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Re: [tz] Summer time
by heba.hamad＠mtit.gov.ps March 10, 2022

March 10, 2022

Dear sir, regarding to summer time for this year , the timing will be on 3/27/2022, but this does not necessarily mean that the change for the coming years will be on the same date. You will be provided with any new decisions about summer and winter times for the coming years and we will try to provide you with any changes more earlier than previous years. BR, في الخميس, مارس 10, 2022 14:26 EST, Paul Eggert <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> كتب: 3/04:50,http://www.palestinecabinet.gps/portal/Meeting/Details/51955 heba.hamad(a)mtit.gov.ps wrote: > We would like to inform you that the summer time will begin in Palestine from Sunday 03-27-2022 ,00:00 AM by 60 minutes forward. Thanks, do you have a URL for that announcement? It sounds like Palestine is changing its spring-forward rules, so that Palestine will now spring forward at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after March 25, whereas during 2020 and 2021 Palestine sprang forward at 00:00 on the first Saturday after March 24. Is my understanding correct? Knowing the transition rule would be helpful, because TZDB makes predictions about future years, some computer applications rely on this (perhaps unwisely, but that's what they do), and the more accurate the predictions the better off everybody will be. This is related to Clive Feather's point that we need plenty of advance notice of rule changes (we'd like a year's notice). Without knowing the answers to the above questions, I installed the attached proposed patch into the TZDB development version. If possible, I'd like to improve this (based on answers to the above questions) before the next TZDB release, which should happen soon.

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Summer time
by heba.hamad＠mtit.gov.ps March 10, 2022

March 10, 2022

Dear Sir, Greeting from Ministry of telecom and information technology, Palestine We would like to inform you that the summer time will begin in Palestine from Sunday 03-27-2022 ,00:00 AM by 60 minutes forward. Kindly find the attachment below that includes the decision of the Palestinian cabinet. BR

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Jordan summer time zone is not updated in IANA database
by Abugharbieh, Raghad March 2, 2022

March 2, 2022

Hello I’m sure if you’re already aware of this or not , but in Jordan the timezone was changed on Thursday to meet summer changes. So currently , time zone in IANA database is behind the real time in Jordan by 1 hour . this is causing some time issues in websites that use IANA database. I’m sending this to check if there’s anything I can do to update the timezone for Jordan in the database to fix the root cause instead of handling the issues we have in a hacky way . Best regards , Raghad Abugharbieh

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DST in mainstream media
by Arthur David Olson Feb. 28, 2022

Feb. 28, 2022

"Freezing the clock: Nationwide push for permanent daylight saving time gains momentum" Washington Post, 2022-02-28 (timeanddate.com gets a shoutout.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/02/28/permanent-daylight-savin… @dashdashado

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backzone Africa/Lubumbashi
by Alois Treindl Feb. 28, 2022

Feb. 28, 2022

In file backzone there is an entry for Africa/Lubumbashi # Democratic Republic of the Congo (east) Zone Africa/Lubumbashi 1:49:52 - LMT 1897 Nov 9 2:00 - CAT There are scarce sources for time zones of former Belgian Congo. My main source for its time zone history is Henri le Corre, Régimes horaires pour l'Europe et l'Afrique. He has for the eastern provinces of Zaire GMT + 1 between 1897 Nov 9 GMT + 2 since 1920 Apr 25. Shanks follows le Corre. As does Francoise Schneider Gauquelin in he book Problèmes de l'heure resolus pout le monde entier. I think this is sufficient reason to change the zone into Zone Africa/Lubumbashi 1:49:52 - LMT 1897 Nov 9 1:00 - WAT 1920 Apr 25 2:00 - CAT For the province of Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, le Corre gives a transition from GMT +1 to GMT + 2 on 1935 Jun 14. But as this agrees with Lubumbashi after 1970, I do not expect the creation of another backzone entry for that. This task will be left for my private pre-1970 TZ extensions.

