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Europe/Kiev to be renamed to Europe/Kyiv
by Андрій Лавріненко Jan. 8, 2021

Jan. 8, 2021

Good afternoon! I'd like to report that the spelling of this Ukrainian city name has been changed from Kiev to *Kyiv*, as reflected by Google Maps <https://www.google.com/maps/place/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%97%D0%B2,+%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1…>, Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv>, the UN <https://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/ukraine.pdf>. Hope that will be useful to inform the tz name update. -- Best regards, Andrii Lavrinenko

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zic bug: Wall-clock ordering of transition times
by Tim Parenti Jan. 4, 2021

Jan. 4, 2021

I noticed a bug while incorporating changes to commentary for the Turks and Caicos Islands… https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-December/029609.html Our contemporaneous use of "3:00" in the UNTIL field for the 2018-03-11 change intentionally avoided two clock changes in a row (first from 01:59:59 AST to 01:00:00 EST, then from 01:59:59 EST to 03:00:00 EDT an hour later). https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/8792d7bed2c684cf842592fd7779645f335a33f6 My recently-added commentary clarifies the reasoning behind this and concludes that the order was likely intended to take effect from 03:00 -04, once the Eastern US had sprung forward, and not at 02:00 -04 as the text suggests. However, I noticed that using "2:00" in the UNTIL field instead doesn't actually result in the expected extra transition: --- to2050.tzs 2020-12-05 14:11:12.000000000 -0500 +++ to2050new.tzs 2020-12-05 14:17:31.000000000 -0500 @@ -5201,7 +5201,7 @@ 2014-03-09 03 -04 EDT 1 2014-11-02 01 -05 EST 2015-03-08 03 -04 AST -2018-03-11 03 -04 EDT 1 +2018-03-11 02 -04 EDT 1 2018-11-04 01 -05 EST 2019-03-10 03 -04 EDT 1 2019-11-03 01 -05 EST It seems that, the 02:00 wall-clock time having already been approached once for the transition out from AST, zic assumes that the transition specified in the US Rule at the same wall-clock time has also taken simultaneous effect in Eastern Time, although in reality it wouldn't yet for another hour. In this case, the wall-clock times of these two transitions are identical, while in actuality the transitions are meant to take effect sequentially. It appears that this bug also manifests in other cases where the strict ordering of transitions does not exactly match the strict ordering of wall-clock times: Trying out "2:30" in the UNTIL field should mean that the Zone transition should happen 30 minutes BEFORE the US Rule would take effect (and thus require two transitions), but by wall-clock time, it would "appear" to be 30 minutes AFTER (fooling zic into thinking only the "latter" Zone transition is needed as the Rule would have "already" taken effect). And, indeed, the results are similarly incorrect here, too: --- to2050.tzs 2020-12-05 14:11:12.000000000 -0500 +++ to2050new.tzs 2020-12-05 14:36:07.000000000 -0500 @@ -5201,7 +5201,7 @@ 2014-03-09 03 -04 EDT 1 2014-11-02 01 -05 EST 2015-03-08 03 -04 AST -2018-03-11 03 -04 EDT 1 +2018-03-11 02:30 -04 EDT 1 2018-11-04 01 -05 EST 2019-03-10 03 -04 EDT 1 2019-11-03 01 -05 EST Certainly an edge case in this particular instance, but given that many historical transitions coincide tightly with transitions in other regions being "joined" or "left", perhaps one worth a further look. -- Tim Parenti

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No Scottish time zone in the 1990s
by Clive D.W. Feather Dec. 30, 2020

Dec. 30, 2020

An interesting (for us on TZ) little bit of history. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50950961 "National archives: Sir John Major snubbed separate Scottish time zone" -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: clive(a)davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646

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[tz-announce] 2020f release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert Dec. 29, 2020

Dec. 29, 2020

The 2020f release of the tz code and data is available, reflecting the following change to the build procedure: 'make rearguard_tarballs' no longer generates a bad rearguard.zi, fixing a 2020e bug. (Problem reported by Deborah Goldsmith.) There are no changes to the data since 2020e. The build-procedure change was circulated on the tz mailing list and is intended for downstream consumers that can process only rearguard format. Please see the PS at the end of this email for more info about rearguard format. Here are links to the release files: https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2020f.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2020f.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2020f.tar.lz As usual, links to the latest release files are here: https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdb-latest.tar.lz Links are also available via plain HTTP, and via FTP from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases with the same basenames as above. Each release file has a GPG signature, which can be retrieved by appending ".asc" to the above URLs. Copies of these signatures are appended to this message. This release corresponds to commit 846c3ac7abc246094dd754ac6dc90423148a5107 dated 2020-12-29 00:17:46 -0800 and tagged '2020f' in the development GitHub repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. 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Joda-Time compiler broken again
by Stephen Colebourne Dec. 28, 2020

