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Regarding Turkey DST change
by Peddi, Radhika (Radhika) Nov. 22, 2016

Nov. 22, 2016

Hi, Could you please tell me whether Turkey DST changes are fixed in tzdata or not? If fixed could you please let me know which tzdata*.tar.gz contains the changes? I have downloaded the latest one available on https://www.iana.org/time-zones. However still UTCOffString value showing as +2.00 instead of +3.00 for November dates. Thanks & Regards, Radhika Peddi|Avaya India Pvt. Ltd.| Wing 'A', Level -5, Tower-11, Cybercity, Magarpatta City, Hadapsar | Pune, 411028|India Voice +91 20 4101 8311| Email: rpeddi<mailto:rpeddi@avaya.com>@avaya.com [Please consider the environment before printing this email]|7 Switch off POWER |[cid:image008.jpg@01CD293C.65903AA0] Save Water |q RECYCLE |P PRESERVE trees |

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[PATCH] Minor changes to iso3166.tab
by Jiri Bohac Nov. 17, 2016

Nov. 17, 2016

As noted in the file, the table intentionally differs from the ISO 3166 English names, mostly using even shorter names than the official short name. In a few cases, it seems to be out of sync with ISO for no good reason: Official changes in ISO, where new is same length or shorter than original: Cape Verde -> Cabo Verde Czech Republic -> Czechia UTF-8 now used elsewhere, so why not for Curaçao: Curacao -> Curaçao No good reason to differ from the standard?: Macau -> Macao Personally, I would also change "Britain" to "United Kingdom", I think it's where people would look first. But it would go from shorter to longer, so I did not include it in the patch. It's still much shorter than many other names. Would "United Kingdom" make sense here? --- iso3166.tab | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/iso3166.tab b/iso3166.tab index 7a8df2c..0e07afd 100644 --- a/iso3166.tab +++ b/iso3166.tab @@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ CN China CO Colombia CR Costa Rica CU Cuba -CV Cape Verde -CW Curacao +CV Cabo Verde +CW Curaçao CX Christmas Island CY Cyprus -CZ Czech Republic +CZ Czechia DE Germany DJ Djibouti DK Denmark @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ MK Macedonia ML Mali MM Myanmar (Burma) MN Mongolia -MO Macau +MO Macao MP Northern Mariana Islands MQ Martinique MR Mauritania -- Jiri Bohac <jbohac(a)suse.cz> SUSE Labs, SUSE CZ

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Hungary considers moving to +02 year-round
by Paul Eggert Nov. 17, 2016

Nov. 17, 2016

A bill to put Hungary on permanent EET (+02) has passed a parliament committee unanimously. The full parliament is scheduled to vote on it next week. Presumably this would require coordination with the EU, which may mean delays before the change would take effect. See: End of Hungaro-pessimism? - the times they are changing in the Hungarian Parliament. Hungary Today 2016-11-16. http://hungarytoday.hu/news/may-end-hungaro-pessimism-time-changing-questio… Horváth A. Vége az óraátállításnak? Magyar Nemzet 2016-11-16. http://mno.hu/gazdasag/vege-az-oraatallitasnak-1371621

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Turkey ZoneInfo
by Sundeep Dasari Nov. 16, 2016

Nov. 16, 2016

Hi Iam trying to extract turkey zoneinfo from "tzdata2016i.tar.gz" package and is not successfully. I have done the following to extract turkey zone info: zic -d ./mytemp/ asia zic -d ./mytemp/ europe Turkey should be either in Europe or in Asia. Please provide me with your support in this regard. -- Thanks Sundeep.

