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tz-latest checksum
by Paul G Feb. 7, 2015

Feb. 7, 2015

I'm looking into writing a python script which retrieves the latest timezone database from the FTP server, but I'm wondering if there's anywhere that a checksum of the tz-latest files can be found anywhere. At the moment, we manually specify the latest version of the database, and calculate the sha512 checksum whenever it is updated. I see that the GPG signature is available, but I would very much like to avoid adding any dependencies to the library. Is there anywhere that I retrieve the checksum for the latest tzdata file using one of the hashes supported by hashlib? (SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512 or MD5) Of course this defeats the implied MITM protection that retrieving a "known good" or signed checksum provides, but it at least retains the checksum / corrupted file protection. Thanks!

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Re: [tz] Positive leap second on 2015-06-30.
by Denis Excoffier Feb. 7, 2015

Feb. 7, 2015

On 2015-01-06 21:22, Tim Parenti wrote: > +# Some systems implement leap seconds by amortizing the leap second > +# over the last few minutes of the day. The frequency of the local > +# clock is decreased (or increased) to realize the positive (or > +# negative) leap second. This method removes the time step described > +# above. Although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct > +# in this case, this method introduces an error during the adjustment > +# period both in time and in frequency with respect to the official > +# defintion of UTC. s/defintion/definition/ Regards, Denis Excoffier.

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Chilean time change
by Glenn Eychaner Feb. 7, 2015

Feb. 7, 2015

I have been following Diario Official for the past couple of weeks (http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl) and have yet to see an official announcement regarding the change of time zone rules. In addition, SHOA has yet to update their web site (http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio_hora.html) -G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner(a)lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory

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Re: [tz] Fwd: Quintana Roo change to EST?
by Matt Johnson Feb. 7, 2015

Feb. 7, 2015

The CENAM belongs to the Economic Secretary. My understanding is that this is the official department that would set the policy - similar to NIST in the US. ________________________________ From: Paul Eggert<mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: ‎2/‎5/‎2015 4:29 PM To: Matt Johnson<mailto:mj1856@hotmail.com>; Time Zone Database<mailto:tz@iana.org> Subject: Re: [tz] Fwd: Quintana Roo change to EST? There were conflicting reports about this back when Mexico was considering doing the change in October of this year. As I understand it, Mexico decided to move the change up to this month, and to stay on EST all year. For a brief summary please see: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mexico-quintana-roo-time-zone.html It could well be that this is wrong. There's at least one English-language source saying that it hasn't been decided whether Quintana Roo will observe DST: http://www.blogsouthwest.com/who-moved-my-queso-cancun-changes-time-zone/ and perhaps we'll need a further update once this becomes decided or sufficiently clear. That being said, my (admittedly limited) understanding of QRoo politics suggests that they won't observe DST this year. That CENAM web page is reasonably generic and perhaps its author didn't think about (or want to think about) predicting exactly what will happen in April.

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Fwd: Quintana Roo change to EST?
by Gwillim Law Feb. 6, 2015

Feb. 6, 2015

My translation of the cited article: "... the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current time, ... "Federal deputy Lizbeth Gamboa Song stated that a new change for the month of April is not considered as yet, given that only the State will advance to summer time. "Nevertheless, the deputy noted that Summer Time has applied in Mexico since 1996, to which all entities of the federation adhere, advancing their clocks one hour. In addition, she noted that it is yet unknown whether Quintana Roo will participate in a further change, but if so, the authorities will officially publish that fact in due time." My Spanish is not native level, but I think the article makes it clear that the decision about DST for Quintana Roo has not yet been made. Gwillim Law On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Steffen Thorsen <thorsen(a)timeanddate.com> wrote: > On 08/12/14 14:18 , Steffen Thorsen wrote: > >> The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015, by >> not >> going back from DST in October 2015. Its a bit unclear if they will still >> observe >> DST the years after. >> > According to this source, Quintana Roo will change to EST as soon as 1 > February 2015 at 2am: > http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva- > zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html > > Through Google Translate, it says "According to the authorities, the term > of the new time zone start at two o'clock on the first Sunday of February, > when we brought forward one hour actual[?] hours, so the clock will be > three o'clock." > > Also, the new zone will not use DST. > > > Best regards, > Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com >

