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RE: Pakistan
by Jesper Nørgaard March 16, 2002

March 16, 2002

I found a government page with the same information, possibly the origin of it, on http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm There is more information on other issues, but the wording of the DST bit is the same. On a personal note they are really trying to test the limit of timezone handling software, choosing First Saturday and First Sunday of a month as a parameter, probably not realizing that these can be mutually exclusive, maby meaning that if First Sunday is first day of month, it will not be counted (as in 2007). Choosing fixed date 15.th. of October as DST end date, when the start date is parameterized to a weekend, is highly obscure too - but not difficult to handle. Regards, Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (5) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (5) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 CIMMYT home page: http://cimmyt.cgiar.org Check out my free program World Time Explorer: http://www20.Brinkster.com/timezone50/index.htm http://tz.freewebsites.com/index.htm ---------- From: Paul Eggert[SMTP:eggert@twinsun.com] Sent: Viernes 15 de Marzo de 2002 10:19 To: rmcdow(a)enteles.com Cc: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: Pakistan > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:27:18 -0800 > From: Rives McDow <rmcdow(a)enteles.com> > I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a TRIAL > basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002 and ending at > 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was told, but I believe > that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the 00:01 was to make it clear > which day it was on. Thanks for the heads-up. I looked around and found these copies of what appears to be essentially the same source: http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/06/top4.htm http://www.hclinfinet.com/2001/DEC/WEEK2/7/PAKInsideNN2.jsp http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2001-daily/06-12-2001/main/main5.htm (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 15th October each year". This agrees with your April 7 at 00:00, but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after April 2, not the more-usual April 1. The first year that this would make a difference is 2007. For what it's worth, Shanks says that the last transition from DST in what is now Pakistan also occurred at 00:00 on October 15. The year was 1945.

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Pakistan
by Rives McDow March 16, 2002

March 16, 2002

Dear Arthur and all, I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002 and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on. Rives

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symlinks
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 15, 2002

March 15, 2002

Below find a proposed rewrite of the "symbolic link" section of zic.c; I hope this deals with the problems circulated recently on the time zone mailing list. --ado #if (HAVE_SYMLINK - 0) /* ** If hard link fails but from file exists, try a symbolic link. ** We want as relative a link as possible to maximize chances ** of correct behavior when the link is part of an ** exported directory. */ if (result != 0 && access(fromname, F_OK) == 0 && !itsdir(fromname)) { register char * t = toname; register char * f = fromname; register char * s; register int n; while ((s = strchr(t, '/')) != NULL && strncmp(t, f, (n = (s - t) + 1)) == 0) { t += n; f += n; } /* ** f t desired symlink value ** /a/b/c /d/e/f eliminated just above ** a/b/c d/e/f ../../a/b/c ** a/b d/e/f ../../a/b ** a/b/c d/e ../a/b/c ** /a/b/c d/e/f /a/b/c ** a/b/c /d/e/f hard to handle well */ if (*f == '/') s = ecpyalloc(f); else { s = NULL; if (*t != '/') { while (*t != '\0') if (*t++ == '/') s = ecatalloc(s, "../"); s = ecatalloc(s, f); } } if (s != NULL) { result = symlink(s, toname); ifree(s); if (result == 0) warning(_("hard link failed, symbolic link used")); } } #endif

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Summer time in Mexico (fwd)
by Steffen Thorsen March 14, 2002

