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minor problem in www.iana.org
by Denis Excoffier July 8, 2013

July 8, 2013

Hello, The file http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2013c.tar.gz indicated in http://www.iana.org/time-zones as being of size 132.4kb is in fact in un-gzipped format and its size is 522240 bytes (i mean: this is the file i get when i wget the path). For the content of it, no problem. Same for tzdata. I suppose that this has been correct at the end of April, since my personal copy has the right format (and small size). Regards, Denis Excoffier.

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morroco infos
by Sebastien WILLEMIJNS July 7, 2013

July 7, 2013

Hello, i think you know that but it can be useful (fr text) http://biladi.ma/1138865-retour-gmt-le-maroc-de-prepare-au-ramadan.html

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tz-announce list is incorrectly configured
by Alan Barrett July 7, 2013

July 7, 2013

Once again, a message has appeared on the tz-announce list without also appearing on the tz list. In this case, it was an announcement that the 2013d releases of txcode and tzdata are available. Please could the tz-announce list be configured such that it is impossible for a message to go to tz-announce(a)iana.org without also going to tz(a)iana.org. tz-announce was always intended to carry a subset of the messages sent to the tz list, not to carry some disjoint or partially-overlapping set of messages. It's unreasonable to expect readers to subscribe to both lists in order to see all messages, and it's also unreasonable to expect people who send announcements to CC both lists to ensure that the tz list receives all messages. This really should be fixed at the mailing list server side. --apb (Alan Barrett)

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[PATCH] Update link page.
by Paul Eggert July 3, 2013

July 3, 2013

* tz-link.htm: Add commentary section. Update URLs and titles. Add links to Firefox OS, Bill Seymour's intro, Jon Udell's appreciation, W3C's "Working with Time Zones". --- tz-link.htm | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm index 008946e..9eea060 100644 --- a/tz-link.htm +++ b/tz-link.htm @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-ASCII"'> <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul"> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David"> -<meta name="DC.Date" content="2013-05-10"> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2013-07-03"> <meta name="DC.Description" content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time"> <meta name="DC.Identifier" @@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time"><abbr title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</abbr></a> offsets, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving">daylight-saving</a> rules. -This database (often called <code>zoneinfo</code> or <a -href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database"><code>tz</code></a>) +This database (often called <code>zoneinfo</code> or <code>tz</code>) is used by several implementations, including <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">the @@ -40,6 +39,8 @@ including C Library</a> (used in <a href="http://www.linux.org/"><abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux</a>), <a href="http://www.android.com/">Android</a>, +<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS">Firefox +OS</a>, <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>, <a href="http://netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a>, <a href="http://openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>, @@ -134,6 +135,17 @@ For Comments">RFC</abbr> 6557).</p> The Web has several other sources for time zone and daylight saving time data. Here are some links that may be of interest. </p> +<h2>Commentary on the <code>tz</code> database</h2> +<ul> +<li>The article +<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database">tz database</a> is +an encyclopedic summary.</li> +<li><a href="http://www.cstdbill.com/tzdb/tz-how-to.html">How to Read the +tz Database Source Files</a> explains the tz database format.</li> +<li><a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzon…">A +literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database</a> comments on the +database's style.</li> +</ul> <h2>Web sites using recent versions of the <code>tz</code> database</h2> <p> These are listed roughly in ascending order of complexity and fanciness. @@ -176,8 +188,8 @@ href="http://calconnect.org/publications/icalendartimezoneproblemsandrecommendat TIMEZONE Problems and Recommendations</a> offers guidelines and recommendations for the use of VTIMEZONE and <code>tz</code>.</li> <li><a href="http://calconnect.org/dstlinks.shtml">Extended Daylight -Saving Time Links, Advisories and Changes</a> lists vendor material on recent -daylight saving time changes.</li> +Saving Time Links, Advisories and Changes</a> lists vendor material on 2007 +U.S. daylight saving time changes.</li> <li><a href="http://calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecommendation…">Timezone Registry and Service Recommendations</a> discusses a @@ -235,16 +247,16 @@ contains a class <code>org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler</code> that compiles <code>tz</code> source into a Joda-specific binary format. Joda Time is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li> -<li><a href="http://pytz.sourceforge.net">PyTZ - Python Time -Zone Library</a> compiles <code>tz</code> source into +<li><a href="http://pytz.sourceforge.net">pytz - World Timezone +Definitions for Python</a> compiles <code>tz</code> source into <a href="http://python.org/">Python</a>. It is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li> <li><a href="http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/">TZInfo - Ruby Timezone Library</a> compiles <code>tz</code> source into -<a href="http://ruby-lang.org">Ruby</a>. +<a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/">Ruby</a>. It is freely available under the <abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr> license.</li> -<li>The <a href="http://chronos-st.org/">Chronos Date/Time +<li>The <a href="http://www.squeaksource.com/Chronos/">Chronos Date/Time Library</a> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk">Smalltalk</a> class library that compiles <code>tz</code> source into a time zone repository whose format @@ -331,7 +343,7 @@ time zone history atlases published in both <a href="http://astrocom.com/astrology-products/software/acs-atlas-software">computer</a> and book form (<a href="http://www.astrocom.com/astrology/books/american-atlas">one volume -for the USA</a>, and <a +for the U.S.</a>, and <a href="http://www.astrocom.com/astrology/books/international-atlas">one for other locations</a>) by <a href="http://astrocom.com/">Astro Computing Services</a>.</li> @@ -421,6 +433,9 @@ surveys the evolution of timekeeping.</li> <li><a href="http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/">About Daylight Saving Time - History, rationale, laws & dates</a> is an overall history of <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li> +<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/timezone/">Working with Time Zones</a> +contains guidelines and best practices for software applications that +deal with civil time.</li> <li><a href="http://energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html">Saving Time, Saving Energy</a> discusses a primary justification for <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li> <li><a href="http://seizethedaylight.com/dst/">A Brief @@ -499,7 +514,7 @@ href="http://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/">History of legal time in Britain</a> discusses in detail the country with perhaps the best-documented history of clock adjustments. The National Physical Laboratory also maintains an <a -href="http://www.npl.co.uk/educate-explore/what-is-the-time/archive-of-summer-tim…">Archive +href="http://www.npl.co.uk/educate-explore/what-is-time/archive-of-summer-time-da…">Archive of Summer time dates</a>.</dd> </dl> <h2>Precision timekeeping</h2> @@ -578,8 +593,8 @@ contentious issue.</li> <h2>Time notation</h2> <ul> <li> -<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html">A Summary of -the International Standard Date and Time Notation</a> is a good +<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html">A summary of +the international standard date and time notation</a> is a good summary of <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=40874"><abbr -- 1.8.1.2

