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URIs for time zone HTML files
by Paul Eggert Jan. 24, 2000

Jan. 24, 2000

I've copied the HTML files in the standard tz distribution to the following locations: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-art.htm Please feel free to publish these URIs; I plan to keep these web pages in sync with the copies in the canonical NCI FTP tarballs. The indirection is necessary because the National Cancer Institute frowns on web pages that can be accessed by the outside world.

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DST Australia & surroundings
by Oscar van Vlijmen Jan. 23, 2000

Jan. 23, 2000

Indeed, a short but good overview of the daylight saving times in several parts of South Australia from 1999-2001: http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/information/daylite.htm "South Australia Central - Information & Community" Much more information about the when, where and why can be found on the page "Australia's Daylight Saving Times", http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html Please note that this page also gives detailed information about: Lord Howe Island, Admiralty Islands, Mutton Bird Islands, Ball`s Pyramid, Norfolk Island, Nepean and Phillip Island,Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Heard Island, McDonald Islands, Macquarie Island, Australian Antarctic Territory - Davis, Mawson, Casey. Interesting to note that this page confirms that the Macquarie Island station follows Tasmania, including DST. I would like to suggest that the tz file "australasia" should be updated with this information, if the information is regarded to be true. Oscar van Vlijmen 2000-01-22

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Lord Howe Island DST and the Olympics, Macquarie Island DST, etc.
by Paul Eggert Jan. 23, 2000

Jan. 23, 2000

Oscar van Vlijmen noted some discrepancies between your excellent web page <http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html> on Australian daylight saving time and the public domain time zone ("tz") database maintained by Olson et al (please see <http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm> for details). Can you please let me know any thoughts you might have about these discrepancies? * Your web page says `Next year, daylight saving will start much earlier in NSW and Victoria'. This is also true of Tasmania and ACT; e.g. see <http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/information/daylite.htm>. * Your web page implies (but does not explicitly say) that Lord Howe Island will start DST early this year for the Olympics, at the same time as the rest of NSW. Is this true? If so, the tz database needs to be updated. * Your web page says `Macquarie Island ... changes over to daylight saving time when Tasmania does'. But The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ <http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm> writes `Macquarie Island follows Tasmanian practice irrespective of any local use of DST.' (I'm not sure what they mean, but they use different wording for Giles and Lord Howe Island.) * While we're on the subject, that same web page says that Giles Meteorological Station uses South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia. * Your web page gives time zones for Heard and McDonald islands. I assume that this is for when they have visitors? I'm under the impression that they have no permanent human inhabitants. I bring this up because the tz database omits locations that are not permanently inhabited, to keep things manageable; but if Heard and McDonald are permanently inhabited we need to create an entry for that location.

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FW: Australia/Hobart and Australia/Tasmania
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Jan. 21, 2000

Jan. 21, 2000

-----Original Message----- From: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com [SMTP:webmaster@timezoneconverter.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 5:54 PM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Cc: weihuang(a)mailcity.com Subject: FW: Australia/Hobart and Australia/Tasmania Please copy Wei Huang as he is not on the tz distribution list. According to the web page listed below, Tasmania has also changed to a DST start in October. Regarding Hobart, Wei Huang's email was received before the 2000a update was applied to the Converter on 1/19. Hobart now reflects an October DST start in the database, but Hobart is not listed as a separate item on the Australian web page. Rich Shockney -----Original Message----- From: Wei Huang [mailto:weihuang@mailcity.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 1:45 PM To: webmaster(a)timezoneconverter.com Subject: A Question about Your Time Zone Converter Hi, I like your Time Zone Converter at "http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc" very much. One puzzle: I just learned that Tasmania, Australia will also start DST earlier than usual this year just like New South Wales and Victoria, based on the Government of South Australia Web page "http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/information/daylite.htm". However, the two corresponding entries "Australia/Hobart" and "Australia/ Tasmania" in your Time Zone Converter haven't reflected that change yet. Regards, Wei Huang LYCOShop is now open. On your mark, get set, SHOP!!! http://shop.lycos.com/

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Small error in file Antarctica 7.17
by Oscar van Vlijmen Jan. 19, 2000

Jan. 19, 2000

A very small error found in : Archive: tzdata2000a File: Antarctica 7.17 It sez: # Uruguay - year round base # Artigas, King George Island, -9621104-0585107 It should be, note the latitude: # Uruguay - year round base # Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 Oscar van Vlijmen 2000-01-19

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duelling clocks in Nashville
by Paul Eggert Jan. 19, 2000

Jan. 19, 2000

[This item appeared in the Usenet newsgroup comp.std.c.] From: "Sam Hobbs" <samhobbs(a)mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: leap year rules Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:20:01 -0800 Organization: DOE Yucca Mountain Project Message-ID: <8633f6$3k4$1(a)eeyore.ymp.gov> References: <38836E22.2AF823BE(a)tribble.com> <388384B0.45888301(a)cs.berkeley.edu> <8603ka$6ie$1(a)pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <8EBF716CClooksigplease(a)134.18.241.18> <861ahq$d55$1(a)pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tc3pc182.ymp.gov And if you think some of this discussion is bizarre, re daylight savings time, when I lived in Nashville a couple of decades ago, there were two newspapers which shared a building and printing facility, but whose managements disagreed vigorously over whether daylight savings time should be observed. The clock on the front of the building facing one way showed daylight savings time (when it was in force), but the face of the clock facing the other way did not.

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tzcode2000a.tar.gz and tzdata2000a.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Jan. 18, 2000

Jan. 18, 2000

The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2000a.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2000a.tar.gz are now available. These include the changes circulated on the time zone mailing list last week by Paul Eggert; the two hypertext documents have also been renamed. --ado

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Sonora stopped observing DST last year
by Paul Eggert Jan. 17, 2000

Jan. 17, 2000

To follow up on my previous message, I found a Usenet article from an unidentified source saying that Sonora stopped observing DST last year. I think my next proposed change will add the following comment to the tz data, along with a new zone America/Hermosillo. # From <mga707(a)my-dejanews.com> in <news:7e9kp7$1gq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> # (1999-04-05): # This year the Mexican state of Sonora opted not to go on Daylight time, # so as to remain on the same time as the neighboring state of Arizona. # The two Nogaleses will be on the same time! I still haven't found a confirmation of the IATA's report of changes to the time zone in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.

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no leapsecond
by Denis Excoffier Jan. 14, 2000

Jan. 14, 2000

>From: iers(a)hpopa.obspm.fr >Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:55:27 +0100 (MET) >Subject: Bulletin C number 19 > > > > > INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE (IERS) > SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE > >BUREAU CENTRAL DE L'IERS >OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS >61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) >Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 >FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 >Internet : iers(a)obspm.fr > > Paris, 13 January 2000 > > > Bulletin C 19 > > To authorities responsible > for the measurement and > distribution of time > > > > INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI > > > NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2000. > The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is : > > from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 32 s > > Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December > or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every > six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there > will be no time step at the next possible date. > > > Daniel GAMBIS > Director > Central Bureau of IERS > >

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Bulletin C number 19
by iers＠hpopa.obspm.fr Jan. 13, 2000

Jan. 13, 2000

INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE BUREAU CENTRAL DE L'IERS OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 Internet : iers(a)obspm.fr Paris, 13 January 2000 Bulletin C 19 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2000. The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is : from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 32 s Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Director Central Bureau of IERS

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