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Re: [tz] tz Digest, Vol 122, Issue 22
by nadir altinbas Nov. 14, 2021

Nov. 14, 2021

@ Comment; Time(Winter-summer) setting discussions in Turkey and research about it (Alan Mintz) May I remind to Alan Mintz ;On the "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population" list shows that Turkey is in Asia, One of the region where is called as Marmara region is in Europe . Turkey is in both of Asia and Europe. Coordinates for Turkey as follows; ------------------------------------------- Latitude: 38° 57' 26.43" N Longitude: 35° 14' 26.67" E ------------------------------------------ also in GPS DD coordinate; 38.9573415 35.240741 ----------------------------------------- Nadir Altinbas nadiraltinbas(a)yahoo.com n.altinbas On Sunday, November 14, 2021, 05:27:55 PM GMT+3, tz-request(a)iana.org <tz-request(a)iana.org> wrote: Send tz mailing list submissions to tz(a)iana.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to tz-request(a)iana.org You can reach the person managing the list at tz-owner(a)iana.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of tz digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Time(Winter-summer) setting discussions in Turkey and research about it (nadir altinbas) 2. Re: Time(Winter-summer) setting discussions in Turkey and research about it (Alan Mintz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:36:25 +0000 (UTC) From: nadir altinbas <nadiraltinbas(a)yahoo.com> To: Paul Eggert <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> Cc: Time Zone Mailing List <tz(a)iana.org> Subject: Re: [tz] Time(Winter-summer) setting discussions in Turkey and research about it Message-ID: <2020539311.1385787.1636817785458(a)mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Ok ! Paul, Thanks,wikipedia correction explanation was better. Nadir Altinbas n.altinbas On Saturday, November 13, 2021, 11:15:33 AM GMT+3, Paul Eggert <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> wrote: Thanks for the heads-up. If Turkey actually changes its time zones or daylight-saving rules please let us know. I hope they give us plenty of warning (such as a year or more); otherwise, their cell phones and/or computers will likely be off. One minor point. The text says "Saatlerini de?i?tirmeyen en b?y?k ?lkeler ?in, Hindistan ve Japonya" which Google translates as "The largest countries that do not change their clocks are China, India and Japan." Using the Wikipedia list of countries by population[1], the ten most populous countries that do not observe daylight saving time are China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Japan, and Ethiopia, in that order. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_populat… ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 10:48:15 -0800 From: Alan Mintz <alan.mintz(a)gmail.com> To: Paul Eggert <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> Cc: Time Zone Mailing List <tz(a)iana.org>, nadir altinbas <nadiraltinbas(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [tz] Time(Winter-summer) setting discussions in Turkey and research about it Message-ID: <CAMLM5-Vkqs_k7HkGy+MPwWGcjAUzRXhu4OOkAdFywvy-Ppj5rw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:15 AM Paul Eggert via tz <tz(a)iana.org> wrote: > ... Using the Wikipedia list of countries by population[1], the ten > most populous countries that do not observe daylight saving time are > China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, > Japan, and Ethiopia, in that order. > > [1] > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_populat… > Kind of a misleading statistic, though, since Indonesia straddles the equator and much of Brazil, Nigeria, and Ethiopia are within 15 degrees latitude, making DST unnecessary for them. -- Alan Mintz <Alan.Mintz(a)gMail.com>

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Time(Winter-summer) setting discussions in Turkey and research about it
by nadir altinbas Nov. 13, 2021

Nov. 13, 2021

Thank You Paul! Resending e -mail message as plain Text as follows.Amendment e -mail; GMT+2.30 adviced by Turkeys Electrical Engineers Society (TMMOB-EMO) for eficiently enery usage in the country, on the news dealing with conflict while settings winter and summer time through organization. here is the link about news as Turkish; (www.emo.org.tr/genel/bizden_detay.php?kod=136372&tipi=5&sube=0) There also mentioned a research by ITU (Istanbul technical University research about time arrangement. These are just discussions and advice not officially anouncment. nadiraltinbas(a)yahoo.com Nadir Altinbas n.altinbas

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Tİme zone discussions in Turkey and research about it
by nadir altinbas Nov. 12, 2021

Nov. 12, 2021

For GMT +2.30 adviced from Turkey's Electrical Engineers Society (TMMOB-EMO) reported on Social mediato efficient energy usage in Turkey. news here on the link as follows;EMO - SAATLERE AYAR ARANIYOR (OKSİJEN) | | | | | | | | | | | EMO - SAATLERE AYAR ARANIYOR (OKSİJEN) | | | This research is not official now.It may be considered future plan nadiraltinbas(a)yahoo.com n.altinbas

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Pre-1970 data
by Stephen Colebourne Nov. 12, 2021