March 14, 2002

Hi, I'm sending this on behalf of Jesper Norgaard Welen <timezone50(a)hotmail.com> =============================================================================== I hadn't seen any news about the pending decision of Congress in Mexico whether to apply DST in Mexico during 2002. As you may remember from earlier e-mails from me, both president Vicente Fox and rebellion mayor of capital Mexico City Andrés Manuel López Obrador had both lost their rights to impose DST rules upon Mexico locally or globally in court decisions, the court deciding that only Congress of Mexico could take such decisions. However, consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico, e.g. of 7 months instead of the 5 months as in 2001. Consulting the pages of the government site http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied, matching the way things are on the US side of the border in Arizona. Everything else is status quo compared to 2001 except that DST starts First Sunday of April at 2:00 and ends First Sunday of October at 2:00 (local times). The decree is actually issued by the president Vicente Fox, but stating that "the honorable Congress of the (ed:mexican republic) Union has bestown upon me to publicise the following decree" e.g. the decision was taken by the Congress, not by the president. Concerning the last notification from Rives McDow that Paraguay is changing their DST rules, I presume that this means that Asunción is still on DST until April 7 at 0:00 (local time)? E.g. the decree no. 16350 took effect immediately instead of just modifying the new DST period in Paraguay from September 2002 to April 2003? I found another reference to the decision of the mexican congress on http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/151390/ which was obviously made before the presidential decree was issued. That article also surprisingly suggests a change for the state of Durango from GMT-6 to GMT-7 (except when applying DST) just as states California South, Chihuahua, Nayarit and Sinaloa, but the presidential decree on http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html doesn't confirm that, so I presume for now it was a journalist's mistake. http://www.terra.com.mx/noticias/articulo/084527/ also mentions the specific votes in the Congress of Mexico, with 295 in favor and 177 votes against the DST decision. 11 blank votes. Regards, Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (5) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (5) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 CIMMYT home page: http://cimmyt.cgiar.org Check out my free program World Time Explorer: http://www20.Brinkster.com/timezone50/index.htm http://tz.freewebsites.com/index.htm _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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FW: indonesia time zone correction
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 12, 2002

March 12, 2002

Priyada Iman Nurcahyo is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. (I've already written to Priyada Iman Nurcahyo about how time zone abbreviations are derived from English-language time zone names; the matter of potential importance here is the city name change.) --ado -----Original Message----- From: Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo [mailto:priyadi@priyadi.net] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:56 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: indonesia time zone correction Hello, I have your email address from timezone/asia file inside the GNU C library distribution. I need to correct the specification for our time zone. I hope this is the correct address to send this information. Basically, the only things that needs changing are the names of timezone, at least that what I know of. I don't know where you got abbreviations like JAVT, JST, or CST, so I left them intact. The following are a patch to asia file that changes: - WIT to WIB, waktu indonesia barat (english: west indonesian time) - CIT to WITA, waktu indonesia tengah (central indonesian time) - EIT to WIT, waktu indonesia timur (east indonesian time) - City of Ujungpandang has been renamed to Makassar, so I create an entry for Makassar, but left Ujungpandang to facilitate upgrades Thank you for your time... ps. is it okay to create more major cities to be included in this file? --- asia.orig Tue Mar 12 03:25:51 2002 +++ asia Tue Mar 12 03:47:17 2002 @@ -392,30 +392,35 @@ # but this must be a typo. 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time - 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23 + 7:30 - WIB 1942 Mar 23 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 7:30 - WIT 1948 May - 8:00 - WIT 1950 May - 7:30 - WIT 1964 - 7:00 - WIT + 7:30 - WIB 1948 May + 8:00 - WIB 1950 May + 7:30 - WIB 1964 + 7:00 - WIB Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT - 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29 + 7:30 - WIB 1942 Jan 29 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 7:30 - WIT 1948 May - 8:00 - WIT 1950 May - 7:30 - WIT 1964 - 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1 - 7:00 - WIT + 7:30 - WIB 1948 May + 8:00 - WIB 1950 May + 7:30 - WIB 1964 + 8:00 - WITA 1988 Jan 1 + 7:00 - WIB Zone Asia/Ujung_Pandang 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT - 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9 + 8:00 - WITA 1942 Feb 9 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 8:00 - CIT + 8:00 - WITA +Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 + 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT + 8:00 - WITA 1942 Feb 9 + 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug + 8:00 - WITA Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov - 9:00 - EIT 1944 + 9:00 - WIT 1944 9:30 - CST 1964 - 9:00 - EIT + 9:00 - WIT # Iran # From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:

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indonesia time zone correction
by Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo March 12, 2002

