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FW: Summer Time on Lord Howe Island
by Jesper Nørgaard Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

I made a number of inquiries via e-mail to recipients in Lord Howe Island, and got this response which seems to me to be authoritative. I don't know if anybody can confirm this further. Certainly there exists a Lord Howe Island Board determining issues on the island. So the suggestion is to change the start time for Lord Howe Island to equal Sydney and other NSW localities. Regards, ---------- From: Jeeves[SMTP:kingfish@bigpond.com.au] Sent: Jueves 27 de Enero de 2000 16.38 To: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Subject: Summer Time on Lord Howe Island Jesper Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 27/8/00). For your information the Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is seeking the community's views on various options for summer time arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour instead of only 30 minutes. Dependant on the wishes of residents the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing arrangements. The starting date for summer time on the Island will however always coincide with the rest of NSW. I hope this helps. James Lonergan Secretary Lord Howe Island Board

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DST table
by Oscar van Vlijmen Jan. 25, 2000

Jan. 25, 2000

A rather complete daylight saving time table can be found at http://www1.tip.nl/~t876506/DSTtable.html The first half of the table is a date/time sorted list of all DST starting dates and times in the world and the second half of the table gives the DST ending dates/times. Only for the year 2000. Based on the data in tzdata2000a. It is possible that the Australia data is not completely correct, but I wait until the next tzdata files are published. Regards, Oscar van Vlijmen 2000-01-25

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Re: [donnte@microsoft.com: RE: RE: time t]
by Keld Jørn Simonsen Jan. 24, 2000

Jan. 24, 2000

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:15:32AM +0100, Antoine Leca wrote: > Hi all, > > Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > > > Hi Wg14 gang, > > > > here is something which is being discussed in the POSIX area, > > How can I be involved in this discussion? > > I have some comments that quickly come to mind when I read it, but > I do not believe this is the appropriate forum to expose them, > and I do not want to enter another forum without being introduced > in some way. > > Also, Keld, can you also forward this announcement to the mailing list > <URL:mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov> (or to its moderator, Arthur Olson, > <URL:mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov>), where there are also some > discussions on this subject, with very knowledgeable persons. > Or as an alternative, I may forward it myself, but I prefer the > POSIX guys will do the introduction themselves. please refer to http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ Thereyou can enroll in the posix discussion, which currently also includes a discussion on future tim formats. The Austin list is open to everybody. Keld

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URIs for time zone HTML files
by Paul Eggert Jan. 24, 2000

Jan. 24, 2000

I've copied the HTML files in the standard tz distribution to the following locations: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-art.htm Please feel free to publish these URIs; I plan to keep these web pages in sync with the copies in the canonical NCI FTP tarballs. The indirection is necessary because the National Cancer Institute frowns on web pages that can be accessed by the outside world.

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DST Australia & surroundings
by Oscar van Vlijmen Jan. 23, 2000

Jan. 23, 2000

Indeed, a short but good overview of the daylight saving times in several parts of South Australia from 1999-2001: http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/information/daylite.htm "South Australia Central - Information & Community" Much more information about the when, where and why can be found on the page "Australia's Daylight Saving Times", http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html Please note that this page also gives detailed information about: Lord Howe Island, Admiralty Islands, Mutton Bird Islands, Ball`s Pyramid, Norfolk Island, Nepean and Phillip Island,Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Heard Island, McDonald Islands, Macquarie Island, Australian Antarctic Territory - Davis, Mawson, Casey. Interesting to note that this page confirms that the Macquarie Island station follows Tasmania, including DST. I would like to suggest that the tz file "australasia" should be updated with this information, if the information is regarded to be true. Oscar van Vlijmen 2000-01-22

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Lord Howe Island DST and the Olympics, Macquarie Island DST, etc.
by Paul Eggert Jan. 23, 2000

