Here's a proposed patch to the tz database to accommodate Venezuela's latest plans, along with the other stuff that has been accumulated recently. The following change affects near-future time stamps. * Venezuela is changing their clocks on December 9 at 03:00, instead of the January 1 at 00:00 that we thought. (Thanks to John Stainforth for the heads-up.) The following change affects the country database, but not the time data. * New links America/St_Barthelemy and America/Marigot, for the new countries St Barthelemy and St Martin (French part). (Thanks to Mark Davis for this.) The following changes affect commentary only. * Add a comment about Iran's readoption of DST. (Thanks to Roozbeh Pournader for this.) * Fix some broken links in tz-link.htm, and remove some dead links. (Thanks to Bert van Heerde for this.) Changes include: - Update links to calconnect, ICU. - Remove links to xmlDate, Austria National Metrology Institute database. - draft-ietf-dhc-timezone-option-04.txt is now Internet RFC 4833. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/asia,v retrieving revision 2007.9 retrieving revision 2007.9.0.1 diff -pu -r2007.9 -r2007.9.0.1 --- asia 2007/10/30 14:28:10 2007.9 +++ asia 2007/11/29 08:48:52 2007.9.0.1 @@ -577,6 +577,15 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 No # daylight saving time ... # http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKBLA65048420070916 # +# From Roozbeh Pournader (2007-11-05): +# This is quoted from Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of +# Iran, Volume 63, Number 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24 +# [2007-10-16]. I am doing the best translation I can:... +# The official time of the country will be moved forward for one hour +# on the 24 hours of the first day of the month of Farvardin and will +# be changed back to its previous state on the 24 hours of the +# thirtieth day of Shahrivar. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/northamerica,v retrieving revision 2007.9 retrieving revision 2007.9.0.1 diff -pu -r2007.9 -r2007.9.0.1 --- northamerica 2007/10/30 14:28:11 2007.9 +++ northamerica 2007/11/29 08:48:52 2007.9.0.1 @@ -2303,6 +2303,10 @@ Zone America/Grenada -4:07:00 - LMT 1911 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Guadeloupe -4:06:08 - LMT 1911 Jun 8 # Pointe a Pitre -4:00 - AST +# St Barthelemy +Link America/Guadeloupe America/St_Barthelemy +# St Martin (French part) +Link America/Guadeloupe America/Marigot # Guatemala # =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 2007.8 retrieving revision 2007.8.0.1 diff -pu -r2007.8 -r2007.8.0.1 --- southamerica 2007/10/01 14:05:30 2007.8 +++ southamerica 2007/11/29 08:48:52 2007.8.0.1 @@ -1107,19 +1107,17 @@ Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1 # Venezuela # -# From Kiraz Janicke (2007-09-25), in -# http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2645: -# The proposal ... involves turning the clock back half an hour from -# +4.00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), to +4.30GMT, the time zone -# Venezuela had until December 31, 1964, when the current time zone -# was adopted. The change was due to take place on September 17 and -# then on September 24, but has since been postponed until December -# 31, to allow for compliance with international organizations, such -# as the International Office of Weights and Measures. +# From John Stainforth (2007-11-28): +# ... the change for Venezuela originally expected for 2007-12-31 has +# been brought forward to 2007-12-09. The official announcement was +# published today in the "Gaceta Oficial de la Republica Bolivariana +# de Venezuela, numero 38.819" (official document for all laws or +# resolution publication) +# http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=72208 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Caracas -4:27:44 - LMT 1890 -4:27:40 - CMT 1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time? -4:30 - VET 1965 # Venezuela Time - -4:00 - VET 2008 + -4:00 - VET 2007 Dec 9 03:00 -4:30 - VET =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/iso3166.tab,v retrieving revision 2007.1 retrieving revision 2007.1.0.1 diff -pu -r2007.1 -r2007.1.0.1 --- iso3166.tab 2007/01/08 17:17:29 2007.1 +++ iso3166.tab 2007/11/29 08:48:52 2007.1.0.1 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # # This file contains a table with the following columns: # 1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, current as of -# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-12 (2006-09-26). See: +# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-1 (2007-09-21). See: # <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html"> # ISO 3166 Maintenance agency (ISO 3166/MA) # </a>. @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ BG Bulgaria BH Bahrain BI Burundi BJ Benin +BL St Barthelemy BM Bermuda BN Brunei BO Bolivia @@ -159,6 +160,7 @@ MA Morocco MC Monaco MD Moldova ME Montenegro +MF St Martin (French part) MG Madagascar MH Marshall Islands MK Macedonia =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/zone.tab,v retrieving revision 2007.7 retrieving revision 2007.7.0.1 diff -pu -r2007.7 -r2007.7.0.1 --- zone.tab 2007/08/20 14:45:10 2007.7 +++ zone.tab 2007/11/29 08:48:52 2007.7.0.1 @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ BG +4241+02319 Europe/Sofia BH +2623+05035 Asia/Bahrain BI -0323+02922 Africa/Bujumbura BJ +0629+00237 Africa/Porto-Novo +BL +1753-06251 America/St_Barthelemy BM +3217-06446 Atlantic/Bermuda BN +0456+11455 Asia/Brunei BO -1630-06809 America/La_Paz @@ -250,6 +251,7 @@ MA +3339-00735 Africa/Casablanca