Nov. 12, 2021

How can this project successfully handle pre-1970 data? Why have I focussed so much on IDs and their value to tzdb? Intro ------- In previous threads I've focussed on IDs, and laid out different ways to describe the groups of IDs we have. For now, lets focus solely on the two main groups - region IDs, which represent abstract regions where clocks have been the same since 1970 - non-region IDs, which represent locations where tzdb has, at some point, added an ID The key observation is that the segregation between these two groups of IDs *did not exist* until around 2014. It was only in 2018 that the ISO country rule was removed. It has only been since 2014 or so that IDs have been merged. What tzdb previously offered was a set of IDs, based on a simple rule - "ID as needed for post-1970 data, with at least one per ISO country". Full history was available for each of these (whether accurate or not). What has happened since is a split, where no split previously existed. A split which favours some locations over others. The recent mailing list debates merely represent the cumulation of this favouritism. The irony is that the merges are being done in the name of equity and fairness, when the outcome has actually been the exact opposite - picking favourites, and denigrating everywhere else. That the approach to picking favourites is according to a standardised largest city rule isn't really that relevant here - it is the outcome that is unfair, not the process. If region IDs were of different appearance (eg. numeric or textually different) then the issues would not have arisen. The mistake was taking a fully functional and fully integral set of IDs, and bifurcating it into two groups. The split was actually a huge change in the policy of tzdb, which has been added drip by drip, rather than something that was ever fully appreciated up front. FWIW, it is clear to me that there is an aspect of imposing a US-centric timezone system on other parts of the world. The recent tzdb approach of focussing entirely on timezone regions makes perfect sense for the US, where region boundaries do not follow state lines, and ordinary members of the public need to be aware of whether they are in US/Mountain or US/Central. This simply isn't the timezone model in many other parts of the world. In places like Europe and Asia, the timezone is driven primarily by the country you live in - an ordinary member of the public in Iceland is never going to associate with some abstract timezone region stretching down the Atlantic that is not named, not legally defined and is little more than a random outcome based on tzdb's choice of 1970. Even in somewhere like Norway, an ordinary member of the public will understand that although they follow CET, their timezone is actually driven by their Government in Oslo. The brilliance of the original rule - "ID as needed for post-1970 data, with at least one per ISO country" - was that it seamlessly handled *both* models of timezone in one unified set of IDs. Removal of the ISO country part has completely destabilised that balance. As a constraint to this thread, tzdb really needs to offer one standard view of data, not command line flags that allow different views. If downstream projects end up with different views of the data, it makes tzdb a much less reliable source. (tzdb can be packaged in different ways on the same machine, for example it is undesirable for Postgres' internal tzdb and the OS tzdb to diverge for the same version). Given this, what needs to be nailed down is what is the default data set that tzdb publishes - there isn't really much point in talking about compile time flags, or that the contents of backzone could be used by someone. Lets look at seven options for pre-1970 data: Pre-1970 data for regions only ----------------------------------------- 1) Pre-1970 data for regions only - Despite looking identical to other IDs, region IDs are treated as special/favoured - Pre-1970 data for non-region IDs is of no importance whatsoever, thus most get pre-1970 data from another country/continent - The split between region and non-region locations is fully completed - the US-centric timezone model is dominant - An end user in Iceland is supposed to use Africa/Abidjan, Europe/Reykjavik is treated as a historical mistake of tzdb kept around only for backwards compatibility Pre-1970 data for most IDs ------------------------------------ 2) Pre-1970 data for each ID meeting the rule "ID as needed for post-1970 data, with at least one per ISO country" - The split between region and non-region locations is healed - High quality data from places like Iceland and Norway is retained, but low quality data from elsewhere is restored - The pre-1970 data is simply viewed as the best available data for the each location which can be improved over time - Most end-users in Iceland would expect tzdb to provide pre-1970 data from Iceland, not the Ivory Coast 3) Pre-1970 data for for all IDs that currently exist except true aliases - This is very similar to #2, but would include something like Montreal which was effectively mistakenly added to tzdb - This doesn't seem as desirable as #2 4) Pre-1970 data for any ID where the pre-1970 data is high quality - Subjective on quality, which doesn't seem like a great idea - It does avoid bringing bad quality data back into the main tzdb distribution - On balance, #2 has fewer places for debate to arise 5) Pre-1970 data for all IDs that currently exist except true aliases, plus a *new* set of IDs representing regions - As per #2, but adding IDs like "Region/12345" or "Region/Berlin" - Regions should contain post-1970 data only, as the region is by definition only meaningful post-1970 - It is not entirely clear what this solves over just going with #2 - This option is connected to Russ' proposals [1], although he suggests a bigger split between timekeeping data and ID naming - Perhaps it makes sense if the new region IDs were internal and not normally seen by end users? Remove pre-1970 data from general use ------------------------------------------------------- 6) No pre-1970 data whatsoever, all IDs are post-1970 only - Project policy is that tzdb is focussed on post-1970 data only - Paul repeatedly tells us that pre-1970 data is unreliable, and people shouldn't use it - Pre-1970 data would not be deleted, but would not be available in most downstreams - The split between region and non-region locations is effectively healed - End users lose access to pre-1970 data, which is particularly notable in some locations where that data is reliable, eg London - It is unknown at this point what the user impact is of removing pre-1970 data from major financial/business centres (no major location has yet been merged) 7) No existing IDs get pre-1970 data, but a *new* set of IDs are created containing it - As per #5, the existing IDs get no pre-1970 data and the split between region and non-region locations is healed - New IDs, such as "Historic/Europe/London" or "Historic/Africa/Abidjan" get created for each of the main IDs - The historic IDs include pre-1970 data, the standard IDs do not - There is a mechanical transformation between the historic and non-historic IDs - Whether downstreams do or do not include the historic IDs is their choice, potentially based on available space - The data provided by the standard non-historic IDs remains the same whether the downstream includes the historic IDs or not (a Good Thing) - Users have to deliberately opt-in to get pre-1970 data, which might make them think about the accuracy issue Notes -------- - I'm not discussing adding new IDs simply to represent locations whose clocks differ only before 1970. I don't personally think that is a job for tzdb, and even if it is, it is a job for a different thread. - I'm not discussing what value is returned prior to 1970 when pre-1970 data is removed. That would be a job for a different thread. - Link vs Zone is not important for this discussion. Summary ------------- After a few weeks of thinking, these are the options I've come up with. Feel free to suggest another option or variant if you think I've missed anything obvious. I believe that was a disaster that the brilliant "ID as needed for post-1970 data, with at least one per ISO country" rule was removed. It has created needless division, bifurcating a unified set of ID into region and non-region IDs and creating backwards compatibility issues in the data of many locations. IMO, there are two basic models of timezones in the world, and moving tzdb from one that supported both to one that only supports the US-centric model is simply a mistake that needs correcting. As such, my preference would be to adopt option 2. Option 6 or 7 could work, and might be the best choices if we had a clean slate or if there was some hidden pressure that the list is unaware of to remove pre-1970 data, but they are risky options given we do not know the impact on end-users in major financial/business centres. Stephen [1] https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/030518.html

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The link-name, America/Virgin, is linked to two zones in 'backzone'
by Yan-Jie Wang Nov. 12, 2021

Nov. 12, 2021

A link-name (the second column of the Link line) in a file should be unique. However, 'America/Virgin' is linked to two zones (America/Port_of_Spain and America/St_Thomas) in 'backzone'. The error is in the latest commit as well as in the archive tzdata2021e.tar.gz. The link to the file: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/6c15079/backzone Yan-Jie Wang

