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UK news: another attempt to change the clocks likely to fail
by Peter Ilieve Feb. 3, 2007

Feb. 3, 2007

Another attempt to get a bill passed in the UK parliament to move the clocks forward an hour all year got quite a bit of publicity last week. Tim Yeo, a fairly senior figure who has been an environment minister in the past, drew second place in the ballot for private members bills. No doubt mindful of the topicality of climate change, he called his attempt to move the clocks forward an hour the Energy Saving (Daylight) Bill rather than promising extra daylight. The Bill came up for second reading (the first real debate) last Friday, 26 January. It passed a vote (doing much better than Nigel Beard's 2004 attempt) but there weren't enough MPs present for the vote to count for anything. That resulted in the debate being adjourned until tomorrow (2 Feb), but the procedure is such that it is now extremely unlikely to make further progress. The Bill is similar to Nigel Beard's one. It would advance the clocks in England by an hour all year and allow Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to decide whether to follow suit or not. The main difference is that it would do this for a trial period, 2008 to 2011, and a review panel would be established to report on this trial. The best place to start for details of this is <http://bills.parliament.uk/DH.asp?title=d> That page has links to the Bill, the debates and a research paper about it. There was also a question asked about this in the Lords on 24 Jan, which can be found in the Lords Hansard at <http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldhansrd/text/ 70124-0001.htm#07012469000005> I asked the person responsible for this at the Department of Trade and Industry for the government's view this morning. He said the government oppose this Bill. I said I wished people would stop trying to change the clocks. `You and me both' he said. :-) I'll send an update if the Bill does make progress. Peter Ilieve peter(a)aldie.co.uk

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time zone question
by A. Diamond Feb. 2, 2007

Feb. 2, 2007

Hello, I just downloaded tzdata and tzcode to update some Linux servers. Thank you for maintaining all this info and code. Just out of curiosity, why does NIH maintain this information instead of NIST? Is it just because someone who happened to be at NIH had the initiative to do it when no one else did? Thanks for your work. Andrew Diamond diamond(a)sheprador.com

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FW: Bulletin C number 33
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Feb. 1, 2007

Feb. 1, 2007

-----Original Message----- From: services.iers(a)obspm.fr [mailto:services.iers@obspm.fr] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:49 AM To: adresc1(a)hpopa.obspm.fr Subject: Bulletin C number 33 INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 Internet : services.iers(a)obspm.fr Paris, 1 February 2007 Bulletin C 33 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2007. The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is : from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -33 s Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Director Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France

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daylight-saving news from UCEI, WA, NZ, WY, TERiX
by Paul Eggert Feb. 1, 2007

Feb. 1, 2007

Some recent news about daylight saving time: Ryan Kellogg and Hendrik Wolff of the University of California Energy Institute have published a paper "Does Extending Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from an Australian Experiment", CSEM WP 163 (January 2007) <http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp163.pdf>. Their brief answer is "no". They report that the Australian experiment with DST during the 2000 Olympics did not decrease overall electrical consumption, but it did change usage patterns leading to a higher morning peak load. Western Australian Nationals leader Brendon Gryllis says his party will submit a private member's bill next month, calling for a referendum before October 31 to repeal daylight saving time in Western Australia. Nelson, NZ city councillor Mark Holmes and United Future Party leader Peter Dunne have gathered a petition with 10,000 signatures to extend daylight saving time in New Zealand by three weeks. <http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=110957> The Wyoming Senate's Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee voted 3-2 against exempting Wyoming from daylight saving time. In a recent poll 41% of Wyoming's inhabitants want to repeal daylight saving, and 44% want to keep it. <http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/18/news/wyoming/55-time.txt> <http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/17/news/wyoming/38-time.txt> Various companies have announced support for the US daylight-saving time changes in their software, or in older versions of other people's software. My favorite was TERiX, which announced free patches for Solaris 2.5.1 through 2.7, for customers who don't want to bother to run 'zic' themselves.

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Canada (2007)
by Chris Walton Jan. 31, 2007

