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Magadan (Russia) may change it time zone on April 24, 2016
by Alexander Krivenyshev April 14, 2016

April 14, 2016

Just to reconfirm that 6 Russian regions: Astrakhan Oblast (Astrakhan), Ulyanovsk Oblast (Ulyanovsk), Altai Krai (Barnaul), Altai republic (Gorno- Altaysk), Zabaykalsky Krai (Chita), Sakhalin Oblast (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) changed their time zones on March 27, 2016. See new time zones map of Russia: http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-russia12.php or http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-russia24.php Seems that 7th region (Magadan Oblast / Magadan) which have submitted draft bill 948300-6 to change its time zone from UTC+10 to UTC+11 as of March 23, 2016 passed its 3rd reading by the State Duma and if approved by the Federation Council, will take into effect as the Federal Law on April 24, 2016 at at 2 o'clock 00 minutes. Here are ref. links: http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/work/dz.nsf/ByID/CB78970353407D0243257F79005275DD/ $File/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%20%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%82% D0%B0%203%20%D1%87%D1%82%20%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD.doc? OpenElement http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=948300-6&02 Alexander Krivenyshev http://www.worldtimezone.com

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Russian Legislation Status
by Matt Johnson April 13, 2016

April 13, 2016

I'm watching the Russian bills very closely. Current status: Transbaikal and Astrakhan have both been signed into law by the president and published. Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk, Altai Republic, and Altai Krai have all been approved by both legislative bodies, and are awaiting signature by the president. Magadan has no approvals yet. It is on the agenda for discussion for March 15th, per the meeting notices published at http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru It seems unlikely to me that it will pass with a March 27th effective date as currently written, but that's just my opinion. Another two bills were found for the Tomsk region. One has a date of March 8th, the other has a date of May 29th. I'm not quite sure of the difference between the two, but neither have approvals yet or are on the agenda. Links: Transbaikal http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=840321-6 http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201512300107 Astrakhan http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=862646-6 http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201602150056 Sakhalin http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=888645-6 Ulyanovsk http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=920582-6 Altai Republic http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=935532-6 Altai Krai http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=944348-6 Magadan http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=948300-6 Tomsk http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=1003422-6 http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=1006865-6

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Sri Lanka Standard Time
by Matt Johnson April 12, 2016

April 12, 2016

Sri Lanka and India are both on UTC+05:30, but it would appear that Sri Lankans may be using the term "Sri Lanka Standard Time", abbreviated SLST. The Asia/Colombo zone currently shows IST for the abbreviation. Some research I uncovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Standard_Time http://www.priu.gov.lk/news_update/Current_Affairs/ca201104/20110412standar… http://www.infolanka.com/news/IL/1474.htm It appears that on April 11th, 2011, the President of Sri Lanka declared SLST as the official time of Sri Lanka. The official site at http://sltime.org appears to be down at the moment, but archive.org shows it clearly using SLST when it was up.

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Re: [tz] Regarding new Time Zone and DST for Chile 2016 - Possible corrections on tzdata2016c.tar.gz
by Carlos Huenchullan April 8, 2016

April 8, 2016

Hello all, Regarding the last Time Zone Data, two possible corrections could be applied for Chile rules (southamerica file) 1. Rules are pointed to Zone America/Santiago and Pacific/Easter. But it missing the links to Chile/Continental and Chile/EasterIsland. We tested in a Solaris 10 server with TZ=Chile/Continental and the new rules were not applied. So the following two lines should be applied at the end of Chile section: Link America/Santiago Chile/Continental Link Pacific/Easter Chile/EasterIsland 2. The following suggestion is about how it is defined the Time Zone for Chile and if it applies DST or not. This change is to keep an accurate time zone defined, CLT or CLST, this year. Before May 15th the Time Zone is CLT (UTC -3). If we applied the new rules now, the time zone will be CLST (UTC -3) until May 15th. The time will be fine, but the timezone is not ok. My suggestion is to add the following lines marked in green in the Zone section: # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Santiago -4:42:46 - LMT 1890 -4:42:46 - SMT 1910 Jan 10 # Santiago Mean Time -5:00 - CLT 1916 Jul 1 # Chile Time -4:42:46 - SMT 1918 Sep 10 -4:00 - CLT 1919 Jul 1 -4:42:46 - SMT 1927 Sep 1 -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1932 Sep 1 -4:00 - CLT 1942 Jun 1 -5:00 - CLT 1942 Aug 1 -4:00 - CLT 1946 Jul 15 -4:00 1:00 CLST 1946 Sep 1 # central Chile -4:00 - CLT 1947 Apr 1 -5:00 - CLT 1947 May 21 23:00 -4:00 Chile CL%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u -3:00 - CLT 2016 May 15 3:00u -4:00 Chile CL%sT Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890 -7:17:28 - EMT 1932 Sep # Easter Mean Time -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 14 3:00u # Easter Time -6:00 Chile EAS%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u -5:00 - EAST 2016 May 15 3:00u -6:00 Chile EAS%sT Regards, Carlos Huenchullán