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Re: [tz] What are the interfaces to the TZDB?
by Brian Park Nov. 10, 2021

Nov. 10, 2021

(Replying back to the list with permission) On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 11:45 AM Eliot Lear <lear(a)lear.ch> wrote: > On 09.11.21 20:38, Brian Park wrote: > > Is the TZDB project intended to support only POSIX systems? > > It's a fair question. Before we say, “no”, I would like to understand > what sort systems use the database that themselves are *NOT* POSIX > compliant. But also, as Paul pointed out, the binary format itself is > standardized at the IETF, the sponsor of this shindig. > > We could go up the stack, but before we do so, we should be clear on our > reasons as to why we are doing so. And so when you say: > > My downstream usage does not have a file system, or even an operating > system. For me, the API into the TZDB project are the raw files, but I > understand that my usage is unusual. > > Would you mind being a bit more specific? Are you printing a book? ;-) > Not that primitive... My libraries run on bare-metal, embedded microcontrollers, with no operating system. My first version is in C++, supporting all Zones and Links in about 36kB of flash (8-bit controllers) to 44kB of flash (32-bit controllers), without using 64-bit integers. I have another version in Python that I hope to convert to MicroPython soon. I'm hoping to write another version in Go lang, which will be converted into TinyGo. Brian

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Re: [tz] Pre-1970 data
by dpatte Nov. 5, 2021

Nov. 5, 2021

I was be contributing a longer message on this whole subject within a few days, but I want to state upfront that country/city is insufficient in many countries for a fully expandable location database.Off the top of my head, I can think of three different Richmonds in Canada. One in Quebec, one in Ontario, and one in BC. I know there are many Springfields in many USA states, and let's not even talk about the potential USA/Columbus.The key of a database should be unique and recognizable. For many countries, multiple levels of government are the only way to properly differentiate cities.Canada/British_Columbia/Richmond would be more appropriate.This allows the pre-1970 db to be both infinitely expandable, as well as user friendly to the point of being fully obvious to all users.Sent from my Galaxy -------- Original message --------From: Brian Park via tz <tz(a)iana.org> Date: 2021-11-05 11:27 (GMT-05:00) To: Philip Paeps <philip(a)trouble.is> Cc: Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne(a)joda.org>, Time Zone Mailing List <tz(a)iana.org> Subject: Re: [tz] Pre-1970 data On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:11 PM Philip Paeps <philip(a)trouble.is> wrote:On 2021-11-05 12:17:34 (+0800), Brian Park via tz wrote: > I get the impression that this debate is caused by the existence of 2 > different schools of thought: [...] > > I want to suggest that it may be possible for these 2 views to > coexist. They de facto coexist right now. The overwhelming majority of the data are descriptive. Only recent efforts have made some of the post-1970 data appear more prescriptive.They coexist in an ad hoc manner right now, and that seems to be one of the causes for the contention. I am suggesting that we formalize the separation, so that both groups are happier. > We > could create a new file, e.g. call it 'countryzone', which contains a > set > of Links organized in a hierarchical tree by country, pointing to the > Core > zones. I strongly believe we should continue to carefully avoid attempting to group data by country. [I would even avoid using the word "country" wherever possible.]Can you explain why? Because it will cause arguments about disputed places? I think only a small minority of places around the world are disputed. By separating these ISO-country timezones into a 'countryzone' file, perhaps we can confine the debate into a smaller section of the TZDB. We could create duplicate entries (i.e. Country1/City, Country2/City), or create a pseudo-country called "Disputed" (i.e. Disputed/City). The point is, we can create policies that govern these disputed regions.Could we move 'countryzone' into a separate project? Probably, but some amount of initial coordination and refactoring would be required to resolve conflicting zone identifiers.Overall, I feel like the TZDB data should lean a bit more towards matching how end-users think about timezones in the real world (Prescriptive), and lean slightly less on treating timezones as a clustering problem (Descriptive). But I can see pros and cons of both approaches. Which is why I am suggesting ways to make the 2 approaches interoperate better. > For the pre-1970 data, it is my understanding that the 'backzone' file > contains Zone records which should replace ONLY the LinkMerged records > found in the other files. I propose that all LinkMerged records be > extracted into a separate file (let's call it 'mergedzone') so that > there > is a clear symmetry between 'backzone' and 'mergedzone', which allows > them > to be substituted for each other. The dependency diagram looks > something > like this: As I've suggested before in another thread, I think we should consider undoing the split into backzone. I really liked Stephen's phrasing earlier in this thread: acceptably accurate, not outrageously wrong. We started moving data to backzone to limit the scope of 'active' maintenance to post-1970 data. That artificial split led us towards a more prescriptive worldview. It seems clear that prescriptive simply does not work for a real world with people on it.I think Paul Eggert has made it clear that he does not want to maintain this data. My proposed refactoring of this info into the 'backzone' / 'mergedzone' pair makes it easy for downstream libraries to add back the 'backzone' data if they want. The 'make PACKRATDATA=backzone' hack does not help downstream libraries which do not use TZif or the Makefile. > If there is any chance that this will result in being able to type > "Canada/Toronto" instead of "America/Toronto", that would resolve an > annoyance that has lasted some 30-35 years. In this context, America refers to the landmass, not to the political entity occupying a large chunk of it. [Canada/Eastern etc moved to backward around 1993, as far as I can tell.]Virtual no one in the world thinks of "America" as referring to all of "North America" and "South America".Brian

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Ref: Tz on social media
by nadir altinbas Nov. 4, 2021

Nov. 4, 2021

is it possible to add 'news' from TZ Coordiation web site share button to social media such as; Linkedin,FaceBook(meta),Instagram,Twitteretc.... There may be occur an anouncment to publicize for sharing via social media? Nadir Altinbas Estanbul /TR, 2021 Nov,2 nadiraltinbas(a)yahoo.com n.altinbas

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event of interest: Future of Europe debates – The end of DST: how can it be placed back to the European agenda?
by BASTIAN Michelle Oct. 28, 2021

