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Romania (and perhaps Moldova) use EU rules for daylight saving
by Paul Eggert Oct. 8, 1999

Oct. 8, 1999

It seems that Romania used the EU rules as of fall 1998. See: http://www.nineoclock.ro/POL/1778pol.html I'm guessing that Moldova syncs with Romania, so unless we get better info I'll propose a patch switching those two countries to EU rules in 1997, the same year as Bulgaria.

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FW: Brazilian Time Zones and DST
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Oct. 7, 1999

Oct. 7, 1999

Note that "webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com" is not on the time zone list; be sure to direct followups appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com [SMTP:webmaster@timezoneconverter.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:15 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Cc: Stefan Johansson Subject: Brazilian Time Zones and DST The following info regarding Brazil was received from Stefan Johansson (jason(a)stefan-johansson.com) and indicates that the rules for Brazil may (again) need reviewing (basis tz version 1999g). Please copy Stefan when replying as he is not a member of this list. Rich Shockney ======================= -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Johansson [mailto:jason@stefan-johansson.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 5:25 AM To: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com Subject: Definitive DST changes for Brazil Importance: High Dear Rich, Finally, DSH has updated the DST page. Please look at it and proceed with updating your data base. Best regards, Stefan Johansson -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Johansson [mailto:jason@stefan-johansson.com] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 3:50 PM To: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com Subject: Re: Brazilian DST starting October 3, 1999 Dear Rich, I think there are still some things to do regarding Brazilian DST. I just accessed the reference card and got the following result for tomorrow afternoon: [graphic deleted] It seems to me that Cuiabá, Fortaleza and Maceió are wrong, they should be using DST. Furthermore, as I mentioned in my first e-mail, as of tomorrow Boa Vista, state of Roráima (RR) will also be using DST, and I think they should have a time zone of their own. Also, regarding the time zone chart for Brazil, see below, there are some things to consider: [graphic deleted] - Belém should be Amapá and the whole state of Pará. - Porto Velho should be only Rondônia, West Pará should be under Belém and Roráima should be in adifferent zone, e.g. the new Boa Vista or together with Cuiabá. Please look into this and revise if necessary. Best regards, Stefan ----- Original Message ----- From: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com To: Stefan Johansson Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 2:53 PM Subject: RE: Brazilian DST starting October 3, 1999 Hello Stefan: Thanks for the compliment! Good timing, too. I had just finished updating the Converter with updates to the database that includes changes for Brazil that were recently announced, when I received your email. I believe the time zones should now be correct for DST. The site that posts Brazilian decrees is: http://pcdsh01.on.br/ Thanks again for your input! Rich Timezoneconverter.com http://www.timezoneconverter.com -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Johansson [mailto:jason@stefan-johansson.com] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 11:23 AM To: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com Subject: Brazilian DST starting October 3, 1999 Importance: High Dear TimeZoneConverter, Thanks for a great site. Attached, please find a newspaper clipping from O Estado de S. Paulo of October 2, 1999, showing the Brazilian DST starting October 3, 1999 and ending on February 27, 2000. In view of that, I would like to suggest the following Brazilian time zones: Zone Standard Savings State(s) Rio Branco -5 -5 AC Manaus -4 -4 AM, RO Cuiabá -4 -3 MS, MT Boa Vista -4 -3 RR Belém -3 -3 AP, PA Brasília -3 -2 AL, BA, CE, DF, ES, GO, MA, MG, PB, PE (except Fernando de Noronha), PI, PR, RJ, RN, RS, SC, SE, SP, TO Fernando de Noronha -2 -2 PE (Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha) Comments: 1) Since the states of MT and RR are not contigous, it would be better to keep them as two different zones. 2) Further to Fernando de Noronha, there are other islands, e.g. São Pedro, São Paulo, Trindade and Martim Vaz, that probably use the same time as Fernando do Noronha. ( I have no confirmation that this zone does not adopt DST, but believe that it is true.) One question: What is the URL of DSH, the official Brazilian time info site mentioned in Time Zone Change History? Best regards, Stefan Johansson São Paulo - SP Brazil

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tzdata1999h.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Oct. 7, 1999

Oct. 7, 1999

The file ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1999h.tar.gz is now available, incorporating changes circulated by Paul Eggert on the time zone mailing list to "europe" (most importantly, fixing Lithuania and Estonia). The "tzcode1999g.tar.gz" file remains as it was. --ado

