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FW: New countries/territories
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] July 28, 2006

July 28, 2006

Jon Caspi is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Jon [mailto:caspi@hush.com] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 2:15 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: New countries/territories Hi, as you can see here http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code- lists/list-en1.html the next countries have been included in the ISO 3166 list: BOUVET ISLAND:BV GUERNSEY:GG HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS:HM ISLE OF MAN:IM JERSEY:JE So you should indlude them in your list too. I think that you also should have to present the next information about new territories in the ISO list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha- 2#Exceptional_reservations It have been reserved the ISO code for the next countries: ASCENSION ISLAND:AC CLIPPERTON ISLAND:CP DIEGO GARCIA:DG CEUTA AND MELILLA:EA CANARY ISLANDS:IC TRISTAN DA CUNHA:TA Greetings! Concerned about your privacy? Instantly send FREE secure email, no account required http://www.hushmail.com/send?l=480 Get the best prices on SSL certificates from Hushmail https://www.hushssl.com?l=485

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FW: apparent bug in 7/26/06 version of 'tzload()'
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] July 28, 2006

July 28, 2006

David Lawless is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. -----Original Message----- From: David Lawless [mailto:lawless@spamcop.net] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:04 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: apparent bug in 7/26/06 version of 'tzload()' While experimenting with 'localhost.c' I discovered a bug in 'localtime.c' in 'tzload()'. The last few lines setup two flags 'goback' and 'goahead'. This code executes some invalid negative-offset array dereferences when the number of points in the array is too small. RHEL4.3 (CentOS 4.3) has zone files with fewer than 800 years in them and provokes this. I believe the attached patch corrects the problem. However I don't understand the purpose of the code and may have got it wrong. Please CC my e-mail with any replies as I'm not on the mailing list. Regards, David Lawless

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apparent bug in 7/26/06 version of 'tzload()'
by David Lawless July 27, 2006

July 27, 2006

While experimenting with 'localhost.c' I discovered a bug in 'localtime.c' in 'tzload()'. The last few lines setup two flags 'goback' and 'goahead'. This code executes some invalid negative-offset array dereferences when the number of points in the array is too small. RHEL4.3 (CentOS 4.3) has zone files with fewer than 800 years in them and provokes this. I believe the attached patch corrects the problem. However I don't understand the purpose of the code and may have got it wrong. Please CC my e-mail with any replies as I'm not on the mailing list. Regards, David Lawless

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RE: atikokan daylight saving (or lack of it)
by Chris Walton July 25, 2006

July 25, 2006

I am not sure if this helps the decision making process but here are the population numbers according to the 2001 Canadian census: Coral Harbour: 712 Atikokan: 3632 These numbers don't include the black flies or mosquitoes! The existing America/Coral_Harbour time zone encompasses all of Southampton Island (41214 square km) plus some small adjacent islands. Coral Harbour is the only settlement on Southampton Island; the adjacent islands are (to the best of my knowledge) uninhabited. The proposed America/Atikokan time zone would encompass the township of Atikokan (317 square km) and Quetico Provincial Park (4758 square km). I confirmed with Robin Reilly from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources that the Quetico park staff use "Atikokan time" for official time keeping year-round; the reason being that the main park office is located in Atikokan. -chris -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU] Sent: July 24, 2006 4:02 PM To: Chris Walton Cc: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: atikokan daylight saving (or lack of it) "Chris Walton" <Chris.Walton(a)telus.com> writes: > Should we: > 1) update the entry for America/Coral_Harbour but not add a zone > called America/Atikokan Or > 2) add a new zone for America/Atikoan and leave America/Coral_Harbour > alone Or > 3) delete America/Coral_Harbour, add America/Atikokan, and update the "zonetab" + "backward" files. I'm leaning toward #3. I don't recall seeing any other comments.

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RE: atikokan daylight saving (or lack of it)
by Chris Walton July 24, 2006

July 24, 2006

Paul, Yes Atikokan could use America/Coral_Harbour. As you pointed out Atikokan and Coral Harbour are separate locations; they are in fact unrelated incontiguous areas separated by 1110 miles. I will let you decide what is best! I don't mind which way we go with this as long as there is some sort of reference to Atikokan in the zonetab file. If you decide to share the zone, keep in mind that Atikokan has a much bigger population than Coral Harbour; I am not sure what the implications of this are. Would we have to rename the zone and create an entry in the "backward" file? -chris -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU] Sent: Sat 7/15/2006 2:27 AM To: Chris Walton Subject: Re: atikokan daylight saving (or lack of it) Thanks for tracking this down. If they've been doing it this way since 1952, then they can use the America/Coral_Harbour entry, though we'd need to update zone.tab to make it clear that America/Coral_Harbour stands for two separate locations. (And we'd need commentary of course.)

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Tzcode2006h.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] July 24, 2006

July 24, 2006

The file... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2006h.tar.gz ...is now available; this adds public domain notices to four files, includes a fix for transition times being off by a second, and adds a new recording to the "arts" file (information courtesy Colin Bowern). No "tzdata" files were affected, so we're still at tzdata2006g.tar.gz. --ado

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New countries/territories
by Jon July 23, 2006

July 23, 2006

Hi, as you can see here http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code- lists/list-en1.html the next countries have been included in the ISO 3166 list: BOUVET ISLAND:BV GUERNSEY:GG HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS:HM ISLE OF MAN:IM JERSEY:JE So you should indlude them in your list too. I think that you also should have to present the next information about new territories in the ISO list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha- 2#Exceptional_reservations It have been reserved the ISO code for the next countries: ASCENSION ISLAND:AC CLIPPERTON ISLAND:CP DIEGO GARCIA:DG CEUTA AND MELILLA:EA CANARY ISLANDS:IC TRISTAN DA CUNHA:TA Greetings! Concerned about your privacy? Instantly send FREE secure email, no account required http://www.hushmail.com/send?l=480 Get the best prices on SSL certificates from Hushmail https://www.hushssl.com?l=485

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Inconsistent format of data files?
by Colin Bowern July 22, 2006

July 22, 2006

Hi, I'm working on compiling the time zone data into an XML file for easier handling in a program. I noticed some inconsistencies in the format of the files versus the description in zic.8.txt. For example, in the latest version in Africa on line 93 there is an extra tab at the beginning. Can anyone confirm if this? I've attached screenshots of what I am seeing. Thanks, Colin

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The RULE TYPE column
by Srdjan Krajnalic July 21, 2006

July 21, 2006

Hi, Unless I'm missing some of the data files, the only rule TYPE ever used is "-" The man page states: TYPE Gives the type of year in which the rule applies. If TYPE is - then the rule applies in all years between FROM and TO inclusive. If TYPE is something else, then zic executes the command yearistype year type to check the type of a year: an exit status of zero is taken to mean that the year is of the given type; an exit status of one is taken to mean that the year is not of the given type. What other types except for "-" are allowed? Parsed files: africa, antarctica, asia, australasia, backward, europe, northamerica, pacificnew, solar87, solar88, solar89, southamerica, Systemv

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Time and the Arts Entry
by Colin Bowern July 19, 2006

July 19, 2006

A song to add to the list... Song: Central Standard Time Artist: The Get Up Kids Album: Eudora (2001) http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7ddovwvla9xk Cheers, Colin

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