Here are some proposed patches to the tz database. * Lithuania is at UTC+2 right now, contrary to the existing tz data. Today Steffen Thorsen reminded me that Andrei Ivanov reported in March that Lithuania might not use DST this year. This change was not incorporated into the tz database because we didn't have confirmation then. But I just verified from the Lithuanian State Department of Tourism and from Air Lithuania web sites that the country is at UTC+2 with no DST. The tz data are incorrect for today's time stamps, so this fix is relatively high priority. I did find a contrary claim about what will happen this October in Lithuania. The Litnet Computer Emergency Response Team <http://www.litnet.lt/cert/> claims that they operate at UTC+1 with DST, which would mean that Lithuania would move its clocks back this fall. This is the only place I've seen this claim, so for now let's discount it. * Change the South Australia rules to not invoke yearistype, to bypass configuration and installation hassles Thanks to Arthur David Olson for this suggestion. * Correction for Argentina between October 1999 and March 2000. This correction does not affect the clocks, just the tm_isdst option. Argentina was using UTC-4 plus one hour of DST, not UTC-3. Thanks to Fabian L. Arce Jofre for this correction. * Add the Worldwide Holiday & Festival Site to our links, as they use the tz data. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/australasia,v retrieving revision 2000.5 retrieving revision 2000.5.0.1 diff -pu -r2000.5 -r2000.5.0.1 --- australasia 2000/07/31 13:26:42 2000.5 +++ australasia 2000/08/08 22:35:17 2000.5.0.1 @@ -70,8 +70,11 @@ Rule AS 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:0 Rule AS 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1990 1994 even Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1990 1994 odd Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 1990 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 1991 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 1992 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 1993 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 1994 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/europe,v retrieving revision 2000.5 retrieving revision 2000.5.0.1 diff -pu -r2000.5 -r2000.5.0.1 --- europe 2000/07/31 13:26:41 2000.5 +++ europe 2000/08/08 23:41:30 2000.5.0.1 @@ -1189,6 +1189,10 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun # motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was # already done by Estonia. +# From the <a href="http://www.tourism.lt/informa/ff.htm"> +# Fact File, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism +# </a> (2000-03-27): Local time is GMT+2 hours ..., no daylight saving. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time @@ -1203,7 +1207,7 @@ Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u - 2:00 EU EE%sT + 2:00 - EET # Luxembourg # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 2000.3 retrieving revision 2000.3.0.1 diff -pu -r2000.3 -r2000.3.0.1 --- southamerica 2000/03/04 15:31:08 2000.3 +++ southamerica 2000/04/19 05:36:52 2000.3.0.1 @@ -111,24 +111,31 @@ Rule Arg 1989 1992 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1: # From Rives McDow (2000-01-10): # On October 3, 1999, 0:00 local, Argentina implemented daylight savings time, # which did not result in the switch of a time zone, as they stayed 9 hours -# from the International Date Line. On March 5, 2000, at 0:00 local time, -# Argentina will come off daylight savings time, which will bring them to 8 -# hours from the International Date Line. +# from the International Date Line. +Rule Arg 1999 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # # From Peter Gradelski via Steffen Thorsen (2000-03-01): # We just checked with our San Paulo office and they say the government of # Argentina decided not to become one of the countries that go on or off DST. # So Buenos Aires should be -3 hours from GMT at all times. # +# From Fabian L. Arce Jofre <farcejofre@bigfoot.com> (2000-04-04): +# The law that claimed DST for Argentina was derogated by President Fernando +# de la Rua on March 2, 2000, because it would make people spend more energy +# in the winter time, rather than less. The change took effect on March 3. +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # -# Buenos Aires (BA), Distrito Federal (DF), Santa Cruz (SC), -# Tierra del Fuego (TF) & Antartida e Islas +# Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF), Santa Cruz (SC), +# Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur (TF) Zone America/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Nov -4:16:44 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 - -3:00 Arg AR%sT + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 0:00 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00 + -3:00 - ART # # Santa Fe (SF), Entre Rios (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN), Chaco (CC), # Formosa (FM), La Pampa (LP), Chubut (CH) @@ -137,6 +144,8 @@ Zone America/Rosario -4:02:40 - LMT 1894 -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Jul + -3:00 - ART 1999 Oct 3 0:00 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00 -3:00 - ART # # Cordoba (CB), Santiago del Estero (SE), Salta (SA), Tucuman (TM), La Rioja (LR), San Juan (SJ), San Luis (SL), @@ -146,6 +155,8 @@ Zone America/Cordoba -4:16:44 - LMT 1894 -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1990 Jul + -3:00 - ART 1999 Oct 3 0:00 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00 -3:00 - ART # # Jujuy (JY) @@ -157,6 +168,8 @@ Zone America/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 N -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 6 -4:00 1:00 WARST 1992 Mar 15 -4:00 - WART 1992 Oct 18 + -3:00 - ART 1999 Oct 3 0:00 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00 -3:00 - ART # # Catamarca (CT) @@ -167,6 +180,8 @@ Zone America/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 18 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1990 Jul -3:00 - ART 1991 Jul -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1992 Jul + -3:00 - ART 1999 Oct 3 0:00 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00 -3:00 - ART # # Mendoza (MZ) @@ -178,6 +193,8 @@ Zone America/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 15 -4:00 1:00 WARST 1992 Mar 1 -4:00 - WART 1992 Oct 18 + -3:00 - ART 1999 Oct 3 0:00 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00 -3:00 - ART # Aruba =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/tz-link.htm,v retrieving revision 2000.5 retrieving revision 2000.5.0.1 diff -pu -r2000.5 -r2000.5.0.1 --- tz-link.htm 2000/07/31 13:26:42 2000.5 +++ tz-link.htm 2000/08/08 23:41:30 2000.5.0.1 @@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ is a fancier web interface. is an even fancier interface. <LI><A HREF="http://www.burbs.com/fcgi-bin/tzconvert.fcgi">Burbs time zone converter</A> is a multilingual interface. +<LI><A HREF="http://www.holidayfestival.com/">The Worldwide Holiday +& Festival Site</A> lists DST-related clock changes along with holidays. <LI><A HREF="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock</A> is a web interface to a time zone database derived from <samp>tz</samp>'s.