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[PATCH] Morocco 2013 DST transitions
by Andrew Paprocki July 2, 2013

July 2, 2013

I've attached a patch for the announced DST transitions to help speed things along. -Andrew

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Morocco 2013 dates incorrect?
by Andrew Paprocki July 2, 2013

July 2, 2013

Currently I see these rules: Rule Morocco 2013 only - Jul 9 3:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2013 only - Aug 8 2:00 1:00 S I was just informed from the Casablanca Bourse that the exchange will return to standard time on July 7th and that Ramadan will start on July 9th or 10th. Are the current rules incorrectly assuming that return to standard time coincides with the start of Ramadan? Can anyone from Morocco confirm? Thanks, -Andrew

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Time zone for Kosovo?
by Andy Heninger June 4, 2013

June 4, 2013

Are there plans to add a time zone for Kosovo? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Kosovo An increasing number of organizations and countries are recognizing Kosovo as a country, and having a representative zone for it would be convenient. It looks like it would be Europe/Pristina, cloned from Europe/Belgrade Thanks, -- Andy

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June 1, 2013

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[PATCH] Speling fixs
by Kevin Lyda May 31, 2013

May 31, 2013

Not a huge difference, but misspellings now runs a bit more cleanly. diff --git a/asia b/asia index e544fcc..3043d55 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -2548,7 +2548,7 @@ Rule Syria 2007 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S # From Jesper Norgard (2007-10-27): # The sister center ICARDA of my work CIMMYT is confirming that Syria DST will # not take place 1.st November at 0:00 o'clock but 1.st November at 24:00 or -# rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sence than +# rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sense than # having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the # weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now # it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend... diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 48aeef6..6a31b69 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # improve productivity and reduce road accidents. But correspondents say it # also hopes the move will boost Fiji's ability to compete with other pacific # islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new -# millenium. +# millennium. # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13) # reports that Fiji has discontinued DST. @@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell. # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03): -# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millenium +# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium # Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front. # He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from # October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan diff --git a/europe b/europe index 5081a52..2e2d8b5 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - # It seems that Paris, Monaco, Rule France, Rule Belgium all agree on # 2:00 standard time, e.g. 3:00 local time. However there are no # countries that use C-Eur rules in September 1945, so the only items -# affected are apparently these ficticious zones that translates acronyms +# affected are apparently these fictitious zones that translates acronyms # CET and MET: # # Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT @@ -2779,9 +2779,9 @@ Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. # Ukraine # -# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukranian Ministry of Justice, +# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, # via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27): -# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's goverment +# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's government # regulations number 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says: # "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday # of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of @@ -2815,7 +2815,7 @@ Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. # time this year after all. # # From Udo Schwedt (2011-10-18): -# As far as I understand, the recent change to the Ukranian time zone +# As far as I understand, the recent change to the Ukrainian time zone # (Europe/Kiev) to introduce permanent daylight saving time (similar # to Russia) was reverted today: # diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index 3c2f82a..0d8ed7a 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ Rule Brazil 2007 only - Feb 25 0:00 0 - # adopted by the same states as before. Rule Brazil 2007 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S # From Frederico A. C. Neves (2008-09-10): -# Acording to this decree +# According to this decree # <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2008/Decreto/D6558.htm"> # http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2008/Decreto/D6558.htm # </a> @@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 # http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia… # </a> # -# This is not yet reflected in the offical "cambio de hora" site, but +# This is not yet reflected in the official "cambio de hora" site, but # probably will be soon: # <a href="http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm"> # http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm diff --git a/tz-art.htm b/tz-art.htm index 046b6ee..5738d60 100644 --- a/tz-art.htm +++ b/tz-art.htm @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Supernaw.