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2016c on illumos - problems with new Russia entries
by Dan McDonald April 8, 2016

April 8, 2016

I was about to bump TZ on illumos (the open-source inheritor of what was OpenSolaris) but I encountered these when building: "europe", line 2551: warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+03) "europe", line 2552: warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+05) (rule from "europe", line 599) "europe", line 2552: warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+04) (rule from "europe", line 600) "europe", line 2627: warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+03) "europe", line 2628: warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+05) (rule from "europe", line 599) "europe", line 2628: warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+04) (rule from "europe", line 600) "europe", line 2630: warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+02) (rule from "europe", line 603) "europe", line 2711: warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+06) "europe", line 2712: warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+08) (rule from "europe", line 599) "europe", line 2712: warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+07) (rule from "europe", line 600) Now it is possible that the zic(1) utility for illumos needs some updating. OTOH, I've never had a problem until this specific update. The entries in question are (with markings): Zone Europe/Astrakhan 3:12:12 - LMT 1924 May **HERE*** 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 **HERE*** 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 4:00 - +04 1992 Mar 29 2:00s 3:00 Russia +03/+04 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 4:00 - +04 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3:00 - +03 2016 Mar 27 2:00s 4:00 - +04 Zone Europe/Ulyanovsk 3:13:36 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 **HERE*** 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 **HERE*** 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s **HERE*** 2:00 Russia +02/+03 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3:00 Russia +03/+04 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 4:00 - +04 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3:00 - +03 2016 Mar 27 2:00s 4:00 - +04 Zone Asia/Barnaul 5:35:00 - LMT 1919 Dec 10 **HERE*** 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 **HERE*** 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1995 May 28 6:00 Russia +06/+07 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 7:00 - +07 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 6:00 - +06 2016 Mar 27 2:00s 7:00 - +07 I checked the mailing list archives quickly, but didn't see anything about Astrakhan, so I figured nobody else has seen this yet. I'm no expert in these... I just happen to update the illumos ones for the community every time my distro (OmniOS) gets ready to ship an update. Thanks, Dan McDonald -- OmniOS Engineering

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Regarding new Time Zone and DST for Chile 2016 - Possible corrections on tzdata2016c.tar.gz
by Carlos Huenchullan April 7, 2016

April 7, 2016

Hello all, Regarding the last Time Zone Data, two possible corrections could be applied for Chile rules (southamerica file) 1. Rules are pointed to Zone America/Santiago and Pacific/Easter. But it missing the links to Chile/Continental and Chile/EasterIsland. We tested in a Solaris 10 server with TZ=Chile/Continental and the new rules were not applied. So the following two lines should be applied at the end of Chile section: Link America/Santiago Chile/Continental Link Pacific/Easter Chile/EasterIsland 2. The following suggestion is about how it is defined the Time Zone for Chile and if it applies DST or not. This change is to keep an accurate time zone defined, CLT or CLST, this year. Before May 15th the Time Zone is CLT (UTC -3). If we applied the new rules now, the time zone will be CLST (UTC -3) until May 15th. The time will be fine, but the timezone is not ok. My suggestion is to add the following lines marked in red in the Zone section: # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Santiago -4:42:46 - LMT 1890 -4:42:46 - SMT 1910 Jan 10 # Santiago Mean Time -5:00 - CLT 1916 Jul 1 # Chile Time -4:42:46 - SMT 1918 Sep 10 -4:00 - CLT 1919 Jul 1 -4:42:46 - SMT 1927 Sep 1 -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1932 Sep 1 -4:00 - CLT 1942 Jun 1 -5:00 - CLT 1942 Aug 1 -4:00 - CLT 1946 Jul 15 -4:00 1:00 CLST 1946 Sep 1 # central Chile -4:00 - CLT 1947 Apr 1 -5:00 - CLT 1947 May 21 23:00 -4:00 Chile CL%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u -3:00 Chile CLT 2016 May 15 3:00u -4:00 Chile CL%sT Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890 -7:17:28 - EMT 1932 Sep # Easter Mean Time -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 14 3:00u # Easter Time -6:00 Chile EAS%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u -5:00 Chile EAST 2016 May 15 3:00u -6:00 Chile EAS%sT Regards, Carlos Huenchullán

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New tzdata 'America/Santiago' 2016
by Bustos Alvarez, Cristian April 2, 2016