Oct. 28, 2021

Hi all, I was just at events for the Barcelona Time Use initiative time use week 2021 and the panel on changing DST in Europe was very interesting and I thought some of you might want to take a look. It is free to sign up and you can access recordings of all the events including the one on time zones/DST. Description and link below. Loved that there was lots of talk about there being no problem having many more time zones in Europe as ‘our computers handle all of that for us now’. https://timeuseweek.beplanet.tv/en/ Future of Europe debates – The end of DST: how can it be placed back to the European agenda? In 2019, the European Parliament agreed to end the biannual clock change. Nevertheless, the Member States have not been able to achieve an agreement on which time zone has to be adopted. This debate explores how can we place back the debate on the European and Member States agenda. Representative of European Parliament Pending to confirm Maria Nikolopoulou European social and economic council Ticia Luengo International Association for Natural Time Till Roenneberg World Federation of Societies for Chronobiology Best, Michelle. --- Dr Michelle Bastian Mid-Career Fellow, Independent Social Research Foundation (Project info<https://www.isrf.org/fellows-projects/michelle-bastian/>) Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Re: [tz] tzcode2021e: uninitialized variable in localtime.c
by Paul Eggert Oct. 27, 2021

Oct. 27, 2021

On 10/22/21 07:49, Christos Zoulas wrote: > My linter reports "prevcorr" is uninitialized in the if statement > below the comment that starts "To avoid other botches". Thanks for mentioning that. This prompted me to find an obscure bug in localtime that would cause it to access an uninitialized local variable (which is undefined behavior) in cases involving 32-bit time_t code reading malformed 64-bit data. I installed the attached patch to fix the bug, and I hope this also pacifies your linter.

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[PROPOSED] Be more generous when dealing with v1 data
by Paul Eggert Oct. 27, 2021

Oct. 27, 2021

* NEWS: Mention this. * localtime.c (tzloadbody): In version 2 and later files, do not attempt to validate the version 1 header and data block; instead, ignore them except for the purpose of skipping over them, as per a recommendation in RFC 8536 section 4. Also, when the TZif file is version 1 and we break out near the end of the loop, do so only after altering nread and memmoving any later data; this avoids having later code attempt to parse the version 1 header as if it were a TZ string. --- NEWS | 6 +++++ localtime.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d4a9823..0f684f7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Fix bug when 32-bit time_t code reads malformed 64-bit TZif data. (Problem reported by Christos Zoulas.) + When reading a version 2 or later TZif file, the TZif reader now + validates the version 1 header and data block only enough to skip + over them, as recommended by RFC 8536 section 4. Also, the TZif + reader no longer mistakenly attempts to parse a version 1 TZIf + file header as a TZ string. + Release 2021e - 2021-10-21 18:41:00 -0700 diff --git a/localtime.c b/localtime.c index 6d736b2..39ef6e3 100644 --- a/localtime.c +++ b/localtime.c @@ -434,35 +434,45 @@ tzloadbody(char const *name, struct state *sp, bool doextend, if (close(fid) < 0) return errno; for (stored = 4; stored <= 8; stored *= 2) { - int_fast32_t ttisstdcnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_ttisstdcnt); - int_fast32_t ttisutcnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_ttisutcnt); - int_fast64_t prevtr = -1; - int_fast32_t prevcorr; - int_fast32_t leapcnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_leapcnt); - int_fast32_t timecnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_timecnt); - int_fast32_t typecnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_typecnt); - int_fast32_t charcnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_charcnt); - char const *p = up->buf + tzheadsize; - /* Although tzfile(5) currently requires typecnt to be nonzero, - support future formats that may allow zero typecnt - in files that have a TZ string and no transitions. */ - if (! (0 <= leapcnt && leapcnt < TZ_MAX_LEAPS - && 0 <= typecnt && typecnt < TZ_MAX_TYPES - && 0 <= timecnt && timecnt < TZ_MAX_TIMES - && 0 <= charcnt && charcnt < TZ_MAX_CHARS - && (ttisstdcnt == typecnt || ttisstdcnt == 0) - && (ttisutcnt == typecnt || ttisutcnt == 0))) - return EINVAL; - if (nread - < (tzheadsize /* struct tzhead */ - + timecnt * stored /* ats */ + char version = up->tzhead.tzh_version[0]; + bool skip_datablock = stored == 4 && version; + int_fast32_t datablock_size; + int_fast32_t ttisstdcnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_ttisstdcnt); + int_fast32_t ttisutcnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_ttisutcnt); + int_fast64_t prevtr = -1; + int_fast32_t prevcorr; + int_fast32_t leapcnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_leapcnt); + int_fast32_t timecnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_timecnt); + int_fast32_t typecnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_typecnt); + int_fast32_t charcnt = detzcode(up->tzhead.tzh_charcnt); + char const *p = up->buf + tzheadsize; + /* Although tzfile(5) currently requires typecnt to be nonzero, + support future formats that may allow zero typecnt + in files that have a TZ string and no transitions. */ + if (! (0 <= leapcnt && leapcnt < TZ_MAX_LEAPS + && 0 <= typecnt && typecnt < TZ_MAX_TYPES + && 0 <= timecnt && timecnt < TZ_MAX_TIMES + && 0 <= charcnt && charcnt < TZ_MAX_CHARS + && 0 <= ttisstdcnt && ttisstdcnt < TZ_MAX_TYPES + && 0 <= ttisutcnt && ttisutcnt < TZ_MAX_TYPES)) + return EINVAL; + datablock_size + = (timecnt * stored /* ats */ + timecnt /* types */ + typecnt * 6 /* ttinfos */ + charcnt /* chars */ + leapcnt * (stored + 4) /* lsinfos */ + ttisstdcnt /* ttisstds */ - + ttisutcnt)) /* ttisuts */ + + ttisutcnt); /* ttisuts */ + if (nread < tzheadsize + datablock_size) + return EINVAL; + if (skip_datablock) + p += datablock_size; + else { + if (! ((ttisstdcnt == typecnt || ttisstdcnt == 0) + && (ttisutcnt == typecnt || ttisutcnt == 0))) return EINVAL; + sp->leapcnt = leapcnt; sp->timecnt = timecnt; sp->typecnt = typecnt; @@ -578,13 +588,14 @@ tzloadbody(char const *name, struct state *sp, bool doextend, ttisp->tt_ttisut = *p++; } } - /* - ** If this is an old file, we're done. - */ - if (up->tzhead.tzh_version[0] == '\0') - break; - nread -= p - up->buf; - memmove(up->buf, p, nread); + } + + nread -= p - up->buf; + memmove(up->buf, p, nread); + + /* If this is an old file, we're done. */ + if (!version) + break; } if (doextend && nread > 2 && up->buf[0] == '\n' && up->buf[nread - 1] == '\n' && -- 2.31.1