Jan. 23, 2000

Oscar van Vlijmen noted some discrepancies between your excellent web page <http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html> on Australian daylight saving time and the public domain time zone ("tz") database maintained by Olson et al (please see <http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm> for details). Can you please let me know any thoughts you might have about these discrepancies? * Your web page says `Next year, daylight saving will start much earlier in NSW and Victoria'. This is also true of Tasmania and ACT; e.g. see <http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/information/daylite.htm>. * Your web page implies (but does not explicitly say) that Lord Howe Island will start DST early this year for the Olympics, at the same time as the rest of NSW. Is this true? If so, the tz database needs to be updated. * Your web page says `Macquarie Island ... changes over to daylight saving time when Tasmania does'. But The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ <http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm> writes `Macquarie Island follows Tasmanian practice irrespective of any local use of DST.' (I'm not sure what they mean, but they use different wording for Giles and Lord Howe Island.) * While we're on the subject, that same web page says that Giles Meteorological Station uses South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia. * Your web page gives time zones for Heard and McDonald islands. I assume that this is for when they have visitors? I'm under the impression that they have no permanent human inhabitants. I bring this up because the tz database omits locations that are not permanently inhabited, to keep things manageable; but if Heard and McDonald are permanently inhabited we need to create an entry for that location.

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FW: Australia/Hobart and Australia/Tasmania
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Jan. 21, 2000

Jan. 21, 2000

-----Original Message----- From: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com [SMTP:webmaster@timezoneconverter.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 5:54 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Cc: weihuang(a)mailcity.com Subject: FW: Australia/Hobart and Australia/Tasmania Please copy Wei Huang as he is not on the tz distribution list. According to the web page listed below, Tasmania has also changed to a DST start in October. Regarding Hobart, Wei Huang's email was received before the 2000a update was applied to the Converter on 1/19. Hobart now reflects an October DST start in the database, but Hobart is not listed as a separate item on the Australian web page. Rich Shockney -----Original Message----- From: Wei Huang [mailto:weihuang@mailcity.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 1:45 PM To: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com Subject: A Question about Your Time Zone Converter Hi, I like your Time Zone Converter at "http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc" very much. One puzzle: I just learned that Tasmania, Australia will also start DST earlier than usual this year just like New South Wales and Victoria, based on the Government of South Australia Web page "http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/information/daylite.htm". However, the two corresponding entries "Australia/Hobart" and "Australia/ Tasmania" in your Time Zone Converter haven't reflected that change yet. Regards, Wei Huang LYCOShop is now open. On your mark, get set, SHOP!!! http://shop.lycos.com/

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Small error in file Antarctica 7.17
by Oscar van Vlijmen Jan. 19, 2000

Jan. 19, 2000

A very small error found in : Archive: tzdata2000a File: Antarctica 7.17 It sez: # Uruguay - year round base # Artigas, King George Island, -9621104-0585107 It should be, note the latitude: # Uruguay - year round base # Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 Oscar van Vlijmen 2000-01-19

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duelling clocks in Nashville
by Paul Eggert Jan. 19, 2000

Jan. 19, 2000

[This item appeared in the Usenet newsgroup comp.std.c.] From: "Sam Hobbs" <samhobbs(a)mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: leap year rules Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:20:01 -0800 Organization: DOE Yucca Mountain Project Message-ID: <8633f6$3k4$1(a)eeyore.ymp.gov> References: <38836E22.2AF823BE(a)tribble.com> <388384B0.45888301(a)cs.berkeley.edu> <8603ka$6ie$1(a)pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <8EBF716CClooksigplease(a)134.18.241.18> <861ahq$d55$1(a)pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tc3pc182.ymp.gov And if you think some of this discussion is bizarre, re daylight savings time, when I lived in Nashville a couple of decades ago, there were two newspapers which shared a building and printing facility, but whose managements disagreed vigorously over whether daylight savings time should be observed. The clock on the front of the building facing one way showed daylight savings time (when it was in force), but the face of the clock facing the other way did not.

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tzcode2000a.tar.gz and tzdata2000a.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Jan. 18, 2000

Jan. 18, 2000

The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2000a.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2000a.tar.gz are now available. These include the changes circulated on the time zone mailing list last week by Paul Eggert; the two hypertext documents have also been renamed. --ado

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