April 2, 2016

Hi, I want know if you have update the new timezone 2016 for Chile, because to 3 weeks ago the chilean goberment has decided change from GMT -03:00 to -04:00 in May 14. We need create a patche for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. In adittion, we want know if you create time zone database for Windows. Regards [Logo_40_anos] Cristian Bustos Álvarez Administrador de Sistemas Operativos Teatinos 550, piso 4 +562 2657 4724 +569 9746 3459 cristian.bustos(a)sonda.com<mailto:cristian.bustos@sonda.com> www.sonda.com<http://www.sonda.com/> P Estamos comprometidos con el medio ambiente, por favor no imprima este mail si no es necesario

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[PROPOSED PATCH] * tz-link.htm, NEWS: Mention Internet RFCs 7809 and 7809.
by Paul Eggert April 2, 2016

April 2, 2016

Revert Easter Island adjustments --- NEWS | 4 ++++ tz-link.htm | 12 ++++++------ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c08fc2d..4198dc5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.) This change has not yet been approved by the Federation Council but seems more likely than not. + Changes to commentary + + Mention Internet RFCs 7808 (TZDIST) and 7809 (CalDAV time zone references). + Release 2016c - 2016-03-23 00:51:27 -0700 diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm index f0bbf70..feede12 100644 --- a/tz-link.htm +++ b/tz-link.htm @@ -222,12 +222,12 @@ names and shows location maps.</li> <ul> <li>The <a href="http://www.ietf.org">Internet Engineering Task Force</a>'s <a href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tzdist/charter/">Time Zone Data -Distribution Service (tzdist) working group</a> is developing a scalable -protocol for distributing time zone data to clients. It has generated a -a <a href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tzdist-service/">draft -protocol for transferring time zone data</a> and a <a -href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tzdist-caldav-timezone-ref/">draft -protocol for transferring time zone data by reference</a>. This work is based +Distribution Service (tzdist) working group</a> has defined <a +href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7808">TZDIST</a> +(Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 7808), a time zone data distribution service, +along with a <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7809">calendar access +protocol for transferring time zone data by reference</a> +(Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 7809). This work is based on the iCalendar and CalConnect efforts described below.</li> <li>The <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545"> Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification -- 2.5.5

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Fwd: Mistake in Time Zone name!
by Bogdan Denkovych April 1, 2016

April 1, 2016

I see mistake in Time Zone name 'Europe/Kiev'. Must be 'Europe/Kyiv'. Word 'Kiev' translated from Russian language, this is not correct for Ukrainian. 'Kyiv' is correct! It is translated from Ukrainian language. it limits/mocks for the Ukrainian language and people. Could you please change it? thanks! - Bogdan bogdanvlviv(a)gmail.com

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Azerbaijan DST change
by Arif Sultanov March 31, 2016

March 31, 2016

Good day, Due to recent change in DST policy of Azerbaijan Republic. Please make necessary changes in your database. http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/94137.html Regards, ARIF SULTANOV TELECOMS ENGINEER [http://rsl.az/uploads/logos/rs-logo-r-14.jpg] RAPID SOLUTIONS LEADING THE WAY THROUGH INNOVATION 1c. M.Mushfig Street, Badamdar Baku AZ1006, Azerbaijan T +994 12 4977770 ext.1632 F +994 12 4977781 http://www.rapid-solutions.net <http://www.rapid-solutions.net/> Winner of the British Safety Council International Safety Award 2013 and 2014

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Kazakhstan, 1991-2005; Russia and RussiaAsia, 1992
by Stepan Golosunov March 27, 2016

