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Japan begins to consider DST
by Sue Williams June 4, 2007

June 4, 2007

This news article says that Japan is beginning to comtemplate the idea of introducing daylight saving time. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070602TDY01005.htm This is not a done deal but something to keep an eye on. ...Sue

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a relevant .NET implementation to be linked to the Time Zone page
by Michael Kariv June 3, 2007

June 3, 2007

Hi, Here is a .NET library that I think should be linked to at the main page http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm The link: http://www.babiej.demon.nl/Tz4Net/main.htm This is how they defined themselves: C# /.NET implementation of timezone class based on Olson database (often called tz or zoneinfo). As opposite to Win32/.NET API, it allows to perform conversion of arbitrary time between arbitrary time zones. Regards Michael Kariv

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zone.tab corrections
by Andy McDonald May 31, 2007

May 31, 2007

There seem to be a few minor errors in zone.tab (2007f and earlier): America/Cambridge_Bay: zone.tab latitude/longitude is incorrect, according to http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Prog_Nat/benchmark/single_station2_…, which gives +6907-10504, and my own experiments with Google Earth. Also zone.tab comments should be 'Mountain Time - west Nunavut' rather than 'Central Time - west Nunavut' Antarctica/DumontDUrville: The comment should very probably read 'Dumont d'Urville Station', rather than 'Dumont d'Urville Base', which seems to be a mis-translation of the French 'Base Dumont d'Urville'. See for example http://pdf.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/StationsByName/FRdumo Pacific/Johnston: latitude/longitude is incorrect. The CIA seems to have it much closer with +1645-16931 (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/um.html) America/Aruba: latitude/longitude is incorrect. The CIA seems to have it much closer with +1230-06958 (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/aa.html) - looks like the current +1230-06858 is a typo. Europe/London: (!) latitude/longitude is incorrect - the current value is somewhere in the neighbourhood of Syon House in South-west London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syon_House) Suggestions for a better value welcome. Ukrainian time zones Europe/Kiev, Europe/Uzhgorod and Europe/Zaporozhye: These might better be named Europe/Kyiv, Europe/Uzhhorod and Europe/Zaporizhia, being transliterations of the Ukrainian - rather than Russian - place-names. Similarly, the comment for Europe/Zaporozhye should perhaps be 'Zaporizhia, E Luhansk', rather than 'Zaporozh'ye, E Lugansk'. See for example http://www.uazone.net/Kiev_Kyiv.html and http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory?id=2588280. I'm sure I could rustle up references for the other names if pressed. Andy http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/

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Vote about South Australia DST
by Jesper Norgaard Welen May 21, 2007

May 21, 2007

Now you can vote for whether you want the new 4 weeks longer DST in South Australia: http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/daylight/index.html ... although I suppose you shouldn't if you don't live in South Australia (I wonder how they check that!). That is also the most official reference I have seen of the new Australian DST in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and the ACT. There most be more? See also http://www.ministers.sa.gov.au/news.php?id=1553 http://www.ministers.sa.gov.au/news.php?id=1600 Regards, - Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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New Australian DST rules?
by Jesper Norgaard Welen May 19, 2007

May 19, 2007

There is an article that claims that four Australian states will coordinate DST in 2007-2008 from the first Sunday in October until the first Sunday in April. The states are New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, and Tasmania. http://harden.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=national%20news <http://harden.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=national%20news&subclass=ge neral&story_id=575313&category=General> &subclass=general&story_id=575313&category=General This would return all 4 states to the 2006 rules for Tasmania (not applied in 2007, e.g. Tasmania was using Last Sunday in March, not First Sunday in April). I couldn't find any other authoritative information. Regards, - Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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FW: New Zealand time to end DST
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] May 17, 2007

May 17, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Chris Smith, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. --ado From: Chris Smith [mailto:chrissmithnz@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:39 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: New Zealand time to end DST Hi Small anomaly for New Zealand timezone DST stop time, the Time Act 1974 states (2) Any period prescribed in any Order in Council made under subsection (1) of this section shall commence at 2 a.m. New Zealand standard time on the day, being a Sunday, specified in the Order in Council, and shall cease at 2 a.m. New Zealand standard time on the day, being a Sunday, specified in the Order in Council or in any subsequent Order in Council. In NZ we are told accordingly to put clocks forward at 2 (to 3) and back at 3 (to 2). In my interpretation of this the zoneinfo is incorrect for NZ and should be stopping at 3am (since 1974) Regards Chris

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New Zealand time to end DST
by Chris Smith May 17, 2007

May 17, 2007

Hi Small anomaly for New Zealand timezone DST stop time, the Time Act 1974 states (2) Any period prescribed in any Order in Council made under subsection (1) of this section shall commence at 2 a.m. New Zealand standard time on the day, being a Sunday, specified in the Order in Council, and shall cease at 2 a.m. New Zealand standard time on the day, being a Sunday, specified in the Order in Council or in any subsequent Order in Council. In NZ we are told accordingly to put clocks forward at 2 (to 3) and back at 3 (to 2). In my interpretation of this the zoneinfo is incorrect for NZ and should be stopping at 3am (since 1974) Regards Chris

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tzcode2007f.tar.gz and tzdata2007f.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] May 16, 2007

May 16, 2007

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2007f.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007f.tar.gz ...are now available. These reflect the data changes circulated last week on the time zone mailing list by Paul Eggert (including Haiti, Turks and Caicos, and New Zealand). They also reflect changes to zic.c to allow hour values greater than 24 (along with Paul's improved time value overflow checking). --ado

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FW: New Zealand time zone name?
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] May 8, 2007

May 8, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Gao Yue, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Gao_Yue(a)emc.com [mailto:Gao_Yue@emc.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:45 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: New Zealand time zone name? Hi, I am wondering if the tz database used by Sun contains New Zealand time zones. According to this site, http://www.statoids.com/tnz.html , Tz database contains new Zealand time zones but I couldn't find NZST in this file. I organized this file displaying different tz data version used by different JRE versions. Thanks Yue <<JRE_Version_TimeZone_Map.xls>>

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RE: New Zealand time zone name?
by Gao_Yue＠emc.com May 8, 2007

May 8, 2007

Could you let me know the notation for new zealand time zone? Thanks > _____________________________________________ > From: Gao, Yue > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:41 PM > To: 'tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov' > Subject: New Zealand time zone name? > > Hi, > > I am wondering if the tz database used by Sun contains New Zealand > time zones. > > According to this site, http://www.statoids.com/tnz.html , > Tz database contains new Zealand time zones but I couldn't find NZST > in this file. > > I organized this file displaying different tz data version used by > different JRE versions. > > Thanks > Yue > > > << File: JRE_Version_TimeZone_Map.xls >>

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