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Infrastructure - bug tracking system
by Tobias Conradi May 26, 2012

May 26, 2012

Kim, apart from TZ Coordinator Paul Eggert you are the only person I know of that has an official position involved with the IANA time zone database. Is it possible for IANA to provide a bug tracking system for the IANA time zone database maintenance? Currently there are several unfixed bugs, but I can see no full listing of them. So same bugs may get reported several times or stay unfixed without being reported again for a long time. I am aware of several bugs, inconsistencies and suggestions for possible improvements I sent to the mailing list and also of some sent by other people e.g. Alexander Krivenyshev (http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2011-September/008798.html) Andrew Paprocki (http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-May/017854.html) Guy Harris (http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-May/017756.html) Ian Abbott (http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-May/017725.html) But these or only from the time when I was member of the mailing list. Maybe there are several more bugs that are still not fixed. Tobias -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/

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Bugs in Russia - West Siberia - Eight months past since 2011-09-17
by Tobias Conradi May 26, 2012

May 26, 2012

Just a reminder for Tobias Conradi Wed Apr 18 20:10:55 UTC 2012 http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-April/017638.html [tz] Bugs in Russia - Seven month past since 2011-09-17 - still not fixed -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/

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"Discussion of Tobias Conradi"
by Tobias Conradi May 26, 2012

May 26, 2012

was: Bug - Statement by Paul Eggert (a TZ Coordinator) on update process not agreeing with IANA sources On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:50 PM, John Hawkinson <jhawk(a)mit.edu> wrote: > In the absence of direction to the contrary, > could we please keep > discussion of Tobias Conradi off of the list? direction is here http://www.iana.org/time-zones "A higher volume discussion list used for discussing proposals for updates to the Database. Contributions to this list may be emailed to tz(a)iana.org." It doesn't mention "discussion of Tobias Conradi". -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/

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Re: [tz] Bug - Statement by Paul Eggert (a TZ Coordinator) on update process not agreeing with IANA sources
by Tobias Conradi May 26, 2012

May 26, 2012

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 05/25/2012 05:20 PM, Tobias Conradi wrote: >>> this sort of behavior is >>> > counterproductive. >> Counterproductive to what? > > Taunting and personal attacks > are counterproductive to the > primary purpose of this mailing list, which is maintaining > the tz code and data. To judge objectively if one person did do that more often than others, it would be needed to at first identify occurrences of such behavior. Furthermore it would be needed to have a complete list of what constitutes counterproductive behavior, since otherwise actions may be taken on counterproductive behavior that is to be found in one person, but not on counterproductive behavior of another. I for one would claim that asking a person that sends lots of reports of bugs to the mailing list which is mentioned on http://www.iana.org/time-zones as "A higher volume discussion list used for discussing proposals for updates to the Database. Contributions to this list may be emailed to tz(a)iana.org." to stop sending them to be counterproductive. It would be more productive to change the description on the website about what the mailing list is to be used for. > If this pattern continues, then I'm > afraid we'll have to part ways. You are free to leave the project. I would regret that some of your knowledge would leave too, since the documentation is in some points inconsistent, but probably it would be possible to sort that out. > We should not be wasting > our time on argumentation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_theory ... argumentation, is the interdisciplinary study of how conclusions can be reached through logical reasoning I am here to improve the IANA time zone database by logical reasoning. If that is wasting your time, why are you TZ Coordinator? Do you want to maintain the database without logical reasoning? I don't see that defined in Theory file or BCP 175. -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/

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Bug - Statement by Paul Eggert (a TZ Coordinator) on update process not agreeing with IANA sources
by Tobias Conradi May 26, 2012

