FW: Tunisia: daylight saving from 2006 and on
Atef Loukil is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: nic@ati.tn [mailto:nic@ati.tn] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:39 PM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: nic@ati.tn Subject: Tunisia: daylight saving from 2006 and on Importance: High Dear Sir/Madam, We are the network information center of the Tunisian country. From 2006 and on, Tunisia will observe daylight saving time. The daylight saving begun on the last Sunday of March (March 26 for this year 2006) at 2:00 am and will end on the last Sunday of october (october 29 for this year 2006) at 3:00 am. The daylight saving time will be the same each year: Beginning : the last Sunday of march at 2:00am Ending : the last Sunday of october at 3:00 am Here is the link to the tunisian press agency whom announced this: http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1188 &Ite mid=50 would you please update your Africa/tunisia time zone taking into consideration these changes. Waiting for you feed-back, Regards, _____________________________________________________ Atef LOUKIL Tunisian Internet Agency, ATI-LIR&NIC Departement 13, Rue Jugurtha Mutuelleville - 1002 Tunis - Tunisia Phone: +216 71 846 100 ext.236 Fax: +216 71 846 600 http://www.ati.tn
Thanks for the heads-up about Tunisia. That change takes effect Sunday, so we need a new revision of the tz data. Here is a proposed patch that implements this change, along with the other changes that have come up in the past 10 days. This patch assumes the patch that I circulated on the tz mailing list on March 22. * Tunisia is adopting regular DST, starting this year. (Thanks to Klaus Marten for the heads-up, and to Atef Loukil for the detailed info and reference.) * Tcl 8.5 has tz source and binary readers. (Thanks to Kevin Kenny for this info.) * Fix an XHTML typo in tz-link.htm. * A shorter document describing this year's changes in Indiana. (Thanks to Nathan Stratton Treadway for this.) * "Sint" -> "St" for St Maarten and St Eustatius. (Thanks to Ken Pizzini for this.) =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/africa,v retrieving revision 2006.2.0.1 retrieving revision 2006.2.0.2 diff -pu -r2006.2.0.1 -r2006.2.0.2 --- africa 2006/03/22 23:14:41 2006.2.0.1 +++ africa 2006/03/31 08:40:02 2006.2.0.2 @@ -561,7 +561,6 @@ Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893 # Tunisia # From Gwillim Law (2005-04-30): -# # My correspondent, Risto Nykanen, has alerted me to another adoption of DST, # this time in Tunisia. According to Yahoo France News # <http://fr.news.yahoo.com/050426/5/4dumk.html>, in a story attributed to AP @@ -575,6 +574,12 @@ Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893 # <http://www.lapresse.tn/archives/archives280405/actualites/lheure.html> # ... DST for 2005: on: Sun May 1 0h standard time, off: Fri Sept. 30, # 1h standard time. +# +# From Atef Loukil (2006-03-28): +# The daylight saving time will be the same each year: +# Beginning : the last Sunday of March at 02:00 +# Ending : the last Sunday of October at 03:00 ... +# http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1188&Ite... # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S @@ -600,6 +605,8 @@ Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1 Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Tunisia 2005 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Tunisia 2005 only - Sep 30 1:00s 0 - +Rule Tunisia 2006 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 2006 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's # more precise 0:09:21. # Shanks & Pottenger say the 1911 switch was on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/northamerica,v retrieving revision 2006.2.0.1 retrieving revision 2006.2.0.2 diff -pu -r2006.2.0.1 -r2006.2.0.2 --- northamerica 2006/03/22 23:14:41 2006.2.0.1 +++ northamerica 2006/03/31 08:40:02 2006.2.0.2 @@ -570,8 +570,10 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 N # From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): # http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006. +# From Nathan Stratton Treadway (2006-03-30): +# http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot0406.htm [3705 B] # From Deborah Goldsmith (2006-01-18): -# http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf95/382329_web.pdf +# http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf95/382329_web.pdf [2.9 MB] # From Paul Eggert (2006-01-20): # It says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, # Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 2006.2.0.1 retrieving revision 2006.2.0.2 diff -pu -r2006.2.0.1 -r2006.2.0.2 --- southamerica 2006/03/22 23:14:41 2006.2.0.1 +++ southamerica 2006/03/31 08:40:02 2006.2.0.2 @@ -778,9 +778,9 @@ Zone America/Bogota -4:56:20 - LMT 1884 # Saba Island has been like Curacao. # This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though. # -# By July 2007 Curacao and Sint Maarten are planned to become +# By July 2007 Curacao and St Maarten are planned to become # associated states within the Netherlands, much