March 27, 2016

Hi! While searching for the text of the 1988 act "about a change in calculation of time on the territories of Volgograd and Saratov oblasts" I ran into a similarly titled document from 1992 Kazakhstan. Review of the linked documents from http://adilet.zan.kz/ produced the following data for post-1991 Kazakhstan: 0. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR from 04.02.1991 N 20 http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102010545 removed the extra hour ("decree time") on the territory of the USSR starting with the last Sunday of March 1991. It also allowed (but not mandated) Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR and Uzbek SSR to not have "summer" time. The 13.01.1992 act also refers to the act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR from 20.03.1991 N 170 "About the act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR from 04.02.1991 N 20" but I didn't found its text. According to Izvestia newspaper № 68 (23334) from 1991-03-20 (page 6; available at http://libinfo.org/newsr/newsr2574.djvu via http://libinfo.org/index.php?id=58564) on 1991-03-31 at 2:00 during transition to "summer" time: Republic of Georgia, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, SSR Moldova, Estonian SSR; Komi ASSR; Kaliningrad oblast; Nenets autonomous okrug were to move clocks 1 hour forward. Kazakh SSR (excluding Uralsk oblast); Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Tajik SSR; Andijan, Jizzakh, Namangan, Sirdarya, Tashkent, Fergana oblasts of the Uzbek SSR were to move clocks 1 hour backwards. Other territories were to not move clocks. When the "summer" time would end on 1991-09-29, clocks were to be moved 1 hour backwards on the territory of the USSR excluding Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenia, Tajikistan. Apparently there were last minute changes. Apparently Kazakh act N 170 was one of such changes. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0… claims that Sovetskaya Rossiya newspaper on 1991-03-29 published that Nenets autonomous okrug, Komi and Kazakhstan (excluding Uralsk oblast) were to not move clocks and Uralsk oblast was to move clocks forward; on 1991-09-29 Kazakhstan was to move clocks backwards. (Probably there were changes even after that publication. There is an article claiming that Kaliningrad oblast decided on 1991-03-29 to not move clocks.) This implies that on 1991-03-31 Asia/Oral remained on +04/+05 while the rest of Kazakhstan switched from +06/+07 to +05/06 or from +05/06 to +04/+05. It's unclear how Kzyl-Orda oblast moved into the fifth time belt. (By switching from +04/+05 to +05/+06 on 1991-09-29?) Currently tzdata says that all Kazakh zones remained on +04, +05 or +06 during the whole 1991 year. This is inconsistent (except for Asia/Qyzylorda) with the 1992 documents. 1. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 13.01.1992 N 28 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P920000028_ (text includes modification from the 1996 act) introduced new rules for calculation of time, mirroring Russian 08.01.1992 act. It specified that time would be calculated according to time belts plus extra hour ("decree time"), moved clocks on the whole territory of Kazakhstan 1 hour forward on 1992-01-19 at 2:00, specified DST rules. It acknowledged that Kazakhstan was located in the fourth and the fifth time belts and specified the border between them to be located east of Kustanay and Aktyubinsk oblasts (notably including Turgai and Kzyl-Orda oblasts into the fifth time belt). This means switch on 1992-01-19 at 2:00 from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for Asia/Aqtau, Asia/Aqtobe, Asia/Oral, Atyrau and Kustanay oblasts; from +05/+06 to +06/+07 for Asia/Almaty and Asia/Qyzylorda (and Arkalyk). Currently tzdata contains only Asia/Qyzylorda change. 2. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 27.03.1992 N 284 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P920000284_ cancels extra hour ("decree time") for Uralsk and Kzyl-Orda oblasts since the last Sunday of March 1992, while keeping them in the fourth and the fifth time belts respectively. This means change from +05/+06 to +04/+05 for Asia/Oral and from +06/+07 to +05/+06 for Asia/Qyzylorda on 1992-03-29. 3. Order of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 23.09.1994 N 384 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/R940000384_ cancels the extra hour ("decree time") on the territory of Mangystau oblast since the last Sunday of September 1994 (saying that time on the territory would correspond to the third time belt as a result). This means change from +05/+06 to +04/+05 for Asia/Aqtau. Current tzdata guesses the change was done in 1995: # Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time # IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 4. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 08.05.1996 N 575 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P960000575_ amends the 13.01.1992 act to end summer time in October instead of September, mirroring identical Russian change from 23.04.1996 act. 5. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 26.03.1999 N 305 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P990000305_ cancels the extra hour ("decree time") for Atyrau oblast since the last Sunday of March 1999 while retaining the oblast in the fourth time belt. This means change from +05/+06 to +04/+05. There is no zone for Atyrau currently (listed under Asia/Aqtau in zone1970.tab). 6. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 23.11.2000 N 1749 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/archive/docs/P000001749_/23.11.2000 replaces the previous five documents. The only changes I noticed are in definition of the border between the fourth and the fifth time belts. They account for changes in spelling and administrative division (splitting of Turgai oblast in 1997 probably changed time in territories incorporated into Kostanay oblast (including Arkalyk) from +06/+07 to +05/+06) and move Kyzylorda oblast from being in the fifth time belt and not using decree time into the fourth time belt (no change in practice). 7. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 29.12.2003 N 1342 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P030001342_ modified the 23.11.2000 act. No relevant changes, apparently. 8. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 20.07.2004 N 775 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/archive/docs/P040000775_/20.07.2004 modified the 23.11.2000 act to move Kostanay and Kyzylorda oblasts into the fifth time belt and add Aktobe oblast to the list of regions not using extra hour ("decree time"), leaving Kazakhstan with only 2 time zones (+04/+05 and +06/+07). The changes were to be implemented during DST transitions in 2004 and 2005 but the acts got radically amended before implementation happened. 9. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 15.09.2004 N 1059 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P040001059_ modified the 23.11.2000 act to remove exceptions from the "decree time" (leaving Kazakhstan in +05/+06 and +06/+07 zones), amended the 20.07.2004 act to implement changes for Atyrau, West Kazakhstan, Kostanay, Kyzylorda and Mangystau oblasts by not moving clocks during the 2014 transition to "winter" time. This means transition from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for Atyrau oblast (no zone currently), Asia/Oral, Asia/Aqtau and transition from +05/+06 to +06/+07 for Kostanay oblast (Kostanay and Arkalyk, no zones currently) and Asia/Qyzylorda on 2004-10-31 at 3:00. Currently tzdata has some of these transitions on 2015-03-15. 10. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 15.03.2005 N 231 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P050000231_ removes DST provisions from the 23.11.2000 act, removes most of the (already implemented) provisions from the 20.07.2004 and 15.09.2004 acts, comes into effect 10 days after official publication. The only practical effect seems to be the abolition of the summer time. Current tzdata says the change was on 2005-03-15 but the act was not supposed to come into effect until at least 10 days later. It would be simpler to use the 2004-10-31 date. Unamended version of the act of the Government of the Russian Federation N 23 from 08.01.1992 http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102014034&rdk=0 says that every year clocks were to be moved forward on last Sunday of March at 2 hours and moved backwards on last Sunday of September at 3 hours. It was amended in 1996 to replace September with October. Kazakh 13.01.1992 act appears to provide the same rules and 27.03.1992 act was to be enacted on the last Sunday of March 1992. Is there any reason why tzdata contains exception for 1992? Rule Russia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S Rule Russia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - (Hmm. Was the source for the 1992 transitions providing data for Moscow in UTC?)

