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Shouldn't Kemerovo oblast' use OMST/OMSST timezone abbreviation?
by Petr Machata Aug. 23, 2010

Aug. 23, 2010

... given the time offset it could be either that, or NOVT that tzdata currently uses. But Wikipedia lists Kemerovo under Omsk Time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemerovo_Oblast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omsk_Time http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Новокузнецк One one reference outside of obvious Wikipedia copies: http://www.vk-ugoll.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82&Item… Though I was unable to find anything official. Petr Machata

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java tz updates
by Alistair Forbes Aug. 20, 2010

Aug. 20, 2010

Hi, Apologies if this is a bit off-topic as it's specific only to java timezones. The latest 2010k updates for java are not (yet) freely available from Sun. ( http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tzdata-versions-138805.html ) I have not looked into it, but I assume if I pay I could get the update. For Linux there there is a package "tzdata-java" which updates /usr/share/javazi/ but this does not used by the Sun JDK. Anyone know is an alternative to updating the Sun JDK timezones? I can of course program something - cases like Egypt changing time for Ramadan are fairly rare. Thanks Al

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Morroco studies a TZ core change due to Ramadan
by S�bastien WILLEMIJNS Aug. 18, 2010

Aug. 18, 2010

http://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/3089/maroc-l-heure-d-ete-serait- elle-appliquee.html

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The zone.tab comment for Antarctica/Vostok
by Petr Machata Aug. 16, 2010

Aug. 16, 2010

... reads "Vostok Station, S Magnetic Pole". I believe it should be "S Cold Pole". Magnetic pole currently lies in the sea off the coast of Antarctica. Petr Machata

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Inconsistency in zoneinfo binary files?
by Roland Bock Aug. 16, 2010

Aug. 16, 2010

Hi, I hope that this is the right list to ask this question: I am having trouble in comprehending the zoneinfo binary files: I have a version 2 file for Amsterdam which gives me 180 transition times and 13 transition types in the first block (all of which look fine to me). But the second block yields 181 transition times and 14 transition types. The additional transition time is 1971-02-07T06:08:44, which seems rather weird to me. Regards, Roland

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As the odometer turns...
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Aug. 16, 2010

Aug. 16, 2010

For milestone fans. --ado Script started on Mon Aug 16 09:51:45 2010 lecserver$ gunzip < ~ftp/pub/tzarchive.gz | wc -l 1001901 lecserver$ exit script done on Mon Aug 16 09:52:03 2010

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zone.tab comment for Antarctica/Vostok
by Petr Machata Aug. 16, 2010

Aug. 16, 2010

... reads "Vostok Station, S Magnetic Pole". I believe it should be "S Cold Pole". Magnetic pole currently lies in the sea off the coast of Antarctica. Petr Machata

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2010l
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Aug. 16, 2010

Aug. 16, 2010

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2010l.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2010l.tar.gz ...are now available; these reflect the changes circulated last week on the time zone mailing list, minus the worldtimezone URL change. --ado

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subscribe
by Roland Bock Aug. 16, 2010

Aug. 16, 2010

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Error in time zone for Egypt
by Martin Höfler Aug. 15, 2010

Aug. 15, 2010

Hi! I think there's an error in the time zone description of Egypt for 2010: during Ramadan, Egypt switches back to standard time and at the end of Ramadan it's daylight saving time again. This is the respective rule: Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep 9 0:00s 1:00 S However, Ramadan seems to end at midnight between the 9th and the 10th of September (it lasts 30 days, which includes the 9th). See http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-ends-dst-2010.html So the rule should be: Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep 9 24:00s 1:00 S Or Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep 10 0:00s 1:00 S I'm not 100% sure about all this (I'm no expert), but as the other sources in the time zone file don't mention a specific switch time, I think the rule needs to be corrected. Best regards, Martin Hoefler

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