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[PROPOSED] * northamerica: Herbert Copeland stops time.
by Paul Eggert Nov. 30, 2018

Nov. 30, 2018

--- northamerica | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index e590a30..17597e2 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -792,6 +792,22 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 # For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana # +# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-30): +# A brief but entertaining history of time in Indiana describes a 1949 debate +# in the Indiana House where city legislators (who favored "fast time") +# tussled with farm legislators (who didn't) over a bill to outlaw DST: +# "Lacking enough votes, the city faction tries to filibuster until time runs +# out on the session at midnight, but rural champion Rep. Herbert Copeland, +# R-Madison, leans over the gallery railing and forces the official clock +# back to 9 p.m., breaking it in the process. The clock sticks on 9 as the +# debate rages on into the night. The filibuster finally dies out and the +# bill passes, while outside the chamber, clocks read 3:30 a.m. In the end, +# it doesn't matter which side won. The law has no enforcement powers and +# is simply ignored by fast-time communities." +# How Indiana went from 'God's time' to split zones and daylight-saving. +# Indianapolis Star. 2018-11-27 14:58 -05. +# https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/27/indianapolis-indian… +# # From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): # Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, # with the following exceptions: -- 2.17.1

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Timezone history for some Pacific Islands.
by Phake Nick Nov. 30, 2018

Nov. 30, 2018

>From a Japanese wiki site https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/南洋群島の標準時 there are some time change history about Pacific Islands that are not included in the tz database. Mainly, the history of time used in those islands during, before and after Japanese administration, and also DST used in Guam during 1960s and 1970s. For "Southern Islands" (modern region of Mariana + Palau + Federation of Micronesia + Marshall Islands): * A 1906 Japanese magazine shown the Caroline Islands and Mariana Islands who was occupied by Germany at the time as GMT+10, together with the like of German New Guinea. However there is a marking saying it have not been implemented (yet). No further information after that were found. * Japan invaded those islands in 1914, and records shows that they were instructed to use JST at the time * 1915 January telecommunication record on the Jaluit Atoll shows they use the meridian of 170E as standard time (GMT+11:20), which is similar to the longitude of the atoll. * 1915 February record say the 170E standard time is to be used until February 9 noon, and after February 9 noon they are to use JST. * However these are time used within the Japanese Military at the time and probably does not reflect the time used by local resident at the time (that is if they keep their own time back then) * In January 1919 the occupying force issued a command that split the area into three different timezone with meridian of 135E, 150E, 165E (JST+0, +1, +2), and the command was to become effective from February 1 of the same year. Despite the target of the command is still only for the occupying force itself, further publication have described the time as the standard time for the occupied area and thus it can probably be seen as such. ** Area that use meridian of 135E: Palau and Yap civil administration area (Southern Islands Western Standard Time) ** Area that use meridian of 150E: Truk(Chuuk) and Saipan civil administration area (Southern Islands Central Standard Time) ** Area that use meridian of 165E: Ponape(Pohnpei) and Jaluit civil administration area. (Southern Islands Eastern Standard Time) ** In the next few years Japanese occupation of those islands have been formalized via League of Nation Mandate (South Pacific Mandate) and formal governance structure have been established, these district [become subprefectures] and timezone classification have been inherited as standard time of the area. ** Saipan subprefecture include Mariana islands (exclude Guam which was occupied by America at the time), Palau and Yap subprefecture rule the Western Caroline Islands with 137E longitude as border, Truk and Ponape subprefecture rule the Eastern Caroline Islands with 154E as border, Ponape subprefecture also rule part of Marshall Islands to the west of 164E starting from (1918?) and Jalnuit subprefecture rule the rest of the Marshall Islands. * And then in year 1937, an announcement was made to change the time in the area into 2 timezones: ** Area that use meridian of 135E: area administered by Palau, Yap and Saipan subprefecture (Southern Islands Western Standard Time) ** Area that use meridian of 150E: area administered by Truk(Chuuk), Ponape(Pohnpei) and Jaluit subprefecture (Southern Islands Eastern Standard Time) * Another announcement issued in 1941 say that on April 1 that year, standard time of the Southern Islands would be changed to use the meridian of 135E (GMT+9), and thus abolishing timezone different within the area. * Then Pacific theater of WWII started and Japan slowly lose control on the island. The webpage I linked above contain no information during this period of time. Guam Island was briefly annexed by Japan during this period of time [year 1941-1944], however there are no detailed information about what time it use during that period. It would probably be reasonable to assume Guam use GMT+9 during that period of time like the surrounding area. * After the end of WWII, in 1946 February, a document written by the (former?) Japanese military personnel describe there are 3 hours time different between Caroline islands time/Wake island time and the Chungking time, which would mean the time being used there at the time was GMT+10. * After that, the area become Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands under American administration from year 1947. The site listed some American/International books/maps/publications about time used in those area during this period of time but they doesn't seems to be reliable information so it would be the best if someone know where can more reliable information can be found. * The site also pointed out that currently tzdata say Pacific/Kwajalein switched from GMT+11 to GMT-12 in 1969 October without explanation, however an 1993 article from NYT say it synchorized its day with US mainland about 40 years ago and thus the switch should occur at around 1950s instead. * Also, the NYT article linked in that website say the jump from GMT-12 to GMT+12 in year 1993 skipped Saturday that day, however the comment in tz database from that year say it skipped Friday. That seems to be an inconsistency that should be investigated, and the comment should probably be annotated accordingly if the comment was not accurate ANd then additional note for Bonin Islands: While not part of the Southern Islands, in the period of time during 1952-1968, Bonin Islands were placed under American administration. It would probably be worth investigating whether they're following the Japanese time or the Mariana time or some other time standard at the time. And then for Guam: * Currently tz database say Guam stopped using local mean time at 1901 but a 1902 earthquake report on Guam seems to be using LMT in the report when compares to the time the earthquake recorded on the Philippines (the site note that it take times for earthquake wave to transmit and thus the time different between records in different place would not be identical to the time different) ** The site say Shanks used 1901 end date for LMT time for a number of places around the world, probably using them as placeholder. Maybe those 1901 end date should be nuked from tz database? * A Japanese magazine in 1906 say Guam's time is "1.5 hours earlier than Japan" and "use 145 degree E meridian" which are contradictory to each other as 145E meridian mean GMT+9:40 and that is not 1.5 hours earlier than Japan. * And then there are some different records about Guam used GMT+9:30 at the time but each of those documents seems to give different transition time for when they give up :30 time different and move to GMT+10. But it most likely occurred before 1927 as a map published by US Navy that year shows Guam as using GMT+10, which appears to be credible as Guam was under US Military administration at the time. * As mentioned above, Guam was invaded by Japan during year 1941-1944. It's unclear about did they shifted the clock to match the surrounding islands during this period of time. * Then in year 1959 there's a daylight saving time act passed for Guam. There is a table on the site that include list an link to time and order for implementation and cancellation of DST at Guam but the implementation time seems to be all over the place according to the list. The last time the DST was implemented in Guam according to the table seems to be 1977 although I am not sure about the completeness of the table. If so then maybe a new zone for CNI would need to be created as it's after 1970 and the DST should be applicable to Guam only?

