Thanks for the heads-up about Tunisia. That change takes effect Sunday, so we need a new revision of the tz data. Here is a proposed patch that implements this change, along with the other changes that have come up in the past 10 days. This patch assumes the patch that I circulated on the tz mailing list on March 22. * Tunisia is adopting regular DST, starting this year. (Thanks to Klaus Marten for the heads-up, and to Atef Loukil for the detailed info and reference.) * Tcl 8.5 has tz source and binary readers. (Thanks to Kevin Kenny for this info.) * Fix an XHTML typo in tz-link.htm. * A shorter document describing this year's changes in Indiana. (Thanks to Nathan Stratton Treadway for this.) * "Sint" -> "St" for St Maarten and St Eustatius. (Thanks to Ken Pizzini for this.) =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/africa,v retrieving revision 2006.2.0.1 retrieving revision 2006.2.0.2 diff -pu -r2006.2.0.1 -r2006.2.0.2 --- africa 2006/03/22 23:14:41 2006.2.0.1 +++ africa 2006/03/31 08:40:02 2006.2.0.2 @@ -561,7 +561,6 @@ Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893 # Tunisia # From Gwillim Law (2005-04-30): -# # My correspondent, Risto Nykanen, has alerted me to another adoption of DST, # this time in Tunisia. According to Yahoo France News # <http://fr.news.yahoo.com/050426/5/4dumk.html>, in a story attributed to AP @@ -575,6 +574,12 @@ Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893 # <http://www.lapresse.tn/archives/archives280405/actualites/lheure.html> # ... DST for 2005: on: Sun May 1 0h standard time, off: Fri Sept. 30, # 1h standard time. +# +# From Atef Loukil (2006-03-28): +# The daylight saving time will be the same each year: +# Beginning : the last Sunday of March at 02:00 +# Ending : the last Sunday of October at 03:00 ... +# http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1188&Ite... # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S @@ -600,6 +605,8 @@ Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1 Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Tunisia 2005 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Tunisia 2005 only - Sep 30 1:00s 0 - +Rule Tunisia 2006 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 2006 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's # more precise 0:09:21. # Shanks & Pottenger say the 1911 switch was on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/northamerica,v retrieving revision 2006.2.0.1 retrieving revision 2006.2.0.2 diff -pu -r2006.2.0.1 -r2006.2.0.2 --- northamerica 2006/03/22 23:14:41 2006.2.0.1 +++ northamerica 2006/03/31 08:40:02 2006.2.0.2 @@ -570,8 +570,10 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 N # From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): # http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006. +# From Nathan Stratton Treadway (2006-03-30): +# http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot0406.htm [3705 B] # From Deborah Goldsmith (2006-01-18): -# http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf95/382329_web.pdf +# http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf95/382329_web.pdf [2.9 MB] # From Paul Eggert (2006-01-20): # It says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, # Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 2006.2.0.1 retrieving revision 2006.2.0.2 diff -pu -r2006.2.0.1 -r2006.2.0.2 --- southamerica 2006/03/22 23:14:41 2006.2.0.1 +++ southamerica 2006/03/31 08:40:02 2006.2.0.2 @@ -778,9 +778,9 @@ Zone America/Bogota -4:56:20 - LMT 1884 # Saba Island has been like Curacao. # This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though. # -# By July 2007 Curacao and Sint Maarten are planned to become +# By July 2007 Curacao and St Maarten are planned to become # associated states within the Netherlands, much like Aruba; -# Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius would become directly part of the +# Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius would become directly part of the # Netherlands as Kingdom Islands. This won't affect their time zones # though, as far as we know. # =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/tz-link.htm,v retrieving revision 2006.2.0.1 retrieving revision 2006.2.0.2 diff -pu -r2006.2.0.1 -r2006.2.0.2 --- tz-link.htm 2006/03/22 23:14:41 2006.2.0.1 +++ tz-link.htm 2006/03/31 08:40:02 2006.2.0.2 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-ASCII"' /> <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul" /> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David" /> -<meta name="DC.Date" content="2006-03-22" /> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2006-03-31" /> <meta name="DC.Description" content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time" /> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm" /> @@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ compiles <code>tz</code> source into <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/">Ruby</a>. It is freely available under the <abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr> license.</li> +<li>Starting with version 8.5, <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/">Tcl</a> +contains a developer-oriented parser that compiles <samp>tz</samp> +source into text files, along with a runtime that can read those +files. Tcl is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style +license.</li> </ul> <h2>Other <code>tz</code> binary file readers</h2> <ul> @@ -237,6 +242,8 @@ It is freely available under the <abbr>L <li><a href="http://s.keim.free.fr/tz/doc.html">Python time zones</a> is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Python. It is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li> +<li>Tcl, mentioned above, also contains a +<code>tz</code> binary file reader.</li> </ul> <h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone software</h2> <ul> @@ -444,7 +451,7 @@ href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/internet- Timezone Option for <abbr title="Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol">DHCP</abbr></a> proposes a <a href="http://www.dhcp.org/">DHCP</a> option for a server to configure -a client's time zone and daylight saving settings automatically.</a> +a client's time zone and daylight saving settings automatically.</li> <li><a href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/GMT.UT.and.the.RGO.html">A Few Facts Concerning <abbr title="Greenwich Mean Time">GMT</abbr>, <abbr title="Universal Time">UT</abbr>, and