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proposed changes to tz data base for Estonia, Lithuania
by Paul Eggert Oct. 6, 1999

Oct. 6, 1999

Here is a proposed patch to the tz database for the recent rule changes in Estonia and Lithuania. The first change takes effect at the end of this month. (Does anybody know what Latvia is doing?) * Estonia will stop using DST next year. * Lithuania switches from CET to DST on October 31. * More commentary added for 1916 and 1918 summer time in the Channel Islands. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/europe,v retrieving revision 1999.6 retrieving revision 1999.6.0.2 diff -u -p -r1999.6 -r1999.6.0.2 --- europe 1999/09/23 13:47:56 1999.6 +++ europe 1999/10/06 16:42:53 1999.6.0.2 @@ -723,6 +723,23 @@ # clear whether the islands were using GMT or local time then. The # changes in Alderney and Guernsey were at the same 2am GMT time as # for Great Britain; the order for Jersey is more interesting. +# +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-06): +# Mark Brader kindly translated the 1916 Jersey order from the French. +# It says that the 1916 transitions were 05-20 and 09-30 at midnight. +# Presumably this was 24:00, two hours earlier than Great Britain. +# It also says that after 1916 they'll sync with Great Britain. + +# From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-28): +# I have the 1918 orders for Guernsey, Alderney (both changing on same +# dates as UK, 2am GMT) and Sark (same dates; start and end at 2am, +# start "temps de Greenwich" (not specified as "temps moyen de +# Greenwich" which was used in the other orders) and end in an +# unspecified zone). For Jersey the same file (Public Record Office: HO +# 45/10892/357138) includes letters to the effect that in 1918 and 1919 +# the States of Jersey agreed the same start and end dates as the UK +# (times unspecified, and it was the 1916 Jersey order that specified +# change at midnight of an unspecified zone). # From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06): # @@ -1304,6 +1321,15 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 J # for their standard and summer times. He says no, they use "suveaeg" # (summer time) and "talveaeg" (winter time). +# From <a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/">The Baltic Times</a> (1999-09-09) +# via Steffen Thorsen: +# This year will mark the last time Estonia shifts to summer time, +# a council of the ruling coalition announced Sept. 6.... +# But what this could mean for Estonia's chances of joining the European +# Union are still unclear. In 1994, the EU declared summer time compulsory +# for all member states until 2001. Brussels has yet to decide what to do +# after that. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time @@ -1315,7 +1341,8 @@ Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22 - 2:00 EU EE%sT + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 + 2:00 - EET # Finland # @@ -1715,6 +1742,24 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun 1:00 EU CE%sT # Lithuania + +# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): +# IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is +# known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too. + +# From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin(a)pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07): +# I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone +# (Europe/Vilnius) was changed. + +# From <a href="http://www.elta.lt/">ELTA</a> No. 972 (2582) (1999-09-29), +# via Steffen Thorsen: +# Lithuania has shifted back to the second time zone (GMT plus two hours) +# to be valid here starting from October 31, +# as decided by the national government on Wednesday.... +# The Lithuanian government also announced plans to consider a +# motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was +# already done by Estonia. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time @@ -1728,14 +1773,8 @@ Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u - 1:00 EU CE%sT -# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): -# IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is -# known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too. - -# From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin(a)pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07): -# I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone -# (Europe/Vilnius) was changed. + 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u + 2:00 EU EE%sT # Luxembourg # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.

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Mark Brader's translation of Channel Islands 1916 summer time orders
by Paul Eggert Oct. 6, 1999

