Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 02:42:24 -0500 From: <jnorgard@Prodigy.Net.mx>
* Jan Mayen observes Oslo time, not -01:00. Also, add commentary about time in Svalbard and Jan Mayen since 1925. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen for this.) Actually I would have liked to take credit for that, at least the first part.
Sorry, I forgot about your original email. You should get credit for that. My apologies.
* Southwest Borneo switched from +08:00 to +07:00 on 1988-01-01. This entails a new zone 'Asia/Pontianak'. (Thanks to Gwillim Law for this.) Funny, I had it all along right under my nose without noticing it. I send a screenshot from my program World Time Explorer which shows the region.
If the time zone border had been there since 1970, we wouldn't have needed an entry for Pontianak in the tz database; we could have just asked people in Pontianak to use the Jakarta entry. The news here was that Indonesian west Borneo has switched since 1970. This news is not in Shanks (1995), nor is it in Gwillim Law's summaries of the IATA data (those summaries started after the switch).
Can anyone confirm that Palangkaray (with population 148,700 latitude -2.19 and longitude = 113.82) is also on GMT+7 just like Pontianak, and that Bandjarmasin (with population 534,600 and latitude -3.34, longitude 114.57) is on GMT+8?
Here is some confirmation: <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime> <http://www.airportcitycodes.com/aaa/ctydef/pcity.html> (look for Palangkaraya) <http://www.airportcitycodes.com/aaa/ctydef/pcity.html> (look for Balikpapan) Balikpapan is not the same as Bandjarmasin, but it's the closest airport that I could find. By the way, I just found out about airportcitycodes.com; my guess is that it is derived from the IATA data. It gives only standard times, but that is better than nothing. Perhaps I should add it to tz-link as well; I don't know of any other place that publishes the IATA data on the web.
* Time Zone Converter has moved.
The new name will be World Time Explorer 1.6 further down on page http://www20.brinkster.com/timezone50/index.htm
I'll change the name in my next proposed patch. But I should warn you that when I tried to visit that page, I got a message "The daily bandwidth limit for this member has been exceeded." Apparently you're too popular.