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Extra transition type is generated by zic with -r specified
by Almaz Mingaleev Oct. 26, 2021

Oct. 26, 2021

I’ve tried to generate a TZif file with transitions up to 1 Jan 2100 using zic with -r and “-b fat”. However, an extra transition type is generated for many (all?) time zones. That type’s UTC offset is zero and it is used only for the last transition in the 64-bit section. What I did: mkdir /tmp/zic cd /tmp/zic git clone https://github.com/eggert/tz.git . make -C . zic make -C . NDATA= rearguard.zi mkdir data ./zic -b fat -r /@4102444800 -d ./data rearguard.zi Below is an investigation for Australia/Lord_Howe (I don’t think choice matters here). I couldn’t find a way to force zdump to print transitions for a given TZif file. Instead, please see human-readable dumps from the TZif from our internal tools immediately below and raw byte information at the bottom if you’d prefer to work with that. These are local time transition types for Australia/Lord_Howe: Types gmtOffset (seconds),isDst,ttisgmt,ttisstd,[gmtOffset ISO],[DST?] 38180,0,,,PT10H36M20S,STD 0,0,,,PT0S,STD <- this is odd 36000,0,,,PT10H,STD 41400,1,,,PT11H30M,DST 37800,0,,,PT10H30M,STD 39600,1,,,PT11H,DST Transitions: transition,type,[UTC time],[Type offset],[Type isDST] … 4063275000,5,2098-10-04T15:30:00Z,PT11H,DST 4078998000,4,2099-04-04T15:00:00Z,PT10H30M,STD 4094724600,5,2099-10-03T15:30:00Z,PT11H,DST 4102444800,1,2100-01-01T00:00:00Z,PT0S,STD <- this is odd So, after the upper bound specified in -r, the transitions say that GMT is used. As I’d expect, the 32-bit transitions are not affected when the upper bound in -r is after 2038. However, with -r /@1634833073 the 32-bit section also has 6 transition types and the last transition sets offset to 0. Is that a bug or is there a reason for such behaviour? Thanks, Almaz Byte manipulations: typecnt is 5 in 32-bit section: xxd -seek 36(4+1+15+4*4) -len 4 data/Australia/Lord_Howe 64-bit section starts at offset 674. timecnt is 0xF0(=240) in 64-bit section: xxd -seek 706(674 + 20 + 3 * 4) -len 4 data/Australia/Lord_Howe typecnt is 6 in 64-bit section: xxd -seek 710(706 + 4) -len 4 data/Australia/Lord_Howe So, 64-bit header has one extra transition type. Let’s check how it is used and what that transition is: 2638 = 674 + 44 + 240 * 8 xxd -seek 2638 -len 240 -c 1 data/Australia/Lord_Howe prints transition types: 00000b38: 05 . 00000b39: 04 . 00000b3a: 05 . 00000b3b: 04 . 00000b3c: 05 . 00000b3d: 01 . Transition type is changing from 4 to 5, but the last one is 1. xxd -seek 2878 -len 36 -c 6 data/Australia/Lord_Howe prints local time type records: 00000b3e: 0000 9524 0004 ...$.. 00000b44: 0000 0000 0000 ...... <- the last transition type 00000b4a: 0000 8ca0 0008 ...... 00000b50: 0000 a1b8 010d ...... 00000b56: 0000 93a8 0013 ...... 00000b5c: 0000 9ab0 0119 ...... Which means that 1st type’s offset is 0 and that the last rule for Lord Howe is actually GMT.

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[PROPOSED] Improve Palestine predictions for 2025 and later
by Paul Eggert Oct. 25, 2021

Oct. 25, 2021

* NEWS: Mention this. * asia (Palestine): Guess Fri>=23, not lastFri, for fallback transitions in the future. Fri>=23 is more consistent with past practice than lastFri. The first differing prediction is a fallback on 2025-10-24, not 2025-10-31. --- NEWS | 10 ++++++++++ asia | 2 +- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a7aa269..d83e01c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ News for the tz database +Unreleased, experimental changes + + Changes to future timestamps + + Predict Palestine fallbacks to be the first Friday on or after + October 23, not October's last Friday, to be more consistent with + past practice. The first differing prediction is a fallback on + 2025-10-24, not 2025-10-31. + + Release 2021e - 2021-10-21 18:41:00 -0700 Changes to future timestamps diff --git a/asia b/asia index dd228e5..6d6b1de 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -3445,7 +3445,7 @@ Rule Palestine 2019 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2019 only - Oct Sat>=24 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2020 max - Mar Sat>=24 0:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2020 only - Oct 24 1:00 0 - -Rule Palestine 2021 max - Oct lastFri 1:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2021 max - Oct Fri>=23 1:00 0 - # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct -- 2.31.1

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Wrong name of timezone
by Igor Melnyk Oct. 25, 2021

Oct. 25, 2021

Hello! There is *Europe**/Kiev* timezone related to Ukraine. But Ukraine has the Ukrainian language and *Kiev* is in russian language. The correct name of the capital city of Ukraine is *Kyiv.* It must be changed. I know that it's not easy to do that but you must have some way to do that. For example, rename *Europe/Kiev* to *Europe/Kyiv* and make *Europe/Kiev* to be a temporary alias or link to *Europe/Kyiv.* What do you think about it? Best regards, Igor Melnyk.

