A quote from the 'asia' file: # From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): # Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): # A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of # the Ramadan. Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think # there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks # earlier--the same goes for Jordan. Steffens web site now reports that Gaza started DST very early this year, 1.st of April at 0:00 hour local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=702 The tz database would have this change as other years, at First Friday on or after 15.th. of April 0:00, like previous years back to 1999. Now that we have a load of changes to publish, should we also include this change? Perhaps Steffen can comment? Regards, - Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard@Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html
Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote:
Steffens web site now reports that Gaza started DST very early this year, 1.st of April at 0:00 hour local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=702
The tz database would have this change as other years, at First Friday > on or after 15.th. of April 0:00, like previous years back to 1999.
Now that we have a load of changes to publish, should we also include this change? Perhaps Steffen can comment?
Yes, I have a few comments, not just Gaza: - Gaza: I was informed by a user in Bethlehem that in Bethlehem it started the same day as Israel, and after checking with other users in the area, I was informed that they started DST one day after Israel. I was not able to find any authoritative sources at the time, nor details if Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as the West Bank. - Honduras: Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not published, I have located this authoritative source: http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 (auto-translated:) ... President of the Republic, in meeting of Cabinet, determined today that in the present administration he is going to be instituted that measurement of the change of hour for the same period during next the three years. - Cuba: It is likely that they are not reverting back to standard time this year either, based on the number of responses I have got from users (when my site claimed Cuba will end DST on lastSun/October) Best regards, Steffen Thorsen/timeanddate.com
Steffen Thorsen <straen@thorsen.priv.no> writes:
Yes, I have a few comments, not just Gaza:
Thanks very much for those comments. Here is a proposed change to the tz database that reflects them, along with the other changes I've been saving up. The tz-link.htm changes are particularly big this time: for some reason the WWW gremlins have been breaking links all over the web in the past couple of weeks. (The CIA moved its home page! Wow.) ===== Changes affecting future time stamps (all thanks to you). * Gaza observed DST starting April 1 this year. * Cuba continues to observe DST through next year. * Honduras plans to observe DST through 2009. Commentary fixes: * Remove obsolete reference to XHTML. * Mention the uncertain historical status of Tomsk. (Thanks to Jesper Norgaard Welen for this.) Web page fixes: * Add link to Wikipedia entry about the tz database (hey, we're famous!). * Add link to gmane.org archive for mailing list. * Add link to <http://home.tiscali.nl/~t876506/TZworld.html>. * Remove link to expired draft-royer-ical-basic-04.txt. * Remove link to expired draft-royer-timezone-registry. * Remove link to expired draft-royer-calsch-xcal-03.txt. * Remove link to http://s.keim.free.fr/tz/doc.html since its author now recommends against using it. * Remove link to http://www1.tip.nl/~t876506/AboutTimeZonesHC.html since it is no longer maintained. * Remove the "?lang=e" from the <http://www.astro.com/cgi/aq.cgi> link. * Update broken links to the CIA (the CIA's root moved). * Change "home-4.tiscali.nl" to the hopefully-more-stable "home.tiscali.nl". * Update link to Canadian government time zone page. * Update link to NPL time zone page. * Update link to "A Timezone Option for DHCP". * Remove old-fashioned paper references to GPS World and Metrologia; who uses paper any more? * Add link to <http://www.aas.org/policy/LeapSecondCommittee.html>. * Redo RFC 2822 reference to make it a bit more compact. * The CLDR sideways data table moved and changed format; update reference, and change from "Russian" to "French" since the Russian seems to have vanished. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/Makefile,v retrieving revision 2006.10 retrieving revision 2006.10.0.1 diff -pu -r2006.10 -r2006.10.0.1 --- Makefile 2006/08/21 13:56:08 2006.10 +++ Makefile 2006/08/22 07:40:41 2006.10.0.1 @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ AWK= nawk # The path where SGML DTDs are kept. SGML_SEARCH_PATH= $(TOPDIR)/share/doc/sgml-lib/REC-html401-19991224/ -# The catalog file(s) to use when validating XHTML. +# The catalog file(s) to use when validating. SGML_CATALOG_FILES= HTML4.cat # The name, arguments and environment of a program to validate your web pages. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/asia,v retrieving revision 2006.7 retrieving revision 2006.7.0.1 diff -pu -r2006.7 -r2006.7.0.1 --- asia 2006/08/21 13:56:08 2006.7 +++ asia 2006/08/22 07:40:41 2006.7.0.1 @@ -1468,6 +1468,14 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks # earlier--the same goes for Jordan. