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2016b is on GitHub
by Paul Eggert March 15, 2016

March 15, 2016

Given the urgency of the Haiti rule change in a few hours, I've prepared a new tz version 2016b. It is available at <https://github.com/eggert/tz> as commit 70161f48bc212678c58490f7faabc286c90b2a05. Although this is intended to be the next release, published as usual, it can take a bit of time to turn the crank so I thought I'd give the mailing list a heads-up. 2016b does not incorporate all changes recently circulated. Notably it's missing historical changes for Russia contributed by Stepan Golosunov, which I haven't had time to proofread carefully. I'd like to get all this stuff fixed soon, although we may have to wait until the spring silly season is over.

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Some historical information about tz code.
by Random832 March 15, 2016

March 15, 2016

(Posted to both The Unix Heritage Society and the TZ mailing list) I've been off-and-on reading the "live minus thirty years" old usenet feed at olduse.net, and noticed something that may be of interest to both of these groups: The original mod.sources posting of the (as far as I can tell) earliest available version of Arthur David Olson's timezone handling code, in 1986. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mod.sources/gcolqTxTt9w/04ZtaYCxLvcJ For the files present in both, it matches revision 7441f6b6 from the git repository, except for SCCS IDs vs %W%. https://github.com/eggert/tz/tree/7441f6b6705782743f40b9fc40cdcc80a498fda5 The git repository contains a file ialloc.c that is not present in the release. Probable renamed files - These appear in the git repository under their new names, but had the older names in the release. New: localtime.c newctime.3 zdump.c zic.8 zic.c Old: tzcomp.8 tzcomp.c tzdump.c settz.c settz.3 Files in the release but not this version of the git repository: mkdir.c strchr.c: These never appear, though they're referenced in Makefile edits. pacificnew: doesn't appear until SCCS version 8.1 in revision aaf2a927 dated July 2006. years.sh: Appears as SCCS 7.1 yearistype.sh, dated March 1992.

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More DST humor
by Steve Jones March 15, 2016

March 15, 2016

A recent take on kind of an obvious joke - I bet it first made the rounds in 1947: http://xkcd.com/1655/ Steve Jones OnTimeZone.com

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Status in the Carribean
by Steve Jones March 14, 2016

March 14, 2016

It's been a busy time in the Carribean, what with Quitana Roo, Turks & Caicos, and now Haiti. I've updated an image that reflects the new current status of that region: http://OnTimeZone.com/images/caribbean.gif (magenta lines = time zone borders) (blue lines = dst observance borders) Over water, the lines were not drawn to be "anatomically correct", though they lie on the correct side of any island. Steve Jones OnTimeZone.com

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Recent William Willett article from BBC site
by Brian Inglis March 14, 2016

March 14, 2016

Didn't see this mentioned on the list, so might want to add the article link below under Civil Time: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160310-the-builder-who-changed-how-the-wo… -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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[PATCH 1/1] Add UTC to zone tables
by J William Piggott March 14, 2016

March 14, 2016

* etcetera, zone.tab, zone1970.tab: Create a link to UTC in Europe and add it to the zone tables. --- etcetera | 3 +++ zone.tab | 3 ++- zone1970.tab | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/etcetera b/etcetera index c2e2532..745a5e0 100644 --- a/etcetera +++ b/etcetera @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Zone Etc/GMT 0 - GMT Zone Etc/UTC 0 - UTC Zone Etc/UCT 0 - UCT +# To facilitate a zone table entry for UTC. +Link Etc/UTC Europe/UTC + # The following link uses older naming conventions, # but it belongs here, not in the file 'backward', # as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly. diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab index f7000f7..bf46077 100644 --- a/zone.tab +++ b/zone.tab @@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ FM +0519+16259 Pacific/Kosrae Kosrae FO +6201-00646 Atlantic/Faroe FR +4852+00220 Europe/Paris GA +0023+00927 Africa/Libreville -GB +513030-0000731 Europe/London +GB +513030-0000731 Europe/London Britain (most areas) +GB +512840-0000005 Europe/UTC Britain (Greenwich/GMT/UTC) GD +1203-06145 America/Grenada GE +4143+04449 Asia/Tbilisi GF +0456-05220 America/Cayenne diff --git a/zone1970.tab b/zone1970.tab index 657675f..0c5876e 100644 --- a/zone1970.tab +++ b/zone1970.tab @@ -166,7 +166,8 @@ FM +0658+15813 Pacific/Pohnpei Pohnpei/Ponape FM +0519+16259 Pacific/Kosrae Kosrae FO +6201-00646 Atlantic/Faroe FR +4852+00220 Europe/Paris -GB,GG,IM,JE +513030-0000731 Europe/London +GB,GG,IM,JE +513030-0000731 Europe/London Britain (most areas) +GB +512840-0000005 Europe/UTC Britain (Greenwich/GMT/UTC) GE +4143+04449 Asia/Tbilisi GF +0456-05220 America/Cayenne GH +0533-00013 Africa/Accra

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Chile to return to DST
by Yonathan Dossow March 13, 2016

March 13, 2016

Hi, Chile is returning to implement Daylight Savings Time. Minister Pacheco is telling on the local news that on may 14 Chile will change it's timezone to UTC-4 until the second saturday of august. the rest of the year will be on summer time (UTC-3) I cant find an official decree yet, but here is the info from a news site: http://www.ahoranoticias.cl/chile/santiago/167677-gobierno-repone-el-cambio… regards. -- Yonathan Dossow Fono: +56 32 2654367 Unidad de Infraestructura y Tecnología Departamento de Informática Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Valparaíso, Chile

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US DST in 1918
by Steve Jones March 13, 2016

March 13, 2016

Apparently DST was important to the United Cigar Stores Company: http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g08000/3g08100/3g08124v.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Victory-Cigar-Con… Apologies if these have already been shared. Steve Jones OnTimeZone.com

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Chile DST starts again, May 14th
by Cristian Rodríguez March 13, 2016

March 13, 2016

Hi: DST will be back fin Chile, starting the second Saturday of May and ending the Second saturday of August 2016. http://www.latercera.com/noticia/nacional/2016/03/680-672074-9-gobierno-det… Cheers.

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Palestine Summer Time
by Hanna Kreitem March 13, 2016

March 13, 2016

Hello, It was announced that Palestine will move to DST Saturday 26/3, this covers the timezones of Hebron and Gaza. Source: http://www.24fm.ps/ar/news/1457438748 Regards, Hanna.

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