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Re: [tz] Palestine winter time
by Paul Eggert Oct. 22, 2021

Oct. 22, 2021

On 10/21/21 01:03, heba.hamad(a)mtit.gov.ps wrote: > Could you please confirm that Palestine winter time has been adopted in IANA time zone database Yes, tzdb release 2021e was published today with the updated Palestine winter time. The announcement is archived here: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2021-October/000069.html

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[tz-announce] 2021e release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert via tz-announce Oct. 22, 2021

Oct. 22, 2021

The 2021e release of the tz code and data is available. This release reflects the following changes: Changes to future timestamps Palestine will fall back 10-29 (not 10-30) at 01:00. (Thanks to P Chan and Heba Hemad.) Here are links to the release files: https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2021e.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2021e.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2021e.tar.lz The following convenience links are also available, although they may point to the previous release until the relevant caches are refreshed: 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 b102002e5300d94c369796d5b70bae22b5af720d dated 2021-10-21 18:41:00 -0700 and tagged '2021e' in the development GitHub repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. Here are the SHA-512 checksums for the release files: 87b0335129ea41c5f42f687f548712e5da892baa8494cecf5d34851beceecf6ae52f22104696ed187713cf9e502570eb2041e277dfd3c043c11d0253bfde685a tzcode2021e.tar.gz c1e8d04e049157ed5d4af0868855bbd75517e3d7e1db9c41d5283ff260109de46b6fac6be94828201d093e163d868044ac2a9db2bf0aeab800e264d0c73a9119 tzdata2021e.tar.gz 8abd662f07a91eed5b77d03eaa3e9ef59ce08b4e3fc14f9857095c3d4f2039e8ac216fc985b0cf87a823eacad064197c8ecb76ba531a9fc700014d7f0057aba8 tzdb-2021e.tar.lz Here are the GPG digital signatures for the release files: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEfjeSqdis99YzvBWI7ZfpDmKqfjQFAmFyF3cACgkQ7ZfpDmKq fjQKRw//c5HpFCN0vcPUIC/OQKTF/SXFOANCpHWypc/vgTVXFAsVu0zIKWdBuXXI 0zQDpbTcTJ2FfI5Z1JGNzeKa2G4Wy71lwwPu2mGDt0WCCAqh/l15XvgVEAM96YLG WZRK+WLKIVWgZ67NA2xWAt9VLgtA643Cgym1DCpsr9jTDAhGSYq8D0XC5OQHtfw2 oyzv4InTW+0EI14FQcQ3VqImLwGSefeYPfMBRjrAspqrTLez78vW914IWNKcgEoC pKCkq9+14u0L+G5j5E+f27gbRtZ4hZnIn5uNgItomJmGObW6khn0Huf+G6U1BAal 2zLSAYMubr1kq/6dP62QUivi1W2S3YRZDh20YsKxn214HW5qK5LdQKYruBGKOFou 7oAe91W3UW0vSJuboXj0Dbdc3p8Oay97eJ/kRDVKJZ95/UOQtwrkQi2wCbm19eC8 kvHdejbIrOvdl+ZpvkHIggQGSOchyXUASeqnX/9zirOAX0N05insC/ybJLAwepFm FqpvcfwjrJKCotAjFEEex1uIT5kgQwIumvtxLef3bGQgYtF1yfWMD0NSJAR1iAU2 BzXuikOLPNbHWpC41ODgRxBVaQnMpliC0WGJ/HiVT78ukEkx0MpcxyfnxjEDD7fz F3GlJlj/bw5rvsPrFzbSjYyzXfrn0u1y8/vgehUmtSj1K7MmB6I= =CliF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEfjeSqdis99YzvBWI7ZfpDmKqfjQFAmFyF3cACgkQ7ZfpDmKq fjSLPw/9EDTMMp0ySiPkYgXICy+hYq78xDOpF5IU34tcvmL2j3OZiM49X//CQzNF 7kLoEkYenpjJZ9QU8V0w+26UJF3js/R3a9gLU3ybPZ7+o+NOanQK68z5EvggWGfm 0yVCGbPhsKNoP/2Xtpv3gLiT6WoBvJF6k16mRQtiE7ngLJ3OUpaWaQAZ73F+sMTY I5F++cAdTvOTHw6M4ORmvp8OMg2df1KVXf2MINQZkx3OVxw+y6zaMwcKUJHz81eY KCDO6DJyoj48/WNDxfIiYVk2YoOVm9I3HiqgmrojmniJFLCq/PkWGqU61gmNCSRv 5vLjb9qnfWQG8E3E44pdH8aqZt7z7kYdcL89y5UnDBlJMmoh/cPigjfBmAot7Erw 5Mj8pp/a7tcvHKIoGZscIzjRnffYDHTD6rNwStVvTfKyGE7O6Fa63yUnndCudqdu 6nZCQNkELrn9ber4ieJR6d46LOVFvqlMhCzhknZRUBkbtU4ltwBze8RvrGGhdyJ3 s9YQtGpY1uEcNF4JWzqkE9sXtPnevFERUT1hZdQpJ2NM0mrVKAfdLhryvJyi+t30 fbMbyqmYRhPuyk7OUPbduTIXc4IIpSzAaeQRFwZqDGSOuOj+8JSk6EX9Kwel7ahp 2PIzzyffxL7m2kG9+iAKckRHz0nyvoYGHQl1gsah9qUVx2Q/JIo= =kEHz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEfjeSqdis99YzvBWI7ZfpDmKqfjQFAmFyF3cACgkQ7ZfpDmKq fjSLPw/9EDTMMp0ySiPkYgXICy+hYq78xDOpF5IU34tcvmL2j3OZiM49X//CQzNF 7kLoEkYenpjJZ9QU8V0w+26UJF3js/R3a9gLU3ybPZ7+o+NOanQK68z5EvggWGfm 0yVCGbPhsKNoP/2Xtpv3gLiT6WoBvJF6k16mRQtiE7ngLJ3OUpaWaQAZ73F+sMTY I5F++cAdTvOTHw6M4ORmvp8OMg2df1KVXf2MINQZkx3OVxw+y6zaMwcKUJHz81eY KCDO6DJyoj48/WNDxfIiYVk2YoOVm9I3HiqgmrojmniJFLCq/PkWGqU61gmNCSRv 5vLjb9qnfWQG8E3E44pdH8aqZt7z7kYdcL89y5UnDBlJMmoh/cPigjfBmAot7Erw 5Mj8pp/a7tcvHKIoGZscIzjRnffYDHTD6rNwStVvTfKyGE7O6Fa63yUnndCudqdu 6nZCQNkELrn9ber4ieJR6d46LOVFvqlMhCzhknZRUBkbtU4ltwBze8RvrGGhdyJ3 s9YQtGpY1uEcNF4JWzqkE9sXtPnevFERUT1hZdQpJ2NM0mrVKAfdLhryvJyi+t30 fbMbyqmYRhPuyk7OUPbduTIXc4IIpSzAaeQRFwZqDGSOuOj+8JSk6EX9Kwel7ahp 2PIzzyffxL7m2kG9+iAKckRHz0nyvoYGHQl1gsah9qUVx2Q/JIo= =kEHz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- PS. If your tzdata parser does not yet support negative DST offsets or times past 24:00, or if it insists on a 'pacificnew' file that is no longer present, this release's data entries can be turned into a rearguard-format tarball that should work even with these older parsers. This is intended to be a temporary transition aid for these parsers. To generate a rearguard-format tarball, obtain the full distribution as described above, and run the command 'make rearguard_tarballs' on a development host. Or you can run 'make rearguard.zi' to generate a single file that can be fed directly to a parser that works like 'zic'.

