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The zoneinfo file system tree structure ?
by J William Piggott Feb. 13, 2015

Feb. 13, 2015

[please cc me, I am not subscribed] Hello, I have been working on Util-linux' hwclock and other GNU/Linux date-time issues. I have a couple of questions that I hope someone here can answer. The tz database file system tree was changed on May 25 1998, moving 'right' and 'posix' from subdirectories of zoneinfo to sibling directories. However GNU libc continued to use the old structure until it stopped including the data files on Mar 7 2012. Now some Linux distributions are still using the old subdirectory tree structure. Is there a reason that the old tree structure is still being used? Does it break something to have 'right' and 'posix' as sibling directories? I ask because the problems that were the catalyst for the change in 1998 are still happening. It seems to me like it was a good solution, but nobody used it. If I may ask one more favor, could you please review the information below which I have added to the hwclock man-page? I still need to include information about using TZDIR. Thank you very much, William POSIX vs 'RIGHT' A discussion on date-time configuration would be incomplete without addressing timezones, this is mostly well covered by tzset(3). One area that seems to have no documentation is the 'right' directory of the IANA Time Zone Database, aka tz, aka zoneinfo. There are two separate databases in the zoneinfo system, posix and 'right'. 'Right' (now named leaps) includes leap seconds and posix does not. To use the 'right' database the System Clock must be kept in UTC + leap_seconds, i.e., TAI - 10. This allows calculating the exact number of seconds between two dates that cross a leap second epoch. The System Clock is then converted to the correct civil time, including UTC, by using the 'right' timezone files which subtract the leap sec- onds. Note: this configuration is considered experimental and is known to have issues. To configure a system to use a particular database all of the files located in its directory must be copied to the root of /usr/share/zoneinfo. Files are never used directly from the posix or 'right' subdirectories, e.g., TZ='right/Europe/Dublin'. This habit was becoming so common that the upstream zoneinfo project restructured the system's file tree by moving the posix and 'right' subdirectories out of the zoneinfo directory and into sibling directories: /usr/share/zoneinfo /usr/share/posix /usr/share/leaps Unfortunately, some Linux distributions are changing it back to the old tree structure in their packages. So the problem of system administra- tors reaching into the 'right' subdirectory persists. This causes the system timezone to be configured to include leap seconds while the zoneinfo database is still configured to exclude them. Then when an application such as a World Clock needs the South_Pole timezone file; or an email MTA, or hwclock needs the UTC timezone file; they fetch it from the root of /usr/share/zoneinfo , because that is what they are supposed to do. Those files exclude leap seconds, but the System Clock now includes them, causing an incorrect time conversion. Attempting to mix and match files from these separate databases will not work, because they each require the System Clock to use a different timescale. The zoneinfo database must be configured to use either posix or 'right', as described above.

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[PROPOSED PATCH] * northamerica (America/Cayman): Put Link after Zone.
by Paul Eggert Feb. 13, 2015

Feb. 13, 2015

--- northamerica | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index cb27bd5..77463da 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -2592,7 +2592,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton -4:00 US A%sT # Cayman Is -Link America/Panama America/Cayman +# See America/Panama. # Costa Rica @@ -3115,6 +3115,7 @@ Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time -5:00 - EST +Link America/Panama America/Cayman # Puerto Rico # There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. -- 2.1.0

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[PROPOSED PATCH] Move four out-of-scope zones to 'backzone'
by Paul Eggert Feb. 13, 2015