Oct. 6, 1999

Mark Brader <msbrader(a)interlog.com> kindly translated into English the Channel Islands 1916 summer time orders that were recently forwarded to this list by Joseph S. Myers, and I enclose his message below. Where he writes ``The orders for Alderney and Guernsey are virtually identical'', he means identical to each other, not to Jersey. -- Paul Eggert<eggert(a)twinsun.com> ------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: msbrader(a)interlog.com Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 22:42:38 -0400 (EDT) ======================================================================== The order for Jersey, in translation, reads as follows. "The States" refers to the island's legislature. Note that there is no specification of which kind of midnight applies to the transition back to standard time. ======================================================================== OFFICIAL TIME. ----- An act advancing the official time during the summer months. ----- In the States of the Island of Jersey. ----- The year 1916, the 13th day of May. ----- CONSIDERING that the British Parliament, in the national interest, has resolved to advance by one hour the computation of time in the United Kingdom from Sunday, the 21st of the present May, until Sunday, the 1st of next October, and similarly for each following year during the present war during such a period as shall be prescribed by order of His Majesty in Council; Considering that at the time of the adoption in 1898 of the Law that currently determines the official time on this Island, the States had already recognized and affirmed the principle that Jersey could not remain, without inconvenience, outside of the timekeeping prevailing in Great Britain; Considering that the difference between the local time then in use and that of Greenwich was no more than a few minutes, whereas now the time separation between Jersey and Great Britain would be an entire hour for the whole summer, unless an analogous change was imposed here; THE STATES have, as an urgent matter, adopted the following arrangement: THE SINGLE ARTICLE. On Saturday the 20th of this month at midnight, the official time on this Island will be advanced by one hour over GMT, and this will apply until Saturday, next September 30, at midnight. A similar advance will be operated each subsequent year as long as there it is necessary to do it, at times to be determined in due course by the States so that the local official time remains at all times conformant to the legal time in Great Britain. This will be printed, published, and posted. Ernest le Sueur, Clerk. 50/1916 ======================================================================== The orders for Alderney and Guernsey are virtually identical, except for the preambles and signatures naming the officials involved. Some small discrepancies in punctuation seem to indicate a possibility of transcription errors. For the Guernsey order the word I've translated as "Judges" normally means "Jurors"; I'm taking it to be a transcription error or a specialized sense. A web search reveals that the fourth Channel Island, Sark, has an official today called the Chief Pleas, so I presume Guernsey used to have this position also. I don't know what the reference to "Easter put back" means. Here are the two preambles: ======================================================================== In the Court of the Island of Alderney On May 17, 1916, before John Main Duplain, Squire and Lieutenant-Judge; present were: John Pierre Gallichan, Nicolas William Gaudion, and Thomas John Robilliard, Squires and Judges. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ORDER OF THE ROYAL COURT ----------- TEMPORARY ORDER modifiying THE LEGAL TIME (Passed by the Chiefs Pleas according to Easter put back to May 13, 1916.) Guernsey: Bichard Printing Co. Ltd. Office of the Gazette, Bordage St. ------ Order of the Royal Court. TO THE ROYAL COURT OF THE ISLAND OF GUERNSEY To the Chiefs Pleas according to Easter put back to May 13, 1916, before Edward Chepmell Ozanne, squire, Bailiff; present were: Ernest Collas, George Edward Kinnersly, George Herbert Le Mottee, Julius Bishop, John Bonamy Collings, Adolphus John Hocart, Thomas William Mansell de Guerin, Lionel Slade Carey, James Esten de Jersey, Hubert George de Carteret Stevens Guille et William de Prelaz Crousaz, squires, Judges. ======================================================================== The almost common text of the Alderney and Guernsey orders. Meaninful differences are marked in [.../...], with the Alderney version shown first. ======================================================================== Temporary Order Modifying the Legal Time The Court, hearing the conclusions of the King's [Attorney/Officers], has ordered and is ordering: In the present year, 1916, the legal time on this island will be advanced by one hour, from 2 AM GMT on Sunday, May 21, until 2 AM GMT on Sunday, October 1. During the aforesaid period, any time mentioned or alluded to in Proclamations, Acts of Parliament, Orders-in-Council, Orders of the [/Royal] Court effective on this island, in contracts, regulations, statutes, warnings, posters, or in any other document or any matter of whatever kind, will be considered to be the time prescribed by the present Order. This Order does not derogate at all from the usage of Greenwich Mean Time for the needs of astronomy or navigation, nor from the interpretation of any document that mentions or refers to a time with relation to astronomy or navigation. And the present Order will be published, and posted in the usual places, so that nobody can pretend ignorance of it. (Extract from the Registers) [Charles R. Leboeq / A. J. Roussel] The King's [/Deputy] Clerk. ======================================================================== ------- End of forwarded message -------

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Tasmania to start DS with NSW etc. in 2000
by Alex LIVINGSTON Oct. 5, 1999

Oct. 5, 1999

I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard, has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000 instead of the first Sunday in October. Would someone else like to look around for written confirmation of this? --Alex