like Aruba; -# Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius would become directly part of the +# Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius would become directly part of the # Netherlands as Kingdom Islands. This won't affect their time zones # though, as far as we know. # =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/tz-link.htm,v retrieving revision 2006.2.0.1 retrieving revision 2006.2.0.2 diff -pu -r2006.2.0.1 -r2006.2.0.2 --- tz-link.htm 2006/03/22 23:14:41 2006.2.0.1 +++ tz-link.htm 2006/03/31 08:40:02 2006.2.0.2 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ <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="2006-03-22" /> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2006-03-31" /> <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" /> @@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ compiles <code>tz</code> source into <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/">Ruby</a>. It is freely available under the <abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr> license.</li> +<li>Starting with version 8.5, <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/">Tcl</a> +contains a developer-oriented parser that compiles <samp>tz</samp> +source into text files, along with a runtime that can read those +files. Tcl is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style +license.</li> </ul> <h2>Other <code>tz</code> binary file readers</h2> <ul> @@ -237,6 +242,8 @@ It is freely available under the <abbr>L <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> <h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone software</h2> <ul> @@ -444,7 +451,7 @@ href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/internet- 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.</a> +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 Facts Concerning <abbr title="Greenwich Mean Time">GMT</abbr>, <abbr title="Universal Time">UT</abbr>, and
By the way, Curacao, a country entry in the TZ database, is not a country. This entry should be deleted (ouch!) and should be replaced by a new entry Netherlands Antilles.
From the CIA World Factbook entry "Netherlands Antilles": "Area: total: 960 sq km note: includes Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten (Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin)"
The second c in Curacao has a cedilla (Curaçao), but this is not valid in POSIX 1.0.
* "Sint" -> "St" for St Maarten and St Eustatius.
RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 2006.2.0.1 retrieving revision 2006.2.0.2 diff -pu -r2006.2.0.1 -r2006.2.0.2 --- southamerica 2006/03/22 23:14:41 2006.2.0.1 +++ southamerica 2006/03/31 08:40:02 2006.2.0.2 @@ -778,9 +778,9 @@ Zone America/Bogota -4:56:20 - LMT 1884 # Saba Island has been like Curacao. # This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though. # -# By July 2007 Curacao and Sint Maarten are planned to become +# By July 2007 Curacao and St Maarten are planned to become # associated states within the Netherlands, much like Aruba; -# Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius would become directly part of the +# Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius would become directly part of the # Netherlands as Kingdom Islands. This won't affect their time zones # though, as far as we know. #
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:56:59PM +0200, Oscar van Vlijmen wrote:
By the way, Curacao, a country entry in the TZ database, is not a country.
I'm not seeing where it is claimed that Curaçao is a country. America/Curaco simply references the island as the largest localized concentration of population of those places that share its time zone.
This entry should be deleted (ouch!) and should be replaced by a new entry Netherlands Antilles.
The zone.tab file cites Curaco as the TZdata reference location for the country AN (Netherlands Antillies). --Ken Pizzini
Ken Pizzini <tz.@explicate.org> writes:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:56:59PM +0200, Oscar van Vlijmen wrote:
By the way, Curacao, a country entry in the TZ database, is not a country.
I'm not seeing where it is claimed that Curaçao is a country. America/Curaco simply references the island as the largest localized concentration of population of those places that share its time zone.
I think he was objecting to the "# Curacao" comment. I suppose he's right, but the Netherlands Antilles are scheduled to be split up next year, and there's a lot of discussion/negotiation going on and I haven't a clue as to what will really happen. Perhaps it's best to stick with the current setup until the dust settles and we can change to the new situation. At that point we may want to remove America/Aruba and alias it (for backwards compatibility) to America/Curacao. It'd seem a bit odd to have a separate entry for each island in the group (or, in Sint Maarten's case, half-island!), considering they're all part of the Netherlands in one way or the other and they all share the same time zone history since 1970.
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Paul Eggert