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Syria starts DST earlier
by Steffen Thorsen March 26, 2012

March 26, 2012

Today, Syria's government announced that they will start DST early on Friday (00:00). This is a bit earlier than the past two years. From Syrian Arab News Agency, in Arabic: http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2012/03/26/408215.htm Our brief summary: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-2012.html Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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Nagorno-Karabakh rejects daylight saving time
by Alexander Krivenyshev March 24, 2012

March 24, 2012

According to news Nagorno-Karabakh (de facto independent republic, disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan) is abolishing Daylight Saving Time. about Nagorno-Karabakh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Republic (in Russian) Nagorno-Karabakh rejects daylight saving time. http://nbnews.com.ua/news/34302/ http://www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/203632/ some translation from Russian: According to the Department of Information and Public Relations of the government of Nagorno-Karabakh, the government void decision "On a new procedure for the calculation time of the Nagorno-Karabakh" (October 25, 1996), which used to regulate transition to DST or (brief) http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_nagorno-karabakh01.html P.S. Armenia will not observe DST in 2012 and Azerbaijan begins DST on March 25, 2012. Alexander Krivenyshev- WorldTimeZone.com http://www.worldtimezone.com

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Re: [tz] changes to AusAQ [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Michael Chinn March 23, 2012

March 23, 2012

Took me awhile to get around to compiling the data, can only get it back to 2010 at present Casey 24/10/2010 5:00 +11 Wilks Aero 24/10/2010 5:00 +11 Davis 24/10/2010 7:00 +5 Casey 6/03/2011 5:00 +8 Wilks Aero 6/03/2011 5:00 +8 Davis 6/03/2011 2:00 +7 Casey 22/10/2011 7:00 +11 Wilks Aero 22/10/2011 7:00 +11 Davis 22/10/2011 7:00 +5 Casey 22/02/2012 4:00 +8 Wilks Aero 22/02/2012 4:00 +8 Davis 22/02/2012 1:00 +7 Best regards, Michael Michael Chinn IT Help Desk Australian Antarctic Division p: (03) 6232 3488 e: michael.chinn(a)aad.gov.au<mailto:michael.chinn@aad.gov.au> w: www.antarctica.gov.au<http://www.antarctica.gov.au/> [cid:image001.jpg@01CD08EE.D0F50690]<http://centenary.antarctica.gov.au/> ___________________________________________________________________________ Australian Antarctic Division - Commonwealth of Australia IMPORTANT: This transmission is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited by Commonwealth law. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail or by telephoning +61 3 6232 3209 and DELETE the message. Visit our web site at http://www.antarctica.gov.au/ ___________________________________________________________________________

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Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last
by OvV_HN March 21, 2012

March 21, 2012

In reply to: [tz] Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Arthur David Olson arthurdavidolson at gmail.com Wed Mar 21 11:09:40 UTC 2012 I've attached an updated proposed change for Morocco; the tabs-mangled-by-Gmail version appears below. The differences are against 2012b. --ado diff -r -c old/africa new/africa .............. etc. Reply: In Morocco DST will not be observed during the month of Ramadan. This will happen approximately from 2012-7-20 to 2012-8-18. See my posting from a couple of days ago (Mar 16). Your TZ update does not reflect this situation. Any reason why? Oscar van Vlijmen

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Re: [tz] Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last
by Dan Abitbol March 21, 2012