May 26, 2012

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 05/24/2012 03:46 PM, Tobias Conradi wrote: > You should I think I should nothing. I do what I want. > consider taking a step backwards > and refraining from sending email to the tz list > for a while, If you fix all bugs, I will stop emailing. Wasn't it a Paul Eggert who introduced the Idaho bug http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-May/017897.html ? And now a Paul Eggert doesn't like bugs being reported by Tobias Conradi? >as this sort of behavior is > counterproductive. Counterproductive to what? Counterproductive to fixing bugs? http://www.iana.org/time-zones has the text: ------------------ Mailing Lists ... Submissions/Discussions A higher volume discussion list used for discussing proposals for updates to the Database. Contributions to this list may be emailed to tz(a)iana.org. ----------------- That's exactly what I do. If that's not wanted, the page text is wrong. But if one thinks the page text is defining what is wanted, then Paul Eggert may be wrong. At which end is the bug, Paul Eggert or IANA? The page also has the text: TZ Coordinator The IESG-designated TZ Coordinator is Paul Eggert. Would that be you? If so, then here is a part of your role description: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6557 TZ Coordinator: The person or people who maintain and manage release of the TZ Database. I don't see any release at ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/ since 2012-04-13 "The IESG has approved Paul Eggert (eggert at cs.ucla.edu) as the new Time Zone coordinator." (Source: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-May/017853.html ) ========================= Delivered-To: tobias.conradi(a)gmail.com Received: by 10.14.96.144 with SMTP id r16csp81028eef; Thu, 24 May 2012 21:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.221.74 with SMTP id qc10mr28159196pbc.31.1337918798479; Thu, 24 May 2012 21:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu (smtp.cs.ucla.edu. [131.179.128.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id hs4si4058777pbc.296.2012.05.24.21.06.37; Thu, 24 May 2012 21:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu designates 131.179.128.62 as permitted sender) client-ip=131.179.128.62; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu designates 131.179.128.62 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D7C39E800D for <tobias.conradi(a)gmail.com>; Thu, 24 May 2012 21:06:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gPsEGneTXkIk for <tobias.conradi(a)gmail.com>; Thu, 24 May 2012 21:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2942E39E8007 for <tobias.conradi(a)gmail.com>; Thu, 24 May 2012 21:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FBF054C.50108(a)cs.ucla.edu> Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 21:06:36 -0700 From: Paul Eggert <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tobias Conradi <tobias.conradi(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tz] Sascha Wildner, asking about working privately and about patching, being on the wrong mailing list References: <CAAGevbVExSqCJPN4p0gBg-TsKSWRZ-pNpjW1zN8OUv-CS_M3HQ(a)mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAAGevbVExSqCJPN4p0gBg-TsKSWRZ-pNpjW1zN8OUv-CS_M3HQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/24/2012 03:46 PM, Tobias Conradi wrote: > Mirror mirror on the wall. You should consider taking a step backwards and refraining from sending email to the tz list for a while, as this sort of behavior is counterproductive. ========================================= -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/

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Propose new zone for Crozet Islands
by Tobias Conradi May 25, 2012

May 25, 2012

Current: tzdata2012c/zone.tab only has: TF -492110+0701303 Indian/Kerguelen Note: I couldn't find the rules for Kerguelen, since zone.tab doesn't tell where to look for this and there is no file "indian" like there is "asia" for the zones named "Asia/..." But the rules for Kerguelen are not needed for this proposal. Propose: TF -492110+0701303 Indian/Kerguelen most locations TF -464114+517561 Indian/Crozet Crozet Islands Coordinates are for the center of the biggest island, Possession Island, which is the the Eastern group, which contains also the second biggest island. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crozet_Map.png Reason: http://www.timegenie.com/country.time/tf - Île Amsterdam, Île Saint–Paul and Îles Kerguelen are all UTC/GMT +5 hours - Îles Crozet is UTC/GMT +4 hours supported by http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Eles_Crozet UTC+4 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Eles_Kerguelen UTC+5 -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/

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time zone abbreviations - uniqueness and meaning
by Tobias Conradi May 25, 2012