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): +# I was informed by a user in Bethlehem that in Bethlehem it started the +# same day as Israel, and after checking with other users in the area, I +# was informed that they started DST one day after Israel. I was not +# able to find any authoritative sources at the time, nor details if +# Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as +# the West Bank. + # The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S @@ -1477,10 +1485,11 @@ Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1 Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - -Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Palestine 1999 2005 - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2005 max - Oct 4 2:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2006 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/europe,v retrieving revision 2006.4 retrieving revision 2006.4.0.1 diff -pu -r2006.4 -r2006.4.0.1 --- europe 2006/08/21 13:56:09 2006.4 +++ europe 2006/08/22 07:40:41 2006.4.0.1 @@ -2012,7 +2012,9 @@ Zone Asia/Omsk 4:53:36 - LMT 1919 Nov 5:00 Russia OMS%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 6:00 Russia OMS%sT # -# Novosibirskaya oblast'. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-19): I'm guessing about Tomsk here; it's +# not clear when it switched from +7 to +6. +# Novosibirskaya oblast', Tomskaya oblast'. Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 6:00 - NOVT 1930 Jun 21 # Novosibirsk Time 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s @@ -2022,7 +2024,7 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 191 # # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] # Kemerovskaya oblast', Krasnoyarskij kraj, -# Tajmyrskij (Dolgano-Nenetskij) avtonomnyj okrug, Tomskaya oblast', +# Tajmyrskij (Dolgano-Nenetskij) avtonomnyj okrug, # Respublika Tuva, Respublika Khakasiya, Evenkijskij avtonomnyj okrug. Zone Asia/Krasnoyarsk 6:11:20 - LMT 1920 Jan 6 6:00 - KRAT 1930 Jun 21 # Krasnoyarsk Time =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/northamerica,v retrieving revision 2006.8 retrieving revision 2006.8.0.1 diff -pu -r2006.8 -r2006.8.0.1 --- northamerica 2006/08/21 13:56:09 2006.8 +++ northamerica 2006/08/22 07:40:41 2006.8.0.1 @@ -2096,6 +2096,11 @@ Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:20 - LMT 1 # adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: # http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): +# It is likely that they are not reverting back to standard time this +# year either, based on the number of responses I have got from users +# (when my site claimed Cuba will end DST on lastSun/October) + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S @@ -2126,7 +2131,7 @@ Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 2000 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D -Rule Cuba 2006 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S +Rule Cuba 2007 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 @@ -2289,11 +2294,16 @@ Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - L # <http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12>. # It mentions executive decree 18-2006. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): +# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not +# published, I have located this authoritative source: +# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S -Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S +Rule Hond 2006 2009 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Hond 2006 2009 - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr -6:00 Hond C%sT =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/tz-link.htm,v retrieving revision 2006.4 retrieving revision 2006.4.0.1 diff -pu -r2006.4 -r2006.4.0.1 --- tz-link.htm 2006/08/21 13:56:09 2006.4 +++ tz-link.htm 2006/08/22 07:40:41 2006.4.0.1 @@ -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="2006-08-11"> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2006-08-22"> <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"> @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coord title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</abbr></a> offsets, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving">daylight-saving</a> rules. -This database (often called <code>tz</code> or <code>zoneinfo</code>) +This database (often called <code>tz</code> or <a +href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoneinfo"><code>zoneinfo</code></a>) is used by several implementations, including <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">the @@ -101,9 +102,11 @@ location.</p> The data are by no means authoritative. If you find errors, please send changes to the <a href="mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone mailing list</a>. You can also <a -href="mailto:tz-request@elsie.nci.nih.gov">subscribe</a> to the -mailing list, retrieve the <a -href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzarchive.gz">archive of old +href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/">browse recent +messages</a> sent to the mailing list, <a +href="mailto:tz-request@elsie.nci.nih.gov">subscribe</a> to it, +retrieve the <a +href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzarchive.gz">full archive of old messages</a> (in gzip compressed format), or retrieve <a href="ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz/">archived older versions of code and data</a>; there is also a smaller <a @@ -125,6 +128,8 @@ throughout the world.