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America/Vancouver 2007
by Chris Walton April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the U.S. and the rest of Canada. The change will take effect on March 11/2007 (Same as U.S. and rest of Canada). Two zones are impacted: America/Vancouver America/Dawson_Creek I think it makes sense to start using the existing "Canada" rules which have already been updated instead of creating more "Vanc" rules. Here is a reference: http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm If possible, can the appropriate changes be squeezed into 2006c? Thanks -chris

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Re: Vancouver British Columbia Canada Daylight Time Change
by Bill Unruh April 4, 2006

April 4, 2006

On Mar 31, 2006 The government of British Columbia has just decided to follow the US change From a Press release of the Attorney General of BC > Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time (DST) in most of B.C. will begin > three weeks earlier, on > the second Sunday in March - March 11, 2007. The period will end on the > first Sunday in November - that > is Nov. 4, 2007. Exceptions will be those areas of the province that have > historically chosen to observe > different times for all or part of the year. The Peace River region does > not observe DST, so its clocks will > not change. The East Kootenay region observes Mountain Time, and will > likely continue to synchronize its > clocks with Alberta.

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Haiti on DST
by Steffen Thorsen April 4, 2006

April 4, 2006

I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). I have found this article about it (in French): http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 The reason seems to be an energy crisis. Best regards, Steffen

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British Columbia to move to US rules next year; Bermuda likely too
by Paul Eggert April 4, 2006

April 4, 2006

The Canadian Press reports that British Columbia will follow the new US daylight saving rules next year; see <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060401.wbc0401/BNStory…> (2006-04-01). This isn't urgent, so I'll include the appropriate change in my next proposed patch. This will still leave Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, and Yukon as the "holdouts" in Canada as far as the tz database is concerned; most likely they will switch to the new US rules, but we don't have word on this yet so for now they are listed as sticking to the old rules. Sam Strangeways reports in the Royal Gazette that a confidential report is being delivered to the Cabinet of Bermuda this month as to whether Bermuda should switch from the old to the new US rules. My reading between the lines is that they'll switch. See <http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060329/NEWS/103…> (2006-03-29). But we can wait for more info on this. Also, the old US rules are still listed for Mexico, the Bahamas, Cuba, and Turks and Caicos, even though most likely some (perhaps all) these regious will switch to the new US rules before 2007.

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Tzcode2006c.tar.gz and tzdata2006c.tar.gz
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] April 3, 2006

April 3, 2006

The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2006c.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2006c.tar.gz ...are now available. These reflect the two sets of data changes circulated late last month on the time zone mailing list by Paul Eggert; they also reflect a fencepost error fix in zic.c and changes to zic.c and the "europe" file to minimize differences between output produced by the old 32-bit zic and the new 64-bit version. The old 32-bit code remains available as ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/old-tzcode-32-bit-output.tar.gz --ado

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List of time differences from EST
by Hemant Swarnkar April 3, 2006

April 3, 2006

Respected Sir, Will you please send me a list of time differences from EST of all the other time zones. Regards, Hemant Swarnkar

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unchanged binary output
by Arthur David Olson April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

