This thread highlights the almost incredible demand for the zoneinfo database to remain exceedingly conservative. If, e.g., tzcode became dependant on c++, or any other newfangled innovations, it could affect untraceable people with no obvious connection to the project itself who find themselves dependent on the ability to react to local legislative changes faster than their system providers.

Yes Governement changed its mind again and postponed GMT to GMT+1 switch on the last Sunday of April and not march as previously announced Regards -----Message d'origine----- De : Tropamer Christophe [mailto:ctropamer@streamwide.com] Envoyé : vendredi 16 mars 2012 13:43 À : 'Dan Abitbol'; tz@iana.org Cc : support@streamwide.com; 'Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]'; 'Derick Rethans' Objet : RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Hi, Seen Morocco change again :/ http://www.le2minutes.com/actualite.php L’heure d’été reportée à fin Avril. Mustapha El Khalfi, ministre de la Communication et porte-parole du gouvernement, annonce un délai de un mois pour l’heure d’été. En effet, le passage à l’horaire estival, soit avancé de 60 minutes, se fera à partir du dernier dimanche d’avril et non fin mars, comme annoncé précédemment. Cette décision a été prise après discussion des propositions appelant à prendre en considération les impératifs de la scolarité, explique El Khalfi, à l’issue du Conseil de gouvernement qui s’est tenue hier. -----Message d'origine----- De : Dan Abitbol [mailto:dabitbol@streamwide.com] Envoyé : jeudi 15 mars 2012 11:21 À : tz@iana.org Cc : support@streamwide.com; 'Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]'; 'Derick Rethans' Objet : RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Importance : Haute Hello Sorry to disturb again but as you know Morocco have new DST rules and first change is scheduled on 25 March 15, 2012-03-15 Do you plan to release 2012c that takes into account these new rules for Morocco soon ? We really need them to get Red Hat publish new tzdata rpm and PHP Pecl to publish new timezone db extension from your official files And then we need to update more than 40 machines at one of our customers in Morocco Please help. Thank you very much -----Message d'origine----- De : Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Envoyé : lundi 12 mars 2012 18:38 À : 'Dan Abitbol' Objet : RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Robert Elz has been serving as the coordinator since October of last year. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Dan Abitbol [mailto:dabitbol@streamwide.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:33 To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Subject: RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Thank you very much After I read the thread about it , I understood that you were no more the Tz Coordinator and that there's no yet anyone doing this role (although zefram applied) , is my understanding correct ? Regards -----Message d'origine----- De : Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Envoyé : lundi 12 mars 2012 18:26 À : 'Dan Abitbol' Objet : RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Your best bet is to subscribe to the new IANA time zone mailing list; I expect word on an update will appear there shortly. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Dan Abitbol [mailto:dabitbol@streamwide.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:20 To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]; 'Derick Rethans' Cc: support@streamwide.com; 'Serban NISTOR'; amajjad@streamwide.com Subject: RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Hello Mr Olson It's not you anymore who apply the changes and makes new timezone db package available for all ? is it someone else at IANA ? How to get please the 2012c early this week with updated rules for Morocco ? Do you think we have a chance to get it this week or some days before 25 march ? In fact, I could apply the changes by hand and update red hat timezone db files but actually, I guess Dereck will need official timezonedb 2012c to produce sources file for the php extension that we would have to recompile . Thank you for any help. Regards -----Message d'origine----- De : Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov] Envoyé : lundi 12 mars 2012 18:13 À : 'Dan Abitbol'; 'Derick Rethans' Cc : support@streamwide.com; 'Serban NISTOR'; amajjad@streamwide.com Objet : RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last You can wait for 2012c, or you can pick up the change from the mailing list archive and apply it by hand. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Dan Abitbol [mailto:dabitbol@streamwide.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:05 To: 'Derick Rethans' Cc: support@streamwide.com; Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]; 'Serban NISTOR'; amajjad@streamwide.com Subject: RE: Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Thank you Derick So I just have to wait for 2012c ?