March 21, 2012

Hello Sorry to disturb again but as you know Morocco have new DST rules and first change is scheduled on 25 March 15, 2012-03-15 Do you plan to release 2012c that takes into account these new rules for Morocco soon ? We really need them to get Red Hat publish new tzdata rpm and PHP Pecl to publish new timezone db extension from your official files And then we need to update more than 40 machines at one of our customers in Morocco Please help. Thank you very much -----Message d'origine----- De : Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Envoyé : lundi 12 mars 2012 18:38 À : 'Dan Abitbol' Objet : RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Robert Elz has been serving as the coordinator since October of last year. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Dan Abitbol [mailto:dabitbol@streamwide.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:33 To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Subject: RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Thank you very much After I read the thread about it , I understood that you were no more the Tz Coordinator and that there's no yet anyone doing this role (although zefram applied) , is my understanding correct ? Regards -----Message d'origine----- De : Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Envoyé : lundi 12 mars 2012 18:26 À : 'Dan Abitbol' Objet : RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Your best bet is to subscribe to the new IANA time zone mailing list; I expect word on an update will appear there shortly. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Dan Abitbol [mailto:dabitbol@streamwide.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:20 To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]; 'Derick Rethans' Cc: support(a)streamwide.com; 'Serban NISTOR'; amajjad(a)streamwide.com Subject: RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Hello Mr Olson It's not you anymore who apply the changes and makes new timezone db package available for all ? is it someone else at IANA ? How to get please the 2012c early this week with updated rules for Morocco ? Do you think we have a chance to get it this week or some days before 25 march ? In fact, I could apply the changes by hand and update red hat timezone db files but actually, I guess Dereck will need official timezonedb 2012c to produce sources file for the php extension that we would have to recompile . Thank you for any help. Regards -----Message d'origine----- De : Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Envoyé : lundi 12 mars 2012 18:13 À : 'Dan Abitbol'; 'Derick Rethans' Cc : support(a)streamwide.com; 'Serban NISTOR'; amajjad(a)streamwide.com Objet : RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last You can wait for 2012c, or you can pick up the change from the mailing list archive and apply it by hand. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Dan Abitbol [mailto:dabitbol@streamwide.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:05 To: 'Derick Rethans' Cc: support(a)streamwide.com; Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]; 'Serban NISTOR'; amajjad(a)streamwide.com Subject: RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Thank you Derick So I just have to wait for 2012c ?

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Easy conversion to MySQL?
by Yann Gascard / VPA President March 21, 2012

March 21, 2012

Hello, I'm normally using MySQL timezone description table (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/timezones.html) But lately they are not that reactive there. Is anybody able to help me finding a way to generate these description table easily by myself? I got to use them as hosting provider I've got is not updating PHP timezones and I need an up to date reference. I don't have a Unix system. I can access to a Mac OS X one but even this one is really out of date (even with a system up to date). So I can't generate the tables using the mysql_tzinfo_to_sql there either :(** <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html> Thanks a lot! :) -- -- *Yann Gascard* - President Virtual Pilots Association www.virtualpilots.org <http://www.virtualpilots.org>

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Re: [tz] TZ from lat/lon?
by H J March 20, 2012

March 20, 2012

--- On Thu, 3/1/12, David Patte <dpatte(a)relativedata.com> wrote: > Time Zone Master, from relativedata.com, is a windows program that does > this type of calculation internally. [...] > The programme is free from our site, and is packaged as a desktop clock > application, but if you are looking for a more specific product for your > needs, the internal latlong->tz engine could be rebuilt into something > more suitable. Let me know what you are looking for. Hi David, Thanks for responding, and sorry I have been so slow in getting back to you (work travel the past few weeks; just now catching up). The Windows app looks terrific, but my little project will need to run on a small embedded Linux board (Gumstix Overo or similar), so I think it's really the internal engine I would want to use. (And in case it matters, this is a one-off personal project I'd been thinking of doing for some time now, so it's strictly non-commercial.) Regards, --HJ

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TZ from lat/lon?
by H J March 20, 2012

March 20, 2012

Hello all, Not sure if this is the best place to ask this (and if not, I would be very thankful for any suggestions), but does anyone know of a decent open source lat/lon-to-timezone package that runs _standalone_ (as opposed to querying a server somewhere)? I am aware of a few networked solutions (e.g. earthtools) and at least one commercial package (askgeo). The former won't work standalone, while the site license for the latter is too steep for my noncommercial, one-off project. Thanks very much in advance, HJ

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TZ Coordinator candidate
by Zefram March 17, 2012