Below are changes to "zic.c" and "europe" that should arrange for all but one of the 64-bit zic output files to have first parts that are bit-for-bit identical (except for TZif/TZif2 differences) to files produced by the old 32-bit compiler. The only exception is America/Juneau; the 64-bit compiler notices that Yukon Daylight Time (YDT) was never actually used in Juneau and optimizes out some information. The files should, however, be identical from a functional standpoint. --ado ------- zic.c ------- *** /tmp/geta5518 Sat Apr 1 14:29:54 2006 --- /tmp/getb5518 Sat Apr 1 14:29:54 2006 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! static char elsieid[] = "@(#)zic.c 8.3"; #include "private.h" #include "locale.h" --- 1,4 ---- ! static char elsieid[] = "@(#)zic.c 8.4"; #include "private.h" #include "locale.h" *************** *** 1630,1643 **** indmap[i] = -1; thischarcnt = 0; for (i = 0; i < typecnt; ++i) { if (!writetype[i]) continue; if (indmap[abbrinds[i]] >= 0) continue; ! indmap[abbrinds[i]] = thischarcnt; ! (void) strcpy(&thischars[thischarcnt], ! &chars[abbrinds[i]]); ! thischarcnt += strlen(&chars[abbrinds[i]]) + 1; } #define DO(field) (void) fwrite((void *) tzh.field, \ (size_t) sizeof tzh.field, (size_t) 1, fp) --- 1630,1652 ---- indmap[i] = -1; thischarcnt = 0; for (i = 0; i < typecnt; ++i) { + register int j; + register char * thisabbr; + if (!writetype[i]) continue; if (indmap[abbrinds[i]] >= 0) continue; ! thisabbr = &chars[abbrinds[i]]; ! for (j = 0; j < thischarcnt; ++j) ! if (strcmp(&thischars[j], thisabbr) == 0) ! break; ! if (j == thischarcnt) { ! (void) strcpy(&thischars[thischarcnt], ! thisabbr); ! thischarcnt += strlen(thisabbr) + 1; ! } ! indmap[abbrinds[i]] = j; } #define DO(field) (void) fwrite((void *) tzh.field, \ (size_t) sizeof tzh.field, (size_t) 1, fp) ------- europe ------- *** /tmp/geta5536 Sat Apr 1 14:29:55 2006 --- /tmp/getb5536 Sat Apr 1 14:29:55 2006 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)europe 8.1 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)europe 8.2 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 418,424 **** # See EU for rules starting in 1996. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 --- 418,424 ---- # See EU for rules starting in 1996. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 0:00s 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 *************** *** 1121,1127 **** # Gibraltar # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1957 Apr 14 2:00 1:00 - CET 1982 1:00 EU CE%sT --- 1121,1127 ---- # Gibraltar # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 0:00s 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1957 Apr 14 2:00 1:00 - CET 1982 1:00 EU CE%sT *************** *** 1325,1331 **** Rule Italy 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Sep 22 ! 0:49:56 - RMT 1893 Nov # Rome Mean Time 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1980 --- 1325,1331 ---- Rule Italy 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Sep 22 ! 0:49:56 - RMT 1893 Nov 1 0:00s # Rome Mean 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1980 *************** *** 1514,1520 **** Rule Malta 1975 1980 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 - Rule Malta 1980 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 # Valletta 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1973 Mar 31 --- 1514,1520 ---- Rule Malta 1975 1980 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 - Rule Malta 1980 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 0:00s # Valletta 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1973 Mar 31 *************** *** 2149,2155 **** Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Europe/Madrid -0:14:44 - LMT 1901 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1946 Sep 30 1:00 Spain CE%sT 1979 1:00 EU CE%sT --- 2149,2155 ---- Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Europe/Madrid -0:14:44 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 0:00s 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1946 Sep 30 1:00 Spain CE%sT 1979 1:00 EU CE%sT

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Re: proposed tz changes - Curacao
by kennykb＠crd.ge.com March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu said: > It'd seem a bit odd to have a separate entry for each island in the > group (or, in Sint Maarten's case, half-island!), considering they're > all part of the Netherlands in one way or the other and they all share > the same time zone history since 1970. Of course if they are split up, remember that it seems to be the first act of any new government to change the daylight saving time rules. In which case, we'll have an entry for each of the new entities anyway. "At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." - Robertson Davies -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin KENNY GE Corporate Research & Development kennykb(a)crd.ge.com P. O. Box 8, Bldg. K-1, Rm. 5B36A Schenectady, New York 12301-0008 USA

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FW: Tunisia: daylight saving from 2006 and on
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

Atef Loukil is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: nic(a)ati.tn [mailto:nic@ati.tn] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:39 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: nic(a)ati.tn Subject: Tunisia: daylight saving from 2006 and on Importance: High Dear Sir/Madam, We are the network information center of the Tunisian country. From 2006 and on, Tunisia will observe daylight saving time. The daylight saving begun on the last Sunday of March (March 26 for this year 2006) at 2:00 am and will end on the last Sunday of october (october 29 for this year 2006) at 3:00 am. The daylight saving time will be the same each year: Beginning : the last Sunday of march at 2:00am Ending : the last Sunday of october at 3:00 am Here is the link to the tunisian press agency whom announced this: http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1188 &Ite mid=50 would you please update your Africa/tunisia time zone taking into consideration these changes. Waiting for you feed-back, Regards, _____________________________________________________ Atef LOUKIL Tunisian Internet Agency, ATI-LIR&NIC Departement 13, Rue Jugurtha Mutuelleville - 1002 Tunis - Tunisia Phone: +216 71 846 100 ext.236 Fax: +216 71 846 600 http://www.ati.tn

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FW: links for DOT ruling on Indiana time zone boundaries
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

Nathan Stratton Treadway is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Stratton Treadway [mailto:nathanst@ontko.com] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:26 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: links for DOT ruling on Indiana time zone boundaries In the "northamerica" file from tzdata2006b.tar.gz, there is a link http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf95/382329_web.pdf to the DOT Final Rule document for the timezone boundaries. That particular version of the document is > 2.7 MiB in size and 61 pages long. You might consider including one or more these URLs instead of or in addition to that one: http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot0406.htm Basic HTML annoucment of the final decision on Indiana Time Zone proposals. http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p84/382609.pdf Federal Register publication of the full text of the Final Rule (134kiB, 18 pages). http://dms.dot.gov/search/document.cfm?documentid=382609&docketid=22114 Docket Management System HTML index/summary page for the Federal Register version (contains a link to the previous URL, as well as various info on the document and a link to the DMS search page). http://dms.dot.gov/search/document.cfm?documentid=382329&docketid=22114 DMS index/summary page for the "382329_web.pdf" document currently mentioned in the northamerica file. Thanks. Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Nathan Stratton Treadway - nathanst(a)ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239

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