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Question about the UNTIL fields
by Marcos Passos Nov. 29, 2018

Nov. 29, 2018

Hello everyone, I'm working on a TZDB parser for a PHP project and reading the zic8.txt I came across with the following information: The month, day, and time of day have the same format as the IN, ON, and AT > fields of a rule However, I could not find any Zone line in the latest version of the TZDB containing relative dates, such as "lastSun" or "sun>=5", but only absolute dates. Is this a mistake in the documentation or are relative dates actually supported on those lines but have never been used? - Marcos

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Stop
by The OneCloud Nov. 29, 2018

Nov. 29, 2018

Stop

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query regarding issue will updating open JDK timezone info with tzdata2018g
by Dhanusha, Pb (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) Nov. 26, 2018

Nov. 26, 2018

Hi, We are facing issues while updating open JDK timezone with tzdata2018g with the below error. #/usr/bin/java -jar /root/tzupdater.jar -l file:/root/tzdata2018g.tar.gz Failed: java.lang.Exception: Failed while parsing file '/tmp/tz.tmp/asia' on line 1655 'Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 25:00 0 S' java.lang.Exception: Failed while parsing file '/tmp/tz.tmp/asia' on line 1655 'Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 25:00 0 S' at tools.tzdb.TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.parseFile(TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.java:377) at tools.tzdb.TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.compile(TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.java:191) at tools.tzdb.TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.<init>(TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.java:307) at com.sun.tools.tzupdater.ExternalModule.compileToJSRBinary(ExternalModule.java:212) at com.sun.tools.tzupdater.TimezoneUpdater.run(TimezoneUpdater.java:226) at com.sun.tools.tzupdater.TimezoneUpdater.main(TimezoneUpdater.java:780) Caused by: tools.tzdb.DateTimeException: Invalid value for SecondOfDay value: 90000 at tools.tzdb.ChronoField.checkValidValue(ChronoField.java:173) at tools.tzdb.LocalTime.ofSecondOfDay(LocalTime.java:210) at tools.tzdb.TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.parseMonthDayTime(TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.java:475) at tools.tzdb.TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.parseRuleLine(TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.java:399) at tools.tzdb.TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.parseFile(TzdbZoneRulesCompiler.java:354) ... 5 more Could you please help us with this. Regards, Dhanusha

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Help - Morocco timezone wrong since 28 Oct 2018
by Heidi Hendry Nov. 25, 2018

