* East Timor seems to have changed time zone from GMT+8 to GMT+9, around the end of September. * The Dominican Republic is now using the same time zone as Eastern US with DST during summer (EST/EDT). detail information: East Timor: Charles C. Schlegel" <chucks@bkk3.loxinfo.co.th> reported this:
I have just returned from East Timor, and have discovered that the UN Transitional Authority there has decided to change the time zone of the country. I think it took effect at the end of September. E. Timor time is now 2 hours ahead of Bangkok, not one hour as before.
I don't know just who you could contact to get formal confirmation of this. The political/administrative structure in E. Timor is still very much in a state of evolution. The legal governing body at present is = the UN Transitional Authority for East Timor (UNTAET).
Dominican Republic: Enrique Morales <emorales@pnud.org.do> reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am. Some sort of "official" statement is available in Spanish here: http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html Use of http://babelfish.altavista.com to "translate" to English:
Power Executive modified last night decree previous which the next Sunday 29 arranged to retard in one hour the clocks in all the country to 12:00 of the midnight, that now will be the same day but to 2:00 of the dawn, to avoid probable disadvantages in the services of telecommunications.
Decree 1011, emitted last night, arranges that the delay is from the 2:00 of the dawn of the same Sunday 29, instead of the 12:00 of the midnight of that same day, as it established the previous one, the 820-00, of the 25 of last September. The new decree arranges in addition that the Sunday first of April of next year 2001, to 2:00 of the dawn, all the clocks are advanced in one hour. [continues ...]
I have some other tz updates to report as well, I hope to have them ready tomorrow. Best regards, Steffen -- Steffen Thorsen <steffen@thorsen.priv.no> <steffent@pvv.ntnu.no> http://www.thorsen.priv.no