A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping December 31 this year, thereby changing its time zone from UTC-10 to UTC+14. When I tried to verify this statement, I found a confirming article in Time magazine online (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103243,00.html). The Wikipedia article on Tokelau also mentions the change. To the best of my knowledge, this hasn't been reported to the tz list yet. Yours, Gwillim Law
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:38, Gwillim Law <gwillim@gmail.com> wrote:
A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping December 31 this year, thereby changing its time zone from UTC-10 to UTC+14. When I tried to verify this statement, I found a confirming article in Time magazine online (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103243,00.html). The Wikipedia article on Tokelau also mentions the change. To the best of my knowledge, this hasn't been reported to the tz list yet.
Information from the BBC to the same effect: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377 -- Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com> #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2011.0612 - http://dbi.perl.org "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."
Both the Time and BBC sources state that Tokelau will be skipping Friday 30 December 2011 (not Sat 31 Dec). For clarity's sake, this means this will happen about fourteen hours from now. This would mean that, on Fri 30 Dec at 10:00 UTC in Tokelau, Thu 29 Dec 2011, 23:59:59 UTC-10:00 will be followed by Sat 31 Dec 2011, 00:00:00 UTC+14:00 An hour later, at 11:00 UTC in Samoa, Thu 29 Dec 2011, 23:59:59 UTC-11:00 will be followed by Sat 31 Dec 2011, 00:00:00 UTC+13:00 The switchover in Samoa (Pacific/Apia) is already reflected in the latest release of the database (2011n); it just needs to be added for Tokelau (Pacific/Fakaofo) as well. -- Tim Parenti On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 14:44, Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:38, Gwillim Law <gwillim@gmail.com> wrote:
A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping December 31 this year, thereby changing its time zone from UTC-10 to UTC+14. When I tried to verify this statement, I found a confirming article in Time magazine online (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103243,00.html). The Wikipedia article on Tokelau also mentions the change. To the best of my knowledge, this hasn't been reported to the tz list yet.
Information from the BBC to the same effect:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377
-- Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com> #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2011.0612 - http://dbi.perl.org "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."
Whoops. Samoa's on DST right now, so both of these changes happen at the same time and will be from UTC-10:00 to UTC+14:00. (The only difference is that Samoa will later go back an hour to UTC+13:00.) Apologies for not checking everything and making things less clear when I meant to do the opposite. A proposed diff is attached. -- Tim Parenti On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 15:08, Tim Parenti <tim@timtimeonline.com> wrote:
Both the Time and BBC sources state that Tokelau will be skipping Friday 30 December 2011 (not Sat 31 Dec). For clarity's sake, this means this will happen about fourteen hours from now.
This would mean that, on Fri 30 Dec at 10:00 UTC in Tokelau, Thu 29 Dec 2011, 23:59:59 UTC-10:00 will be followed by Sat 31 Dec 2011, 00:00:00 UTC+14:00
An hour later, at 11:00 UTC in Samoa, Thu 29 Dec 2011, 23:59:59 UTC-11:00 will be followed by Sat 31 Dec 2011, 00:00:00 UTC+13:00
The switchover in Samoa (Pacific/Apia) is already reflected in the latest release of the database (2011n); it just needs to be added for Tokelau (Pacific/Fakaofo) as well.
-- Tim Parenti
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 14:44, Jonathan Leffler < jonathan.leffler@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:38, Gwillim Law <gwillim@gmail.com> wrote:
A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping December 31 this year, thereby changing its time zone from UTC-10 to UTC+14. When I tried to verify this statement, I found a confirming article in Time magazine online (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103243,00.html). The Wikipedia article on Tokelau also mentions the change. To the best of my knowledge, this hasn't been reported to the tz list yet.
Information from the BBC to the same effect:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377
-- Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com> #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2011.0612 - http://dbi.perl.org "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."
I think it is too late to get out a new release with this change incorporated before it happens (there would be insufficient time for review) - I will prepare a new release early next week, with the expectation of making it available at the start of the week after next. There will be an updated source tarball this time, but at the minute I am leaning towards incorporating only the most obvious required changes this time, and save the new/modified code that has been proposed for the following release. kre
Any update on this? Thanks, Deborah On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
I think it is too late to get out a new release with this change incorporated before it happens (there would be insufficient time for review) - I will prepare a new release early next week, with the expectation of making it available at the start of the week after next.
There will be an updated source tarball this time, but at the minute I am leaning towards incorporating only the most obvious required changes this time, and save the new/modified code that has been proposed for the following release.
kre
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