March 12, 2002

Hello, I have your email address from timezone/asia file inside the GNU C library distribution. I need to correct the specification for our time zone. I hope this is the correct address to send this information. Basically, the only things that needs changing are the names of timezone, at least that what I know of. I don't know where you got abbreviations like JAVT, JST, or CST, so I left them intact. The following are a patch to asia file that changes: - WIT to WIB, waktu indonesia barat (english: west indonesian time) - CIT to WITA, waktu indonesia tengah (central indonesian time) - EIT to WIT, waktu indonesia timur (east indonesian time) - City of Ujungpandang has been renamed to Makassar, so I create an entry for Makassar, but left Ujungpandang to facilitate upgrades Thank you for your time... ps. is it okay to create more major cities to be included in this file? --- asia.orig Tue Mar 12 03:25:51 2002 +++ asia Tue Mar 12 03:47:17 2002 @@ -392,30 +392,35 @@ # but this must be a typo. 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time - 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23 + 7:30 - WIB 1942 Mar 23 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 7:30 - WIT 1948 May - 8:00 - WIT 1950 May - 7:30 - WIT 1964 - 7:00 - WIT + 7:30 - WIB 1948 May + 8:00 - WIB 1950 May + 7:30 - WIB 1964 + 7:00 - WIB Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT - 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29 + 7:30 - WIB 1942 Jan 29 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 7:30 - WIT 1948 May - 8:00 - WIT 1950 May - 7:30 - WIT 1964 - 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1 - 7:00 - WIT + 7:30 - WIB 1948 May + 8:00 - WIB 1950 May + 7:30 - WIB 1964 + 8:00 - WITA 1988 Jan 1 + 7:00 - WIB Zone Asia/Ujung_Pandang 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT - 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9 + 8:00 - WITA 1942 Feb 9 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 8:00 - CIT + 8:00 - WITA +Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 + 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT + 8:00 - WITA 1942 Feb 9 + 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug + 8:00 - WITA Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov - 9:00 - EIT 1944 + 9:00 - WIT 1944 9:30 - CST 1964 - 9:00 - EIT + 9:00 - WIT # Iran # From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:

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Question
by jnttwrd＠aol.com March 11, 2002

March 11, 2002

Hello, I am Jeanette and I just have a simple question. My question is I have a new computer friend and he lives in Holland and I was just wondering what the time difference is ? Please respond Thank you jnttwrd(a)aol.com

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FW: Rules for summer time in Estonia changed again
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 7, 2002

March 7, 2002

Taavi Talvik is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Taavi Talvik [mailto:taavi@uninet.ee] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:42 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Rules for summer time in Estonia changed again --- /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/europe.old Thu Mar 7 10:16:30 2002 +++ /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/europe Thu Mar 7 10:13:40 2002 @@ -815,6 +815,8 @@ # no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all # the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01. +# Starting from 2002 Estonia again follows EU summer time rules. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time @@ -827,7 +829,8 @@ 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Nov 1 - 2:00 - EET + 2:00 - EET 2002 Mar 1 + 2:00 EU EE%sT # Finland # ----------------------------------------------------------- Taavi Talvik | Internet: taavi(a)uninet.ee AS Uninet | phone: +372 6800013 Parnu mnt. 105 | fax: +372 6800001 Tallinn 11312, Estonia | gsm: +372 56569996

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Rules for summer time in Estonia changed again
by Taavi Talvik March 7, 2002

March 7, 2002

--- /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/europe.old Thu Mar 7 10:16:30 2002 +++ /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/europe Thu Mar 7 10:13:40 2002 @@ -815,6 +815,8 @@ # no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all # the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01. +# Starting from 2002 Estonia again follows EU summer time rules. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time @@ -827,7 +829,8 @@ 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Nov 1 - 2:00 - EET + 2:00 - EET 2002 Mar 1 + 2:00 EU EE%sT # Finland # ----------------------------------------------------------- Taavi Talvik | Internet: taavi(a)uninet.ee AS Uninet | phone: +372 6800013 Parnu mnt. 105 | fax: +372 6800001 Tallinn 11312, Estonia | gsm: +372 56569996

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Another page about DST in Mexico
by Jesper Nørgaard March 6, 2002

March 6, 2002

http://www.terra.com.mx/noticias/articulo/084527/ also mentions the specific votes in the Congress of Mexico, with 295 in favor and 177 votes against the DST decision. 11 blank votes. Regards, Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (5) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (5) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 CIMMYT home page: http://cimmyt.cgiar.org Check out my free program World Time Explorer: http://www20.Brinkster.com/timezone50/index.htm http://tz.freewebsites.com/index.htm

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