Feb. 13, 2015

* NEWS: Document this. * australasia (Pacific/Guam): Now a link to Pacific/Guam. (Pacific/Midway): Now a link to Pacific/Pago_Pago. * backzone (America/Antigua, America/Cayman, Pacific/Miday) (Pacific/Saipan): Move these four entries here from the other files. * checktab.awk: Remove special cases for the four zones. * northamerica (America/Cayman): Now a link to America/Panama. (America/Antigua): Move to ... * southamerica (America/Antigua): ... here, and make it a link to America/Port_of_Spain. --- NEWS | 9 +++++++++ australasia | 27 ++++----------------------- backzone | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ checktab.awk | 9 --------- northamerica | 12 ++---------- southamerica | 1 + 6 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b70ce73..33e983f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes + Changes affecting past time stamps + + Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed + from existing zones only for older time stamps. As usual, + these changes affect UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only. + Their old contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file. + The affected zones are: America/Antigua, America/Cayman, + Pacific/Midway, and Pacific/Saipan. + Changes affecting commentary Cite the recent Mexican decree changing Quintana Roo's time zone. diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 911e681..3e2c0b3 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time +Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is # Kiribati # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -388,12 +389,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901 14:00 - LINT # N Mariana Is -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 - 9:43:00 - LMT 1901 - 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time - 10:00 - MPT 2000 Dec 23 - 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time +# See Pacific/Guam. # Marshall Is # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -563,6 +559,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa +Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa) @@ -744,23 +741,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 # uninhabited # Midway -# -# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): -# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies, -# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3] -# reproduced a Pan American Airways timetable from 1936, for their weekly -# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting -# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone -# designations that I've never seen before:.... -# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun. -# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A " -# -Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 - -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3 - -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2 - -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome - -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering - -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa +# See Pacific/Pago_Pago. # Palmyra # uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati diff --git a/backzone b/backzone index fc20ea5..31a3f5a 100644 --- a/backzone +++ b/backzone @@ -255,6 +255,11 @@ Zone Africa/Timbuktu -0:12:04 - LMT 1912 Zone America/Anguilla -4:12:16 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 -4:00 - AST +# Antigua and Barbuda +Zone America/Antigua -4:07:12 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 + -5:00 - EST 1951 + -4:00 - AST + # Chubut, Argentina # The name "Comodoro Rivadavia" exceeds the 14-byte POSIX limit. Zone America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia -4:30:00 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -274,6 +279,11 @@ Zone America/Aruba -4:40:24 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Oranjestad -4:30 - ANT 1965 # Netherlands Antilles Time -4:00 - AST +# Cayman Is +Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown + -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time + -5:00 - EST + # Canada Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 - LMT 1884 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1946 @@ -599,3 +609,29 @@ Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou # US minor outlying islands Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST + +# US minor outlying islands +# +# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): +# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies, +# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3] +# reproduced a Pan American Airways timetable from 1936, for their weekly +# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting +# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone +# designations that I've never seen before:.... +# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun. +# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A " +# +Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 + -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3 + -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2 + -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome + -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering + -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa + +# N Mariana Is +Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 + 9:43:00 - LMT 1901 + 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time + 10:00 - MPT 2000 Dec 23 + 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time diff --git a/checktab.awk b/checktab.awk index 9a452b6..cf2c726 100644 --- a/checktab.awk +++ b/checktab.awk @@ -12,15 +12,6 @@ BEGIN { # A special (and we hope temporary) case. tztab["America/Montreal"] = 1 - # Some more special cases; these are zones that should probably - # be turned into links. - if (zone_table == "zone1970.tab") { - tztab["America/Antigua"] = 1 - tztab["America/Cayman"] = 1 - tztab["Pacific/Midway"] = 1 - tztab["Pacific/Saipan"] = 1 - } - while (getline <iso_table) { iso_NR++ if ($0 ~ /^#/) continue diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index ad7e106..cb27bd5 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -2524,13 +2524,8 @@ Zone America/Santa_Isabel -7:39:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:20:32 ############################################################################### # Anguilla -# See America/Port_of_Spain. - # Antigua and Barbuda -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Antigua -4:07:12 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 - -5:00 - EST 1951 - -4:00 - AST +# See America/Port_of_Spain. # Bahamas # @@ -2597,10 +2592,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton -4:00 US A%sT # Cayman Is -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown - -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time - -5:00 - EST +Link America/Panama America/Cayman # Costa Rica diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index a64a438..fc0cc54 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -1604,6 +1604,7 @@ Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 # These all agree with Trinidad and Tobago since 1970. Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Anguilla +Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Antigua Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Dominica Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Grenada Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Guadeloupe -- 2.1.0

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Brazil considering delay to end of DST
by Paul Eggert Feb. 12, 2015

Feb. 12, 2015

The government of Brazil is considering ending daylight saving time later than planned. Currently DST is scheduled to end February 22 at 00:00 local time. This may be delayed by a month. A decision is planned by February 12. Brazil is getting less rain than expected -- their January was the driest in 85 years -- and hydroelectric plants produce most of Brazil's electricity. The hope is that daylight saving time will lower power consumption peaks, making power blackouts less likely. Sources: Jelmayer R. Brazil evaluates extending daylight saving time. Dow Jones Business News 2015-02-06. http://www.nasdaq.com/article/brazil-evaluates-extending-daylight-saving-ti… Governo estuda estender o horário de verão para economizar energia. Jornal Nacional 2015-02-05. http://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2015/02/governo-estuda-estender-o-hora… Watts J. Brazil’s worst drought in history prompts protests and blackouts. The Guardian 2015-01-23. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/23/brazil-worst-drought-history