Dec. 28, 2020

The latest 2020e release broke the Joda-Time compiler again. https://github.com/JodaOrg/joda-time/runs/1607329443?check_suite_focus=true… Presumably, some rule now contains a 31 in a 30 day month now? Stephen

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[tz-announce] 2020e release of tz code and data available
by Paul Eggert Dec. 27, 2020

Dec. 27, 2020

The 2020e release of the tz code and data is available. It reflects the following changes, which were either circulated on the tz mailing list or are relatively minor technical or administrative changes: Briefly: Volgograd switches to Moscow time on 2020-12-27 at 02:00. Changes to future timestamps Volgograd changes time zone from +04 to +03 on 2020-12-27 at 02:00. (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev and Stepan Golosunov.) Changes to past timestamps Correct many pre-1986 transitions, fixing entries originally derived from Shanks. The fixes include: - Australia: several 1917 through 1971 transitions - Bahamas: several 1941 through 1945 transitions - Bermuda: several 1917 through 1956 transitions - Belize: several 1942 through 1968 transitions - Ghana: several 1915 through 1956 transitions - Israel and Palestine: several 1940 through 1985 transitions - Kenya and adjacent: several 1908 through 1960 transitions - Nigeria and adjacent: correcting LMT in Lagos, and several 1905 through 1919 transitions - Seychelles: the introduction of standard time in 1907, not 1906 - Vanuatu: DST in 1973-1974, and a corrected 1984 transition (Thanks to P Chan.) Because of the Australia change, Australia/Currie (King Island) is no longer needed, as it is identical to Australia/Hobart for all timestamps since 1970 and was therefore created by mistake. Australia/Currie has been moved to the 'backward' file and its corrected data moved to the 'backzone' file. Changes to past time zone abbreviations and DST flags To better match legislation in Turks and Caicos, the 2015 shift to year-round observance of -04 is now modeled as AST throughout before returning to Eastern Time with US DST in 2018, rather than as maintaining EDT until 2015-11-01. (Thanks to P Chan.) Changes to documentation The zic man page now documents zic's coalescing of transitions when a zone falls back just before DST springs forward. Here are links to the release files: https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2020e.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2020e.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2020e.tar.lz As usual, links to the latest release files are here: https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdb-latest.tar.lz Links are also available via plain HTTP, and via FTP from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases with the same basenames as above. Each release file has a GPG signature, which can be retrieved by appending ".asc" to the above URLs. Copies of these signatures are appended to this message. This release corresponds to commit efc5c061920f1d5820d66b7ec88ebff144c55b3f dated 2020-12-22 15:14:34 -0800 and tagged '2020e' in the development GitHub repository at <https://github.com/eggert/tz>. 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Daylight saving time in Argentina
by Pol Dec. 24, 2020

Dec. 24, 2020

I have some inconsistencies in the database regarding some time changes in Argentina. I would like to know what is the possibility of corroborating and making these changes. To give just one example, 03-06-1993 Buenos Aires, Argentina would still be GMT -2 (due to the time change from -3 to -2 that took place on 10-18-1992) and the return to -2 occurred just the next day (03-07-1993). Thanks in advance Pol Neiman <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Libre de virus. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Time zone and UTC
by Jacques Grillet Dec. 24, 2020

Dec. 24, 2020

Hello Do you propose a database to download ordered by UTC with 2 columns If not, where is it possible to have this data UTC | Time zone name Thank you Meilleures salutations, Jacques Grillet M. 079 219 17 78

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tzdata-latest.tar.gz tarball points to tzdata2020d
by Kiran Ravikumar Dec. 23, 2020

Dec. 23, 2020

Hello, Looks like the latest(tzdata-latest.tar.gz) release tar bundle points to tzdata2020d - https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz. Can we get it updated to tzdata2020e? Thanks, Kiran

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Re: [tz] Volgograd is planning to change its time zone back to Moscow on December 20, 2020
by Paul Eggert Dec. 23, 2020

Dec. 23, 2020

On 12/2/20 2:57 PM, wtz wrote: > (State Duma plan to pass the Bill in the second and third reading next week - > around December 9, 2020) Thanks for keeping us up-to-date. After December 9, it'll still need a look-see by the Federation Council and a signing by the president before it's a done deal. Not much time before the time change on December 20. I suppose people will just use "Europe/Moscow" if their tzdb copies aren't updated in time. Your source says "в скандальном вопросе" ("v skandal'nom voprose"), a curious choice of words. The extreme lack of notice is scandalous from my point of view, and perhaps the source is making the same point.

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