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RE: Asia/Dacca Spelling
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) Dec. 4, 2000

Dec. 4, 2000

> The following was reported by Steve Minkin regarding the current time zone > Asia/Dacca. Please note that Steve is not on this distribution list. Should > the spelling for this time zone be changed? Should an alias be defined? > "Please note that about 10 years ago the spelling of the capital of > bangladesh changed from Dacca to Dhaka. No one uses Dacca any more." A search at www.un.org yields 30 hits on Dhaka and one on Dacca. The page http://www.xrefer.com/entry/501998, attributed to "The Macmillan Encyclopedia 2001, © Market House Books Ltd 2000," contains: "Dhaka (name until 1982: Dacca)." So...my sense is that the thing to change "Zone Asia/Dacca" to "Zone Asia/Dhaka" and add a "Link Asia/Dhaka Asia/Dacca" to the "backward" file. --ado

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DST under Linux
by Tomasz Gralewski Dec. 4, 2000

Dec. 4, 2000

Hello, I'm Tomasz How can I set DST under Linux for Polish Time Zone. My TZ=Polish without UTC, time is coded by CET, in this settings the time movement doesn't work propertly. Please help me. Tomasz

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Some older Summer Time Orders now online
by Joseph S. Myers Dec. 3, 2000

Dec. 3, 2000

Some British Government web sites have lately been getting older publications online (mainly so far, I think, data they already had in electronic form but was only available if at all on expensive CD-ROMs or subscription databases) - including Acts back to 1988, Statutory Instruments back to 1987 and Hansard back to 1988. Accordingly, my web page now links to the Summer Time Orders 1988, 1989, 1992 and 1994. http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/ -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28(a)cam.ac.uk

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Rumours about DST changes in Mexico
by Jesper Nørgaard Dec. 3, 2000

Dec. 3, 2000

I found an article that is 1 month old, about a daylight saving change in Mexico which Vicente Fox apparently has suggested before he came to power. No changes have been implemented yet, but the new elected president Vicente Fox seems to agree with his presidential candidate opponent Labastida that daylight saving should not be discontinued, but maybe reduced with a couple of months, e.g. starting one month later and ending one month earlier: http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/044581/ unfortunately the article is in spanish, but it doesn't say much more than what I was referring, at least of interest to this mailing list. The article is from 29.th. of October, e.g. right after leaving daylight saving in Mexico. Details about implementation are not there, and I'm pretty sure the decision has not been taken yet. Vicente Fox just became acting president this Friday December 1, 2000. I wonder if they have taken into consideration the disadvantages of having 2 months of the year a different hour than similar zones in USA, the main receiver of exports from Mexico. Regards, Jesper Nørgaard Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Programador/Analista CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT, Lisboa 27, 06600 Mexico, D.F. 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 Time Zone Converter: http://timezone50.homepage.com

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RE: Nunavut (northern Canada) changes time zones again
by Jesper Nørgaard Nov. 30, 2000

Nov. 30, 2000

There was news about the Nunavut time zones in Nuniatsaq News the 10.th. of November, but I didn't see it until today. The link is http://www.nunatsiag.com/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html although this seems to be a dynamic address with date and time; Check out the Nunatsiaq News archives from 10.th of November to find the article, if the above doesn't work. Quote: "After a week of confusion, clocks in the territory's westernmost hamlets are now synchronized - an hour behind the rest of Nunavut. The Nunavut government last week retreated from its unified-time-zone policy, permitting Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay to stay on central time for the winter. ... Anawak said the Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter." The only way I can get this to match, is if Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay will be on Central Time all year round (e.g. GMT-6 with DST) while the rest of the central and eastern Nunavut will be on Eastern Standard Time all year round (e.g. GMT-5 without DST), so that during winter Kugluktuk will be one hour behind, and in the summer will be on the same time as the rest of Nunavut. This implicitly means that Central and Eastern Nunavut does *not* have daylight saving. I wonder if any of you have any comments on this, or more official documentation. The above article seems to go to great lengths to express daylight saving issues without mentioning the (forbidden?) term "daylight saving". Perhaps it has become too political in Nunavut to imply that you can gain something with "daylight saving" ;) ? Can the article be interpreted any other way? Regards, Jesper Nørgaard Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Programador/Analista CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT, Lisboa 27, 06600 Mexico, D.F. 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 Time Zone Converter: http://timezone50.homepage.com ---------- From: Rich Wales[SMTP:richw@webcom.com] Sent: Martes 7 de Noviembre de 2000 5.19 To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Nunavut (northern Canada) changes time zones again http://www.nationalpost.com/stories/20001107/360812.html Nunavut (formerly the eastern part of Canada's Northwest Territories) has been struggling with time zones for over a year. The territory originally straddled three zones, and efforts to impose a single time for all of Nunavut have met with vocal opposition. The latest change (effective Mon. 2000-11-06) appears to keep most of the territory on UTC-5h (i.e., CDT in summer and EST in winter) year- round. However, some communities in western Nunavut will set their clocks an hour earlier, to UTC-6h. The news story didn't make it clear whether western Nunavut would change its clocks in the summer or not. Also, the National Research Council -- Canada's federal regulatory body for time zones -- hasn't updated its maps yet (http://www.nrc.ca/inms/time/tze.html) to reflect the latest change in Nunavut. Rich Wales richw(a)webcom.com http://www.webcom.com/richw/

