I'm forwarding this message from Michael, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: michael [mailto:crozierm@consumption.net] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:40 AM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Atlantic/Faroe DST Hello, According to wikipedia authors, DST is observed in Faroe Islands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_islands According to TZ, it is not: Atlantic/Faroe Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 Atlantic/Faroe isdst=0 gmtoff=0 Atlantic/Faroe Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 Atlantic/Faroe isdst=0 gmtoff=0 Atlantic/Faroe Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 Atlantic/Faroe isdst=0 gmtoff=0 I don't have any additional evidence to say which is correct, but I thought it worth noting. Thanks, Michael
From: michael [mailto:crozierm@consumption.net] To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
According to TZ, it is not:
Hmm, it works for me. My guess is that you're using an older tz installation where the zone was spelled 'Atlantic/Faroe'. $ zdump -v -c 2007,2009 Atlantic/Faroe Atlantic/Faroe -9223372036854775808 = NULL Atlantic/Faroe -9223372036854689408 = NULL Atlantic/Faroe Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2007 WET isdst=0 Atlantic/Faroe Sun Mar 25 01:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 02:00:00 2007 WEST isdst=1 Atlantic/Faroe Sun Oct 28 00:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 WEST isdst=1 Atlantic/Faroe Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 WET isdst=0 Atlantic/Faroe Sun Mar 30 00:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 30 00:59:59 2008 WET isdst=0 Atlantic/Faroe Sun Mar 30 01:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 30 02:00:00 2008 WEST isdst=1 Atlantic/Faroe Sun Oct 26 00:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 26 01:59:59 2008 WEST isdst=1 Atlantic/Faroe Sun Oct 26 01:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 26 01:00:00 2008 WET isdst=0 Atlantic/Faroe 9223372036854689407 = NULL Atlantic/Faroe 9223372036854775807 = NULL
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