Re: [tz] leap second 2012-06-30T23:59:60Z

akuster <akuster <at> mvista.com> writes:

> Aloha,
>
> is there going to be an official release for this issue ?

My question as well.  Or are we waiting for another zone change?  (In
that case, how about the recently-reported Armenian change, due March
25?)

Thank you,
PM

[tz] Armenia to no longer observe DST

Many Armenian news sources report that Armenia will not observe DST this 
year, but rather stay on UTC+4 through the year.

Example:
"Armenia’s Economy Minister announced that this year the country will 
not switch its time. "
http://news.am/eng/news/90743.html

Our brief version: 
http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/armenia-ends-dst.html

Best regards,
Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

Re: [tz] Russia may scrap time change

A year ago when Russia scrapped the seasonal switch and decided to advance 
an hour "permanently", I said to myself "finally someone in the Russian Govt 
"gets it"".  I guess not any more...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jaakko Hyvätti" <jaakko.hyvatti <at> foreca.com>
To: "Zoidiasoft Tech" <tech <at> astrology-x-files.com>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [tz] Russia may scrap time change

>
> I guess the point was that the Russians watch Western European games.  I 
> think English football league is not going to listen to Russians in this 
> matter.
>
> Jaakko
>
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Zoidiasoft Tech wrote:
>
>> Are people really so stupid that they can't change their schedule to have 
>> their silly little football game to be an hour earlier?  Instead they 
>> want everyone else to change their clocks to fit their own agenda...
>>
>>> Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised to convey to President 
>>> Dmitry
>>> Medvedev suggestions from Russian football fans about the cancellation 
>>> of the
>>> transition to winter time.
>>
>>

[tz] Russia may scrap time change

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised to convey to President Dmitry 
Medvedev suggestions from Russian football fans about the cancellation of the 
transition to winter time. 

During an informal conversation with the head of government organizations, 
football fans raised the issue that the cancellation of the transition to 
winter creates uncomfortable conditions. In particular, it leaves less time for 
sleep. If, for example, a football match is broadcast rather late in European 
time, due to the time difference it makes getting up early for work difficult. 

Interfax news (in Russian)
http://www.interfax.ru/society/news.asp?id=226801

or

(English)
http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia40.html

Alexander Krivenyshev- WorldTimeZone.com
http://www.worldtimezone.com

[tz] leap seconds reprieved until 2015

The ITU couldn't reach consensus on leap seconds, and has deferred the
issue until 2015.  UTC continues with leap seconds for the time being.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16625614

-zefram

[tz] Europe/Taunton?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16611058

    Mr Rees-Mogg has tabled an amendment to the proposed legislation
    suggesting the "the county of Somerset as defined by the Lieutenants
    Act shall revert to the customary time used prior to the Great
    Western Railway time established in 1840".

Jacob Ress-Mogg MP is quite a character, and it's a very conservative
character.  He has that special skill of being nostalgic not
only for a time before he was born, but for a time before his
great-great-grandparents were born.  His amendment is extremely unlikely
to be adopted, but its prospective consequences bear some thinking about.
He'd make Somerset the only place on Earth where the timezone is not a
multiple of five minutes offset from UT.  In fact, it wouldn't even be
an exact multiple of *one* minute, if implemented in full.  And since
the pre-1840 custom was for every town to have its own time, we wouldn't
just need Europe/Taunton, but potentially several other new zones for
different Somerset towns.

If any form of the Rees-Mogg amendment were to be adopted, it would more
likely be a single timezone for the whole county, an integral number
of minutes offset from UT.  Taunton (largest town in, and capital of,
Somerset) is at some 3.1 degrees west, suggesting a 12 minute offset.

-zefram

[tz] Posix time zone question

Hi all,

I am adding time zone support to our multi-platform application and there are
still a few things I cannot figure out.

1) What is the difference between America/Detroit and posix/America/Detroit? The
test cases I have written return what looks like the same DST record for a given
date no matter which one I use. Under what circumstances would I use
posix/America/Detroit?

2) Where is the format of the tz source filesdescribed? Specifically what do
SAVE and Letter/S mean below? I am also interested in what the Link format is.

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
Rule	Nic	1979	1980	-	Mar	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	D
Rule	Nic	1979	1980	-	Jun	Mon>=23	0:00	0	S

3) AIX machines use their own wacky format such at TZ=EST5EDT. Is there any
decent mapping to real names?

I have googled my brains out on this and searched the comp.time.tz archives on
gmane with no luck.

Thanks in advance,

Donald

[tz] leap second 2012-06-30T23:59:60Z

Bulletin C 43 came out yesterday, scheduling a leap second for the end
of June 2012.  Patch attached.

-zefram

[tz] A leap second after next June

Hi,

Just received from IERS:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) 

SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE

SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS                                   
61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
Tel.      : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
FAX       : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
e-mail    : services.iers <at> obspm.fr
http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc

                                             Paris, 5 January 2012

                                             Bulletin C 43

                                             To authorities responsible 
					      for the measurement and 
					      distribution of time                                         

                                  UTC TIME STEP
                           on the 1st of July 2012

A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:		

[tz] Incorrect link in europe file

On line 213 of the europe file of the tzdata2011n.tar.gz archive there 
is a URL:

http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/

This appears to no longer exist, I believe the correct URL is now:

http://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/

I'm not sure if this is the correct process to report a bug, please let 
me know.

Rob

[tz] DST rule for Samoa