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Namibia
by Ömer Kardaş Sept. 20, 2017

Sept. 20, 2017

It appears that Namibia adopts new time zone. According to timeanddate.com Namibia will stay on Daylight Saving Time (DST) all year, effectively adding 1 hour to its standard time. The Namibian Time Bill was approved by the National Council on Monday, August 8, 2017 after public hearings where the majority was in support of the bill. https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/namibia-new-time-zone.html

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Alberta Tory leadership candidate petitions to drop DST and move to CT
by Brian Inglis Sept. 19, 2017

Sept. 19, 2017

On the final day of the fall sitting on Tuesday, Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership candidate, Vermilion-Lloydminster MLA Richard Starke presented a petition to the legislature calling for repeal of the Daylight Saving Time Act and a move to Central Time (from Mountain Time), to be decided by a referendum. The stories linked below are all from the same news org and under the same byline. The latter two have a vote button at the bottom to poll readers' opinions, each currently running about 80/20 in favour of dropping DST, and/or possibly also of switching to permanent CT, depending on whether the voters read the question or just clicked. http://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/pc-leadership-candidate-starke-calls… http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/leadership+candidate+starke+ca… http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/12/14/to-keep-or-ditch-daylight-saving-time-… http://www.edmontonsun.com/2016/12/14/to-keep-or-ditch-daylight-saving-time… -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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About Asia/Hanoi
by Meno Hochschild Sept. 10, 2017

Sept. 10, 2017

Should there be a link between Asia/Hanoi and Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh in TZDB? Background of my question is an issue reported on the ThreetenBP-issue-tracker (see: https://github.com/ThreeTen/threetenbp/issues/57) where someone has observed a crash on its Android mobile phone using Asia/Hanoi as system tz (resided in OS) while the extra tz-distribution of an external library (ThreetenBP) does not contain that identifier (probably because it is in the backzone-file of TZDB). With best regards Meno

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Update frequency has dropped off(?)
by Paul Holland Sept. 5, 2017

Sept. 5, 2017

Last update was in March (2017b). Last year there were many updates (10?). Does this mean (1) the database has stabilised; or (2) it is no longer actively maintained? Just curious :-D Cheers, Paul E: paul(a)holland.name

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Time zones in xkcd #1883
by Tim Parenti Aug. 30, 2017

Aug. 30, 2017

Today's xkcd by Randall Munroe (2017-08-30) shows how time zones can throw a wrench into supervillians' plans: https://www.xkcd.com/1883/ -- Tim Parenti

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Fiji DST change?
by Magnus Bengtsson Aug. 28, 2017

Aug. 28, 2017

IATA has sent out the following message: " Please be advised of the following 2017/18 DST dates for Fiji. Please amend the entry for Fiji in Appendix F of your SSIM MAR17 issue to reflect the following: Country Time Standard - - - DST Start - - - - - - DST End - - - DST Name Zone Variation Time Date Time Date Variation Fiji FJ +1200 1400 04NOV17 1400 13JAN18 +1300 " The end date (13JAN18) does not seem to conform to the current rule in tzdata2017b. I can't find any information about this on http://www.fiji.gov.fj Does anyone have any more information? /Magnus Bengtsson

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[PROPOSED] Adjust official transition for Turks & Caicos
by Paul Eggert Aug. 27, 2017

Aug. 27, 2017

* NEWS: Adjust. * northamerica (America/Grand_Turk): Switch 2018-03-11 03:00, not 2018-04-01. --- NEWS | 2 +- northamerica | 8 +++++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0909112..55c06f7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) Turks & Caicos will switch from -04 all year to -05 with US DST on - 2018-04-01 at 00:00. This affects UT offsets starting 2018-11-04 + 2018-03-11 at 03:00. This affects UT offsets starting 2018-11-04 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) Changes to past time stamps diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index 42529de..93655fa 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -3390,12 +3390,18 @@ Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre # Time, during the winter months with effect from April 2018 ... # https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-st… # +# From Paul Eggert (2018-08-26): +# The date of effect of the spring 2018 change appears to be March 11, +# which makes more sense. See: Hamilton D. Time change back +# by March 2018 for TCI. Magnetic Media. 2018-08-25. +# http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/08/time-change-back-by-march-2018-for-tci/ +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time -5:00 - EST 1979 -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00 - -4:00 - AST 2018 Apr + -4:00 - AST 2018 Mar 11 3:00 -5:00 US E%sT # British Virgin Is -- 2.7.4