</li> href="http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/World_Time/Current_Time.ASP">Current Time in 1000 Places</a></li> <li><a href="http://timezoneconverter.com/">Time Zone Converter</a></li> +<li><a href="http://home.tiscali.nl/~t876506/TZworld.html">Complete +timezone information for all countries</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock - Time Zones</a> @@ -144,10 +149,6 @@ covers time zone data; see its VTIMEZONE calendar component. The <a href="http://www.calconnect.org/">Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium</a> is promoting further work in this area. <a -href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/internet-drafts/draft-royer-ical-basic-04.txt">iCalendar -Basic</a> is a draft simplified definition that omits VTIMEZONE due to -its complexity, but this removal is expected to appear as an -independent specification later. <a 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> @@ -158,9 +159,7 @@ strategy for defining and deploying a ti registration process that would establish unique names for each version of each <code>tz</code> zone, along with a polygonal representation of the geographical area corresponding to the -zone. It builds on a (now-expired) <a -href="http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-royer-timezone-registry/">Time -Zone Registry</a> draft proposal.</li> +zone.</li> <li>The <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/">www-rdf-calendar</a> list discusses <a @@ -170,13 +169,6 @@ and group scheduling systems, and has a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/#tzd">workspace on time zone data</a> converted from <code>tz</code>. An earlier <a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo">schema</a> was sketched out.</li> -<li><a -href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/internet-drafts/draft-royer-calsch-xcal-03.txt"><abbr -title="iCalendar in XML Format">xCal-Basic</abbr></a> -is a draft <a -href="http://www.w3.org/XML/"><abbr -title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr></a> document type -definition that corresponds to iCalendar.</li> </ul> <h2>Other <code>tz</code> compilers</h2> <ul> @@ -245,9 +237,6 @@ and is widely used in <abbr>GNU</abbr>/L <li><a href="http://www.bmsi.com/java/#TZ">ZoneInfo.java</a> is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Java. It is freely available under the <abbr>LGPL</abbr>.</li> -<li><a href="http://s.keim.free.fr/tz/doc.html">Python time zones</a> -is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Python. -It is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li> <li>Tcl, mentioned above, also contains a <code>tz</code> binary file reader.</li> </ul> @@ -262,9 +251,6 @@ under the <abbr>GPL</abbr>.</li> contain a copy of a subset of a recent <code>tz</code> database in a Java-specific format.</li> <li><a -href="http://www1.tip.nl/~t876506/AboutTimeZonesHC.html">HyperCard -time zones calculator</a> was a HyperCard stack.</li> -<li><a href="http://www.veladg.com/velaterra.html">VelaTerra</a> is a Mac OS X program. Its developers <a href="http://www.veladg.com/tzoffer.html">offer free @@ -275,7 +261,7 @@ Microsoft Windows program.</li> </ul> <h2>Other time zone databases</h2> <ul> -<li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi/aq.cgi?lang=e">Atlas Query</a> +<li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi/aq.cgi">Atlas Query</a> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's excellent time zone history atlases published in both <a href="http://astrocom.com/products/software.php?software_id=ibmwboth">computer</a> @@ -304,17 +290,16 @@ gives current time zone rules for airpor an undocumented format, with IDs that can be mapped to <code>TZ</code> values using the <a href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/supplemental/supplemental.html#windows___tzid">Windows -→ Tzid table</a> maintained by the <a -href="http://unicode.org/cldr/">Unicode Common Locale Data Repository -(<abbr title="Common Locale Data Repository">CLDR</abbr>) -Project</a>.</li> +→ Tzid table</a> maintained by the <abbr +title="Common Locale Data Repository">CLDR</abbr> data mentioned +below.</li> </ul> <h2>Maps</h2> <ul> -<li>The <a href="http://www.odci.gov/">United States Central +<li>The <a href="https://www.cia.gov/">United States Central Intelligence Agency (<abbr title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</abbr>)</a> publishes a <a -href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference_maps/pdf/time_zones.pdf">time +href="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference_maps/pdf/time_zones.pdf">time zone map</a>; the <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world.html">Perry-Castañeda @@ -336,7 +321,7 @@ but the maps are more up to date.</li> <li><a href="http://www.statoids.com/statoids.html">Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids")</a> contains detailed lists of <code>tz</code>-related zone subdivision data.