December 2018 - tz - lists.iana.org

proposed time zone package changes (Samoa, Factory, et al.)
by Arthur David Olson Aug. 28, 2019

Aug. 28, 2019

Below find proposed time zone package changes; the executive summary: * Makefile Change LOCALTIME default from "Factory" to "GMT"; do not compile "factory" file (but keep it in the distribution). * Theory Remove reference to "Factory" zone. * australasia Change end of DST in Samoa in 2011 from 2011-04-03 0:00 to 2011-04-03 1:00 (thanks to Raymond Hughes for a reference). * localtime.c Initialize ttinfo structures filled by tzparse (thanks to Ravindra for reporting a valgrind warning). * zic.c Fix generation of POSIX strings for zones with rules using "weekday<=n" forms of dates (thanks to Lei Liu for finding the problem). Also, limit output for non-POSIX-specificable zones defined to follow the same rules every year. (Note that no zones of either of the above types appear in the distribution; these changes cater to add-on zones). If no problems are found, 2010n will appear on 2010-10-25. --ado diff -r -c old/Makefile new/Makefile *** old/Makefile Mon Sep 27 09:24:25 2010 --- new/Makefile Tue Oct 12 12:36:50 2010 *************** *** 1,5 **** # <pre> ! # @(#)Makefile 8.8 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. --- 1,5 ---- # <pre> ! # @(#)Makefile 8.9 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. *************** *** 12,18 **** # make zonenames # to get a list of the values you can use for LOCALTIME. ! LOCALTIME= Factory # If you want something other than Eastern United States time as a template # for handling POSIX-style time zone environment variables, --- 12,18 ---- # make zonenames # to get a list of the values you can use for LOCALTIME. ! LOCALTIME= GMT # If you want something other than Eastern United States time as a template # for handling POSIX-style time zone environment variables, *************** *** 262,269 **** DOCS= README Theory $(MANS) date.1 Makefile PRIMARY_YDATA= africa antarctica asia australasia \ europe northamerica southamerica ! YDATA= $(PRIMARY_YDATA) pacificnew etcetera factory backward ! NDATA= systemv SDATA= solar87 solar88 solar89 TDATA= $(YDATA) $(NDATA) $(SDATA) TABDATA= iso3166.tab zone.tab --- 262,269 ---- DOCS= README Theory $(MANS) date.1 Makefile PRIMARY_YDATA= africa antarctica asia australasia \ europe northamerica southamerica ! YDATA= $(PRIMARY_YDATA) pacificnew etcetera backward ! NDATA= systemv factory SDATA= solar87 solar88 solar89 TDATA= $(YDATA) $(NDATA) $(SDATA) TABDATA= iso3166.tab zone.tab diff -r -c old/Theory new/Theory *** old/Theory Mon Sep 27 09:24:25 2010 --- new/Theory Tue Oct 12 12:36:50 2010 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! @(#)Theory 8.4 This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. --- 1,4 ---- ! @(#)Theory 8.5 This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. *************** *** 287,294 **** See the file `backward' for most of these older names (e.g. `US/Eastern' instead of `America/New_York'). The other old-fashioned names still supported are ! `WET', `CET', `MET', `EET' (see the file `europe'), ! and `Factory' (see the file `factory'). ----- Time zone abbreviations ----- --- 287,293 ---- See the file `backward' for most of these older names (e.g. `US/Eastern' instead of `America/New_York'). The other old-fashioned names still supported are ! `WET', `CET', `MET', and `EET' (see the file `europe'). ----- Time zone abbreviations ----- diff -r -c old/australasia new/australasia *** old/australasia Mon Sep 27 09:24:27 2010 --- new/australasia Tue Oct 12 13:14:56 2010 *************** *** 1,5 **** # <pre> ! # @(#)australasia 8.18 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. --- 1,5 ---- # <pre> ! # @(#)australasia 8.19 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. *************** *** 487,497 **** # http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%2020… # </a> Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time -11:00 - WST 2010 Sep 26 ! -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Apr 3 -11:00 - WST # Solomon Is --- 487,507 ---- # http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%2020… # </a> + # From Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07): + # Please see + # <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws"> + # http://www.mcil.gov.ws + # </a>, + # the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (sideframe) "Last