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Re: [tz] Palestine winter time
by Paul Eggert Oct. 21, 2021

Oct. 21, 2021

On 10/20/21 01:47, heba.hamad(a)mtit.gov.ps wrote: > winter time will begin in Palestine from Friday 10-29 ,01:00 AM by 60 minutes backwards. Thank you for letting us know. Attached is a proposed change to tzdb, installed into its development version <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. We plan to have a new tzdb release soon. This change implements this year's transition, and also guesses that winter time will begin on October's last Friday at 01:00 in 2022 and later years, to be consistent with 2021. If this guess is wrong, please let us know as far in advance as possible, because rule changes trickle out only slowly to cell phones and computers.

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The origin of time zone regions
by Arthur David Olson Oct. 21, 2021

Oct. 21, 2021

A middling-length story with a small point. In the seventies and eighties, I helped develop two-dimensional PAGE* image analysis software. Black and white images had a thousand or so spots; the positions of the spots and their size provided information on the characteristics and abundances of proteins in samples. Step one was to get the positions and sizes of spots in a single image. Step two was to compare two images, pairing up the spots. Some spots would only appear in one image and have no pairs; in other cases, two (or more) spots would appear in one image where only one appeared in the other; one spot would be paired with multiple spots. The final step was to consider groups of images. For this purpose, there were groups of spots where (to quote an article on the matter) “each spot in a group is paired with some other spot in the group and no spot in any group is paired with any spot in any other group.” In the mid-eighties, work started on the time zone database. And time zone regions ended up being defined as being places where all the clocks agreed. The small point: the nature of time zone regions has less to do with chronometry or geopolitics than it does with gel analysis. @dashdashado _ * https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/two-dimensional-gel-elect…

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Re: [tz] Pre-1970 data
by Stijn “Adhemar” Vandamme Oct. 20, 2021

Oct. 20, 2021

The “should timezones be merged when they contain identical offsets from 1970 onwards” discussion has been going on for quite a while on the tz mailing list. Still, contributions that I find insightful are still being made. Stephen Colebourne recently made this observation: > The key observation is that the segregation between these two groups > > of IDs *did not exist* until around 2014. It was only in 2018 that the > > ISO country rule was removed. > This change was reflected in the documentation <theory.html> as recently as 20/21 February 2019 < https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/5f48dee82bc111b21f3610893e3b788e37396bce > < https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/6176aefe79e83ddb8f255849b85c149f34d46aba > And Stephen made this spot-on point of analysis: > FWIW, it is clear to me that there is an aspect of imposing a > > US-centric timezone system on other parts of the world. The recent > > tzdb approach of focussing entirely on timezone regions makes perfect > > sense for the US, where region boundaries do not follow state lines, > > and ordinary members of the public need to be aware of whether they > > are in US/Mountain or US/Central. This simply isn't the timezone model > > in many other parts of the world. In places like Europe and Asia, the > > timezone is driven primarily by the country you live in - an ordinary > > member of the public in Iceland is never going to associate with some > > abstract timezone region stretching down the Atlantic that is not > > named, not legally defined and is little more than a random outcome > > based on tzdb's choice of 1970. Even in somewhere like Norway, an > > ordinary member of the public will understand that although they > > follow CET, their timezone is actually driven by their Government in > > Oslo. The brilliance of the original rule - "ID as needed for > > post-1970 data, with at least one per ISO country" - was that it > > seamlessly handled *both* models of timezone in one unified set of > > IDs. Removal of the ISO country part has completely destabilised that > > balance. > If I may throw in my two-penny, it would pertain to the documentation of this policy. Presently, <theory.html> does mention - that timezones are zones whose clocks all agree about timestamps that occur after the 1970 POSIX Epoch; - that 1970 is indeed a somewhat-arbitrary cutoff, but that moving it earlier even by a decade or two would impose significant challenges, due to the wide variety of local practices before computer timekeeping became prevalent; - that pre-1970 clock transitions are recorded for location-based timezones, but that the database is not designed for and does not suffice for applications requiring accurate handling of all past times everywhere; - that the previous “at-least-one-timezone-per-country-with-officially-designated-ISO-3166-1-two-letter-country-code” rule is dropped for this imposed too high a maintenance burden; and - that some information outside the scope of the database (implied: pre-1970) is collected in a file backzone that is distributed along with the database proper, but that this file is less reliable and does not necessarily follow database guidelines. What astonishes me in this issue is that high-quality information is being removed from the database proper into backzone, without this being mentioned in the documentation <theory.html>. Granted, <theory.html> does not explicitly state an “at-least-attempt-to-get-monotonically-closer-to-the-truth-with-increasing-versions” policy, but one would think that’s implied in maintaining a (versioned) database, unless explicitly stated otherwise. The other way around (moving information from backzone to the database proper, e.g. when historical information is double-checked and confirmed to be in accordance with database guidelines) is totally acceptable without mentioning in the documentation <theory.html>. Indeed, even though I know that correcting pre-1970 data is not the priority of this project, I’ve seen some great sluthing of historical time zone offsets presented on the tz mailing list in the past, and I kinda assumed that the results of such research found its way to the database proper (or backzone when doubts remained). In my opinion, removing high-quality information — thereby having correct offsets changed into incorrect offsets in information systems that rely on the tz database and keep it up-to-date on the default settings (which disregard backzone) — should cease, and should preferably be undone where such damage has already occured. Seeing how much problems pursuing “fairness” under the new rules causes, perhaps it’s worth reinstating the previous “at-least-one-timezone-per-country-with-officially-designated-ISO-3166-1-two-letter-country-code” rule, either officially or unofficially. (And for what it’s worth, this comes from someone who generally tries to avoid relying on country lists such as ISO 3166-1, due to strong political belief in the desirability of independence or at least increased self-governance for several countries/regions currently lacking an officially-designated ISO 3166-1 two-letter country code, including Flanders, Wallonia, Scotland, Catalonia, Basque Country, Canary Islands, Tibet, and others.) But alternatively, if this project persists in its “removing-high-quality-information and merging-for-merging’s-sake” policy, then at the very least this should be mentioned clearly, unambiguously and conspicuously highlighted (bold, bigger font size, bright but fully saturated background colour, following an animated warning icon, the lot) in the documentation <theory.html>: PREVIOUSLY OR CURRENTLY CORRECT PRE-1970 OFFSET INFORMATION IS > INTENTIONALLY BEING CHANGED AND/OR MAY INTENTIONALLY BE CHANGED IN LATER > VERSIONS OF THE tz DATABASE INTO INCORRECT OFFSET INFORMATION for the > braindead reason of merging timezones for merging’s sake. > USERS MUST NOT RELY ON UNDISPUTEDLY AND UNCONTESTEDLY CORRECT AND VERIFIED > OFFSET INFORMATION REMAINING CORRECT in the database proper, except for > timezones that have post-1970 particularities which prevent them from being > merged with foreign timezones. (And even then — who knows what the > coordinator-maintainer will come up with next…) > Information systems that rely on tz for offset information, including for > pre-1970 datetimes-with-timezone-identifier, ought to pass this warning on > to their users. > — Adhemar