Nov. 25, 2018

Hi, Based on this version of the TZ values: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdate?tz=Africa/Casablanca the Africa/Casablanca timezone is wrong. Morocco abruptly changed the timezone (see this BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45995634 ) and Android phones and other UX distributions appear to be wrong every since. Africa/Casablanca is +1 GMT now, and there is NO daylight savings any more. Please, please could you fix this in TZ so that it distributes out for other updates? Regards Heidi Hendry

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Correcting daylight-savings time for central Missouri prior to 1967
by Jane Eisenstein Nov. 24, 2018

Nov. 24, 2018

I was born and raised in central Missouri and know most of Missouri did not observe daylight-savings time prior to 1967. Areas close to Kansas City or St. Louis did observe daylight-savings time prior to 1967. I’ve also attached supporting scans of Missouri daylight-savings time information from the 1991 revision of Time Changes in the U.S.A. by Doris Chase Doane. The timezones database appears to assume all Missouri observed daylight savings whenever Chicago, Illinois did. I would like to correct this mistake, but am not clear how to go about doing so. Can the daylight-savings time be set at the state level, then overridden for particular communities? Best regards, Jane Eisenstein

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Nauru Time history
by Phake Nick Nov. 19, 2018

Nov. 19, 2018

* Currently, the tz database say Nauru use LMT until 1921, and then switched to GMT+11:30 for the next two decades. * However, a number of timezone map published in America/Japan back then showed its timezone as GMT+11 per https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/ナウルの標準時 * And it would also be nice if the 1921 transition date could be sourced. * The tz database currently show Nauru use GMT+9 within the time of 1942 Mar 15 and 1944 Aug 15, however the correspondence is not exact as Nauru was still under Japanese rule until year 1945. And I don't think it's likely for such switch to occur during WWII so it's probably an error. * Currently tz database shows the +11:30 -> +12 transition date as 1979 May, however the "Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 Time Change" http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/gazettes/4b23a17d2030150404db7a5fa587… based on "Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 Time Change" http://www.paclii.org/nr/legis/num_act/nsta1978207/ defined that "Nauru Alternative Time" (GMT+12) should be in effect from 1979 Feb. Thus it appears that the current tz database transition time might be incorrect.

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Hong Kong time 1941
by Phake Nick Nov. 18, 2018

Nov. 18, 2018

Today I went to check microfilm records stored at Hong Kong Public Library and found following situation that are inconsistent with tz database record. * Around April 1 1941, there're no news about DST on various newspapers that I checked. Time given for sunrise/sunset around the period are also continuous (as in they're minutes within each others on those days, indicating there are no change to time standard around 1941 April 1. * I have subsequently checked Hong Kong Observatory's site and the site now list the 1941 DST start date for Hong Kong as June 15. (url is same as the one in tz file but content is different from when the 2009 comment was made) I have not tried validating the info from those newspapers as I wasn't aware of the table's current content until I stopped using the library. * And then, on September 30 1941, according to Ta Kung Pao (Hong Kong edition), it was stated that fallback would occur on the next day (the 1st)'s "03:00 am (Hong Kong Time 04:00 am)" and the clock will fall back for a half hour. (03:00 probably refer to the time commonly used in mainland China at the time given the paper's background), after it was spring forward for an hour months ago. I cannot find out record of English newspaper from that day, but the sunrise/sunset time given by South China Morning Post for October 1st was indeed moved by half an hour compares to before. * After that, in December, the battle to capture Hong Kong started and the library doesn't seems to have any record stored about press during that period of time. Some media resumed publication soon after that within the same month, but there were not much information about time there. Later they started including a radio program guide when they restored radio service, explicitly mentioning it use Tokyo standard time, and later added a note saying it's half an hour ahead of the old Hong Kong standard time, and it also seems to indicate that Hong Kong was not using GMT+8 when it was captured by Japan. * Image of related sections on newspaper: 1941 September 30, Ta Kung Pao (Hing Kong) , "Winter Time starr tomorrow": https://i.imgur.com/6waY51Z.jpg (Chinese) 1941 September 29, South China Morning Post, Information on sunrise/sunset time and other things for September 30 and October 1: https://i.imgur.com/kCiUR78.jpg 1942 February 5, The Hong Kong News, Radio Program Guide: https://i.imgur.com/eVvDMzS.jpg

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Higgins Time and TZ DB c.1886
by Brian Inglis Nov. 17, 2018

Nov. 17, 2018

Links to an interesting article and artifact referenced in comments on: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/08/higgins-time/ Arabian Flying Is Confusing article - Port Angeles Evening News, March 10, 1965, p. 4: https://newspaperarchive.com/port-angeles-evening-news-mar-10-1965-p-4/ Kendal & Dent's Time Chart of the World c.1886 - Evanion Catalogue - BL: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/evanion/FullImage.aspx?EvanID=024-000002349&Im… -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.

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