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tzdata2016g missing version information
by Howard Hinnant Nov. 12, 2016

Nov. 12, 2016

As is known, the version number no longer appears in the Makefile. The release notes in NEWS say: > To support the more-accurate version number, its > specification has moved from a line in the Makefile to a new > source file 'version’. The version file does not appear in the uncompressed tzdata2016g database. This is hurting my ability to report the version of the database to my clients. Can we please put a version file in the database? Howard

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"impossible" glitch right at the DST changeover: it had to happen
by scs＠eskimo.com Nov. 11, 2016

Nov. 11, 2016

The mother in this story says she had a hard time "wrapping her head around it", but readers of this list will have little trouble: "Twins' Daylight Saving Time Birth Results in Bizarre Age Twist" http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/twins-daylight-saving-time-birth-results-bi… Yes, one twin was born on the early morning of November 6 at 1:39, and his little brother was born 31 minutes later, at 1:10.

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[PROPOSED] * CONTRIBUTING: Call the GitHub repository "development"
by Paul Eggert Nov. 11, 2016

Nov. 11, 2016

Instead of the old adjective "experimental". --- CONTRIBUTING | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING index e40102e..22addd2 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING +++ b/CONTRIBUTING @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ data should contain commentary citing reliable sources as justification. Please submit changes against either the latest release in -<ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/> or the master branch of the experimental -Git repository. If you use Git the following workflow may be helpful: +<ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/> or the master branch of the development +repository. If you use Git the following workflow may be helpful: - * Copy the experimental repository. + * Copy the development repository. git clone https://github.com/eggert/tz.git cd tz -- 2.7.4

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Re: [tz] tzdata2016g missing version information
by Dempsey, Peter Nov. 10, 2016

Nov. 10, 2016

Hi, On 09/29/2016 08:590 AM, Eggert, Paul wrote: >Yes, it appears that the Oracle software assumed that the Makefile would have a VERSION line that specifies the version number. That assumption was never documented or guaranteed and is no longer valid. >Perhaps you can work around the problem by modifying the Makefile to say "VERSION = 2016g" (I don't have the Oracle software and so can't easily test this). >We are discussing a better way to address this problem in the future. @Paul Eggert: The Oracle Timezone Update Tool can be downloaded from here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/tzupdater-readm…. This tool has two ways of updating the timezone database: 1. Online where the timezone database is downloaded from: -l http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz 2. Offline where the timezone database is loaded locally: -l file:///tmp/tzdata2016g.tar.gz The tzdata file published on the IANA site needs to include the VERSION information so that this tool can work. When do you think this can be provided? I need to test the Oracle Timezone Updater Tool as soon as possible because I have customers with critical systems dependent on the time zone database. @Susan Abraham: I don't know if you are involved with the Timezone Updater Tool but this tool currently can't update the timezone because the database doesn't contain the VERSION information. @Kim Davies: I am adding you to keep you directly in the loop. Best regards, Pete -- This electronic message may contain proprietary and confidential information of Verint Systems Inc., its affiliates and/or subsidiaries. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) or entity(ies) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive this e-mail for the intended recipient), you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone this message or any information contained in this message. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify us by replying to this e-mail.

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Danish Time not UTC
by Brian Inglis Nov. 10, 2016

Nov. 10, 2016

According to the DK NMI DANIAmet: https://daniamet.dk/en/nmi/time-and-frequency/ "The law on time (Law No 83, 29/03/1893) prescribe that the time in Denmark is determined by mean solar time and not the UTC time." -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Failed to update tzdata2016g and higer with tzupdater
by Sawadee.Prakayphetchara＠thomsonreuters.com Nov. 9, 2016

Nov. 9, 2016

Hi, We found an issue when try to update timezone with the tzdata2016g.tar.gz - tzdata2016i.tar.gz The problem is that VERSION in the Makefile is not correct, the correct value should match with tz version i.e. 2016i not unknown. # Version number for the distribution, overridden in the 'tarballs' rule below. VERSION= unknown The workaround has been mention in, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39832866/tzupdater-failing-with-tzdata20… * Update Makefile of http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2016g.tar.gz: Original value of VERSION variable is unknown and you need to update it to 2016g. * Regenerate tzdata2016g.tar.gz.sha512 file So far we need to apply the workaround on each release. It would be great if you can correct the version in next release? Regards, Sawadee M.

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