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tz-latest checksum
by Paul G Feb. 7, 2015

Feb. 7, 2015

I'm looking into writing a python script which retrieves the latest timezone database from the FTP server, but I'm wondering if there's anywhere that a checksum of the tz-latest files can be found anywhere. At the moment, we manually specify the latest version of the database, and calculate the sha512 checksum whenever it is updated. I see that the GPG signature is available, but I would very much like to avoid adding any dependencies to the library. Is there anywhere that I retrieve the checksum for the latest tzdata file using one of the hashes supported by hashlib? (SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512 or MD5) Of course this defeats the implied MITM protection that retrieving a "known good" or signed checksum provides, but it at least retains the checksum / corrupted file protection. Thanks!

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Re: [tz] Positive leap second on 2015-06-30.
by Denis Excoffier Feb. 7, 2015

Feb. 7, 2015

On 2015-01-06 21:22, Tim Parenti wrote: > +# Some systems implement leap seconds by amortizing the leap second > +# over the last few minutes of the day. The frequency of the local > +# clock is decreased (or increased) to realize the positive (or > +# negative) leap second. This method removes the time step described > +# above. Although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct > +# in this case, this method introduces an error during the adjustment > +# period both in time and in frequency with respect to the official > +# defintion of UTC. s/defintion/definition/ Regards, Denis Excoffier.

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Chilean time change
by Glenn Eychaner Feb. 7, 2015

Feb. 7, 2015

I have been following Diario Official for the past couple of weeks (http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl) and have yet to see an official announcement regarding the change of time zone rules. In addition, SHOA has yet to update their web site (http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio_hora.html) -G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner(a)lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory

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Re: [tz] Fwd: Quintana Roo change to EST?
by Matt Johnson Feb. 7, 2015

Feb. 7, 2015

The CENAM belongs to the Economic Secretary. My understanding is that this is the official department that would set the policy - similar to NIST in the US. ________________________________ From: Paul Eggert<mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: ‎2/‎5/‎2015 4:29 PM To: Matt Johnson<mailto:mj1856@hotmail.com>; Time Zone Database<mailto:tz@iana.org> Subject: Re: [tz] Fwd: Quintana Roo change to EST? There were conflicting reports about this back when Mexico was considering doing the change in October of this year. As I understand it, Mexico decided to move the change up to this month, and to stay on EST all year. For a brief summary please see: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mexico-quintana-roo-time-zone.html It could well be that this is wrong. There's at least one English-language source saying that it hasn't been decided whether Quintana Roo will observe DST: http://www.blogsouthwest.com/who-moved-my-queso-cancun-changes-time-zone/ and perhaps we'll need a further update once this becomes decided or sufficiently clear. That being said, my (admittedly limited) understanding of QRoo politics suggests that they won't observe DST this year. That CENAM web page is reasonably generic and perhaps its author didn't think about (or want to think about) predicting exactly what will happen in April.

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Fwd: Quintana Roo change to EST?
by Gwillim Law Feb. 6, 2015

Feb. 6, 2015

My translation of the cited article: "... the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current time, ... "Federal deputy Lizbeth Gamboa Song stated that a new change for the month of April is not considered as yet, given that only the State will advance to summer time. "Nevertheless, the deputy noted that Summer Time has applied in Mexico since 1996, to which all entities of the federation adhere, advancing their clocks one hour. In addition, she noted that it is yet unknown whether Quintana Roo will participate in a further change, but if so, the authorities will officially publish that fact in due time." My Spanish is not native level, but I think the article makes it clear that the decision about DST for Quintana Roo has not yet been made. Gwillim Law On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Steffen Thorsen <thorsen(a)timeanddate.com> wrote: > On 08/12/14 14:18 , Steffen Thorsen wrote: > >> The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015, by >> not >> going back from DST in October 2015. Its a bit unclear if they will still >> observe >> DST the years after. >> > According to this source, Quintana Roo will change to EST as soon as 1 > February 2015 at 2am: > http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva- > zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html > > Through Google Translate, it says "According to the authorities, the term > of the new time zone start at two o'clock on the first Sunday of February, > when we brought forward one hour actual[?] hours, so the clock will be > three o'clock." > > Also, the new zone will not use DST. > > > Best regards, > Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com >