March 17, 2012

With ado's retirement now almost upon us, I'd like to volunteer for the role of TZ Coordinator. Although I've only been directly involved, on the mailing list, for half a year, I've been peripherally involved for much longer. I'm very comfortable working in this space, and I believe I have the right personal qualities for the job. Firstly, I have a strong and unshakeable inclination to attend to detail, a determination to be thorough, and a decisive concern for correctness. (The former, at least, is an autistic trait, one of several that turn out to be useful to engineers.) I believe these qualities have been apparent in my contributions to the mailing list in recent months. For further substantiation, see my published code and contributions to other mailing lists (links below). I have a calm temperament, which kre rightly identified (on 2009-09-04) as a vital quality for this role. This can be seen in action on the various other mailing lists that I have inhabited in recent years. Particularly see the leap seconds mailing list, where in the past couple of years many discussions have regrettably become much more heated than befits the calibre of participant, and perl5-porters, where I've occasionally dealt with a prickly CPAN author. I'm at the right point in my career to take on this sort of role, potentially for as long as ado has served. I'm mature enough to take on a long-term commitment, while still young enough to have a long term. I was born in 1977, and so am some thirty years away from pensionable age. I can't promise to actually serve for that long, but there isn't anything standing in the way of me doing so. I have, and use, network access nearly every day, so I can respond promptly to urgent issues. I read email, as it comes in, during most of my waking hours, and I'm similarly available on IRC. I tend to spend my weekends and holidays (from paid work) programming. I don't make a habit of travelling, though I presently attend an annual conference that occupies me for five consecutive days. (I haven't so far attempted to access the net while at a conference, but it is available at these conferences, and I ought to get with the times.) Although it's not strictly necessary in a TZ Coordinator, I'm technically well qualified to look after the timezone code. C was my main programming language for about ten years, 1988 to 1998. Since then my main language has been Perl, but I still regularly work in C. About half of the Perl modules that I've published are largely implemented in C, for one reason or another, and I'm a contributor to the Perl core, which is written in C. The quality of my code can be discerned by perusal of my published Perl modules. I have a deep and abiding interest in horology, and particularly in computer implementation of it. I've been on the leap seconds mailing list for some years, actively involved in many discussions there. In the Perl world much of my published code is concerned with time, and last year I gave a well-received talk about time (but not timezones) at two Perl conferences (video link below). Looking more specifically at timezones, some of my Perl code is about timezones, much of that specifically about using the TZ database. I've become intimately familiar with the database through my work on this code. As a bonus, I have some plans for how the database should develop from where it is now. Chief among them, I'd like to see it become more historically comprehensive, but there are obvious problems for users that would come from multiplying up the number of timezones on the present infrastructure. I've got some clear ideas about how to solve these problems, principally some concepts for a new tzfile format that would let zones share representation. I'm confident of the feasibility, and I'd like to develop in this direction with a view to supplanting the present implementation, applying all due caution for stability issues. It's not necessary for me to be the TZ Coordinator in order to proceed with such a project, and I hope to do so anyway, but there's some level of convenience in the roles being colocated. In the spirit of openness, I'll now also list potential downsides of me as TZ Coordinator. Most obviously, I haven't been on the TZ mailing list very long. I tend to pick things up quickly, but this is a defect in the experience I'd bring to the role. Secondly, I have a bit of a concern that my existing role as a consumer of the TZ database (via authorship of relevant Perl modules) might compromise objectivity in developing the API (loosely speaking) that the database provides to the world. (On the other hand, it certainly provides a useful perspective.) Thirdly, I'm of the firm opinion that timezones ought to be abolished, in favour of universal use of Universal Time. Here are links to relevant resources. Other mailing lists that I'm on: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/ (leap seconds) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.datetime/ (time data in Perl) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/ (Perl core) Published Perl modules: https://metacpan.org/author/ZEFRAM Video of talk about time: http://www.presentingperl.org/lpw2011/why-time-is-difficult/ Miscellaneous other bits on my web page: http://www.fysh.org/~zefram/ -zefram

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Encoding of workweek/weekend available?
by Andrew Paprocki March 17, 2012

March 17, 2012

Is there any public database similar to tzdata encoding workweek/weekend transitions over time? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend I am asking the folks on this list because the transitions sound eerily like DST transitions: "The coalition government formed on December 2011 issued a decree changing the weekend in Yemen. As of February 2012 the weekend in Yemen will be Friday–Saturday [instead of Thursday–Friday]." -Andrew

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