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Palestine winter time
by heba.hamad＠mtit.gov.ps Oct. 20, 2021

Oct. 20, 2021

Dear Sir, I’m Heba Hamad .I have been appointed as a focal point by the Ministry of telecommunication and information technology (state of Palestine) to communicate with you. We would like to inform you that winter time will begin in Palestine from Friday 10-29 ,01:00 AM by 60 minutes backwards. Kindly find the attachment below that includes the decision of the Palestinian cabinet. With Respects, Sent from Mail for Windows

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Palestine winter time
by P Chan Oct. 18, 2021

Oct. 18, 2021

http://wafa.ps/Pages/Details/34701 https://www.facebook.com/wafagency/posts/4457787417632704 Palestine winter time will start from midnight 2021-10-29 (Thursday-Friday).

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[tz-announce] 2021d release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert via tz-announce Oct. 15, 2021

Oct. 15, 2021

The 2021d release of the tz code and data is available. This release reflects the following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes: Briefly: Fiji suspends DST for the 2021/2022 season. 'zic -r' marks unspecified timestamps with "-00". Changes to future timestamps Fiji will suspend observance of DST for the 2021/2022 season. Assume for now that it will return next year. (Thanks to Jashneel Kumar and P Chan.) Changes to code 'zic -r' now uses "-00" time zone abbreviations for intervals with UT offsets that are unspecified due to -r truncation. This implements a change in draft Internet RFC 8536bis. Here are links to the release files: https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2021d.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2021d.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2021d.tar.lz The following convenience links are also available, although they may point to the previous release until the relevant caches are refreshed: 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 4de3d7f2499328c97e652242a36fed9523741d12 dated 2021-10-15 13:48:18 -0700 and tagged '2021d' in the development GitHub repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. 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If your tzdata parser does not yet support negative DST offsets or times past 24:00, or if it insists on a 'pacificnew' file that is no longer present, this release's data entries can be turned into a rearguard-format tarball that should work even with these older parsers. This is intended to be a temporary transition aid for these parsers. To generate a rearguard-format tarball, obtain the full distribution as described above, and run the command 'make rearguard_tarballs' on a development host. Or you can run 'make rearguard.zi' to generate a single file that can be fed directly to a parser that works like 'zic'.

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[PROPOSED 1/3] Document that -00 means local time is unspecified
by Paul Eggert Oct. 15, 2021

Oct. 15, 2021

* tzfile.5, zic.8: Document longstanding practice in time zone abbreviations. This better matches draft RFC 8536bis. --- tzfile.5 | 4 +++- zic.8 | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tzfile.5 b/tzfile.5 index 74564cb..e2f11b4 100644 --- a/tzfile.5 +++ b/tzfile.5 @@ -118,7 +118,9 @@ and serves as an index into the array of time zone abbreviation bytes that follow the .B ttinfo -structure(s) in the file. +entries in the file; if the designated string is "\*-00", the +.B ttinfo +entry is a placeholder indicating that local time is unspecified. The .B tt_utoff value is never equal to \-2**31, to let 32-bit clients negate it without diff --git a/zic.8 b/zic.8 index 3727922..89fc827 100644 --- a/zic.8 +++ b/zic.8 @@ -559,6 +559,9 @@ alphanumeric ASCII characters, .q "+" and .q "\*-". +By convention, the time zone abbreviation +.q "\*-00" +is a placeholder that means local time is unspecified. .TP .B UNTIL The time at which the UT offset or the rule(s) change for a location. -- 2.30.2

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Kiev >> Kyiv
by Pavlo Komendant Oct. 12, 2021

Oct. 12, 2021

Hello, Could you please amend the Ukraine capital in the time zone? Kyiv is the correct spelling of the Ukraine capital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv Thank you! -- Pavlo

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Daylight Saving in Fiji Islands
by Jashneel Kumar Oct. 11, 2021

Oct. 11, 2021

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