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US DST Legislation
by Ray at the Time Zone Report Feb. 4, 2015

Feb. 4, 2015

Greetings, I'm new to the TZ list, but wanted to mention that I've got several venues where I provide pending legislation information relating to Daylight Saving Time and Time Zones in the US. There's a full set of statuses at http://TimeZoneReport.com updated daily, plus Twitter, Facebook, and podcast feeds. In case you haven't heard, an Interesting DST news day yesterday: * Washington state Representative Elizabeth Scott spoke before the House State Government Committee yesterday, and brief discussion on her bill HB 1479 was on the positive side. * Mississippi's SB 2180 for Year-Round DST died in the Senate Rules Committee. * I received a call from the US Department of Transportation Office of the General Counsel, and he provided information which I will summarize on the web site later today. Bottom line: states can opt out of DST, or they can stay with DST as defined in 15 USC 260a - no other option is permitted, such as Year-Round DST; and US DOT is unlikely to approve any state's request to change time zones. * Utah has a NEW bill HB 247 proposing to simply move to Central Time, in sort of a "why ask for permission" move, filed yesterday at 4:55pm. The legislative review note mentions the "high probability that a court will hold that the bill is preempted by federal law and is unconstitutional under the Supremacy Clause". so they know this bill is doomed. * A Missouri Representative has filed House Joint Resolution 38 intending to submit to voters an initiative which "establishes daylight saving time as new standard time", if passed. Sort of a "we're just going to move the clocks forward and call that 'standard time' from now on." With Mississippi dropping out plus the addition of Missouri, there are still nine US States with active DST/TZ legislation pending. Ray ----- Ray Harwood Time Zone Report, a service of GoodClix, Inc. in the interest of public health <http://www.TimeZoneReport.com> http://www.TimeZoneReport.com and Twitter: @TimeZoneReport

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Oregon to reconsider DST
by Matt Johnson Feb. 4, 2015

Feb. 4, 2015

If passed, Oregon SB99 would repeal DST - effective 2021. Wouldn't it be nice if all DST changes gave such ample notice! Bill, including full text:https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015R1/Measures/Overview/SB99 Found courtesy of M3 Sweatt at Microsofthttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/mthree/archive/2015/02/02/oregondst-020215…

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MSFT open-sourced CoreCLR, timezone bits inside
by Andrew Paprocki Feb. 3, 2015

Feb. 3, 2015

For anyone that is interested, Microsoft open-sourced the .NET CoreCLR: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr Inside are the bits that read Microsoft's timezone data from the registry and provide the .NET interface: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/src/mscorlib/src/System/TimeZ… -Andrew

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[PATCH] make check_white_space fix for leap-seconds.list
by Paul Eggert Jan. 31, 2015

Jan. 31, 2015

* Makefile (check_white_space): Allow trailing white space in leap-seconds.list. This file is maintained by NIST, and the current version has trailing white space, and has a checksum making it inadvisable for us to remove the trailing white space in our copy. Also, coalesce two 'grep' calls into one, and check for weird white space characters anywhere, not just before line end. --- Makefile | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9e8e468..2503463 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -484,9 +484,9 @@ check_character_set: $(ENCHILADA) ! grep -Env $(VALID_LINE) $(ENCHILADA) check_white_space: $(ENCHILADA) - ! grep -n ' '$(TAB_CHAR) $(ENCHILADA) - ! grep -n '[[:space:]]$$' $(ENCHILADA) - ! grep -n "$$(printf '[\f\r\v]\n')" $(ENCHILADA) + ! grep -En ' '$(TAB_CHAR)"|$$(printf '[\f\r\v]')" $(ENCHILADA) + ! grep -n '[[:space:]]$$' \ + $$(ls $(ENCHILADA) | grep -Fvx leap-seconds.list) CHECK_CC_LIST = { n = split($$1,a,/,/); for (i=2; i<=n; i++) print a[1], a[i]; } -- 2.1.0

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Time Zone Database
by Antonio Gutierrez Jan. 31, 2015

Jan. 31, 2015

Hi, We need to update our timezone version of our jdk, but we are not sure it the latest version of tzdata2014j will work fine with our current version of jdk 1.6. Could you confirm that there won't be any problem about this? Many thanks, Antonio

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leap seconds information outdated in the IANA timezone database and on the IETF website
by Paul Wise Jan. 31, 2015

