Hi, Please find below a mail from Paolo Perfetti, asking to create a new timezone for the Concordia station in Antartica. It seems there are already a few stations in the antartica file, so I guess it's possible to add a new entry. What information would be needed for that? He is Cc:ed to this mail, so don't hesitate to ask him more details directly. Thanks, Aurelien On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 06:19:26PM +0800, Paolo Perfetti wrote:

Hi all, my name is Paolo Perfetti and I'm currently working as sysadmin in Antarctica for the Italian Antarctic Research Program (PNRA) in a base called Concordia Station. Since 2005 this station, located at 75.06S 123.20E, is one of the 3 station always active trough the year inside the Antarctic Continent (the others are South Pole and Vostok).

I'm a Debian-GNU\Linux strong supporter and while I was configuring my pc and servers here I find out that Concordia Station doesn't appear between the options available configuring the tzdata package. It will be possible to add this timezone to the next package version? In that case what info do you need to do that? I will be pleased to help you to collect the needed informations. In the meanwhile I can tell you that the station keeps UTC+8 (Perth) timezone without any daylight hour.

In Antarctica there is also another Italian base, Mario Zucchelli Station, located in the Terranova Bay, quite near McMurdo. MZS is active during the Antarctic summer since more than 20 years, it will be possible to add this too ? In this case, the timezone is the same of McMurdo.

Currently here we've no connection to surf the web, but you can find lot more informations on these bases on wikipedia and I am available for any kind of informations you'll need (I will be in Concordia at least until 7th November, the end of winterover season).

Thanks for your time, Paolo

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