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TZ Database
by Jacob, Brad [IT] Nov. 28, 2000

Nov. 28, 2000

Dear Sirs, I'm having trouble with downloading the TZ database. The address keeps coming up as invalid. Could you please send me a copy of this TZ database? I'm a developer and need something like this for my project. Thank You, Brad Jacob

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Re-entrant, any-zone mktime()-equivalent?
by Jonathan Lennox Nov. 16, 2000

Nov. 16, 2000

Has anyone ever developed patches for tzcode to support a function that is the equivalent of timelocal()/mktime() and timegm() for arbitrary time zones? What I'm looking for is something that would be the rough equivalent of: time_t timetz(struct tm *tm, char *tz) { time_t t; char *oldTZ = getenv("TZ"); setenv("TZ", tz, 1); tzset(); t = mktime(tm); if (oldTZ != NULL) { setenv("TZ", oldTZ, 1); } else { unsetenv("TZ"); } tzset(); return t; } However, I'd like to have a function which a) worked correctly in multi-threaded environments, and b) reported an error message if the timezone string was invalid, rather than just falling back to GMT. I need this for a Internet Telephony server which needs to support time-of-day routing for users in arbitrary timezones, and I want to use the TZ database names to identify these timezones. (This is for an implementation of the Call Processing Language, soon (pending IESG approval) to be an IETF Proposed Standard. <http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~lennox/draft-ietf-iptel-cpl-04.txt>.) Obviously, writing such a function would require some fairly intrusive hacking on tzcode -- especially since tzcode uses static variables rather liberally. Before I start bashing on the code, I'd appreciate any advice anyone else has, especially if the work's already been done. Thanks for any advice or pointers anyone can give! -- Jonathan Lennox lennox(a)cs.columbia.edu

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Nunavut (northern Canada) changes time zones again
by Rich Wales Nov. 7, 2000

Nov. 7, 2000

http://www.nationalpost.com/stories/20001107/360812.html Nunavut (formerly the eastern part of Canada's Northwest Territories) has been struggling with time zones for over a year. The territory originally straddled three zones, and efforts to impose a single time for all of Nunavut have met with vocal opposition. The latest change (effective Mon. 2000-11-06) appears to keep most of the territory on UTC-5h (i.e., CDT in summer and EST in winter) year- round. However, some communities in western Nunavut will set their clocks an hour earlier, to UTC-6h. The news story didn't make it clear whether western Nunavut would change its clocks in the summer or not. Also, the National Research Council -- Canada's federal regulatory body for time zones -- hasn't updated its maps yet (http://www.nrc.ca/inms/time/tze.html) to reflect the latest change in Nunavut. Rich Wales richw(a)webcom.com http://www.webcom.com/richw/

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Brazil: Fernando de Noronha
by Oscar van Vlijmen Nov. 7, 2000

Nov. 7, 2000

I have checked this against the large Times atlas and my grammar Portuguese. The atlas says Fernando de Noronha. The preposition 'de' means just: from, of. 'Do' however is a contraction of the preposition 'de' and the article 'o'. I believe it's therefore correct to say Rio Grande do Norte (in the North) and Mato Grosso do Sul (in the South), but Fernando de Noronha (from Noronha). Regards, Oscar van Vlijmen 2000-11-07

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Nov. 7, 2000

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