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[PATCH] * tz-art.htm (Jokes): Add Keillor joke on tz security.
by Paul Eggert Aug. 25, 2017

Aug. 25, 2017

--- tz-art.htm | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/tz-art.htm b/tz-art.htm index abe8eb3..a42361f 100644 --- a/tz-art.htm +++ b/tz-art.htm @@ -549,6 +549,14 @@ yesterday daylight [saving] time ended. Right now it's basically midnight." (Conan O'Brien on the 2010-11-08 premiere of <em>Conan</em>.) </li> <li> +"And now, driving to California, I find that I must enter a password +in order to change the time zone on my laptop clock. Evidently, +someone is out to mess up my schedule and my clock must be secured." +(Garrison Keillor, +"<a href="http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/weve-never-been-here-before/">We've +never been here before</a>", 2017-08-22) +</li> +<li> "Well, in my time zone that's all the time I have, but maybe in your time zone I haven't finished yet. So stay tuned!" (Goldie Hawn, <em>Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In</em> No. 65, 1970-03-09) -- 2.7.4

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Fixed typos
by Dominique Pellé Aug. 21, 2017

Aug. 21, 2017

Hi Following patch fixes various typos: diff --git a/asia b/asia index e26ef1b..7518e0c 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 # From Paul Eggert (2017-04-20): # Good luck trying to nail down old timekeeping records in India. # "... in the nineteenth century ... Madras Observatory took its magnetic -# measurements in Göttingen time, its meterological measurements on Madras +# measurements in Göttingen time, its metrological measurements on Madras # (local) time, dropped its time ball on Greenwich (ocean navigator's) time, # and distributed civil (local time)." -- Bartky IR. Selling the time: # 19th-century timekeeping in america. Stanford U Press (2000), 247 note 19. @@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 # # "In 1870 ... Madras time - 'now used by the telegraph and regulated from the # only government observatory' - was suggested as a standard railway time, -# first to be dopted on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR).... +# first to be adopted on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR).... # Calcutta, Bombay, and Karachi, were to be allowed to continue with their # local time for civil purposes." - Prasad R. Tracks of Change: Railways and # Everyday Life in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press (2016), 145. diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 6bf0f0a..1e38db7 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm # (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens. # -# Victoria will following NSW. See: +# Victoria will follow NSW. See: # Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28) # http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm # diff --git a/backzone b/backzone index 69f6a95..255c4a6 100644 --- a/backzone +++ b/backzone @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ Zone Europe/Guernsey -0:10:09 - LMT 1913 Jun 18 # Time Act in 1883 and including additional confirmation of some of # the dates of the 'Summer Time' orders originating at # Westminster. There is a little uncertainty as to the starting date -# of the first summer time in 1916 which may have be announced a +# of the first summer time in 1916 which may have been announced a # couple of days late. There is still a substantial number of # documents to work through, but it is thought that every GB change # was also implemented on the island. diff --git a/europe b/europe index 0620db6..8cc55e8 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -2303,7 +2303,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # http://itar-tass.com/obschestvo/1333711 # http://www.pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?111660 # http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/46279 -# From October 26, 2014 the new Russian time zone map will looks like this: +# From October 26, 2014 the new Russian time zone map will look like this: # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia-map-2014-07.html # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index 6038c3b..a07da71 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 # the following source, cited by Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08): # [1] Chile Law # http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/chile.html -# This contains a copy of a this official table: +# This contains a copy of this official table: # Cambios en la hora oficial de Chile desde 1900 (retrieved 2008-03-30) # http://web.archive.org/web/20080330200901/http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.… # [1] needs several corrections, though.

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Fiji DST change
by Dominic Fok Aug. 21, 2017

Aug. 21, 2017

Hi all, Here is a daylight saving order for Fiji DST in 2018 to finish on the 14th, rather than the 21st (local time). I believe IATA have also sent out a similar memo. Could tzdatabase be updated please? Thanks, D Good planets are hard to find - please think of the environment before you print this email. ____________________________________________________________________ CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify Air New Zealand immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Air New Zealand. _____________________________________________________________________ For more information on the Air New Zealand Group, visit us online at http://www.airnewzealand.com _____________________________________________________________________

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