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efele.net/tz maps: new map for Mexico
by Eric Muller March 26, 2016

March 26, 2016

I have created a new efele.net/tz map, for Mexico. It uses the recent description of the TZ zones in terms of municipalities. I have not yet folded that map in the world map, that will be for the next round of updates. Eric.

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[PATCH] * northamerica: Correct citation dates in previous change
by Paul Eggert March 26, 2016

March 26, 2016

--- northamerica | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index d18443f..1d7395c 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -2483,7 +2483,7 @@ Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 # in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, # Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros. # See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal, -# 2016-03-02 +# 2016-03-12 # http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-hor… Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 -6:00 - CST 1988 @@ -2508,7 +2508,7 @@ Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 # Chihuahua (near US border) # This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe, # Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides. -# (See the 2016-03-02 El Universal source mentioned above.) +# (See the 2016-03-12 El Universal source mentioned above.) Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 -- 2.5.0

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[PATCH] Give boundaries for Mexican zones observing US DST
by Paul Eggert March 26, 2016

March 26, 2016

* northamerica (America/Matamoros, America/Ojinaga): Document their political boundaries, citing El Universal. --- northamerica | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index 68d29bf..d18443f 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -2476,6 +2476,15 @@ Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 -6:00 Mexico C%sT # Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) +# This includes the following municipalities: +# in Coahuila: Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava, +# Guerrero, Hidalgo. +# in Nuevo León: Anáhuac, Los Aldama. +# in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, +# Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros. +# See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal, +# 2016-03-02 +# http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-hor… Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 -6:00 - CST 1988 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 @@ -2497,6 +2506,9 @@ Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 -6:00 Mexico C%sT # Chihuahua (near US border) +# This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe, +# Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides. +# (See the 2016-03-02 El Universal source mentioned above.) Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 -- 2.5.0

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Turkey DST Starts in 2016
by Soner Gönül March 24, 2016

March 24, 2016

I *might *be missing if this issue was discussed before in here but Turkish government officially announced in 16.03.2016 (with 2016/8589 Law/Decision Number) that clock changes have been published in the official gazette (T.C. Resmi Gazete); - In 27 March 2016 at 03:00, the clock forwards one hour (04:00) - In 30 October 2016 at 04:00, the clock goes back one hour (03:00) http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2016/03/20160316.htm http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2016/03/20160316-6.pdf As far as I can see, in Github, the last clock changes seems as; 2:00 1:00 EEST 2015 Nov 8 1:00u for Turkey in link below. https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/9bb85160e985bf8dc447584e18625e6e5f3b69f7/… -- Soner Gönül http://sonergonul.net http://twitter.com/sonergonul

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Due to the Government`s decision daylight saving time adjustment will not be in Azerbaijan - Java
by Anar Qocayev March 24, 2016

