The "pacificnew" file includes rules with type "uspres" and "nonuspres" to reflect a proposal that would have extended daylight savings time in the US Pacific zone to the Sunday following Election Day in Presidential election years (same as Summer Olympic years). This would be combined with a uniform poll-closing time (within the 48 contiguous states and DC) of 21:00 EST, 20:00 CST, 19:00 MST, and 19:00 PDT. However, since that law was never adopted, the zone in question is commented out, so would not appear in a parsed file. (If that file is to be retained, it needs to be tweaked anyway, so that the regular rules in it follow the new US style--unless it was already done.) -----Original Message----- From: Srdjan Krajnalic [mailto:ludiskr@yahoo.com] Sent: Fri 21 July 2006 08:51 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov; tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: The RULE TYPE column Hi, Unless I'm missing some of the data files, the only rule TYPE ever used is "-" The man page states: TYPE Gives the type of year in which the rule applies. If TYPE is - then the rule applies in all years between FROM and TO inclusive. If TYPE is something else, then zic executes the command yearistype year type to check the type of a year: an exit status of zero is taken to mean that the year is of the given type; an exit status of one is taken to mean that the year is not of the given type. What other types except for "-" are allowed? Parsed files: africa, antarctica, asia, australasia, backward, europe, northamerica, pacificnew, solar87, solar88, solar89, southamerica, Systemv