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strftime(3) fix
by Sascha Wildner Oct. 30, 2008

Oct. 30, 2008

Hello, please consider applying the following patch. It was recently committed to FreeBSD (see http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/lib/libc/stdtime/strftime.c?view=lo…) --- strftime.c.orig 2008-10-30 22:09:54 +0100 +++ strftime.c 2008-10-30 22:11:23 +0100 @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ { int warn2 = IN_SOME; - pt = _fmt(Locale->c_fmt, t, pt, ptlim, warnp); + pt = _fmt(Locale->c_fmt, t, pt, ptlim, &warn2); if (warn2 == IN_ALL) warn2 = IN_THIS; if (warn2 > *warnp) Regards, Sascha

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neverending Argentinian changes... Carmen de Patagones
by Mariano Absatz - El Baby Oct. 29, 2008

Oct. 29, 2008

The city of Carmen de Patagones (Provincia de Buenos Aires) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_de_Patagones is "twin" to Viedma (Provincia de Río Negro) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viedma and many people in one city works or studies in the other... Since Río Negro is at UTC-3 and Buenos Aires at UTC-2, this has become more than a nuissance for people living in one city and working in the other one or, worse yet, having a different job in each or studying in one city and working in the other one... http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1061607 http://www.lanueva.com/edicion_impresa/nota/29/10/2008/8at064.html The Intendente (Major?) of Carmen the Patagones asked the Governor of the Provincia de Buenos Aires to allow the city to adhere to UTC-3... apparently the Governor will reject it (and allow schools and public offices to change their timetables so as to coordinate them with the UTC-3 but calling it differently)... Except for the Provincial Bank (Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) that must keep the same timetable in the whole Province... If this goes on like this (that is, Carmen de Patagones keeps the same timezone as the rest of the Province), then we're fine... otherwise... we'll have to split America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires into yet another timezone called America/Argentina/C_de_Patagones or something like that :-( I'll keep you posted... -- Mariano Absatz - "El Baby" baby(a)baby.com.ar www.clueless.com.ar -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Real programmers use: cat > a.out http://xkcd.com/378/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * TagZilla 0.066 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org

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FW: file-format
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 27, 2008

Oct. 27, 2008

I'm forwarding this message from hsv, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: hsv(a)tbbs.net [mailto:hsv@tbbs.net] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 3:01 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: file-format The man-page describes a fairly loose fileformat, but the actual files show less loosness: there is no quoted sharp (#), all one name s Rules are in a bunch in time order, with no other Rule or Zone in between, all weekday-names are three-letter-long abbreviations of capital letter and twain small letters. Can I afford to count on that, or is it really needful to pars a much looser-formatted file than really is there?

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file-format
by hsv＠tbbs.net Oct. 27, 2008

Oct. 27, 2008

The man-page describes a fairly loose fileformat, but the actual files show less loosness: there is no quoted sharp (#), all one name s Rules are in a bunch in time order, with no other Rule or Zone in between, all weekday-names are three-letter-long abbreviations of capital letter and twain small letters. Can I afford to count on that, or is it really needful to pars a much looser-formatted file than really is there?

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Makefile cleanup to make distro' lives easier
by Mike Frysinger Oct. 26, 2008

Oct. 26, 2008

what are the target systems for tzcode ? how do people feel about cleaning up the Makefile to better fit up-to-date systems ? we're carrying a Makefile clean up patch in Gentoo here: http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/timezone-data/files/timezone-data-2008h-… and really, most of that is generic ... -mike

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Re: DONATELLA SABELLICO/Italy/IBM is out of office.
by Nicolas Alvarez Oct. 25, 2008

Oct. 25, 2008

DONATELLA SABELLICO wrote: > > I will be out of the office starting 10/24/2008 and will not return until > 10/25/2008. > > Hello,I am out of office.I will be able to access to my email. For any > urgent issue please contact my manager.For technical issue please contact > Fabrizio Manzo . Why do so many people from IBM send these silly "out of office" notices to a *mailing list*?

