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Mongolia won't observe Summer Time in 2007- Cabinet Ministry decided to annul the 93rd decree
by Alexander Krivenyshev, WorldTimeZone.com March 13, 2007

March 13, 2007

Found few more pages (in Russian) about Mongolia won't observe Summer Time (DST) in 2007. Read my translation below: 02/08/2006, Mongolia - "Mongolia won't observe Summer Time (DST)" from Embassy of Mongolia in the Russian Federation and MONTSAME - NEWS AGENCY. February 8, 2007 GOVERNMENT MEETING At a recent meeting of The Cabinet Ministry, it was decided to annul the 93rd decree which calls for the transition to Summer Time (DST). According to government regulations from 1983, 1986, and 2001, each year the clock advanced one hour earlier during the summer. The government press service reported that due to economic circumstances of the country, the market economy, the energy industry, and citing the adverse impact on human health, the government has chosen not to move to Summer Time (Daylight Saving Time). http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mongolia01.html

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FW: No more daylight saving time in Mongolia
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] March 13, 2007

March 13, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Ganbold, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Ganbold [mailto:ganbold@micom.mng.net] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:49 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: eggert(a)twinsun.com Subject: No more daylight saving time in Mongolia Dear sir, Sorry for making trouble. Parliament of Mongolia has just changed the daylight-saving rule in February. They decided not to adopt daylight-saving time. Could you please make appropriate changes to asia zone file? Following lines: Rule Mongol 2001 max - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 - Rule Mongol 2002 max - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S could be changed to: Rule Mongol 2001 2006 - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 - Rule Mongol 2002 2006 - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S Maybe I'm wrong here. Please let me know if you have any questions. sincerely, Ganbold Ts. Mongolia

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Turkey to use EU rules starting 2007
by Steffen Thorsen March 12, 2007

March 12, 2007

Hello, Until 2006, Turkey seemed to start/end DST at 1:00 standard time, as reported earlier. Starting 2007 though, it seems that they are adopting EU's 1:00 UTC start/end time, according to the following page (2007-03-07): http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/402029.asp "Turkey is to shift to daylight savings time on the last Sunday in March, with clocks being moved forward one hour at 3:00 am on March 25. Summer time will end on October 28, with clocks being put back one hour at 4.00 am." The old 1:00s was used last time in October 2006 as the following news article suggest: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/5305826.asp "The day-light saving implementation will end at 2.00 a.m. on October 29th, 2006 as the clocks will be set back by one hour..." Best regards, Steffen

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FW: Corrections to web page
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] March 12, 2007

March 12, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Bruce Rossi, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. (And the letter brings up the question: what do you call the study of meteors? :-) --ado -----Original Message----- From: data2doc [mailto:data2doc@fastmail.com.au] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:32 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Corrections to web page Hi, I've spotted an error on the page <http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm> Under the heading "National histories of legal time" is: Australia The Parliamentary Library has commissioned research note on daylight saving time in Australia. The Bureau of ***Metrology*** publishes a list of Implementation Dates of Daylight Savings Time within Australia. The Bureau of Metrology should be The Bureau of Meteorology Metrology is the science of measurement while Meteorology is the science of weather. -- Regards, Bruce Rossi Data To Documents data2docSAFE at URLfastmail.com.au (Please modify to reply)

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FW: Corrections to web page
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] March 12, 2007

March 12, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Bruce Rossi, who is not on the time zone mailing ist. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: data2doc [mailto:data2doc@fastmail.com.au] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 10:21 AM To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Subject: Re: FW: Corrections to web page Hi Arthur, Sorry, I should have included references: The Bureau of Meteorology: <http://www.bom.gov.au/> Wikipedia definition: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorology> A bit of history which illustrates the name origin: <http://www.bartleby.com/64/C004/035.html>

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DST in the news
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] March 12, 2007

March 12, 2007

"Countdown to Confusion: Daylight Saving Time Comes Early This Year, But Will Your Computer Know When to Switch?" appeared on page D1 (front of the business section) of the Saturday, March 3 Washington Post. Prime nugget: "The newsletter of the Los Alamos National Laboratory recently reminded employees to reset clocks on coffeemakers that are programmed to start brewing while the owner is waking up, showering[,] or dressing. The nation's most vital atomic secrets, it seems, should not be entrusted to scientists running low on java. --ado

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yearistype.sh
by John Kolvereid March 12, 2007