Jan. 31, 2007

For anybody wishing for info on new Canadian daylight saving legislation, I have been trying to keep the following page up to date: http://www3.sympatico.ca/c.walton/canada_dst.html The web page is full of links to various government news releases and legislation. All of Canada with the possible exception of Nunavut will be extending daylight saving this year to match the United States. Below is an extract of some of the more important hyperlinks from the web page listed above. City of Lloydminster The "Lloydminster Charter" which defines time for the city of Lloydminster on both sides of the Alberta/Saskatchewan border will likely not be amended prior to March 11. Regardless, the Senior Director of Corporate Affairs e-mailed me last year to say that Lloydminster would extend daylight saving to match Alberta. British Columbia News release: http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm Alberta News release: http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200602/193862BFE321E-A3D2-C519-F34B3EE936DA55E2.ht… Daylight Saving Amendment Act assented to March 23/2006: http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM?type=htm Saskatchewan No official announcement but most of Saskatchewan does not observe daylight saving time. The small area outside the Lloydminster city limits is governed by the Saskatchewan Time Act and will most likely follow Lloydminster even if the act is not updated. Manitoba News release: http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/press/top/2005/11/2005-11-02-06.html Manitoba Official Time Amendment Act assented to December 8/2005: http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/2005/c05305e.php Ontario News release: http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/news/2005/20051020-dst.asp Ontario Regulation 111/06: Variation of Time in Effect filed April 12/2006: http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm Quebec News release (French): http://communiques.gouv.qc.ca/gouvqc/communiques/GPQF/Decembre2006/07/c5073… Legal Time Act assented to December 12/2006: http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?ty… New Brunswick News release: http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/pre/2005e1737pr.htm Act to Amend the Time Definition Act assented to June 22/2006: http://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf Nova Scotia News release: http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20060425004 Royal Gazette with regulation 62/2006 on page 244: http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf Prince Edward Island Act to Amend the Time Uniformity Act assented to May 24/2006: http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf Newfoundland and Labrador News release: http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2007/mpa/0118n03.htm Act to Amend the Standard Time Act assented to Dec 12/2006: http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm Yukon News release: http://www.gov.yk.ca/news/2006/06-164.html O.I.C 2006/127: Daylight Saving Time ordered July 13/2006: http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf Northwest Territories News release (Press "Daylight Savings Time Change" to see pop-up): http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive It is not clear if legislation has actually been drafted. Nunavut No formal announcement has been made from the Nunavut Government. The premier of Nunavut claimed in August of 2005 that he did not want to touch the issue; nothing more has been heard since. It is likely Nunavut will eventually follow the rest of the country but there will certainly be confusion on March 11/2007 if no formal announcement is made. Currently the TZ database and Microsoft make assumptions that Nunavut will follow the rest of the country. If you find errors in the web page listed at the top of this e-mail or in this e-mail itself, please let me know. I may be somewhat unreachable for the next few days so forgive me I don't immediately respond to e-mail. -chris

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FW: Looking for US timezone data files
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Jan. 31, 2007

Jan. 31, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Michele Teifke, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. Michele: what you've downloaded is the source code for the time zone compiler and source files; you get to run the source files through the compiler to create the binary files that actually get used by operating systems. Note that the "backward" source file is what's processed to create binary files such as "US/Central". Mailing list folks: this introduces a more general question--is there any open-to-the-public collection of time zone binary files? --ado ________________________________ From: Michele Teifke [mailto:mteifke@myrio.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:34 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Looking for US timezone data files I downloaded the timezone data files from the link you gave on this page. But the set of files is incomplete, it does not contain the US subdirectory of data files. i.e.: US/Pacific, US/Central. Could you tell me if there is a place I can download a complete list of these files. thanks, Michele

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Looking for US timezone data files
by Michele Teifke Jan. 31, 2007

Jan. 31, 2007

I downloaded the timezone data files from the link you gave on this page. But the set of files is incomplete, it does not contain the US subdirectory of data files. i.e.: US/Pacific, US/Central. Could you tell me if there is a place I can download a complete list of these files. thanks, Michele

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2007 DST update included in tzdata-2006m-2.el3 ?
by Ali Darab Jan. 30, 2007

Jan. 30, 2007

Hello, I was wondering if the 2007 DST update for USA is included in tzdata-2006m-2.el3. Thank you, Ali Darab

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DST rules for Istanbul, Turkey
by Nirav Jk Vora Jan. 30, 2007

Jan. 30, 2007

Hi, I am Nirav from the Java Technology Centre, IBM. I am working for the L3 team here. Sometime back, one of my colleagues Amar Devegowda, had mailed regarding updation of the DST rules for Istanbul,Turkey. Actually as per the current rule that is being used in the JVM Daylight saving was supposed to start at 3.00AM . But as per the latest rule from the below link, Daylight timings start from 1.00AM. We were asked to provide an official link where these changes were stated. I hope this link will serve the purpose so that the database can be updated with the latest DST rules for Istanbul. http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/european-u nion/turkey/ Please do contact me for any further queries that may be there. With Warm Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nirav J Vora Team member, JVM L3 Support(AIX) IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore ( Office: +91-8025094142 È Mobile: +91-9945383481 + e-Mail: nirav.vora(a)in.ibm.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ JVM Diagnostics Reference @ IBM Internal: http://w3.hursley.ibm.com/java/jim/j2se/ibmproduceddocumentation/javadiagno… External: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/diagnosis/ ------------------------------------------------------------------

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FW:
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Jan. 26, 2007

Jan. 26, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Vikash, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriatey. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Jha, Vikash Kumar [mailto:vikash.kumar-jha@hp.com] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:59 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Hi, I am using RedHat linux 2.4.18 ....For updating for new DST rules .. What are the things I should do...? Please let me know. Regars Vikash

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