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[tz-announce] 2018h release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert Dec. 29, 2018

Dec. 29, 2018

The 2018h 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: Briefly: Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan moved from +06 to +05 on 2018-12-21. New zone Asia/Qostanay because Qostanay, Kazakhstan didn't move. Metlakatla, Alaska observes PST this winter only. Guess Morocco will continue to adjust clocks around Ramadan. Add predictions for Iran from 2038 through 2090. Changes to future timestamps Guess that Morocco will continue to fall back just before and spring forward just after Ramadan, the practice since 2012. (Thanks to Maamar Abdelkader.) This means Morocco will observe negative DST during Ramadan in main and vanguard formats, and in rearguard format it stays in the +00 timezone and observes ordinary DST in all months other than Ramadan. As before, extend this guesswork to the year 2037. As a consequence, Morocco is scheduled to observe three DST transitions in some Gregorian years (e.g., 2033) due to the mismatch between the Gregorian and Islamic calendars. The table of exact transitions for Iranian DST has been extended. It formerly cut off before the year 2038 in a nod to 32-bit time_t. It now cuts off before 2091 as there is doubt about how the Persian calendar will treat 2091. This change predicts DST transitions in 2038-9, 2042-3, and 2046-7 to occur one day later than previously predicted. As before, post-cutoff transitions are approximated. Changes to past and future timestamps Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda) oblast in Kazakhstan moved from +06 to +05 on 2018-12-21. This is a zone split as Qostanay (aka Kostanay) did not switch, so create a zone Asia/Qostanay. Metlakatla moved from Alaska to Pacific standard time on 2018-11-04. It did not change clocks that day and remains on -08 this winter. (Thanks to Ryan Stanley.) It will revert to the usual Alaska rules next spring, so this change affects only timestamps from 2018-11-04 through 2019-03-10. Change to past timestamps Kwajalein's 1993-08-20 transition from -12 to +12 was at 24:00, not 00:00. I transcribed the time incorrectly from Shanks. (Thanks to Phake Nick.) Nauru's 1979 transition was on 02-10 at 02:00, not 05-01 at 00:00. (Thanks to Phake Nick.) Guam observed DST irregularly from 1959 through 1977. (Thanks to Phake Nick.) Hong Kong observed DST in 1941 starting 06-15 (not 04-01), then on 10-01 changed standard time to +08:30 (not +08). Its transition back to +08 after WWII was on 1945-09-15, not the previous day. Its 1904-10-30 change took effect at 01:00 +08 (not 00:00 LMT). (Thanks to Phake Nick, Steve Allen, and Joseph Myers.) Also, its 1952 fallback was on 11-02 (not 10-25). This release contains many changes to timestamps before 1946 due to Japanese possession or occupation of Pacific/Chuuk, Pacific/Guam, Pacific/Kosrae, Pacific/Kwajalein, Pacific/Majuro, Pacific/Nauru, Pacific/Palau, and Pacific/Pohnpei. (Thanks to Phake Nick.) Assume that the Spanish East Indies was like the Philippines and observed American time until the end of 1844. This affects Pacific/Chuuk, Pacific/Kosrae, Pacific/Palau, and Pacific/Pohnpei. Changes to past tm_isdst flags For the recent Morocco change, the tm_isdst flag should be 1 from 2018-10-27 00:00 to 2018-10-28 03:00. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) Give a URL to the official decree. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.) Here are links to the release files: https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2018h.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2018h.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2018h.tar.lz As usual, links to the latest release files are here: https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdb-latest.tar.lz Links are also available via plain HTTP, and via FTP from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases with the same basenames as above. 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 7db91b70ae4ce85c7520960840fc957541a3bdb0 dated 2018-12-23 17:59:32 -0800 and tagged '2018h' in the development GitHub repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. 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Time zone offset changed in Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan
by Askar Timirgazin Dec. 29, 2018

Dec. 29, 2018

Hello there, please consider that according to https://legalacts.egov.kz/npa/view?id=2000931 time offset for zone Asia/Qyzylorda from 21 Dec 2018 must be set to UTC+5 instead of UTC+6 -- Best regards, Askar Timirgazin

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Update with rearguard not refreshed version of tzdata info
by Joel da Rosa Dec. 28, 2018

Dec. 28, 2018

Hello! I executed the steps: 1 - java -jar tzupdater.jar -f -l https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/tz/release/2018g/tzdata2018g-rearguard.tar.… 2 - java -jar tzupdater.jar -V Result of step 2: "tzupdater version 2.2.0-b01 JRE tzdata version: tzdata2018g tzupdater tool would update with tzdata version: tzdata2018g" It's correct? My environment: Linux Ubuntu 64 java version "1.8.0_191" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_191-b12) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.191-b12, mixed mode) -- Att, JOEL DA ROSA

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America/Mexico_City incorrect DST end time for 2018.
by demxic Dec. 28, 2018

Dec. 28, 2018

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that Mexico's City Daylight time ended on October 28 2018 03:00 AM local time. That is the exact moment when clocks moved backward to 02:00 AM. Somehow your database marks DST end at 02:00 AM moving clocks backward to 01:00 AM. Please note that this is incorrect. Is it possible to correct for this? -- *My country is the world and my religion is to do good. *Thomas Paine

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1932 IAU Commission on Time: abolish Summer Time
by Steve Allen Dec. 28, 2018