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3bftxzw0ldhe">AMG Rating</a></td><td>3.5 stars</td></tr> <tr><td>ADO Rating</td><td>2.5 stars</td></tr> <tr><td>Notes<td>Includes the song "Fire and Wood" with the lyric -"The clocks were turned back you remeber/Think it's still November." +"The clocks were turned back you remember/Think it's still November." </td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Artist</td><td>Ken Nordine</td></tr> @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ hilarity ensues. <hr> <ul> <li> -"We're been using the five-cent nickle in this country since 1492. +"We're been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight savings [sic]." (Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in "Animal Crackers", 1930, as noted by Will Fitzerald) diff --git a/usno1995 b/usno1995 index e39aa52..a5ee0ae 100644 --- a/usno1995 +++ b/usno1995 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Australia Lord Howe Island: +10.5 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia New South Wales: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia Queensland: +10 hours Australia Victoria: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) -Australia Australian Captial Territory: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) +Australia Australian Capital Territory: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia South: +9.5 hours (Local summer +10.5 hours) Australia Tasmania: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia Western: +8 hours @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Ecuador: -5 hours Egypt: +2 hours (Local summer +3 hours) El Salvador: -6 hours England: 0 hours (Local summer +1 hours) -Equitorial Guinea: +1 hours +Equatorial Guinea: +1 hours Eritrea: +3 hours Estonia: +2 hours (Local summer +3 hours) Ethiopia: +3 hours diff --git a/usno1997 b/usno1997 index ac63df5..b90be86 100644 --- a/usno1997 +++ b/usno1997 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Australia Lord Howe Island: +10.5 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia New South Wales: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia Queensland: +10 hours Australia Victoria: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) -Australia Australian Captial Territory: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) +Australia Australian Capital Territory: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia South: +9.5 hours (Local summer +10.5 hours) Australia Tasmania: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia Western: +8 hours @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Ecuador: -5 hours Egypt: +2 hours (Local summer +3 hours) El Salvador: -6 hours England: 0 hours (Local summer +1 hours) -Equitorial Guinea: +1 hours +Equatorial Guinea: +1 hours Eritrea: +3 hours Estonia: +2 hours (Local summer +3 hours) Ethiopia: +3 hours diff --git a/usno1998 b/usno1998 index 62264a1..d77d255 100644 --- a/usno1998 +++ b/usno1998 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Australia Lord Howe Island: +10.5 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia New South Wales: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia Queensland: +10 hours Australia Victoria: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) -Australia Australian Captial Territory: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) +Australia Australian Capital Territory: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia South: +9.5 hours (Local summer +10.5 hours) Australia Tasmania: +10 hours (Local summer +11 hours) Australia Western: +8 hours @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Ecuador: -5 hours Egypt: +2 hours (Local summer +3 hours) El Salvador: -6 hours England: 0 hours (Local summer +1 hours) -Equitorial Guinea: +1 hours +Equatorial Guinea: +1 hours Eritrea: +3 hours Estonia: +2 hours (Local summer +3 hours) Ethiopia: +3 hours Kevin -- Kevin Lyda Galway, Ireland US Citizen overseas? 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x32
by James Cloos May 30, 2013

May 30, 2013

Given the recent note about 32-bit long vs 64-bit time_t on x32: zdump(8), run on gentoo x32, gives the same output as when run on amd64, with zdump -v America/New_York ending with: ,----< zdump -v America/New_York | tail -n 6 > | America/New_York Sun Mar 8 06:59:59 2499 UTC = Sun Mar 8 01:59:59 2499 EST isdst=0 | America/New_York Sun Mar 8 07:00:00 2499 UTC = Sun Mar 8 03:00:00 2499 EDT isdst=1 | America/New_York Sun Nov 1 05:59:59 2499 UTC = Sun Nov 1 01:59:59 2499 EDT isdst=1 | America/New_York Sun Nov 1 06:00:00 2499 UTC = Sun Nov 1 01:00:00 2499 EST isdst=0 | America/New_York 9223372036854689407 = NULL | America/New_York 9223372036854775807 = NULL `---- The Gentoo ebuild has a patch(5) for Makefile to install things where they prefer, but makes no changes to the code. So, based on that one datapoint ☺, 32-bit long and 64-bit time_t should work out of the box. -JimC -- James Cloos <cloos(a)jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

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