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Brazilian summer time
by Paulo A. P. Pires Oct. 4, 1999

Oct. 4, 1999

Dear sir(s), Once again, Brazilian Government changed rules (if such rules ex- ist at all) that define dates for the begining and ending of sum- mer time. This time, however, some states started (or restarted) adopting summer time as well. I am attaching a file (in "diff -u" format) that cointains modi- fications made to .../zoneinfo/southamerica. I believe it to be accurate. Modifications were made after information on federal decrees 3150 and 3188. As a side note, I recommend that zone file America/Sao_Paulo be renamed to America/Brasilia. Brasilia is the nation's capital and also the time reference for everything in the country, even for states in different time zones. The three major cities in the country, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Hori- zonte (located, respectively, in the states of SP, RJ and MG), all observe summer time together with Brasilia. --- Paulo A. P. Pires -- Network Administrator pappires(a)coppe.ufrj.br

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TZ changes for Lithuania and Estonia
by Steffen Thorsen Sept. 30, 1999

Sept. 30, 1999

More changes to go: * Lithuania will not come back to winter time this year and will stay in EET, and maybe DST will be dropped next year as well - so there is a Zone-change here. * Estonia has announced that DST will not be used anymore (but the transition back to normal time in October will go as planned). I was informed of these facts by Jacek Bulinski <jacekb(a)bci.pl> who read it in the Polish newspaper "Gazeta", but I have researched some Baltic news sources to get some more information, partly through subscription, and have found these articles: http://www.elta.lt/txt99/news.txt (the contents of this URL changes every day, so I include the relevant parts here): LITHUANIA BACK IN SECOND TIME ZONE Vilnius, Sept 29 (ELTA) - Lithuania has shifted back to the second time zone (GMT plus two hours) to be valid here starting from October 31, as decided by the national government on Wednesday. According to Cabinet decision, on the last Sunday of October, Lithuanians will not shift their clocks one hour backward as it was done traditionally to switch to winter time. The aforesaid decision on nullifying the so-called "Andrikiene (ex-Eurominister) time" came after a survey of Vilmorus public opinion firm revealed a wide disapproval among population of 1998 time reform implemented by the former government. Majority of polled people stated they wanted Lithuania to be in usual second time zone again. Moreover, the government hopes that a shift-back will allow to take a better advantage of daylight and scale down the negative phenomena brought about by the presence in the first (central European) time zone. However, the time change will not lead to any alteration of working hours and extra money will be necessary merely to adjust transport schedules. The Lithuanian government also announced plans to consider a motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was already done by Estonia. Article obainted from within "The Baltic Times" September 9th 1999 http://www.lursoft.lv/en/lpib.html Estonia falls off summer time TALLINN (BNS) This year will mark the last time Estonia shifts to summer time, a council of the ruling coalition announced Sept. 6. When Estonians turn their watches back one hour on the last Sunday in October, they will enter the time zone in which they will stay henceforth, year round. We still need to turn back watches this fall because then we'll have the right time, said Andres Tarand, chairman of the coalition council. Tarand, together with Reform Party leader Siim Kallas, has championed the case against summer time over the past few years. The ruling coalition had promised back in March to cancel the switch, but the parties "ironically enough" ran out of time and could not complete the job this spring. But what this could mean for Estonia's chances of joining the European Union are still unclear. In 1994, the EU declared summer time compulsory for all membe r states until 2001. Brussels has yet to decide what to do after that. Regards, Steffen -- Steffen Thorsen <steffen(a)thorsen.priv.no> <steffent(a)pvv.ntnu.no> http://www.thorsen.priv.no

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RE: tzcode and tzdata
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Sept. 28, 1999

Sept. 28, 1999

Joseph S. Myers was kind enough to point out that the new files should have been named ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode1999g.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1999g.tar.gz They have now been so named. --ado

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tzcode1999f.tar.gz and tzdata1999f.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Sept. 28, 1999

Sept. 28, 1999

The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode1999f.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1999f.tar.gz are now available. The "data" file includes the changes circulated by Paul Eggert on the time zone mailing list (most importantly, the change for Lebanon that buys correctness for this coming Sunday). The "code" file contains changes to "Makefile" and "checktab.awk" to allow better checking of time zone files before they are published. --ado

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