September 2018 - tz - lists.iana.org

European Commission proposes ending DST in March 2019
by Paul Eggert Sept. 13, 2018

Sept. 13, 2018

In a major speech today covering several topics, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the commission is proposing ending daylight saving time in the European Union next year. Under the proposal, member states will move their clocks forward in March 2019 as usual, and then chaos will ensue. Well, not exactly chaos, but each member state will be on its own as to whether to move clocks back in October 2019. It should make for interesting times in Ireland and elsewhere. Healy C. Irish people could never have to change clocks from 2019 as EU propose end to laws. Irish Sun. 2018-09-12 10:50 +01. https://www.thesun.ie/news/3108149/irish-clocks-daylight-savings-abolished-…

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Traditional Chinese Time
by Phake Nick Sept. 13, 2018

Sept. 13, 2018

After reading the discussion about time around Ethiopian area, I am reminded that there is actually another clock that is in use for Chinese-speaking area [and maybe also some other neighboring region]. The system, nowadays mostly used in traditional customary/religious activity only, would divide a day into 12 "double hours" (it seems to be a common English translation for the original Chinese term), and then assign each double hour a name from "Earthly Branch". The tricky thing here is, the first hour "zi" actually start at 11 o'clock (pm) standard time. And so everyday start and end at 23:00 according to this system [However, note that some have suggested changing the system, so that despite the 'zi' hour still represent the time period between 11pm and 1am, in some's mind it would be broken into a 'early zi' hour that belong to the previous day while the second half of the hour would be treated as a 'late zi' hour that belongs to the second day]. Also, according to old calendar books, DST are not observed for the traditional timing system, so the "zi" hour would start at DST 24:00 if there's a DST. And then, nowadays there are people who directly use time that are keep officially according to timezone rules to convert time into this traditional system, however there are also people who use the local solar time instead.

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Inquiry to NICT about Japanese Summer time in 1948-1952.
by Phake Nick Sept. 8, 2018

Sept. 8, 2018

To receivers of this email: Recently, I have read an article, which mentioned the history of Japanese Summer Time Implementation in the past at www.bengo4.com/internet/n_8461/ . In the article, it was mentioned that the summer time (DST) end at 25 hours at the last day of the implementation period. Does that mean the clock would go up to the 25th hours back then and reach 24:59 before it continues toward 00:00 on the next day in standard time? If not then how did the clock switched from Summer Time back to Standard Time back then? Please use the "reply to all" function when replying to the message so that other receivers of the message can also hear answer on the matter. Sincerely, P.N.

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1948-1951 Asia/Tokyo DST information
by Phake Nick Sept. 8, 2018

Sept. 8, 2018

It seems like the current info about past DST for Asia/Tokyo in tz database is incorrect. The law cited in the latest commit do say the DST en at 00:00 on the day after the second Saturday in September, however the second line of the law write that "the Second Saturday in September would have 25 hours in a day". I was made aware of it by reading an interview on NICT (The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) of Japan and the history of DST in Japan given in the interview by NICT representative do said DST used to end at 25:00 there. See https://www.bengo4.com/internet/n_8461/

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Possible closure of WWV et al.
by Arthur David Olson Sept. 3, 2018

Sept. 3, 2018

"If this budget passes as written, WWV, WWVH, and WWVB will all be closed." https://swling.com/blog/2018/08/information-from-the-nist-regarding-possibl… @dashdashado

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