Jan. 31, 2015

Hi, The IANA timezone database and the copy on the IETF website has outdated information about leap seconds. A new leap second will happen in July 2015 so please update the leap seconds information. Original data: ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list A bulletin: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat News story: https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7508651/leap-second-2015-earths-rotation-… Outdated copies: https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leapseconds https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2014j.tar.gz -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/

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[tz-announce] 2015a release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert Jan. 30, 2015

Jan. 30, 2015

The 2015a release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects the following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes: Changes affecting future time stamps The Mexican state of Quintana Roo, represented by America/Cancun, will shift from Central Time with DST to Eastern Time without DST on 2015-02-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen and Gwillim Law.) Chile will not change clocks in April or thereafter; its new standard time will be its old daylight saving time. This affects America/Santiago, Pacific/Easter, and Antarctica/Palmer. (Thanks to Juan Correa.) New leap second 2015-06-30 23:59:60 UTC as per IERS Bulletin C 49. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.) Changes affecting past time stamps Iceland observed DST in 1919 and 1921, and its 1939 fallback transition was Oct. 29, not Nov. 29. Remove incorrect data from Shanks about time in Iceland between 1837 and 1908. Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed from existing zones only for older time stamps. As usual, these changes affect UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only. Their old contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file. The affected zones are: Asia/Aden, Asia/Bahrain, Asia/Kuwait, and Asia/Muscat. Changes affecting code tzalloc now scrubs time zone abbreviations compatibly with the way that tzset always has, by replacing invalid bytes with '_' and by shortening too-long abbreviations. tzselect ports to POSIX awk implementations, no longer mishandles POSIX TZ settings when GNU awk is used, and reports POSIX TZ settings to the user. (Thanks to Stefan Kuhn.) Changes affecting build procedure 'make check' now checks for links to links in the data. One such link (for Africa/Asmera) has been fixed. (Thanks to Stephen Colebourne for pointing out the problem.) Changes affecting commentary The leapseconds file commentary now mentions the expiration date. (Problem reported by Martin Burnicki.) Update Mexican Library of Congress URL. Here are links to the release files: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2015a.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2015a.tar.gz The files are also available via HTTP as follows: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2015a.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2015a.tar.gz As usual, links to the latest release files are here: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzcode-latest.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdata-latest.tar.gz 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 a0782484f101ac55c916568bc1c490d7761fc904 dated Thu Jan 29 22:35:20 2015 -0800 and tagged '2015a' in the experimental github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. 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[PATCH] Minor tz-link updates
by Paul Eggert Jan. 30, 2015

Jan. 30, 2015

* tz-link.htm: Add MINIX and remove Symbian. Remove link to now-obsolete proposal by Tim Berners-Lee. --- tz-link.htm | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm index 444ef94..092da5f 100644 --- a/tz-link.htm +++ b/tz-link.htm @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="UTF-8"'> <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul"> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David"> -<meta name="DC.Date" content="2014-11-09"> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2015-01-29"> <meta name="DC.Description" content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time"> <meta name="DC.Identifier" @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ title="Berkeley Software Distribution">BSD</abbr></a>, <a href="https://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>, <a href="http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/"><abbr title="DJ's GNU Programming Platform">DJGPP</abbr></a>, -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian">Symbian</a>, +<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX">MINIX</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS"><abbr title="Web Operating System">webOS</abbr></a>, <a href="http://ibm.com/aix"><abbr @@ -245,8 +245,7 @@ href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/"><abbr title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</abbr></a>-based calendar and group scheduling systems, and has a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/#tzd">workspace on time zone -data</a> converted from <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>. An earlier <a -href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo">schema</a> was sketched out.</li> +data</a> converted from <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>.</li> </ul> <h2>Other <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> compilers</h2> <ul> -- 2.1.0

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ASEAN Common Time (ACT)
by Paul Eggert Jan. 29, 2015

Jan. 29, 2015

Malaysia's foreign minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman has revived a proposal that all ten countries in ASEAN use the same time zone, presumably UTC+8, which would be abbreviated "ACT". See: Time zone proposal revived. The Star 2015-01-29. http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/01/29/Time-zone-proposal-revived… There's a Wikipedia page describing the proposal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN_Common_Time

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Time change in Mexico/Cancun TZ
by Andres, Hanna (NSN - MX/Mexico City) Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