May 25, 2012

was: Re: [tz] Propose new zone for Crozet Islands On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tobias Conradi > <tobias.conradi(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> The rule in the Theory file can easier lead to double assignments of >> abbreviations > > I don't think a particular effort is made to make the abbreviations be > unique I don't know how you define "particular". The provision to use ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes for several of them leads to several of them being unique. IIRC there have been emails on the mailing list caring about uniqueness, asking for assignment of another abbreviation to avoid ambiguity. ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/australasia contains a longer text by Paul Eggert 2001-04-05 about uniqueness. > or even particularly meaningful. I don't know how you define "particularly". ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/code/Theory ----- Outline ----- Time and date functions Scope of the tz database Names of time zone rule files Time zone abbreviations Calendrical issues Time and time zones on Mars .... one of six main sections. The section "Time zone abbreviations" contains several rules. They all derive the abbreviation from some other string related to the time zone. > The main identifier is the > "Europe/Berlin" type name, that is the IANA time zone name. IANA time zones are "cross year". > not the "CE(S)T" type one. that is the IANA abbreviation for the non-IANA, the "real world" time zone. One can try to achieve uniqueness of the latter in any given year. The two uniquenesses can be achieved independently. But indeed there are some that are not unique, e.g.: * IST ** India ** Israel (Ephraim Silverberg 1988 invention, even happy about ambiguity: "I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India, high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's family is from India" ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/asia ) * EST ** Australia ** US * CST ** Australia ** US * AST ** Arabia (Eggert invention 2006-03-22 ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/asia) ** Aruba, Curacao, Trinidad and Tobago * GST ** Gulf (Eggert invention 2006-03-22 ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/asia) ** South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Also ICT Indochina (Eggert invention 2006-03-22 ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/asia) IC is a reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 element for the Canary Islands. -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/

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Sascha Wildner, asking about working privately and about patching, being on the wrong mailing list
by Tobias Conradi May 24, 2012

May 24, 2012

was: time zone abbreviations - uniqueness and meaning On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Sascha Wildner <saw(a)online.de> wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 12:11:32 +0200, Tobias Conradi > <tobias.conradi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> was: Re: [tz] Propose new zone for Crozet Islands >> >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tobias Conradi >>> <tobias.conradi(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> The rule in the Theory file can easier lead to double assignments of >>>> abbreviations >>> >>> >>> I don't think a particular effort is made to make the abbreviations be >>> unique >> >> I don't know how you define "particular". > > > Well then look it up in a dictionary. I am not aware of an online dictionary by Philip Newton. > How about just working out all your little "proposals" privately I don't know how you define privately here. But you are welcome to work out my proposals privately by whatever definition pleases you. > and posting > a _patch_ to tzdata* like it is good practice? I don't know what tzdata* is. Your definition of "good practice" unknown to me. > I for one will subscribe to the announce list As was announced people that are subscribed to tz get the messages that are send to the announce list too. Maybe you want to get the messages twice? > because I'm really getting > tired of your seemingly endless, annoying dribble. Mirror mirror on the wall. > Thanks to everyone except Tobias and his little "fan club" for keeping the > list low volume and friendly for a long time. http://www.iana.org/time-zones reads "A higher volume discussion list used for discussing proposals for updates to the Database." So maybe you just subscribed to the wrong mailing list. -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/

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Re: [tz] northamerica - Nevada - Mountain Time / Pacific Time
by Steve Jones May 22, 2012

May 22, 2012

At 06:00 5/22/2012, Tobias Conradi wrote: > > The Nevada/Idaho state line is the official border, >Not according to >http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=9de43ec56f3779d6aa… Apologies, I mistakenly thought it was clear I was referring to the official vs. observed boundary in the area my post was concerned with, Owyhee NV. It hadn't occurred to me that someone could misconstrue the words "The Nevada/Idaho state line" to refer to time zone borders Nevada shares with states other than Idaho. Cheers, Steve Jones

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Proposal for new zone: America/WestWendover
by Tobias Conradi May 22, 2012

May 22, 2012

America/WestWendover covering the City of West Wendover, Nevada currently in America/Detroit According to ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/northamerica 8.54 ---start---- # From Rives McDow (2000-08-30): ... # West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 ---end---- This has already been reported in 2000. Area was on Pacific Time. In 1999 a proposal was made to change it to Mountain Time http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1999-07-26/html/99-19041.htm This was enacted http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1999-10-21/html/99-27240.htm According to http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=9de43ec56f3779d6aa… ---start--------------- as of May 18, 2012 § 71.9 Boundary line between mountain and Pacific zones. b) Utah-Nevada-Arizona-California. From the northeast corner of the State of Nevada southerly along the Utah-Nevada boundary to the junction with the northern border of the City of West Wendover, Nevada. Then westward along the northern, western, and southern boundaries of the City of West Wendover back to the Utah-Nevada boundary. ---end---------------- http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1999-10-21/html/99-27240.htm enacting the new border says: ---start------------- This rule is effective at 2:00 a.m. PDT, Sunday, October 31, 1999. ---end------------- -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/

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