Yes that’s correct However, in all public communications, the Moroccan government never mentioned at what time the switch to GMT+1 would happen exactly. For sure we know that the switch back to GMT will happen on last Sunday of September at 2h59:59 am and therefore the switch to GMT+1 would happen the last Sunday of April (29 I think) at 1h59:59 am Regards <http://www.streamwide.com/> Telecom future is starting today Dan ABITBOL VAS Product Manager Streamwide 84, rue d'Hauteville Paris 75010 France <mailto:dabitbol@streamwide.com> dabitbol@streamwide.com tel: mobile: Skype ID: SkypeIn #: <http://www.plaxo.com/click_to_call?src=jj_signature&To=%2B33170085286&Email =dabitbol66@hotmail.com> +33170085286 <http://www.plaxo.com/click_to_call?src=jj_signature&To=%2B33662168617&Email =dabitbol66@hotmail.com> +33662168617 dabitbol <http://www.plaxo.com/click_to_call?src=jj_signature&To=%2B33870465999&Email =dabitbol66@hotmail.com> +33870465999 <https://www.plaxo.com/add_me?u=8590259834&src=client_sig_212_1_banner_join& invite=1> Want to always have my latest info? <http://www.plaxo.com/signature?src=client_sig_212_1_banner_sig> Want a signature like this? De : Tim Parenti [mailto:tim@timtimeonline.com] Envoyé : vendredi 16 mars 2012 15:45 À : Dan Abitbol Cc : Tropamer Christophe; tz@iana.org; Derick Rethans; support@streamwide.com; Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Objet : Re: [tz] Eternal DST rules for Morocco from 2012 at last Well, that certainly helps with the timeline for deployment of this change. Not a native French speaker, but here is my rough translation of the announcement: Daylight saving time was postponed to late April. Mustapha El Khalfi, Communications Minister and government spokesman, announced a delay of one month for daylight saving time. In fact, the transition to summer time, to be brought forward by 60 minutes, will be from the last Sunday of April and not late March, as previously announced. This decision was made after discussion of proposals to take into consideration the requirements of education, explains El Khalfi, at the conclusion of the Governing Council which was held yesterday. -- Tim Parenti On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 08:57, Dan Abitbol <dabitbol@streamwide.com> wrote: http://www.le2minutes.com/actualite.php L’heure d’été reportée à fin Avril. Mustapha El Khalfi, ministre de la Communication et porte-parole du gouvernement, annonce un délai de un mois pour l’heure d’été. En effet, le passage à l’horaire estival, soit avancé de 60 minutes, se fera à partir du dernier dimanche d’avril et non fin mars, comme annoncé précédemment. Cette décision a été prise après discussion des propositions appelant à prendre en considération les impératifs de la scolarité, explique El Khalfi, à l’issue du Conseil de gouvernement qui s’est tenue hier.

I've attached an updated proposed change for Morocco; the tabs-mangled-by-Gmail version appears below. The differences are against 2012b. --ado diff -r -c old/africa new/africa *** old/africa 2012-03-21 07:04:35.777499400 -0400 --- new/africa 2012-03-21 07:04:28.492286600 -0400 *************** *** 1,5 **** # <pre> ! # @(#)africa 8.33 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. --- 1,5 ---- # <pre> ! # @(#)africa 8.35 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. *************** *** 768,773 **** --- 768,804 ---- # wall clock time (i.e. 11pm UTC), but that's what I would assume. It has # also been like that in the past. + # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2012-03-09): + # According to Infomédiaire web site from Morocco (infomediaire.ma ), + # on March 9, 2012, (in French) Heure légale: + # Le Maroc adopte officiellement l'heure d'été + # <a href=" http://www.infomediaire.ma/news/maroc/heure-l%C3%A9gale-le-maroc-adopte-offi... "> + # http://www.infomediaire.ma/news/maroc/heure-l%C3%A9gale-le-maroc-adopte-offi... + # </a> + # Governing Council adopted draft decree, that Morocco DST starts on + # the last Sunday of March (March 25, 2012) and ends on + # last Sunday of September (September 30, 2012) + # except the month of Ramadan. + # or (brief) + # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_morocco06.html"> + # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_morocco06.html + # </a> + + # From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-10): + # The infomediaire.ma source indicates that the system is to be in + # effect every year. It gives 03H00 as the "fall back" time of day; + # it lacks a "spring forward" time of day; assume 2:00 XXX. + # Wait on specifying the Ramadan exception for details about + # start date, start time of day, end date, and end time of day XXX. + + # From Christophe Tropamer (2012-03-16): + # Seen Morocco change again: + # <a href="http://www.le2uminutes.com/actualite.php"> + # http://www.le2uminutes.com/actualite.php + # </a> + # "...à partir du dernier dimance d'avril et non fins mars, + # comme annoncé précédemment." + # RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S *************** *** 793,798 **** --- 824,832 ---- Rule Morocco 2010 only - Aug 8 0:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2011 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S Rule Morocco 2011 only - Jul 31 0 0 - + Rule Morocco 2012 max - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 S + Rule Morocco 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 1984 Mar 16