Sunday + # September 2010 (26/09/10) - adjust clocks forward from 12:00 midnight + # to 01:00am and First Sunday April 2011 (03/04/11) - adjust clocks + # backwards from 1:00am to 12:00am" + Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time -11:00 - WST 2010 Sep 26 ! -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Apr 3 1:00 -11:00 - WST # Solomon Is diff -r -c old/localtime.c new/localtime.c *** old/localtime.c Mon Sep 27 09:24:26 2010 --- new/localtime.c Tue Oct 12 12:36:51 2010 *************** *** 5,11 **** #ifndef lint #ifndef NOID ! static char elsieid[] = "@(#)localtime.c 8.14"; #endif /* !defined NOID */ #endif /* !defined lint */ --- 5,11 ---- #ifndef lint #ifndef NOID ! static char elsieid[] = "@(#)localtime.c 8.15"; #endif /* !defined NOID */ #endif /* !defined lint */ *************** *** 914,919 **** --- 914,920 ---- register unsigned char * typep; register char * cp; register int load_result; + static struct ttinfo zttinfo; INITIALIZE(dstname); stdname = name; *************** *** 986,991 **** --- 987,993 ---- /* ** Two transitions per year, from EPOCH_YEAR forward. */ + sp->ttis[0] = sp->ttis[1] = zttinfo; sp->ttis[0].tt_gmtoff = -dstoffset; sp->ttis[0].tt_isdst = 1; sp->ttis[0].tt_abbrind = stdlen + 1; *************** *** 1099,1106 **** } /* ** Finally, fill in ttis. - ** ttisstd and ttisgmt need not be handled. */ sp->ttis[0].tt_gmtoff = -stdoffset; sp->ttis[0].tt_isdst = FALSE; sp->ttis[0].tt_abbrind = 0; --- 1101,1108 ---- } /* ** Finally, fill in ttis. */ + sp->ttis[0] = sp->ttis[1] = zttinfo; sp->ttis[0].tt_gmtoff = -stdoffset; sp->ttis[0].tt_isdst = FALSE; sp->ttis[0].tt_abbrind = 0; *************** *** 1113,1118 **** --- 1115,1121 ---- dstlen = 0; sp->typecnt = 1; /* only standard time */ sp->timecnt = 0; + sp->ttis[0] = zttinfo; sp->ttis[0].tt_gmtoff = -stdoffset; sp->ttis[0].tt_isdst = 0; sp->ttis[0].tt_abbrind = 0; diff -r -c old/zic.c new/zic.c *** old/zic.c Mon Sep 27 09:24:26 2010 --- new/zic.c Tue Oct 12 13:37:29 2010 *************** *** 3,9 **** ** 2006-07-17 by Arthur David Olson. */ ! static char elsieid[] = "@(#)zic.c 8.22"; #include "private.h" #include "locale.h" --- 3,9 ---- ** 2006-07-17 by Arthur David Olson. */ ! static char elsieid[] = "@(#)zic.c 8.24"; #include "private.h" #include "locale.h" *************** *** 1881,1896 **** register int week; if (rp->r_dycode == DC_DOWGEQ) { ! week = 1 + rp->r_dayofmonth / DAYSPERWEEK; ! if ((week - 1) * DAYSPERWEEK + 1 != rp->r_dayofmonth) return -1; } else if (rp->r_dycode == DC_DOWLEQ) { if (rp->r_dayofmonth == len_months[1][rp->r_month]) week = 5; else { ! week = 1 + rp->r_dayofmonth / DAYSPERWEEK; ! if (week * DAYSPERWEEK - 1 != rp->r_dayofmonth) return -1; } } else return -1; /* "cannot happen" */ (void) sprintf(result, "M%d.%d.%d", --- 1881,1896 ---- register int week; if (rp->r_dycode == DC_DOWGEQ) { ! if ((rp->r_dayofmonth % DAYSPERWEEK) != 1) return -1; + week = 1 + rp->r_dayofmonth / DAYSPERWEEK; } else if (rp->r_dycode == DC_DOWLEQ) { if (rp->r_dayofmonth == len_months[1][rp->r_month]) week = 5; else { ! if ((rp->r_dayofmonth % DAYSPERWEEK) != 0) return -1; + week = rp->r_dayofmonth / DAYSPERWEEK; } } else return -1; /* "cannot happen" */ (void) sprintf(result, "M%d.%d.%d", *************** *** 2018,2023 **** --- 2018,2024 ---- register char * envvar; register int max_abbr_len; register int max_envvar_len; + register int prodstic; /* all rules are min to max */ max_abbr_len = 2 + max_format_len + max_abbrvar_len; max_envvar_len = 2 * max_abbr_len + 5 * 9; *************** *** 2032,2037 **** --- 2033,2039 ---- timecnt = 0; typecnt = 0; charcnt = 0; + prodstic = zonecount == 1; /* ** Thanks to Earl Chew ** for noting the need to unconditionally initialize startttisstd. *************** *** 2053,2058 **** --- 2055,2062 ---- updateminmax(rp->r_loyear); if (rp->r_hiwasnum) updateminmax(rp->r_hiyear); + if (rp->r_lowasnum || rp->r_hiwasnum) + prodstic = FALSE; } } /* *************** *** 2075,2080 **** --- 2079,2094 ---- if (max_year <= INT_MAX - YEARSPERREPEAT) max_year += YEARSPERREPEAT; else max_year = INT_MAX; + /* + ** Regardless of any of the above, + ** for a "proDSTic" zone which specifies that its rules + ** always have and always will be in effect, + ** we only need one cycle to define the zone. + */ + if (prodstic) { + min_year = 1900; + max_year = min_year + YEARSPERREPEAT; + } } /* ** For the benefit of older systems,