March 12, 2007

Hi, I am using Linux RedHat v9. I have downloaded the latest tzcode using: wget 'ftp://elsit.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz' and ran the following commands: gzip -dc tgcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf - gzip -dc tgcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf - make TOPDIR=$HOME/tzdir install but got the fatal response: sed \ -e 's|AWK=[^}]*|AWK=nawk|g' \ -e 's|TZDIR=[^}]*|TZDIR=/root/tzdir/etc/zoneinfo|' \ <tzselect.ksh >tzselect chmod +x tzselect cc -DTZDIR=\"/root/tzdir/etc/zoneinfo\" -c -o zic.o zic.c cc -DTZDIR=\"/root/tzdir/etc/zoneinfo\" -c -o localtime.o localtime.c localtime.c: In function `differ_by_repeat': localtime.c:331: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type cc -DTZDIR=\"/root/tzdir/etc/zoneinfo\" -c -o asctime.o asctime.c cc -DTZDIR=\"/root/tzdir/etc/zoneinfo\" -c -o scheck.o scheck.c cc -DTZDIR=\"/root/tzdir/etc/zoneinfo\" -c -o ialloc.o ialloc.c make: *** No rule to make target `yearistype.sh', needed by `yearistype'. Stop. I have no idea what to do about the script 'yearistype.sh' Any suggestions. Pls advise. Thx. -- John Kolvereid odin(a)op.net www.akaodin.com 610.296.4485 610.389.2201 (cell)

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Corrections to web page
by data2doc March 9, 2007

March 9, 2007

Hi, I've spotted an error on the page <http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm> Under the heading "National histories of legal time" is: Australia The Parliamentary Library has commissioned research note on daylight saving time in Australia. The Bureau of ***Metrology*** publishes a list of Implementation Dates of Daylight Savings Time within Australia. The Bureau of Metrology should be The Bureau of Meteorology Metrology is the science of measurement while Meteorology is the science of weather. -- Regards, Bruce Rossi Data To Documents data2docSAFE at URLfastmail.com.au (Please modify to reply)

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Two tzcode fixes
by Petr Baudis March 7, 2007

March 7, 2007

(Resending with correct mailing list address.) Hi, when checking a diff between tzcode2006o and the current glibc CVS, I've noticed two changes in glibc which were AFAICS never pushed upstream. Both were committed by Ulrich Drepper: [PATCH] (tofile;): Fix typo in symlink creation. Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:55:45 +0000 timezone/zic.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/timezone/zic.c b/timezone/zic.c index 57dc531..4e3f42f 100644 --- a/timezone/zic.c +++ b/timezone/zic.c @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ const char * const tofile; "../"); symlinkcontents = ecatalloc(symlinkcontents, - fromfile); + fromname); result = symlink(symlinkcontents, toname); if (result == 0) [PATCH] Fix spelling in message. Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:57:30 +0000 timezone/zdump.c | 2 +- 8 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/timezone/zdump.c b/timezone/zdump.c index 45ce641..d525da1 100644 --- a/timezone/zdump.c +++ b/timezone/zdump.c @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ _("%s: usage is %s [ --version ] [ -v ] } if (fflush(stdout) || ferror(stdout)) { (void) fprintf(stderr, "%s: ", progname); - (void) perror(_("Error writing standard output")); + (void) perror(_("Error writing to standard output")); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ The meaning of Stonehenge in Traflamadorian, when viewed from above, is: "Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens from Titan

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March madness continues in U.S., Canada, etc.
by Paul Eggert March 6, 2007

March 6, 2007

For the next week or so we can expect to see a lot more publicity about the impending daylight-saving change in the U.S., Canada, etc., which first hits our clocks Sunday (typically at 02:00). Google News currently lists about 1700 news articles on the subject of "daylight saving", and we can expect that number to climb. Nobody has time to read all this stuff, but here are a few selected items, if you care for this sort of thing. (Disclaimer: I contributed to some of them.) Lists of vendor advisories: http://www.calconnect.org/dstlinks.html http://www.reganfamily.ca/dst/ There is now a Wikipedia page just for this event, which contains more vendor advisories (one for the tz database itself!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y2K7#Zoneinfo A good summary of Y2K7, suitable for non-techies, is: Steve Lohr, "Time change a 'mini-Y2K in tech terms", New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/technology/05daylight.html?em&ex=11733300…> (2007-03-05). Gartner has estimated IT costs between $500 million and $1 billion; see Ben Arnoldy, "Latest computer glitch: daylight saving time", Christian Science Monitor <http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0307/p02s01-stct.html> (2007-03-07). In an informal poll taken yesterday at a Computerworld IT conference, 52% of respondents said that they were done with upgrading, 39% said they're not done yet, 4% said they hadn't even started (!), and 4% said they didn't know the change was coming (!!). The related story said that Microsoft is still issuing patches. Todd R. Weiss, "Premier 100: Conference attendees deal with daylight-saving time fixes from afar", Computerworld <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art…> (2007-03-06). PG&E, the main utility in northern California, estimated that it'd take $38 million for them to upgrade their meters to account for daylight-saving time. Instead, they got permission from the California Public Utilities Commission to change their billing algorithm during the affected period -- i.e., they changed the rules rather than fixing their clocks. Paul McDougall, "PG&E Says Patching Meters For An Early Daylight-Saving Time Will Cost $38 Million", InformationWeek <http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197700487> (2007-03-01)

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