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Looking for advices regarding tzdata
by Dmitri Pal Oct. 24, 2008

Oct. 24, 2008

Hi, I am new to tzdata and advanced time zone conversion technics that it offers. I read couple articles about tzdata on wikipedia and in man pages. So far I do not see what I am looking for so may be it just does not exist. Here is what I am trying to accomplish. Input: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS - date or some other date format that can be easily broken into tm structure. TZ information - I was hoping to use some kind of meaningful string so time zone names. Names from zone.dat would work perfectly. Output: Number of seconds since 1 Jan 1970 in UTC time that corresponds to the time stamp Processing: * The function that would do the conversion needs to parse and validate the format before conversion can happen. That includes validating the TZ name. * Would be nice to use standard libc functions to do this conversion as much as possible What is missing: I am currently on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1. It has /usr/share/zoneinfo and there I found zone.dat. Is there any function or set of functions that allow me to interact with this database like: get_next_timezone_name - to iterate through the list and get the timezone. Is there any abstraction around this file? In different distributions it can be in different places and under different names. But libc functions hide this complexity so is there any API that will let me to enumerate timezones and or check if the XXXX/YYYY is the correct valid time zone name without dealing with the file myself? Also the other part is determining the daylight savings at the moment of conversion in the specified time zone? Would it be something like breaking the input I have into the tm structure , calling tzset(timezonename) and then call mktime? #include <time.h> #include <stdlib.h> time_t my_time (struct tm *tm, char *timezonename) { time_t ret; char *tz; tz = getenv("TZ"); setenv("TZ", timezonename, 1); tzset(); ret = mktime(tm); if (tz) setenv("TZ", tz, 1); else unsetenv("TZ"); tzset(); return ret; } This example is based on the timegm example but seems to contradict mktime man page that states that mktime sets the timezone variable itself. In other words I can populate a part of the tm from the data I have but I need to populate the tm_isdst based on the timezone. Would the code above accomplish the task? I feel like something might be wrong with this but I am not sure what. So this is where I am and I am bit lost. Please advise. Thank you Dmitri Pal

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FW: list
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 24, 2008

Oct. 24, 2008

I'm forwarding this message from Nathan Heaivilin, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado From: Nathan Heaivilin [mailto:heaivilin@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:33 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: list To Whom it May Concern, I am trying to find a world list of Time Zones by Zip Codes and/or Area Code(and their respective foreign number) in sometype of downloadable format (CSV, XML, Excel, etc). Example: USA 33647 -6:00 GST USA 95400 -9:00 GST Europe xxxxx -x:xx GST Africa xxxxx +x:00 GST Does something like this exist? If so, do you have a copy available for download? If not, do you know where I can get it. Just trying to figure out a way to tie an address or phone number anywhere in the world to a time zone. Thank you very much for all of your assistance. Sincerely, Nathan Heaivilin

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FW: Olson Timezone Database does not have Australian daylight timezones
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Oct. 23, 2008

Oct. 23, 2008

I'm forwarding an excerpt from a message from Jamie Burns, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Burns, Jamie BGI SYD [mailto:Jamie.Burns@barclaysglobal.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:44 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Olson Timezone Database does not have Australian daylight timezones ...the Australian timezone names in the Olson Timezone Database are not at all consistent with the timezone names published by the Australian government. The Australian government has a complete list of Australian timezones at http://www.australia.gov.au/Time. Could the Australian timezones in the Olson Timezone Database be updated to the timezones published by the Australian government. Thanks. Jamie Burns -- This message and any attachments are confidential, proprietary, and may be privileged. If this message was misdirected, Barclays Global Investors (BGI) does not waive any confidentiality or privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and destroy the message without disclosing its contents to anyone. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. The views and opinions expressed in this e-mail message are the author's own and may not reflect the views and opinions of BGI, unless the author is authorized by BGI to express such views or opinions on its behalf. All email sent to or from this address is subject to electronic storage and review by BGI. Although BGI operates anti-virus programs, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever caused by viruses being passed.

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list
by Nathan Heaivilin Oct. 23, 2008

Oct. 23, 2008

To Whom it May Concern, I am trying to find a world list of Time Zones by Zip Codes and/or Area Code(and their respective foreign number) in sometype of downloadable format (CSV, XML, Excel, etc). Example: USA 33647 -6:00 GST USA 95400 -9:00 GST Europe xxxxx -x:xx GST Africa xxxxx +x:00 GST Does something like this exist? If so, do you have a copy available for download? If not, do you know where I can get it. Just trying to figure out a way to tie an address or phone number anywhere in the world to a time zone. Thank you very much for all of your assistance. Sincerely, Nathan Heaivilin

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