Hi, Your latest file doesn't reflect the recent change in Cancun's TZ information, where, starting on February 1st, TZ will be UTC-5, following the same DST rules as before (DST time would be UTC-4). Local source (in spanish): http://www.cenam.mx/hora_oficial/nzhm.aspx English source: http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2015/01/mexican_vacation_hotspot… Br, Hanna Andrés Nokia Networks

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Chile will keep UTC -3 all year round indefinitely
by Juan Correa Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

Although there is no formal decree yet, today the Ministry of Energy announced that Chile will drop DST, will keep "summer time" (UTC -3 / UTC -5) all year round, and will drop the Easter Island timezone (so all the Chilean land will be on a single time zone) Sources: - http://www.soychile.cl/Santiago/Sociedad/2015/01/28/301742/El-horario-de-ve… "El ministro de Energía, Máximo Pacheco, anunció la suspensión del cambio de horario, por lo que durante todo el año regirá el horario de verano. "El Gobierno ha decidido mantener en forma indefinida un horario único en Chile Continental e Insular", dijo el secretario de Estado, enfatizando "que esta medida va a ayudar a mejorar la calidad de vida de los chilenos y a ser un mejor uso de la energía"." (The ministry of Energy, Máximo Pacheco, announced the suspension of daylight saving time; so 'summer time' will rule all year round "The Government has decided to keep indefinitely the same time for Chile Continental and Easter island", pointing that "this measure will help to improve the quality of life for Chileans and use energy in a better way") - http://www.24horas.cl/nacional/ministro-de-energia-se-suspende-el-cambio-de… - http://www.t13.cl/noticia/actualidad/nacional/gobierno-suprime-cambio-de-ho… I'll share the decree as soon is published on our Diario Oficial (law gacette) -- Juan Correa Poblete PS Labs (http://www.pslabs.cl)

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Chile: No time change in 2015?
by Glenn Eychaner Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

According to this, Chile will not have a time change at all in 2015 (or beyond): http://www.gob.cl/2015/01/28/ministerio-de-energia-da-conocer-modificacione… The title translates as "Time change (Daylight Savings Time change) is suspended indefinitely". From the article continental Chile will stay at 3 hours West of GMT (GMT-3), and the islands will stay at 5 hours West (GMT-5). Get your patches revved up! -G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner(a)lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory

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Re: [tz] Chile: No time change in 2015?
by Glenn Eychaner Jan. 28, 2015

Jan. 28, 2015

And in El Mercurio: http://www.emol.com/noticias/tecnologia/2015/01/28/701234/no-habra-mas-camb… On Jan 28, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Glenn Eychaner <geychaner(a)lco.cl> wrote: > According to this, Chile will not have a time change at all in 2015 (or beyond): > > http://www.gob.cl/2015/01/28/ministerio-de-energia-da-conocer-modificacione… > > The title translates as "Time change (Daylight Savings Time change) is suspended indefinitely". From the article continental Chile will stay at 3 hours West of GMT (GMT-3), and the islands will stay at 5 hours West (GMT-5). > > Get your patches revved up! -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner(a)lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory

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Quintana Roo change to EST?
by Steffen Thorsen Jan. 14, 2015

Jan. 14, 2015

The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015, by not going back from DST in October 2015. Its a bit unclear if they will still observe DST the years after. Some sources in Spanish: http://sipse.com/novedades/reconocen-el-trabajo-de-empresarios-con-cambio-d… http://www.unioncancun.mx/articulo/2014/12/04/medio-ambiente/congreso-aprue… We have summed up the info in English here: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mexico-quintana-roo-time-zone.html Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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Arizona will consider adopting daylight saving time
by Matt Johnson Jan. 8, 2015

Jan. 8, 2015

Numerous sources are reporting that the Arizona State Legislature will be considering a bill to enact daylight saving time. http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2015/01/arizona_lawmakers_propo se_adopting_daylight_savings_time.php http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2015/01/07/spring-ahead-law-proposes -daylight-saving-time-for.html http://www.abc15.com/news/state/new-bill-could-put-az-on-daylight-saving-tim e The official link to the bill is here: http://www.azleg.gov/DocumentsForBill.asp?Session_ID=114&Bill_Number=HB2014

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Positive leap second on 2015-06-30.
by Tim Parenti Jan. 6, 2015

Jan. 6, 2015

Per IERS Bulletin C49 (2015-01-05), a positive leap second will be observed on 2015-06-30. The attached patch updates leap-seconds.list from NIST, retrieved from <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.3629404800>. -- Tim Parenti

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