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Re: timezone for Mexico
by Alan.Perry＠Eng.Sun.COM April 5, 1996

April 5, 1996

> From mallen(a)kin.cyborg.com.mx Fri Apr 5 13:50:34 1996 > > I just checked and this year will have a "horario de verano" from > april first to october 27 (both sundays) in central Mexico and the change > will be made at two am in the next day. > > I don't know if this will remain unchanged in the next years as it is > stupid to change time in places with latitudes between the tropics as the > length of the day does not change much. It seems that people in FIDE know > little about Geography/Astronomy. Since this came from a Presidential Decree, I would say that it is the Mexican Administration that knows little about Geography/Astronomy. I am unfamiliar with the parties involved, so I will reserve judgment. I think the Mexico entry in northamerica should be changed to refer to the Decree in the 4 Jan Mexico national newspaper (that I posted to this list, but have since deleted) rather than the FIDE comment. alan

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timezone for Mexico
by Guillermo Mallen F. April 5, 1996

April 5, 1996

I just checked and this year will have a "horario de verano" from april first to october 27 (both sundays) in central Mexico and the change will be made at two am in the next day. I don't know if this will remain unchanged in the next years as it is stupid to change time in places with latitudes between the tropics as the length of the day does not change much. It seems that people in FIDE know little about Geography/Astronomy. Regards Guillermo M. Mallen mallen(a)kin.cyborg.com.mx

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DST in the news
by ado April 4, 1996

April 4, 1996

Page A9 of the Thursday, April 4, 1996 Washington Post has a story headlined "Daylight Savings May Be Motorists' Loss," a Reuter dispatch about a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine from Stanley Coren of the University of British Columbia. The article notes that "Moving clocks forward an hour... causes more traffic accidents the next day, according to [Coren's] study." --ado

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Re: EU daylight time
by Peter Ilieve April 3, 1996

April 3, 1996

On Apr 3, 9:51pm, Chris Carrier wrote: > Subject: EU daylight time > I am given to understand that the countries of the European Union > have decided to extend their 'summer-time period' until the last > Sunday in October. I would like to ask: > > Can individual EU countries choose to opt out of daylight time > entirely, as American states can opt out of DST under our own > Uniform Time Act of 1966, as amended 1972? I don't believe so, but I am no lawyer. The legal authority for the summer time dates is an EC Directive. This is supposed to have the force of law and EU member states are required to enact national legislation to put directives into effect. Countries are sometimes slow in doing this in other areas but I don't know of any countries not doing so where summer time is concerned. The process of making a directive involves the European Commission agreeing on the terms of it. It is then put to the Council of Ministers for final approval. Both the Commission and the Council are made up of appointees of the national governments. The Commissioners are supposed to ignore their contriy's national interests and work for the EU as a whole but the Council members can and do vote on things based on their own national interest. As a result of all this it is unlikely that a summer time directive would emerge that any country wouldn't agree with. We are now moving towards a system of `qualified majority voting' in the Council so in theory a country's national interest could be out-voted, but I don't know if the summer time directives are covered by this procedure. Countries would not have much incentive to opt out of this summer time end date change as a survey was conducted a few years ago as part of the seventh EC directive setting process and it found the people of Europe to be in favour of moving the date by a large majority. Peter Ilieve peter(a)aldie.co.uk

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EU daylight time
by Chris Carrier April 3, 1996

April 3, 1996

I am given to understand that the countries of the European Union have decided to extend their 'summer-time period' until the last Sunday in October. I would like to ask: Can individual EU countries choose to opt out of daylight time entirely, as American states can opt out of DST under our own Uniform Time Act of 1966, as amended 1972? Chris Carrier

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No summer time in PRC
by cml1001＠cus.cam.ac.uk March 30, 1996

March 30, 1996

Hello. P.R. of China has abolished summer time for a few years. Perhaps this is because summer time is not used in Hong Kong and Macau, so summer time in China caused much confusion. -- William - Have a good time all the time :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- URL: http://club.eng.cam.ac.uk/~92cml

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Re: patch for Europe/Lisbon bug in tzdata96d
by ado March 19, 1996

March 19, 1996

The latest change to portugal is incorporated in tzdata96e.tar.gz, available for anonymous ftp from elsie.nci.nih.gov (165.112.73.1) in the ~ftp/pub directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 ado 73436 Mar 19 17:37 tzdata96e.tar.gz Timezone caballeros are warned to be braced for our busy April season. --ado

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Portugal time
by Carlo E. Prelz March 19, 1996

March 19, 1996

Hi. You already know that, again, Portugal goes back to West European Time. From the "europe" file in tzdata96d.tgz: --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<-- 1:00 EC MET%s 1996 Mar 31 1:00u # Martin Bruckmann <martin(a)ua.pt> (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve # that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring. # The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter. 0:00 - "WET DST" 1996 Oct 27 1:00u 0:00 EC WET%s --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<-- Well, only 1 1/2 weeks are separating us from March 31, and I was doing some tests (on Linux, very recent kernel - more info on request). Well, from Oct. 27 all will be OK for sure, but the rule for the intermediate period does not set the dst flag - probably because the transition to the new rule happens at the same moment as the DST one. I could not find a way to set the dst flag in rules - the only way to have the rule behave correctly is to write: 1:00 - "WET DST" 1996 Oct 27 1:00u (1:00 instead of 0:00). This way, the time is right. The dst flag is still off, and that could crack programs that use it. Do you know of a better way? Am I doing something wrong? TIA Carlo -- * Se la Strada e la sua Virtu' non fossero state messe da parte, * K * Carlo E. Prelz - fluido(a)marktest.pt che bisogno ci sarebbe * di parlare tanto di amore e di rettitudine? (Chuang-Tzu)

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tzdata96d.tar.gz
by ado March 18, 1996

March 18, 1996

tzdata96d.tar.gz is now available for anonymous ftp from elsie.nci.nih.gov (165.112.73.1) in the ~ftp/pub directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 ado 73472 Mar 18 20:53 tzdata96d.tar.gz It reflects the proposals recently circulated on the tz list by Paul Eggert, in particular the Portugal change that comes into play at the end of this month. --ado

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Error in Timezone data
by Alan Eugene Davis March 15, 1996

March 15, 1996

Fernando Alegre <alegre(a)mars.superlink.net> Package Maintainer, Debian Linux Package timezone-7.46-0.deb cc: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov (Upstream) In the debian linux timezone package, in the file australasia, in the source, there may be an error. I hesitate to make such an assertion, but I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk" (now properly known as Chuuk), at about 7°N 151°E, is in the time zone GMT+10, and not +11 as indicated in the australisia file. You may also be interested that the capital of Chuuk ( a State of the Federated States of Micronesia, since I think 1986) is Weno (properly, Wené, but usually spelled Weno). The approximate Latitude and Longitude are (probably for my island of Toon, not for Wené, these ought to be checked): 7° 19.8' N 151° 34.8' E ---------------------From the file australasia---------------- # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Yap 9:12:32 - LMT 1901 # Colonia 9:00 - PLT 1969 Oct 10:00 - GST Zone Pacific/Truk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 10:00 - GST 1978 Oct 11:00 - NCST <------------WRONG? Zone Pacific/Ponape 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia 11:00 - NCST Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901 11:00 - NCST 1969 Oct 12:00 - NZST --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As of 1995, I was the only Linux user in Chuuk. I would be very much interested in learning of information that Chuuk Lagoon is in the GMT+11 timezone. I don't think it is, however. Alan Davis adavis(a)saba.kuentos.guam.net

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