime, Round(thisBundledTimezone.UtcOffset.TotalMinutes))); This is fine if the program is running on Windows, but it crashes on Linux. The error occurs when we're trying to get the UtcOffset. The TBundledTimeZone can't read the FPeriods[I] in the function GetPeriodAndRule. The thing is that FPeriods is a TList that is not typed (with TCompiledPeriod) and Delphi can't use it this way with Linux. We can by the way see a warning when compiling a project that includes TZDB.pas, telling that TList is deprecated. We have solved the problem by modifying the TZDB.pas unit, but it seems weird to have to do this. We are also using the Decomposer.pas unit, but it doesn't have any problem with Linux because it is already working with typed TLists (function Decompose). Do you have any idea about this issue ? You can check the attachment to see our changes. Thank you in advance for your answer, Best regards, Jean FRAUCIEL Développeur Moteur jfrauciel(a)kiamo.fr +33 5 47 48 33 20 <33547483320> | [image: logo web] <http://www.conecteo.fr/> [image: logo linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/conecteo> <https://twitter.com/Conecteo> <https://www.facebook.com/conecteo> Chers clients et partenaires, rejoignez votre espace communautaire <https://my.kiamo.fr/welcome>

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Palestine 2018 summer time end
by Sharef Mustafa Oct. 17, 2018

Oct. 17, 2018

Hi, As per the Palestinian cabinet decision announced Oct 16th 2018, the summer time for the state of Palestine will end on Sat, Oct 27th 2018 , the clock shall be returned by 60 minutes at 01:00 o'clock (as per the announcement ) Here is a link to the cabinet announcement (in Arabic) : http://palestinecabinet.gov.ps/Website/AR/ViewDetails?ID=42494 Also another link from a local news portal (in Arabic): https://www.maannews.net/Content.aspx?id=964375 Unfortunately I did not find an English source. Please note that this change affects Gaza & Hebron time zones BR Sharef Also

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Wrong spelling of a city in a timezone name
by Igor Oct. 16, 2018

Oct. 16, 2018

Hello. Currently, in your timezone files Ukrainian capital is spelled incorrectly. Kyiv is the correct spelling as decided by UNCSGN (United Nations Conferences on the Standardization of Geographical Names) and UNGEGN (United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names)."Kiev" is transliteration from Russian and as Ukraine, which is an independent country, has only one official language, which is Ukrainian, using transliteration from Russian is offending and incorrect. I saw in your files that you understand that Kyiv is correct spelling and you reason that Kiev is more common, alas that argument is wrong. It's only more common because it's been mistakingly used for a long period of time. Ukrainian government is currently running a campaign called Kyiv Not Kiev to raise awareness of international community and it already has results, many companies, like Microsoft, BBC, Google, Facebook and others have already fixed their spelling. I suggest IANA follows this example and fixes this incorrect spelling. Regards, Igor

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Another change on Brazilian DST time
by Raphael Bastos Oct. 16, 2018

Oct. 16, 2018

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Brazil DST called out
by Rodrigo Freire Oct. 16, 2018

Oct. 16, 2018

Government decided to abandon the announced second DST change. So it will start in November 4. https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2018/10/15/planalto-informa-que-nao-h… - RF Sent from a mobile device

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Ethiopia local time
by admin＠afocha.com Oct. 13, 2018

Oct. 13, 2018

Greetings, Although Ethiopia is officially in East Africa Time (UTC +3:00), the local time used in the country adopts a different system where 6:00 AM is interpreted as 12:00 and socially used as such. People will see a clock with the time at 1:30, and they will say this is 7:30. The local time is used by businesses in the country and by government offices. Everyone generally does this conversion in their heads, so at times, someone who is unfamiliar with this system can end up inadvertently scheduling meetings for the wrong time. This method of time tracking was developed and maintained with the premise of associating the clock's starting point of 12:00 with sunrise, which is roughly taking place around 6:00 AM every day. So East Africa Time - 6:00 is the working time used by the vast majority of Ethiopians. Here's an article discussing this time system: https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-30/if-you-have-meeting-ethiopia-you-bet… Is it possible to include Ethiopia's local time system into the time zone database? If so, what are the requirements for submitting a new time zone? Thanks for your consideration. Regards, Khalid Duri

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Re: [tz] Europe/Volgograd change from UTC+3 to UTC+4 from 28oct2018
by Paul Eggert Oct. 11, 2018

Oct. 11, 2018

Alexander Fetisov wrote: > Volgograd region in southern Russia (Europe/Volgograd) change timezone from > UTC+3 to UTC+4 from 28oct2018. > > http://sozd.parliament.gov.ru/bill/452878-7 Thanks for the heads-up and the URL. Its supporting info says the transition occurs at 02:00 that day, the usual practice in that region. That web page says "Находится на рассмотрении" which Google Translate renders as "Is pending", and it later says "Срок представления поправок 10.10.2018" which Google Translate renders as "Term for the submission of amendments 10/10/2018", so it sounds like the bill is under consideration but is not yet law and might be amended. Am I correct? If so, we need to know if and when the proposed change becomes definite. If we're pretty sure the law will go in as-is, we might want to update tzdb before October 10 since this is not much notice for downstream users.

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FW: State of Palestine Time zone - need to update
by maysa＠mtit.gov.ps Oct. 10, 2018

Oct. 10, 2018

Dear Sir, I'm contacting you in regard to the time zone data base the field related to the state of Palestine, it's known that Palestine is recognized as a state and it has the Following ISO and Alpha codes, English short name (upper/lower case) Alpha-2 code <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Officially_assigned_code_e lements> Alpha-3 code <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3#Officially_assigned_code_e lements> Numeric code <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric#Officially_assigned_code_e lements> Link to ISO 3166-2 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2> subdivision codes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Palestine> State of Palestine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Palestine> Palestine, State of <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#PS> PS PSE 275 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:PS> ISO 3166-2:PS PS-JEM Jerusalem <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Governorate> Al Quds I checked the published data regarding the time zones related to Palestine and noticed that it's not accurate, And hence I would like to ask for an update to the time zone data base related to Palestine to be as follow: PS State of Palestine Asia/AlQuds UTC +3:00 Instead of the following data : PS Palestinian Territory <https://timezonedb.com/time-zones/Asia/Gaza> Asia/Gaza UTC +03:00 PS Palestinian Territory <https://timezonedb.com/time-zones/Asia/Hebron> Asia/Hebron UTC +03:00 Kindly advise if any supporting documents, information or procedures are needed from our side. BR Maysa Monayer Telecom Administration - Deputy General Director Ministry of Telecom and IT (State of Palestine) Mobile: +970-562500044

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Re: [tz] tz Digest, Vol 85, Issue 19 Summer time of Brazil
by Daniel Soares de Oliveira Oct. 9, 2018

Oct. 9, 2018

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