Here are proposed changes to the time zone package. Just two updates this time. The executive summary europe Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Europe/Tiraspol) has not followed much of Russia, and will not retain summer time - rather reverting to standard time along with western Europe, and Ukraine, on Oct 30, as it was earlier scheduelled to do. This removes the Europe/Tiraspol zone (again) as the variation never actually happened... (and returns the entry in the "backward" file). australasia Fiji has altered the end date for summer time this summer, moving it from February to January. I am by no means confident it won't shift again, but this does appear to be the current plan. To go with those, the backward file has Europe/Tiraspol returned to it (linking it to Europe/Chisinau) and zone.tab returns to a single entry for Moldova (MD). I plan to release these next Monday (October 31) - this means that anyone using Europe/Tiraspol and the tzdata2011m data set will get incorrect timestamps on Oct 30 (after 03:00 or whatever) and Oct 31 (until after the update), but the easy solution is to simply use Europe/Chisinau in all parts of Moldova. The missing sccs id version number in zone.tab is/was the unreleased version with the corrected syntax for the Moldovan entries when it was split. kre --- australasia 2011/10/15 03:21:32 1.4 +++ australasia 2011/10/24 16:58:31 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # <pre> -# @(#)australasia 8.28 +# @(#)australasia 8.29 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. @@ -308,6 +308,20 @@ # advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to # 2am on February 26 next year. +# From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24) +# Another change to the Fiji DST end date. In the TZ database the end date for +# Fiji DST 2012, is currently Feb 26. This has been changed to Jan 22. +# +# <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155"> +# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:ame... +# </a> +# states: +# +# The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012 +# has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012. +# The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start +# on the 23rd of October, 2011. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - @@ -316,7 +330,7 @@ Rule Fiji 2010 only - Oct 24 2:00 1:00 S Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - Rule Fiji 2011 only - Oct 23 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Fiji 2012 only - Feb 26 3:00 0 - +Rule Fiji 2012 only - Jan 22 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time --- backward 2011/10/24 14:32:15 1.2 +++ backward 2011/10/28 09:53:47 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # <pre> -# @(#)backward 8.10 +# @(#)backward 8.11 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ Link Africa/Cairo Egypt Link Europe/Dublin Eire Link Europe/London Europe/Belfast +Link Europe/Chisinau Europe/Tiraspol Link Europe/London GB Link Europe/London GB-Eire Link Etc/GMT GMT+0 --- europe 2011/10/24 14:33:06 1.2 +++ europe 2011/10/28 09:59:09 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # <pre> -# @(#)europe 8.39 +# @(#)europe 8.40 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. @@ -1678,6 +1678,18 @@ # a pre-1880 LMT offset of 1:58:32. # # (which agrees with the earlier entry that had been removed) +# +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-26) +# NO need to divide Moldova into two timezones at this point. +# As of today, Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)- Tiraspol reversed its own +# decision to abolish DST this winter. +# Following Moldova and neighboring Ukraine- Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)- +# Tiraspol will go back to winter time on October 30, 2011. +# News from Moldova (in russian): +# <a href="http://ru.publika.md/link_317061.html"> +# http://ru.publika.md/link_317061.html +# </a> + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880 @@ -1694,21 +1706,6 @@ # See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules. 2:00 EU EE%sT -Zone Europe/Tiraspol 1:58:32 - LMT 1880 - 1:55 - CMT 1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT - 1:44:24 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT - 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1940 Aug 15 - 2:00 1:00 EEST 1941 Jul 17 - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 24 - 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 - 3:00 - MSK 1990 May 6 - 2:00 - EET 1991 - 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 - 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 -# See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules. - 2:00 EU EE%sT 2011 Mar lastSun 1:00u - 3:00 - FET # Further-eastern European Time - # Monaco # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's # more precise 0:09:21. --- zone.tab 2011/10/24 14:42:32 1.2 +++ zone.tab 2011/10/28 09:54:04 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # <pre> -# @(#)zone.tab 8.50 +# @(#)zone.tab 8.52 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. # @@ -258,7 +258,6 @@ MA +3339-00735 Africa/Casablanca MC +4342+00723 Europe/Monaco MD +4700+02850 Europe/Chisinau -MD +4651+02938 Europe/Tiraspol Pridnestrovie ME +4226+01916 Europe/Podgorica MF +1804-06305 America/Marigot MG -1855+04731 Indian/Antananarivo