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Request for Addition to the Mailing List
by Wong, Ren April 12, 2000

April 12, 2000

Would you please add me to your mailing list? Thanks. My company is currently installing Mobile Pre-Paid Service in Asia, Africa, Indian Ocean, and Europe on Pentium based UnixWare 2.1.3 UnixWare 7.1.0 systems. Your information has been invaluable to us. My responsibility is to ensure the correct setup of the timezone on our systems. Without the information you provided, we would not be able to calculate call duration for the pre-paid mobile subscribers. Ren Wong Software Development IN Division Comverse Network Systems 1025 Briggs Rd., Suite 100 Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Voice (856) 608-2859 Fax (856) 866-8850

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[Fwd: Day light savings time]
by Brian Prescott-Decie April 11, 2000

April 11, 2000

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Day light savings time Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:23:23 +1000 From: "Eisa" <higgoman(a)eisa.net.au> To: <webmaster(a)HolidayFestival.com> This year day light savings will start earlier in Sydney because of the olympics not sure of the exact date will let you know.

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FW: DST law derogation in Argentina
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) April 4, 2000

April 4, 2000

Fabián is not on the time zone mailing list; be sure to direct any replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Fabián L. Arce Jofré [SMTP:fabian@limite.yi.org] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 11:54 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: DST law derogation in Argentina Hello, my name is Fabián L. Arce Jofré, and I'm from Argentina, and this e-mail message is for tell you about the time zone change in Argentina recently -- the law that established DST was derogated recently due to an evaluation of the government about more waste of energy than before. I cut the Argentina part in the southamerica file and send it separately, I think it's the best way. I corrected the time zone data and the name of a district, Distrito Federal (DF) for Capital Federal (CF), the correct name in Argentina. If you have questions or comments, don't hesitate to mail me at farcejofre(a)bigfoot.com. Sincerely, Fabián L. Arce Jofré Buenos Aires, Argentina farcejofre(a)bigfoot.com <<argentina-20000404>>

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DST law derogation in Argentina
by Fabián L. Arce Jofré April 4, 2000

April 4, 2000

Hello, my name is Fabián L. Arce Jofré, and I'm from Argentina, and this e-mail message is for tell you about the time zone change in Argentina recently -- the law that established DST was derogated recently due to an evaluation of the government about more waste of energy than before. I cut the Argentina part in the southamerica file and send it separately, I think it's the best way. I corrected the time zone data and the name of a district, Distrito Federal (DF) for Capital Federal (CF), the correct name in Argentina. If you have questions or comments, don't hesitate to mail me at farcejofre(a)bigfoot.com. Sincerely, Fabián L. Arce Jofré Buenos Aires, Argentina farcejofre(a)bigfoot.com

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LA Times: Daylight Saving Ticks Off Millions in Mexico
by Paul Eggert April 2, 2000

April 2, 2000

On page A4 of today's Los Angeles Times, staff writer Mary Beth Sheridan writes: COLIMA, Mexico--Soledad Castillo has a list of grave problems she wants Mexico's next president to solve. Low salaries. Rising crime. Poverty. But a different issue was troubling the 41-year-old cleaning woman one recent morning as she attended a campaign rally in this city in southwestern Mexico. It was something more urgent, more sinister--an evil that has aroused Mexicans nationwide in an extraordinary political backlash. Daylight saving time. Sheridan goes on to write that the issue has managed to push issues like the presidential race, poverty, and crime off the front pages. Half a dozen Mexican states have organized plebiscites on whether to implement DST, and the ruling party presidential candidate has promised to limit DST to 4 months instead of 6. Here's the URL of the complete story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20000402/t000030885.html

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daylights savings time
by SEETA57＠aol.com April 1, 2000

April 1, 2000

when do we set our clocks forward 1 hour

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Rational behind lcl_is_set?
by John Hawkinson March 29, 2000