Dec. 28, 2018

Bulletin Horaire, vol. 4, no. 70 has a synopsis of time-related activities at the 4th General Assembly of the IAU at Cambridge Massachusetts in 1932. Page 399 has the end of the Commission 31 (Time) meeting where Kiyofuso Sotome, director of Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, proposed two items not on the printed agenda. Item 2 was "Immediate abolition of the Summer Time." The commission deemed that it could not take any action on this. http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/1932BuBIH...4..391./0000427.000.html The same text is found in Transactions of the IAU vol. 4 page 253. -- Steve Allen <sla(a)ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m

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[PATCH 1/2] * tz-art.html: Add a few IMDb URLs and standardize format.
by Paul Eggert Dec. 24, 2018

Dec. 24, 2018

--- tz-art.html | 27 +++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/tz-art.html b/tz-art.html index c98e9c4..edddae0 100644 --- a/tz-art.html +++ b/tz-art.html @@ -36,19 +36,15 @@ there is a reference to British Double Summer Time. The time does not play a large part in the plot; it's just a passing reference to the time when one of the characters was supposed to have died (but didn't). -The IMDb page is at -<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/"> -http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/ -</a>. (Dave Cantor) +(<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/">IMDb entry.</a>) +(Dave Cantor) <li> The 1953 railway comedy movie The Titfield Thunderbolt includes a play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?" And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time." -IMDb page: -<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/"> -http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/ -</a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) +(<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/">IMDb entry.</a>) +(Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) </li> <li> The premise of the 1999 caper movie Entrapment involves computers @@ -60,10 +56,8 @@ a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 × 60 = 10.) -IMDb page: -<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/"> -http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/ -</a>. (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) +(<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/">IMDb entry.</a>) +(Mark Brader, 2009-10-02) </li> <li> One mustn't forget the @@ -79,12 +73,15 @@ Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers of the Arlington Time Signal to broadcast ahead of actual time; doing so got a crook trying to be declared dead to emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. +(<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0506628/">IMDb entry</a>.) </li> <li> -"The Chimes of Big Ben", The Prisoner, episode 2, ITC, 1967-10-06. +"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chimes_of_Big_Ben">The Chimes +of Big Ben</a>", The Prisoner, episode 2, ITC, 1967-10-06. Our protagonist tumbles to the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big Ben" chiming on Polish local time. +(<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0679185/">IMDb entry.</a>) </li> <li> "The Susie", Seinfeld, season 8, episode 15, NBC, 1997-02-13. @@ -196,7 +193,9 @@ Nick Enright, Daylight Saving, 1989. A fast-paced comedy about love and loneliness as the clocks turn back. </li> <li> -Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before +Umberto Eco, +<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_the_Day_Before">The +Island of the Day Before</a> (L'isola del giorno prima), 1994. "...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island on the International Date Line. Time and time zones play an integral -- 2.19.2

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Time zone Asia/Qyzylorda
by Alexander Konzurovski Dec. 20, 2018

Dec. 20, 2018

Dear maintainers of the Time Zone Database! I would like to inform you that Qyzyolrda Region (Asia/Qyzylorda) is changing its time zone from UTC+6 to UTC+5 effective December 21st, 2018. The legal document is located here: http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P1800000817 (russian language). Accordingly resolution the time zone must be changed on December 20 18:00 UTC. -- Alexander Konzurovski

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Time zones in the news
by Arthur David Olson Dec. 20, 2018

Dec. 20, 2018

"Time Lords: a history of authoritarian time changes" by Elena Goukassian in Lapham's Quarterly. (Thanks to Nikita S--@singareddynm on Twitter--for the pointer.) https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/time-lords ---ado

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[PROPOSED] Metlakatla goes back to Alaska time next year
by Paul Eggert Dec. 17, 2018

Dec. 17, 2018

* NEWS: Mention this. * northamerica (America/Metlakatla): Go back to Alaska time next year at the first opportunity. --- NEWS | 6 ++++-- northamerica | 8 +++++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index abc6094..667cec7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Changes to past and future timestamps Metlakatla moved from Alaska to Pacific standard time on 2018-11-04. - It did not change clocks that day and is now on -08 indefinitely, - reverting to its form before fall 2015. (Thanks to Ryan Stanley.) + It did not change clocks that day and remains on -08 this winter. + (Thanks to Ryan Stanley.) It will revert to the usual Alaska + rules next spring, so this change affects only timestamps + from 2018-11-04 through 2019-03-10. Change to past timestamps diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index 17597e2..faaf979 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -605,6 +605,11 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 # They will be gmtoff=-28800 year-round. # https://www.facebook.com/141055983004923/photos/pb.141055983004923.-2207520… +# From Paul Eggert (2018-12-16): +# In a 2018-12-11 special election, Metlakatla voted to go back to +# Alaska time (including daylight saving time) starting next year. +# https://www.krbd.org/2018/12/12/metlakatla-to-follow-alaska-standard-time-a… + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:33:32 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 @@ -632,7 +637,8 @@ Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:44:55 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 -8:00 - PST 2015 Nov 1 2:00 -9:00 US AK%sT 2018 Nov 4 2:00 - -8:00 - PST + -8:00 - PST 2019 Mar Sun>=8 3:00 + -9:00 US AK%sT Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:12:18 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 -9:00 - YST 1942 -- 2.17.1

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FW: [Bug time/23976] trunk/timezone/zdump.c:811: missing call to va_end ?
by David Binderman Dec. 14, 2018

Dec. 14, 2018

Hello there, Forwarded bug report ________________________________________ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23976 --- Comment #1 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> --- This code is imported from external sources and not modified locally in glibc. Please report your concern to tz(a)iana.org, not here. -- You are receiving this mail because: You reported the bug.

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