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Hong Kong Time history
by P Chan May 31, 2019

May 31, 2019

*According to the Hong Kong Daylight-Saving Regulations, 1941, the 1941 spring-forward transition was at 03:00. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/g1941/304271.pdf http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/g1941/305516.pdf *According to some articles from South China Morning Post, +08 was resumed on 1945-11-18 at 02:00. https://i.imgur.com/M2IsZ3c.png https://i.imgur.com/iOPqrVo.png https://i.imgur.com/fffcGDs.png *Some newspapers published on said the 1946 spring-forward transition was on 04-21 at 00:00. The Kung Sheung Evening News 1946-04-20 (Chinese) https://i.imgur.com/ZSzent0.png https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk///c/portal/cover?c=QF757YsWv5%2FH7zGe%2FKF%2BFLYsu… p.4 The Kung Sheung Daily News 1946-04-21 (Chinese) https://i.imgur.com/7ecmRlcm.png https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk///c/portal/cover?c=QF757YsWv5%2BQBGt1%2BwUj5qG2Gqt… p.4 *According to the Summer Time Ordinance (1946), the fallback transitions between 1946 and 1952 were at 03:30 Standard Time (+08) http://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/bb74b06a74d5294620a15de560ab33c6.pdf *Some other laws and regulations related to DST from 1953 to 1979 Summer Time Ordinance 1953 https://i.imgur.com/IOlJMav.jpg Summer Time (Amendment) Ordinance 1965 https://i.imgur.com/8rofeLa.jpg Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (1966) https://i.imgur.com/joy3msj.jpg Emergency (Summer Time) Regulation 1973 https://i.imgur.com/OpRWrKz.jpg Interpretation and General Clauses (Amendment) Ordinance 1977 https://i.imgur.com/RaNqnc4.jpg Resolution of the Legislative Council passed on 9 May 1979 https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr78-79/english/lc_sitg/hansard/h790509.pdf#page=39 P Chan