MC +4342+00723 Europe/Monaco MD +4700+02850 Europe/Chisinau ME +4226+01916 Europe/Podgorica +MF +1804-06305 America/Marigot MG -1855+04731 Indian/Antananarivo MH +0709+17112 Pacific/Majuro most locations MH +0905+16720 Pacific/Kwajalein Kwajalein =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/tz-link.htm,v retrieving revision 2007.8 retrieving revision 2007.8.0.1 diff -pu -r2007.8 -r2007.8.0.1 --- tz-link.htm 2007/10/01 14:02:04 2007.8 +++ tz-link.htm 2007/11/29 08:48:52 2007.8.0.1 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-ASCII"'> <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul"> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David"> -<meta name="DC.Date" content="2007-08-17"> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2007-11-29"> <meta name="DC.Description" content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time"> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm"> @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Consortium</a> is promoting further work href="http://www.calconnect.org/publications/icalendartimezoneproblemsandrecommendationsv1.0.pdf">iCalendar TIMEZONE Problems and Recommendations</a> offers guidelines and recommendations for the use of VTIMEZONE and <code>tz</code>.</li> -<li><a href="http://www.calconnect.org/dstlinks.html">Extended Daylight +<li><a href="http://www.calconnect.org/dstlinks.shtml">Extended Daylight Saving Time Links, Advisories and Changes</a> lists vendor material on recent daylight saving time changes.</li> <li><a @@ -198,9 +198,10 @@ available under both the <abbr>GPL</abbr License. DateTime::TimeZone also contains a script <code>tests_from_zdump</code> that generates test cases for each clock transition in the <code>tz</code> database.</li> -<li><a href="http://icu-project.org/"><abbr -title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr></a> -contains a C/C++ library for internationalization that +<li><a href="http://icu-project.org/">International Components for +Unicode (<abbr>ICU</abbr>)</a> contains C/C++ and <a +href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29">Java</a> +libraries for internationalization that has a compiler from <code>tz</code> source into an <abbr>ICU</abbr>-specific format. <abbr>ICU</abbr> is freely available under a @@ -211,11 +212,6 @@ contains a class <code>org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler</code> that compiles <code>tz</code> source into a Joda-specific binary format. Joda Time is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li> -<li><a href="http://mozware.free.fr/devtools/xmlDate/">xmlDate</a> -contains <a -href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript">JavaScript</a> code that -parses <samp>tz</samp> source into an internal object that represents -a time zone. It is freely available under the GPL.</li> <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytz/">PyTZ - Python Time Zone Library</a> compiles <code>tz</code> source into <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>. @@ -251,8 +247,7 @@ This library is freely available under t (<abbr title="Lesser General Public License">LGPL</abbr>)</a>, and is widely used in <abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux systems.</li> <li><a href="http://www.bmsi.com/java/#TZ">ZoneInfo.java</a> -is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in <a -href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29">Java</a>. +is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Java. It is freely available under the <abbr>LGPL</abbr>.</li> <li>Tcl, mentioned above, also contains a <code>tz</code> binary file reader.</li> @@ -420,10 +415,6 @@ href="http://www.aph.gov.au/LIBRARY/Pubs note on daylight saving time in Australia</a>. The Bureau of Meteorology publishes a list of <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml">Implementation Dates of Daylight Savings Time within Australia</a>.</dd> -<dt>Austria</dt> -<dd>The National Metrology Institute publishes a -table of <a href="http://www.metrologie.at/pdf/sommerzeit.pdf" -hreflang="de">daylight saving time in Austria (in German)</a>.</dd> <dt>Belgium</dt> <dd>The Royal Observatory of Belgium maintains a table of <a href="http://www.astro.oma.be/GENERAL/INFO/nli001a.html" @@ -500,9 +491,9 @@ Time Protocol</a> discusses how to synchronize clocks of Internet hosts.</li> <li><a -href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-timezone-option-04.txt">A +href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4833.txt">A Timezone Option for <abbr title="Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol">DHCP</abbr></a> -proposes a <a +specifies a <a href="http://www.dhcp.org/">DHCP</a> option for a server to configure a client's time zone and daylight saving settings automatically.</li> <li><a href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/GMT.UT.and.the.RGO.html">A Few @@ -608,8 +599,8 @@ abbreviations, identifiers, and formats. French translations for "Eastern European Summer Time", "<abbr title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</abbr>", and "Bucharest". <a -href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/by_type/names.zone.html">By-Type -Chart: names.zone</a> shows these values for many locales. +href="http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/by_type/names.metazone.html">By-Type +Chart: names.metazone</a> shows these values for many locales. <abbr>ICU</abbr> contains a mechanism for using this data.</li> <li>Alphabetic time zone abbreviations should not be used as unique identifiers for <abbr>UTC</abbr> offsets as they are ambiguous in