March 24, 2016

Dear IANA Due to the Government`s decision daylight saving time adjustment will not be in Azerbaijan. So we need Java(JDK) system in Yapi Kredi Azerbaijan not to adjust the time automatically. Could you please work on it ?. If it takes to pass to the private patch and our support during process we are ready to work parallel. Because of limited time we need your urgent help. It looks like this decision was just made last week, March 17th which is two days after the latest tzdata file has been released by the TimeZone Standards body ICANN/IANA. http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/94137.html http://en.trend.az/azerbaijan/society/2508394.html http://www.contact.az/docs/2016/Social/031700150154en.htm#.VvGf_kZQ0Xg Investigating this decision about Azerbaijan DST decision. I have read the release notes for the latest timezone database release from ( ICANN/ANA 2016b release, March 15th) and it does not mention Azerbaijan http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/ You referance: https://www.iana.org/time-zones Anar Godjaev System & infrastructure Department DataBase Admin [ykb] Tel: + 994 12 497 77 95/ext 8609 www.yapikredi.com.az<http://www.yapikredi.com.az/> TƏLƏBNAMƏ Bu e-mail (elektron poçtu) və ona aid bütün komponentlər (əlavələr və s.) məxfidir və birbaşa ünvanlandığı şəxs üçün nəzərdə tutulmuşdur. Əgər siz bu e-maili yanlışlıqla almısınızsa xahiş edirik cavab göndərərərk bu barədə məlumat verəsiniz və anında serverinizdən siləsiniz. Əgər siz bu emailin unvanlandığı şəxs deyilsinizsə, kopyalamayası, çap və ya hər hansı bir digər şəkildə istifadə edilməsi və\və ya açıqlanması qəti şəkildə qadağan edilir. DISCLAMIER This email and all components (attachments, etc.) are confidential and intended solely for use of the whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail message in error, reply and inform about the situation and immediately delete from your server. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, distribution or other use of this e-mail message or attachments is strictly prohibited.

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[tz-announce] 2016c release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

The 2016c release of the tz code and data is available. Its most urgent change is for Asia/Baku, where the update takes effect this weekend. This release 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 Azerbaijan no longer observes DST. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) Chile reverts from permanent to seasonal DST. (Thanks to Juan Correa for the heads-up, and to Tim Parenti for corrections.) Guess that future transitions are August's and May's second Saturdays at 24:00 mainland time. Also, call the period from 2014-09-07 through 2016-05-14 daylight saving time instead of standard time, as that seems more appropriate now. Changes affecting past time stamps Europe/Kaliningrad and Europe/Vilnius changed from +03/+04 to +02/+03 on 1989-03-26, not 1991-03-31. Europe/Volgograd changed from +04/+05 to +03/+04 on 1988-03-27, not 1989-03-26. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.) Changes to commentary Several updates and URLs for historical and proposed Russian changes. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov, Matt Johnson, and Alexander Krivenyshev.) Here are links to the release files: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode2016c.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2016c.tar.gz The files are also available via HTTP as follows: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2016c.tar.gz http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016c.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 1284afb4bdc70f97f265ac2f49188217778413ef dated Wed Mar 23 00:51:27 2016 -0700 and tagged '2016c' in the experimental github repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. Here are the SHA-512 checksums for the release files: 813309b46e4214cbe7d22b9951bad15536f5d394d2f651b60ae66c14dd8c232d51991ad80f7f02c324f896e680c7efb0321a9e4799c96735f1a82e258a87dff7 tzcode2016c.tar.gz 03eab77c8b3176da1dd17d1d9062b151036b01d224f1e4b60f34a2db6899150431f34f4d9f39652648aae3a55326fd6f85d6deefe3f27b36eaed9ef39ed3f53c tzdata2016c.tar.gz Here are the GPG checksums for the release files: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJW8kvPAAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40jpMQAJEISYMBgL9Vcx3U1IuTo5mI dBs0XW6cjgzefG3DdWK95VILUUXDEhtZGOkwdbEZVuH4uv0CApwtoW24w6X0w/qm y4xZZYpvzClrySVszcJFMgRQC4MeOxQ0KUmSLRMzV3TKSI01AmewZblftxC3FSAK GrOD2Z86ObGf9pbpcOBycFyhyy4QNd65SxiOZ70uhgZejoNE6T7zb/KHto6PzjD4 CzAhn8w1bqeglTM4zrfiEmSDGEZM+3OgLNHgmTvOQcYwB3fxdvQasSioyCb9axfj MJYNm2oBslanWwPXjwssBQeSPyLN8tYHcICsn7Qu+4iVCvMJBlrzXhBNla7Dmxdk Bl02fXKivnQ3S3s7/K7RZyMV87DthPDY9NQtUrKCkg1unBn7vbJ2e+kKe13qzFmi z7LAgKoJII34PoLhBrEF0M643DMTT0xEA3jbFSOIUoI5LawjlC57M8FhOgVD7dbA bxzgOMyYzUwhJLOk5pFzkMmifVhwcbUCSl52kBI8H+TBkR9g11gb1PQ4PF2f9H2R YcJaYP5kNzoPU8a2lStfxVLqx3iwJ9i5FwpVnMQxinySFvLAnrZ7YBYqJjYdYsn4 LV//V12VctwvF84VtaX3iK53Z79rLYM2Zz2x4AVjfSaAtF4ZDPC/ZauZIhqSLked rkdqvg2CgR2jn1qVhS3E =ohkH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJW8kvPAAoJEO2X6Q5iqn40RNkQALaqvu+Htes5GqYguOlXTjHK SEuSiAX/8NytW2xq0d640AODLoMp0hdj5fbyWn+b7kwwOH22w/83l1aYLrVwDihA JCDzHk2Z+/ryBVNzBDYq09O070m2z3LHl4hJknbReMBWem6Ar5El4kJAxO7xVZik MS9LCNHoMQ1v1inWpU1A0LY9uFcDAMiFl4JCS/Z9RkJYmjP4fBZlviz26BrIW1vz q1YdG9jSLuiJUVxVRftrDrHcmBFdy1jssW5KAof3eQpynZ61O9LAYR1py+nKydox UsQe+QNXybQXLNnk9l5nO9yNHp1y9zbzoz3LKgnqhXuyayA74qkHQEPywW0F3Q1F wkjqBsHP9bS6mdA1LTwDMLmC+l4x/7gyRttRzeEdhV0KPktMW2xCKC9EWEyzYBny zeQ80WGKHYf6j9Gmnw1HnRAi99NZKBg00Zu5bgdireYctqFA53fNLz48ib8SC/WY 4eBXNypmv80VHjOie/VJIXgdwuiEhl8T2mf/WTiSjY0NRmhuMB6QP9OGsS+48Qhz LWlaNa9qRRIJlV0PquzPRE03WTVdEocp0XIKCrhRebYQNhB4GhlDc2iz8SqufetA 5Pfr2ws/oLAxPqa/bkLo60JJLtBds9B8loZ6FjfKj6q/2YdbOen9eOiIAbF5Zl/r hd53qVMRzG0VTWf3VYr9 =jrsu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tz-announce mailing list tz-announce(a)iana.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz-announce