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Big tech warns of 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
by Martin Burnicki April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

Don't know if this has already been known, or if it's really relevant for this list, but ... "Big tech warns of 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/big-tech-warns-japan-mil… Martin -- Martin Burnicki Senior Software Engineer MEINBERG Funkuhren GmbH & Co. KG Email: martin.burnicki(a)meinberg.de Phone: +49 5281 9309-414 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinburnicki/ Lange Wand 9, 31812 Bad Pyrmont, Germany Amtsgericht Hannover 17HRA 100322 Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Günter Meinberg, Werner Meinberg, Andre Hartmann, Heiko Gerstung Websites: https://www.meinberg.de https://www.meinbergglobal.com Training: https://www.meinberg.academy

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Brazilian state of Goiás may abolish DST
by World Time Zone April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

According to some news Brazilian state of Goiás may abolish DST: "The Energy and Mines Commission of the House of Representatives approved a Legislative Decree that suspends daylight saving time in Goiás." http://www.infomoney.com.br/minhas-financas/consumo/noticia/7061178/comissa… Also, ".... this year the federal government even considered not implementing daylight saving time, but left the decision to 2018." Alexander Krivenyshev https://www.WorldTimeZone.com

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Metlakatla
by TechOps Jan. 22, 2019

Jan. 22, 2019

Hello. The Metlakatla community in Alaska has decided not to change its clock back an hour starting on November 4th, 2018 (day before yesterday). They will be gmtoff=-28800 year-round. I'm told this is the list to send this information to. Any assistance or advice on getting this updated in the database is appreciated. https://www.facebook.com/141055983004923/photos/pb.141055983004923.-2207520… [image: MIC time change.jpg] - Ryan _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ AKTechOps <http://serrc.org/techops> | techops(a)serrc.org | *(907) 523-7290* *| Brian 523-7248 | Michaela 523-7258 | Nate 523-7275 | Nick 523-7291 | Ryan 523-7272 | SERRC 586-6806 |*

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Notice Lead Time Tracking
by Brian Inglis Jan. 13, 2019

Jan. 13, 2019

Given some recent last minute end of year announcements, could I please suggest creating a new document to formally track metadata about every time change notice's lead time from 2019, as a basis for stats, info, distributor/vendor additions and enhancements, walls of shame, etc. as this has never yet been suggested AFAIR. I could see vendors like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle dev groups adding columns to local copies to track their own responses, and using those to prod government officials to do better. The document could be a text file containing an HTML document with a table tracking: CC, announcement date[/time], effective date[/time], lead time in years-months-days [hours:minutes:seconds], tzdb release date[/time], tzdb release lead time +/- in years-months-days [hours:minutes:seconds], whether change affects STD, whether change affects DST, number of zones impacted, list of zones impacted, comments about missing details etc.; with dates[/times] in ISO formats (and perhaps also Unix format metadata attributes, allowing for JS HTML text display customization and sorting by third party users); times only specified when useful or notice is days, and times are available and accurate. If anyone has been doing this already, perhaps they could contribute their data; and anyone with interest and time could backfill data from mailing list posts. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.

