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DST extended to November in Syria
by Steffen Thorsen Oct. 2, 2007

Oct. 2, 2007

It seems that Syria was not leaving daylight saving time on 2007-10-01, since it is in the middle of the holy Ramadan month. I have tried to find some info regarding the change, and found the following text in a newspaper (in Arabic): http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=18418 I cannot find that the exact date is there, but 2007-11-01 could be a likely date. Since 2008-10-01 also is in Ramadan (the last date of the month, probably), it is likely that also next year's end date is changed. Google's automated translation of the mentioned URL says: Government set to start with the beginning of winter time in November next unusually where the timing was unusual beginning with the month of October. The postponement of this year due to believe that the holy month of Ramadan and Eid, which ends with the middle of next month, so there is no irregularities in the fasting hours of magic and breakfast with changing times has been postponed to next month.

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Brazil's Time
by Haroldo Macedo Oct. 2, 2007

Oct. 2, 2007

Hello, I've noticed that the Brazil`s daylight saving time isn't updated in your site. It has been officially defined on Sept-26th, and starts on 14-oct-2007 and ends on 17-feb-2008. Below is the link to the Brazilian senate. http://www6.senado.gov.br/legislacao/ListaTextoIntegral.action?id=235121 Attn, -- Haroldo R. J. de Macêdo

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tzcode2007h.tar.gz and tzdata2007h.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 1, 2007

Oct. 1, 2007

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2007h.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007h.tar.gz ...are now available; these reflect the changes circulated last week by Paul Eggert on the time zone mailing list, as well as an updated link to the ICU project in tz-link.htm. --ado

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Brazil summer time 2007/2008
by Marcus Alves Grando Oct. 1, 2007

Oct. 1, 2007

Hi, Like another years, Brazil change summer time for this year. Can you update zoneinfo and release ASAP for inclusion in many distributions? Patch attached. Regards -- Marcus Alves Grando marcus(at)sbh.eng.br | Personal mnag(at)FreeBSD.org | FreeBSD.org

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new tz database implementation
by Rich Tibbett Sept. 29, 2007

Sept. 29, 2007

Hello, I'd like to let you know that I have been working on a small project to map country borders to the information provided by the tz database. I thought it might be quite interesting, as you can effectively enter any co-ordinate points on earth and it will return the time for the given location. Additionally you can enter any country, town, city, street name or zip code and it will give you the time, thanks to those clever guys over at Google. Currently, I've evaluated the accuracy to be 96%, with an accuracy at timezone borders to within 3 miles. Do you think that this is an acceptable starting point for launch? Those last few percent are proving very difficult indeed! I will be continuing this project, as I think it may be useful to someone, somewhere in the future. However, I would appreciate your feedback and input should you have any comments or questions or thoughts at this stage. Many Thanks, Richard

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warning in localtime.c
by Phillip Hellewell Sept. 28, 2007

Sept. 28, 2007

I'm getting this warning in localtime.c on the last line of differ_by_repeat function. This is 2007g code. warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type Is this something I should be worried about? Phillip

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Detroit/Cleveland time zones
by Jeff Prucher Sept. 27, 2007

Sept. 27, 2007

Here is some support for Garland's assertion that ``Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks one hour in 1914.'' (Well, at least the Cleveland part.) This does suggest that parts of Ohio were in the central time zone before then, and not in North America/New York. >From "The Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate", June 18, 1914, page 4, column 2: Cleveland and several other Ohio cities have recently changed or planned to change their clocks from Central to Eastern standard time. As every clock will be set one hour ahead, that means that there will be one hour more of day-light after supper or dinner, whichever the evening meal is called. >From "The Ogden (Utah) Standard", June 20, 1914, page 4, column 1 : Cleveland is about to change its clocks from central to eastern standard time, in order to make longer the period after working hours until dark. Jeff Prucher

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Time Zone change in Venezuela (GMT -04:30) will be postponed for 2-3 weeks
by Alex Krivenyshev Sept. 27, 2007

Sept. 27, 2007

Time Zone change in Venezuela (GMT -04:30) will be postponed for 2-3 weeks ... http://opinion.eluniversal.com/2007/08/21/pol_ava_ministro-navarro:- es_21A935917.shtml http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_venezuela04.html Alex Krivenyshev, WTZ.com http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/ New York, NY

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El Salvador
by Bobby Rullo Sept. 26, 2007

Sept. 26, 2007

Hello, I have written a timezone library (including a parser) in JavaScript and am running into a bit of confusion with this particular Zone and Rule: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S # There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador # instead of America/San_Salvador. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador -6:00 Salv C%sT My question is, what is the applicable Rule for any date after 1988? The last "Salv" Rule ends in 1988, and the Zone states that Salv is the Rule from 1921 on (no UNTIL specified) I've done a "man zic" hoping to see something like "If there is no applicable Rule, just use the basic offset and assume that the LETTER is 'S'", but I could not find anything like that. Is that the correct behavior? Thanks Bobby

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5 Indiana counties are going back to Eastern Time zone- no clocks change after Nov 4, 2007
by Alex Krivenyshev Sept. 26, 2007

Sept. 26, 2007

U.S. DOT announced that five Indiana counties (Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin and Pike) are moving from Central to Eastern time- keep their clocks unchange after November 4, 2007. http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_usa02.html http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/sep/20/some-counties-get-ok-move-back- eastern-time-zone/ Alex Krivenyshev, WTZ.com http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/ New York, NY

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