March 29, 2000

[ If you could cc me on replies until my subscription request is processed, I'd appreciate it. ] I recently made the oberservation that tzset() seems to keep state on whether it has read the system localtime file and if so, subsequent invokations of tzset() do not re-read the file. This seems to prevent applications which call tzset() from obtaining new time zone information should the system change. For instance, my laptop recently travelled through: US/Eastern -> US/Central -> US/Pacific -> Pacific/Gambier -> Pacific/Honolulu -> Pacific/Midway -> Pacific/Fiji -> Pacific/Auckland -> Pacific/Kosrae -> Australia/Sydney -> Australia/Adelaide during which time my /etc/localtime file changed as appropriate. It would have been nice if, had my MUA called tzset() across each time zone, times would have been correct. But tzset() seems to cache old data. In my case, $TZ is unset so tzsetwall() is called, and it's first act is: if (lcl_is_set < 0) return; lcl_is_set = -1; So there seems to be no hope of causing tzset() to re-read this data. Ironically enough, it seems that if the value of TZ changes, tzset() will change state. This seems odd as it seems far more likely that the system's /etc/localtime file will change, than a process will actually change its own TZ environment variable in mid-flight. I presume that this caching was added as an optimization since strftime() calls tzset() during each invokations. Is there no way around it, short of changing the API and adding some function to reload timezone data, or giving up the caching and having tzset() reread localtime each time? The presence of STD_INSPIRED implies that new functions could be added, but I presume there's a relatively high hurdle to doing so. Incidently, tzset() seems a bit underdocumented. Specifically newtzset(3) fails to indicate whether programs should call tzset() by hand, or whether they should never bother, etc., etc. If I knew the answer I would offer a patch. Thanks. --jhawk p.s.: You're free to tell me that I'm foolish for wanting my time to change accurately on transoceanic flighs, but it is terribly nice to have one's mail timestamped appropriate, at the very least.

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Lithuanian time zone update
by Marius Gedminas March 26, 2000

March 26, 2000

Lithuania gave up shifting to summer time as planned. Here is a patch for europe file from tzdata2000d.tar.gz. Note that I'm not sure about the exact time of this change, I just copied 1:00u from the line above. Marius Gedminas -- "Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment". (seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)

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Your site has been included on OpenHere
by Sara＠openhere.com March 23, 2000

March 23, 2000

Hi, Your site was recently submitted to OpenHere.com. We have reviewed your site and decided to include it as follows: Link: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm Title: Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data Description: OpenHere Category: http://www.openhere.com/edu/Ref/Time/ As you are listed as a contact person on the home page of this site, I am dropping you a quick note to let you know about your inclusion on OpenHere. OpenHere is one of the 10 largest index and search sites on the Internet and is specifically focused on creating resources for the family. You can dynamically modify your site's listing at any time, or include your site's listing in other categories on OpenHere.com. When you modify your site's listing, it is automatically placed at the top of the category in which it is included, and is placed first in the search engine results for the keywords relating to your site. To modify, add or delete your listing: 1. Go to the OpenHere category where your site is listed. 2. Click on the "Suggest a Site" link. 3. Follow the instructions for changing your listing. All of the modifications you submit to OpenHere.com are processed in real time. As soon as you see the response to your submission, your site listing should be updated. OpenHere is frequented by both children and families. As a result, www.OpenHere.com does not include links to material which is illegal to display to minors. If you have a question, or need help in any way, please just send me a note. Yes, I am a real person! Sara www.OpenHere.com Your key to the Net!

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FW: Estonia will not switch to summer time anymore starting from 2000
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) March 20, 2000

March 20, 2000

Taavi Talvik is not on the time zone mailing list; direct any replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Taavi Talvik [SMTP:taavi@uninet.ee] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 7:00 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Estonia will not switch to summer time anymore starting from 2000 Following patch against zone files in FreeBSD: --- /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/europe.old Sun Feb 14 19:13:56 1999 +++ /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/europe Fri Mar 17 13:44:38 2000 @@ -1265,6 +1265,8 @@ # for their standard and summer times. He says no, they use "suveaeg" # (summer time) and "talveaeg" (winter time). +# Starting from 2000 Estonia will not switch to summer time anymore. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time @@ -1276,7 +1278,8 @@ 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 # See Sweden for when the Gregorian calendar was adopted. ----------------------------------------------------------- Taavi Talvik | Internet: taavi(a)uninet.ee Unineti Andmeside AS | phone: +372 6405150 Ravala pst. 10 | fax: +372 6405151 Tallinn 10143, Estonia |

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