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(no subject)
by Dennis Dau Feb. 24, 2022

Feb. 24, 2022

Take Russia off the time zones for now sanctioned by the United States of America for starting war yesterday with our alias

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Brisbane's lord mayor calls for referendum on Queensland DST
by Gilmore Davidson Feb. 22, 2022

Feb. 22, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/22/queensland-daylight-… Thirty years after Queenslanders rejected daylight saving at the polls, > Brisbane lord mayor, Adrian Schrinner, is calling for a new referendum on > the divisive subject. > > [...] Queenslanders voted against permanently introducing daylight saving > time after a three-year trial back in 1992. Schrinner says most people > under the age of 48 and anyone who moved to the state in the last 30 years > hasn’t had a say on adjusting time zones. > > [...] Schrinner suggested a new referendum could be held at the same time > as the next state election in 2024. > > [...] The attorney general, Shannon Fentiman, responded to an > anti-daylight saving time petition to parliament in December, saying [it] > was “not currently” under consideration. > Cheers, Gil

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(no subject)
by 이상준 Feb. 22, 2022

Feb. 22, 2022

-- 이상준1978.06.28

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proposed change to Europe/Kaliningrad in 1945
by Alois Treindl Feb. 21, 2022

Feb. 21, 2022

Currently the zone Europe/Kaliningrad has Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 10 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1946 Apr 7 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3:00 - +03 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 2:00 - EET I wonder on which source this line is based: 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1946 Apr 7 It implies these time changes: 29 April 1945 from 2:00 to 3:00 like Poland DST 1 November 1945 from 3:00 back to 2:00 Russia took control of Königsberg/Kaliningrad in East Prussia on 10 April 1045. As a general rule, Russia imposed timezone 2:00 on occupied German territory in 1945, which is the same as German DST already in force from 2 April 1945. On 24 May 1945 Russia imposed double DST, making the effective time 3:00 east, until 24 Sept 1945, when it went back to 2:00 and then back to 1:00 (CET) on 18 Nov 1945. Now what happened in Königsberg? The Potsdam agreement of 2 August 1945 : (quote from Wikipedia) > The Conference has agreed in principle to the proposal of the Soviet > Government concerning the ultimate transfer to the Soviet Union of the > City of Koenigsberg and the area adjacent to it as described above > subject to expert examination of the actual frontier. Russia annexed the area on 17 October 1945, and integrated into the republic of Russia on 7 April 1946. Poland had no role to play in this matter. Regarding time regime, I would assume that the transition from 2:00 to 1:00 of 18 Nov 1945, for occupied Germany, did not happen in Kaliningrad. It was already annexed. It remained at 2:00 until 7 April 1946, when it was integrated and went to Moscow time. This transition on 7 April 1946 is also found in Shanks. Shanks does not have the double DST from 24 May to 24 September 1945, but I think he is wrong there. Why should the Russians have treated East Prussia from the rest of the occupied German territory in May 1945. That would make the zone table like this ( I marked the difference in red) Zone Europe/Russia/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 10 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 May 24 2:00 1:00 2:00 CEMT 1945 Sep 24 3:00 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Oct 17 2:00 - EET 1946 Apr 7 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3:00 - +03 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 2:00 - EET I have tried to simplify Zone Europe/Russia/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 10 1:00 SovietZone CE%sT 1945 Oct 17 2:00 - EET 1946 Apr 7 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3:00 - +03 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 2:00 - EET but get an error: can't determine time zone abbreviation to use just after until time at this line in tzdata.zi 1 So CE%sT 1945 O 17 This is why I made the changes implied by rule SovietZone explicit

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Maryland permanent DST
by Arthur David Olson Feb. 21, 2022

Feb. 21, 2022

A permanent-DST bill has been approved by the Maryland House of Delegates on a third-and-final 108-24 vote; it now goes to the state senate. Text of the bill is available at... https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0126T.pdf …and status of the bill at... https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0126 There are contigencies: (1) enacting of a similar act by Delaware, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia; and (2) 15 U.S.C. § 260a being amended to allow the states or a state, individually, to observe a year–round standard time that is consistent with Eastern Daylight Time Alas, if the contingencies are met there may be short lead time before a change: Section 1 of this Act shall take effect on the earlier of the second Sunday of March or the first Sunday of November after the [contigencies have been met]… Alas further, the senate (unlike the house) has returned to in-person hearings; written communications can be sent. One suggestion I’ve thought of making is to change “the earlier of” to “the later of” for kick-in; that would buy at least a few guaranteed months of lead time. I’d welcome any better suggestions; I’d also welcome any Marylander with more political weight than I have (read: anyone) to weigh in. --ado

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