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Re: [tz] Haiti on DST
by Steve Jones March 10, 2013

March 10, 2013

At 09:33 3/10/2013, Steffen Thorsen wrote: >It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules >as US/Canada. >They did it last year as well, and it looks like they are going to >observe DST every year... So, the island of Hispaniola is divided in its DST observance. The Dominican Republic does not observe DST. Before this change, crossing the Haiti/DR border meant a transition between UTC-4 and UTC-5 all year long. Now, during DST, they are both UTC-4. Regards, Steve Jones OnTimeZone.com

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Ukraine Time Change
by Wong Ren March 10, 2013

March 10, 2013

Alexander Krivenyshev had written: "The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine has submitted a bill to abolish the daylight saving time. If approved, new bill will go into effect on March 1, 2013 and Ukraine will use UTC+2 year around" Does anyone know what will be new time zone abbreviation since Ukraine used to have EET ? Also, the tz2013a does not have the Ukraine time change, was the bill approved and any update soon? Regards, Ren Wong ________________________________ "This e-mail message may contain confidential, commercial or privileged information that constitutes proprietary information of Comverse Technology or its subsidiaries. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any review, use or distribution of this information is absolutely prohibited and we request that you delete all copies and contact us by e-mailing to: security(a)comverse.com. Thank You."

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Cuba DST start as US/Canada
by Steffen Thorsen March 8, 2013

March 8, 2013

FYI: Granma, the official organ of the government confirms a 2013-03-10 DST start this year. The database already assumes this, so no change is necessary, but Cuba has had different rules the past two years, so it was not obvious that this would be the start date this year. http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2013/03/04/nacional/artic10.html Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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Re: [tz] tzcode for windows?
by random832＠fastmail.us March 8, 2013

March 8, 2013

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013, at 15:53, Arthur David Olson wrote: > > Haven't looked at zdump yet, and it's less useful without the library > > functions anyway. > > In theory at least, zdump is independent of everything else in the package; > > as long as the functions it calls are available all should be well. Well, yes, but it's just dumping the MSVC implementation of timezones, which is less useful than if I could get it to link against the tzcode library. I did have to switch from environ-manipulation to putenv (need to make it do that conditionally then I'll make a patch) and call tzset. How exactly was it working before without ever calling tzset? Am I missing something? Or is it just that most unix implementations, and the tzcode implementation, happen to be tolerant of calling localtime without calling tzset?

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Timezones Morocco 2013 incorrect
by Erik Homoet March 7, 2013

March 7, 2013

Hi, For our internet airline booking engine of flights we¹re using the tzdata2012j version. In this version the DST timing for Morroco is not correct. We¹re facing a lot of problems because of this, this because a large amount of flights are departing from Morocco between 23:00 and 24:00. Morocco is also on Wintertime during the month of Ramadan. The correct timezone should be: WET DST starts on Sunday, 28 April 2013, 02:00 local standard time. DST ends on Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 03:00 local daylight time. DST starts on Thursday, 8 August 2013, 02:00 local standard time. DST ends on Sunday, 29 September 2013, 03:00 local daylight time. Source: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=60 Would you please be so kind to give me an indication when this can be changed? Best regards and thanks, Erik Erik Homoet Business Consultant quintessence consulting AMS mobile: +31 614534022 email: ehomoet(a)quintessence.net skype: erik_qc_ams

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dead code in zic
by christos＠zoulas.com March 7, 2013

March 7, 2013

On LP32 machines, the following code is dead: dayoff is long min_time is zic_t -> int_fast64_t if (dayoff < min_time / SECSPERDAY) { error(_("time too small")); return; } if (dayoff > max_time / SECSPERDAY) { error(_("time too large")); return; } The vax gcc-4.1 detects this; later versions of gcc don't. But all of them will warn, if you change min_time and max_time from const zic_t to #define's. What's the correct fix here? http://releng.netbsd.org/builds/HEAD/201303041020Z/vax.build.failed christos

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Paraguay may move out of DST earlier this year
by Carlos Raúl Perasso March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013

The Paraguayan Electric Company (ANDE) plans to move out of DST a couple of weeks earlier this year. There is nothing final yet. An article from a local newspaper: http://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/ande-quiere-adelantar-el-atraso-de-los-rel… I'll will report changes on this subject. Carlos Perasso

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Re: [tz] Discussion in ECMA about tz identifiers in JavaScript
by SM March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013

Hi Paul, At 13:07 05-03-2013, Paul_Koning(a)Dell.com wrote: >I don't agree. Such material would be "informational" exactly as it >is today, not "normative" -- it gives background, it doesn't create >any new requirements. The only consequence of having it in an RFC >is that it would be visible rather than buried. And based on the >discussion we've been having, that is clearly a needed improvement. There is an indirect link [1] between my comment and things that happened. It's useful to keep the project going [2]. Regards, -sm 1. http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2009-August/015750.html 2. http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2011-October/016898.html

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Discussion in ECMA about tz identifiers in JavaScript
by Shawn Steele March 5, 2013

March 5, 2013

In case anyone’s interested, there’s a discussion on es-discuss(a)mozilla.org<mailto:es-discuss@mozilla.org> (the ecmascript discussion list) about time zone identifiers in Javascript. -Shawn   http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste

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Re: [tz] Discussion in ECMA about tz identifiers in JavaScript
by SM March 5, 2013

March 5, 2013

Hi Norbert, At 10:28 05-03-2013, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >I wasn't aware of the Theory file, but found it after some digging. >Would it be possible to put the content of the "Names of time zone >rule files" section into a more prominent place? The best solution >for external references to the time zone database would actually be >an RFC containing that information - section 3 of RFC 6557 would >have been a good place. Has that been considered before? See http://www.ietf.org/timezones/code/Theory In my opinion there will be a loss of flexibility if the information is published as a RFC. Regards, -sm

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