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DST reestablished in Chile
by Mauricio Ubilla March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Dear Paul Eggert, IANA community. The chilean government recently reestablished DST for Chile, for a period of 3 months, "from the second saturday of May to the second saturday of August. This change is starting this year, in May 14th. Here's the official link to the decree law 253 published on March 16th, stating this change: http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1088502 I would like to know if this has been previously informed (I just joined the mailing list) and if is scheduled to be fixed in the next update to the TZ Database. Thanks in advance. -- Mauricio Ubilla Carvajal

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Re: [tz] 404 for tz-how-to.html at IANA
by Kim Davies March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Hi there, On 3/22/16, 2:54 PM, "Matt Johnson" <mj1856(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >tz-link.html has a link to tz-how-to-html. However, when viewed on iana.org, the link gives a 404. > >http://www.iana.org/time-zones > >points at: >http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html > >points at: >http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-how-to.html This should now be fixed. Thanks for the report! kim

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Morocco Ramadan 2016
by Matt Johnson March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

We are currently guessing DST will be suspended in Morocco from Sunday June 5th at 03:00 to Sunday July 10th at 02:00. Does anyone have any confirmation on this yet? Thanks, Matt

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[PATCH] Update Kirov and Tomsk commented-out old data
by Paul Eggert March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

* europe (Europe/Kirov, Asia/Tomsk): Adjust early parts of these commented-out entries to match Shanks. --- europe | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/europe b/europe index 0187263..456c8dc 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -2580,12 +2580,9 @@ Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 # The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). # # Europe/Kirov is still in draft form and for now is commented out. -# Its pre-2002 data were cloned from Europe/Volgograd and need to -# be updated for Kirov. # -#Zone Europe/Kirov 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 +#Zone Europe/Kirov 3:18:48 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 # 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 -# 4:00 - +04 1961 Nov 11 # 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1989 Mar 26 2:00s # 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s # 4:00 - +04 1992 Mar 29 2:00s @@ -2738,9 +2735,7 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 # 70 RU-TOM Tomsk Oblast # # Asia/Tomsk is still in draft form and for now is commented out. -# Its pre-1993 data were cloned from Asia/Novosibirsk and need to be -# updated for Tomsk. Also, Tomsk may be changing time zones this year -# (not decided yet). +# Tomsk may be changing time zones in 2016 (not decided yet). # From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): # Tomsk is still 4 hours ahead of Moscow. @@ -2755,7 +2750,7 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 # with time zones in 2011 with different numberings (there was a # 2-hour gap between second and third zones in 2011-2014). -#Zone Asia/Tomsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 +#Zone Asia/Tomsk 5:39:52 - LMT 1919 Dec 22 # 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 # 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1991 Mar 31 2:00s # 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1992 Jan 19 2:00s -- 2.5.0

