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Re: Could you send me a listing of time zones of the world.
by Brian Sawyer Dec. 18, 1997

Dec. 18, 1997

stewart(a)parc.xerox.com wrote: > > In message <34976107.4451(a)mtnia.com> you write: > >Could you email me time zones of the world by plus or minus hours > >converted from the united states times to the other countries, not by > >just a map, but actually listing the city and then if it ahead or behind > >my time. An example would be: > >Marshalltown, Iowa (I'm from here) to Los Angelos -2 hours > > to New York +1 hour > >and so on with conversions from all over the world. > >I have poor eyes and can't see the maps very good. I'm interested in > >time. I thank you for your time and cooperation. You have a Merry > >Christmas and a Happy New Year. > > Merry christmas to you too. Since I don't have a way to do this offhand, > I'll give you a pointer to some information that will allow you to do this. > The folks who maintain the Timezone Database and the various access > routines have a mailing list at tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov. Current > versions of their database and access library live at > ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub. > > -- > Paul I was asked by Paul if I could refer to you on this matter. Can youhelp me out? Can I be on your mailing list. Contact me by email. Thank you for your cooperation and you have a very peaceful and joyous holiday season. Sincerely, Brian Sawyer

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FW: Non Delivery Report
by Olson, Arthur David Dec. 10, 1997

Dec. 10, 1997

Note that Denis is not on the time zone list; you may want to include Denis in any replies. --ado ---------- From: Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr[SMTP:Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 11:00 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Cc: Denis.Excoffier(a)ens.fr Subject: europe France 1891 Extracted from the "europe" file : # Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Whitman's more precise 0:09:05. Should be 0:09:21 instead. By the way, is there somewhere a lastest version of those files ? Another question : my zdump seems to be broken (mentions 1970 too often). Ever heard about this ? (solaris2.5, sparc20) Have a nice day, Scof.

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europe France 1891
by Denis.Excoffier＠ens.fr Dec. 10, 1997

Dec. 10, 1997

Extracted from the "europe" file : # Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Whitman's more precise 0:09:05. Should be 0:09:21 instead. By the way, is there somewhere a lastest version of those files ? Another question : my zdump seems to be broken (mentions 1970 too often). Ever heard about this ? (solaris2.5, sparc20) Have a nice day, Scof.

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Timezone settings for rarotonga wrong.
by Alan Brown Dec. 2, 1997

Dec. 2, 1997

This may have already been corrected. Rarotonga stopped using Daylight Savings Time at least 6 years ago, probably 8 years ago. It's tropical, so there's no sense in them using it. Daylight savngs was used to keep them in sync with New Zealand's daylight savings changes. (Rarotonga is the main island of the Cook Islands - a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand) It's also 10 hours behind GMT/UTC, not ahead of it. Regards Alan Brown.

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FW: Time zone data
by Olson, Arthur David Dec. 1, 1997

Dec. 1, 1997

Charlie Hendricksen is not on the time zone list; please be sure that Charlie is included in any replies. --ado ---------- From: Charlie Hendricksen[SMTP:veritas@u.washington.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 27, 1997 2:58 PM To: ao1d(a)nih.gov Subject: Time zone data Mr. Olson, I found a reference to your timezone work in Bill Thoen's page. I poked around in the ftp server and noticed five files, all nice and big! I experienced difficulty in extracting the tzarchive.gz. so I thought I would contact you before trying any of the other files. I am interested in obtaining a file of the geocoded boundaries of the time zones. I realize that time zones are marvelously complex and frequently changing, so I don't expect perfection. Since I have access to Arc/Info, I prefer the GIS approach to laborious entry of data into a spreadsheet. Can you steer me in the right direction? -- Charlie Hendricksen veritas(a)u.washington.edu

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Happy Leap Second!
by Chris Newman Nov. 24, 1997

Nov. 24, 1997

I hope everyone enjoys their extra second! This also serves as a test to see what really happens if there is a "60" for seconds in the date header. - Chris

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Please help with general info
by Mark Halliday Nov. 22, 1997

Nov. 22, 1997

Hi. I'm working on a project that requires rendering historical data with gmt timestamps in various local timezones. I found this email address in the "europe" file in the glibc-2.0.5\time directory. Can you point me to an overview of the files in this directory, or any other timezone conversion documentation? Who is responsible for maintaining the tables and code is this directory? The Readme file refers to "tzdata1997a package by Arthur David Olsen et.al." I couldn't find any info about this package in the gnu ftp tree. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance, Mark # @(#)europe 7.45 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).

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FW: 32-bit 2038 issue
by Olson, Arthur David Nov. 21, 1997

Nov. 21, 1997

> > changing time_t to an unsigned int would give another 68 years > But that would break backward compatibility with many applications. > Few vendors have gone to an unsigned time_t (in fact, I don't know of > any offhand) and there are good reasons for this. A possibility would be to interpret the values in time zone files as unsigned WITHOUT changing the type of time_t. --ado

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beta versions of time zone stuff
by Olson, Arthur David Nov. 20, 1997

Nov. 20, 1997

The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcodebeta.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdatabeta.tar.gz are now available. 1. zic puts "TZif" at the start of each file it outputs. 2. zic looks for lines of the form #Updated Zone America/New_York 1997 Nov 19 17:58:00 and #Updated Rule NYC 1997 Nov 19 17:58:00 and, when generating output for a zone, stamps the output with the greatest "Updated" time for the zone or any of the rules it uses. Comments heartily solicited! --ado

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Request
by Gatsometer Nov. 17, 1997

Nov. 17, 1997

Hello everyone, I am Peter Smit and working for Gatsometer Holland in R&D. Our equipment for traffic control is exported all over the world. I am looking for some data base or algorithm that produces GMT offset or TZ name if longitude and latitude are input from GPS. Perhaps any of you know someone or an institute that can help. I have taked a look at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata*.tar.gz already and found there the file zone.tab. But maybe someone knows some other stuff. Thanks for your response. Regards, Peter Smit

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