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US DST Legislation
by Ray at the Time Zone Report Feb. 4, 2015

Feb. 4, 2015

Greetings, I'm new to the TZ list, but wanted to mention that I've got several venues where I provide pending legislation information relating to Daylight Saving Time and Time Zones in the US. There's a full set of statuses at http://TimeZoneReport.com updated daily, plus Twitter, Facebook, and podcast feeds. In case you haven't heard, an Interesting DST news day yesterday: * Washington state Representative Elizabeth Scott spoke before the House State Government Committee yesterday, and brief discussion on her bill HB 1479 was on the positive side. * Mississippi's SB 2180 for Year-Round DST died in the Senate Rules Committee. * I received a call from the US Department of Transportation Office of the General Counsel, and he provided information which I will summarize on the web site later today. Bottom line: states can opt out of DST, or they can stay with DST as defined in 15 USC 260a - no other option is permitted, such as Year-Round DST; and US DOT is unlikely to approve any state's request to change time zones. * Utah has a NEW bill HB 247 proposing to simply move to Central Time, in sort of a "why ask for permission" move, filed yesterday at 4:55pm. The legislative review note mentions the "high probability that a court will hold that the bill is preempted by federal law and is unconstitutional under the Supremacy Clause". so they know this bill is doomed. * A Missouri Representative has filed House Joint Resolution 38 intending to submit to voters an initiative which "establishes daylight saving time as new standard time", if passed. Sort of a "we're just going to move the clocks forward and call that 'standard time' from now on." With Mississippi dropping out plus the addition of Missouri, there are still nine US States with active DST/TZ legislation pending. Ray ----- Ray Harwood Time Zone Report, a service of GoodClix, Inc. in the interest of public health <http://www.TimeZoneReport.com> http://www.TimeZoneReport.com and Twitter: @TimeZoneReport

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Oregon to reconsider DST
by Matt Johnson Feb. 4, 2015

Feb. 4, 2015

If passed, Oregon SB99 would repeal DST - effective 2021. Wouldn't it be nice if all DST changes gave such ample notice! Bill, including full text:https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015R1/Measures/Overview/SB99 Found courtesy of M3 Sweatt at Microsofthttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/mthree/archive/2015/02/02/oregondst-020215…

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MSFT open-sourced CoreCLR, timezone bits inside
by Andrew Paprocki Feb. 3, 2015

Feb. 3, 2015

For anyone that is interested, Microsoft open-sourced the .NET CoreCLR: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr Inside are the bits that read Microsoft's timezone data from the registry and provide the .NET interface: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/src/mscorlib/src/System/TimeZ… -Andrew

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[PATCH] make check_white_space fix for leap-seconds.list
by Paul Eggert Jan. 31, 2015

Jan. 31, 2015

* Makefile (check_white_space): Allow trailing white space in leap-seconds.list. This file is maintained by NIST, and the current version has trailing white space, and has a checksum making it inadvisable for us to remove the trailing white space in our copy. Also, coalesce two 'grep' calls into one, and check for weird white space characters anywhere, not just before line end. --- Makefile | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9e8e468..2503463 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -484,9 +484,9 @@ check_character_set: $(ENCHILADA) ! grep -Env $(VALID_LINE) $(ENCHILADA) check_white_space: $(ENCHILADA) - ! grep -n ' '$(TAB_CHAR) $(ENCHILADA) - ! grep -n '[[:space:]]$$' $(ENCHILADA) - ! grep -n "$$(printf '[\f\r\v]\n')" $(ENCHILADA) + ! grep -En ' '$(TAB_CHAR)"|$$(printf '[\f\r\v]')" $(ENCHILADA) + ! grep -n '[[:space:]]$$' \ + $$(ls $(ENCHILADA) | grep -Fvx leap-seconds.list) CHECK_CC_LIST = { n = split($$1,a,/,/); for (i=2; i<=n; i++) print a[1], a[i]; } -- 2.1.0

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Time Zone Database
by Antonio Gutierrez Jan. 31, 2015

Jan. 31, 2015

Hi, We need to update our timezone version of our jdk, but we are not sure it the latest version of tzdata2014j will work fine with our current version of jdk 1.6. Could you confirm that there won't be any problem about this? Many thanks, Antonio

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