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Azerbaijan timezone settings
by Chingiz Sadigov March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Hello, I would like to inform you that starting from 17 March this year Azerbaijan decided not use daylight saving settings for our timezone Asia/Baku. Link for news: http://e-qanun.az/framework/32383 Is it possible to update information on your site according this? Regards, [Email Signatures_etcp-02] [cid:image002.jpg@01D18514.526B2A10] [Ericsson]<http://www.ericsson.com/> CHINGIZ SADIGOV Senior Services Engineer BAZ - Ericsson AB Branch Office Azerbaijan Ericsson 44, J.Jabbarly str. AZ1065, Azerbaijan Phone +994125963838 Mobile +994502210861 Office 863217 chingiz.sadigov(a)ericsson.com www.ericsson.com [http://www.ericsson.com/current_campaign]<http://www.ericsson.com/current_campaign> Legal entity: BAZ - Ericsson AB Branch Office Azerbaijan, registered office in Baku. This Communication is Confidential. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer<http://www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer>

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Daylight Saving time will not be applied in Azerbaijan
by Burak AYDIN March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Dear Sir, Daylight saving time is cancelled in Azerbaijan. Here is the related information published from government: http://azertag.az/xeber/936300 Normally DST will be active on 27th of March 2016. I have updated the "asia" file as displayed below. # Azerbaijan # From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23): # According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997 # From Paul Eggert (2015-09-17): It was Resolution No. 21 (1997-03-17). # http://code.az/files/daylight_res.pdf # From Burak AYDIN, Kentkart A.S. (2016-03-23) # According to law change http://azertag.az/xeber/936300 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan Time 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 2016 4:00 - AZT The file is also attached. I will appreciate if you can check and publish new version of tz database. Best Regards, Burak AYDIN --- GIZLILIK NOTU: Bu e-posta mesaji kisiye özel olup, gizli bilgiler içeriyor olabilir. Eger bu e-posta mesaji size yanlislikla ulasmissa, içerigini hiç bir sekilde kullanmayiniz ve ekli dosyalari açmayiniz. Bu durumda lütfen e-posta mesajini kullaniciya hemen geri gönderiniz ve tüm kopyalarini mesaj kutunuzdan siliniz. Bu e-posta mesaji, hiç bir sekilde, herhangi bir amaç için çogaltilamaz, yayinlanamaz ve para karsiligi satilamaz. Bu e-posta mesajindaki görüsler yalnizca gönderen kisiye aittir ve Kentkart Sirketler Grubunun görüslerini yansitmayabilir. Bu e-posta mesaji virüslere karsi anti-virüs sistemleri tarafindan taranmistir. Ancak Kentkart Sirketler Grubu, bu e-posta mesajinin -virüs koruma sistemleri ile kontrol ediliyor olsa bile- virüs içermedigini garanti etmez ve meydana gelebilecek zararlardan dogacak hiç bir sorumlulugu kabul etmez. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed , and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or you receive this mail by mistake, you should refrain from making any use of the contents and from opening any attachment. In that case, please notify the sender immediately and return the message to the sender, then, delete and destroy all copies. This e-mail message, cannot be copied, published or sold for any reason. Any opinions presented in this email are solely those of the sender and may not necessarily reflect those of Kentkart Group of Companies. This e-mail message has been scanned by anti-virus systems for the presence of computer viruses. In doing so, however, Kentkart Group of Companies does not warrant that virus or other forms of data corruption and do not take any responsibility in any occurrence. ---

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Reference to EWT
by Dave Cantor March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Here's a photo of a Maui newspaper announcing the end of WWII at 7 pm Eastern War Time. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good enough picture to get the article detail, but I'll try again next I'm where this picture hangs. Dave C. The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any other MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer. If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance. ---- File information ----------- File: WWIIends7pmEWT.jpg Date: 22 Mar 2016, 18:00 Size: 6144 bytes. Type: JPEG-image

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404 for tz-how-to.html at IANA
by Matt Johnson March 22, 2016

March 22, 2016

tz-link.html has a link to tz-how-to-html. However, when viewed on iana.org, the link gives a 404. http://www.iana.org/time-zones points at: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html points at: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-how-to.html 404

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