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[tz-announce] 2018i release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert Jan. 5, 2019

Jan. 5, 2019

The 2018i release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects the following change, which was circulated on the tz mailing list: Briefly: São Tomé and Príncipe switches from +01 to +00 on 2019-01-01. Changes to future timestamps Due to a change in government, São Tomé and Príncipe switches back from +01 to +00 on 2019-01-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Vadim Nasardinov and Michael Deckers.) Here are links to the release files: https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2018i.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2018i.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2018i.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 388b0a55116099360a99cc9973d75ae6ec63d939 dated 2018-12-30 11:05:43 -0800 and tagged '2018i' in the development GitHub repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. 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Timezone change for Asia/Qyzylorda
by Zhanbolat Raimbekov Jan. 3, 2019

Jan. 3, 2019

Hi, Starting 21 December 2018 00:00, Qyzylorda oblast, Kazakhstan (Asia/Qyzylorda) has moved back from +6 to +5. Link: http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P1800000817 -- Zhanbolat Raimbekov, Rochester Institute of Technology '12

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[PROPOSED] Cite Shanks & Pottenger better
by Paul Eggert Dec. 30, 2018

Dec. 30, 2018

* tz-link.html: Provide library URLs for Shanks and Pottenger’s now out-of-print atlases, since their publisher no longer maintains web pages. Link to ANS on these atlases as sources for much of the older tz data. Use <abbr> a bit more often. --- tz-link.html | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/tz-link.html b/tz-link.html index 4f456ef..924227a 100644 --- a/tz-link.html +++ b/tz-link.html @@ -551,8 +551,8 @@ Java</a> contains a copy of a subset of a recent Java-specific format.</li> <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> +download, compile and use <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> releases. +The Basic version is free.</li> <li><a href="http://veladg.com/velaterra.html">VelaTerra</a> is a macOS program. Its developers @@ -563,10 +563,16 @@ licenses</a> to <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> contributors.</li> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.astro.com/atlas">Time-zone Atlas</a> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks and Pottenger's out-of-print -time zone history atlases now published in <a +time zone history atlases +<a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/468828649">for the US</a> and +<a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76950459">for the world</a>, +now published in <a href="https://astrocom.com/astrology-products/software/acs-atlas-software">software</a> form by <a href="https://astrocom.com">ACS-Starcrafts</a>. -These atlases are extensive but unreliable, as Shanks appears to have +Although these extensive atlases +<a href="https://astrologynewsservice.com/opinion/how-astrologers-contributed-to-the…">were +sources for much of the older <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> data</a>, +they are unreliable as Shanks appears to have guessed many <abbr>UT</abbr> offsets and transitions. The atlases cite no sources and do not indicate which entries are guesswork.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX">HP-UX</a> has a database in @@ -856,14 +862,14 @@ href="https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Publications/Bulletins/bulletins.html"><abbr title="International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service">IERS</abbr> Bulletins</a> contains official publications of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, which decides when leap -seconds occur. The <code>tz</code> code and data support leap seconds +seconds occur. The <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> code and data support leap seconds via an optional "<code>right</code>" configuration, as opposed to the default "<code>posix</code>" configuration.</li> <li><a href="https://developers.google.com/time/smear">Leap Smear</a> discusses how to gradually adjust <abbr>POSIX</abbr> clocks near a leap second so that they disagree with <abbr>UTC</abbr> by at most a half second, even though every <abbr>POSIX</abbr> minute has exactly -sixty seconds. This approach works with the default <code>tz</code> +sixty seconds. This approach works with the default <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> "<code>posix</code>" configuration, is <a href="http://bk1.ntp.org/ntp-stable/README.leapsmear">supported</a> by the <abbr>NTP</abbr> reference implementation, and is used by major -- 2.17.1

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São Tomé and Príncipe tz change (Jan 1, 2019)
by Vadim Nasardinov Dec. 30, 2018

Dec. 30, 2018

São Tomé and Príncipe is about to do the following on Jan 1, 2019: http://www.stp-press.st/2018/12/05/governo-jesus-ja-decidiu-repor-hora-lega… “O Conselho de Ministros, relativamente a hora legal de São Tomé e Príncipe, decidiu que a partir de 1 de Janeiro de 2019 será reposta a nossa hora secular” I don't read Portuguese but this sounds like a change. Old news? I don't see any discussion of this in https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-December/thread.html

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