</li> -<li><a href="http://home-4.tiscali.nl/~t876506/Multizones.html">Time +<li><a href="http://home.tiscali.nl/~t876506/Multizones.html">Time zone boundaries for multizone countries</a> summarizes legal boundaries between time zones within countries.</li> <li>Manifold.net's <a @@ -398,7 +383,7 @@ Portuguese)</a>.</dd> <dt>Canada</dt> <dd>The Institute for National Measurement Standards publishes current and some older information about <a -href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/time_services/daylight_saving_e.php">Time +href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/time_services/daylight_saving_e.html">Time Zones & Daylight Saving Time</a>.</dd> <dt>Chile</dt> <dd>WebExhibits publishes a <a @@ -446,7 +431,7 @@ href="http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/br legal time in Britain</a> discusses in detail the country with perhaps the best-documented history of clock adjustments. The National Physical Laboratory also maintains an <a -href="http://www.npl.co.uk/time/summer_time_archive.html">Archive +href="http://www.npl.co.uk/time/measurement_time/summer_time_archive.html">Archive of Summer time dates</a>.</dd> </dl> <h2>Precision timekeeping</h2> @@ -461,9 +446,9 @@ 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-02.txt">A -Timezone Option for <abbr title="Dynamic Host Configuration -Protocol">DHCP</abbr></a> proposes a <a +href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-timezone-option-04.txt">A +Timezone Option for <abbr title="Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol">DHCP</abbr></a> +proposes 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 @@ -517,15 +502,13 @@ href="http://www.mail-archive.com/leapse Second Discussion List</a> and <a href="http://rom.usno.navy.mil/archives/leapsecs.html">archive</a> covers <a href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.november99.pdf">McCarthy -and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a>, published in <a -href="http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/"><abbr -title="Global Positioning System">GPS</abbr> World</a> -<strong>10</strong>, 11 -(1999-11), 50–57 and discussed further in R. A. Nelson et al., +and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a>, +discussed further in <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/metrologia-leapsecond.pdf">The -leap second: its history and possible future</a>, -<a href="http://www.bipm.fr/metrologia/index.html">Metrologia</a> -<strong>38</strong> (2001), 509–529. +leap second: its history and possible future</a>. +The <a href="http://www.aas.org/policy/LeapSecondCommittee.html"><abbr +title="American Astronomical Society">AAS</abbr> Leap Second +Committee</a> has solicited input on this proposal. <a href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/">The Future of Leap Seconds</a> covers this contentious issue.</li> @@ -542,13 +525,14 @@ title="International Organization for St 8601:2004 -- Data elements and interchange formats -- Information interchange -- Representation of dates and times</a>.</li> <li> -<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime"><abbr>XML</abbr> +<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime"><abbr +title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr> Schema: Datatypes - dateTime</a> specifies a format inspired by -<abbr>ISO</abbr> 8601 that is in common use in <abbr>XML</abbr> data.</li> +<abbr>ISO</abbr> 8601 that is in common use in <a +href="http://www.w3.org/XML/"><abbr>XML</abbr></a> data.</li> <li> -Section 3.3 of <a -href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2822.txt">Internet -<abbr title="Request For Comments">RFC</abbr> 2822</a> +<a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2822.txt">Internet <abbr +title="Request For Comments">RFC</abbr> 2822</a> §3.3 specifies the time notation used in email and <a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2616.txt"><abbr>HTTP</abbr></a> headers.</li> @@ -565,16 +549,16 @@ formats.</li> <a href="http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html">The Best of Dates, the Worst of Dates</a> covers many problems encountered by software developers when handling dates and time stamps.</li> -<li><a -href="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/"><abbr>ICU</abbr></a> -contains a mechanism for localizing time zone -labels and abbreviations; for example, one can use it to specify -Russian translations for "Eastern European Summer Time", -"<abbr title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</abbr>", -and <code>Europe/Bucharest</code>. -For example, the <a -href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/by_type/dates_timeZoneNames.html"><abbr>CLDR</abbr> Sideways Data for dates_timeZoneNames</a> -shows values for time zone names in many locales.</li> +<li>The <a +href="http://unicode.org/cldr/">Unicode Common Locale Data Repository +(<abbr>CLDR</abbr>) Project</a> has localizations for time zone names, +abbreviations, identifiers, and formats. For example, it contains +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. +<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 practice. For example, "<abbr>EST</abbr>" denotes 5 hours behind
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