As the appearance of the non-forwarded message from Egmont Koblinger indicates, mail is now getting through to elsie.nci.nih.gov from the outside world. Thanks to all for your patience as bureaucracy central did the necessary work. --ado
Egmont Koblinger is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Egmont Koblinger [mailto:egmont <at> uhulinux.hu] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:50 PM To: tz <at> lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: zdump of glibc reports invalid timezone name Hi, I've found an interesting issue. If I compile zdump directly from the tzcode package (any version), it works perfectly. However, if exactly the same source is built within the full glibc tree, that one reports invalid time zone abbreviations. I have no idea whether it's a tzcode or a glibc bug. Please read the full detailed description here: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1140 and please, if possible, also report your comments to this bugzilla, so that I hope you and the glibc team can quickly catch and fix the bug together. Thanks, Egmont(Continue reading)
President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 today, which among many
other things changes the U.S.'s Daylight Saving rules. The full text of the
bill is available from thomas.loc.gov (search on bill number "hr6" for the
109th Congress).
For the purposes of this list, the relevant section is as follows:
SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.
(a) Amendment- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15
U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended--
(1) by striking `first Sunday of April' and inserting `second
Sunday of March'; and
(2) by striking `last Sunday of October' and inserting `first
Sunday of November'.
(b) Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the
date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later.
(c) Report to Congress- Not later than 9 months after the effective
date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress
on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United
States.
(d) Right to Revert- Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight
Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the Department study
is complete.
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Below find my proposed change to the "northamerica" file to reflect new U. S. law. --ado ------- northamerica ------- *** /tmp/geta1562 Tue Aug 9 09:29:26 2005 --- /tmp/getb1562 Tue Aug 9 09:29:26 2005 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # <at> (#)northamerica 7.75 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # <at> (#)northamerica 7.76 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 116,130 **** Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S ! Rule US 1967 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D ! Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D(Continue reading)
Todd C. Miller is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Todd C. Miller [mailto:Todd.Miller <at> courtesan.com] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 11:29 PM To: tz <at> lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: bug introduced in tzcode2005c A change in tzcode 2005c causes the following program on OpenBSD to loop forever. I've tracked it down to the change included at the end of this message. Previously:: $ ./mktime Timestamp is: -1 Date is: Thu Jan 1 00:59:59 1970 With tzcode 2005c and beyond it loops forever. #include <sys/types.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <time.h> #include <stdlib.h> /* * This small programm will consume 100% CPU and loops forever with(Continue reading)
The infinite loop is caused by my failure to check for overflow; here's a
proposed fix.
--ado
------- localtime.c -------
*** /tmp/geta2299 Tue Aug 9 09:56:30 2005
--- /tmp/getb2299 Tue Aug 9 09:56:30 2005
***************
*** 5,11 ****
#ifndef lint
#ifndef NOID
! static char elsieid[] = " <at> (#)localtime.c 7.95";
#endif /* !defined NOID */
#endif /* !defined lint */
--- 5,11 ----
#ifndef lint
#ifndef NOID
! static char elsieid[] = " <at> (#)localtime.c 7.96";
#endif /* !defined NOID */
#endif /* !defined lint */
***************
*** 1616,1624 ****
--- 1616,1628 ----
if (dir != 0) {
if (t == lo) {
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Mark Davis is not on the time zone mailing list (at least not at the address below); direct replies appropriately. --ado ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis <at> icu-project.org> To: "Tz (tz <at> elsie.nci.nih.gov)" <tz <at> lecserver.nci.nih.gov> Cc: "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI)" <olsona <at> dc37a.nci.nih.gov> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 07:28 Subject: Request from CLDR committee The CLDR technical committee has been looking at issues that have come up in connection with timezones, and have the following requests of the TZ group. Background. As discussed previously on this list, the CLDR project supplies localizations for timezone identifiers, based on the TZ IDs from the TZ database. The localizations can either be explicit strings, or if unavailable, use the translated country name (where a country has only a single timezone) or fall back to the last field of the TZID and the translated country name. Thus in German: America/Havana => "Kuba" Europe/Moscow => "Moskau (Russische Föderation)" America/Los_Angeles => "Los Angeles (Vereinigte Staaten)" The process is somewhat more complicated than this description, but this provides the gist. For other examples, see(Continue reading)
Frank Vance is not on the time zone mailing list (at least not at the address below); direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Frank Vance [mailto:frankvance <at> mindspring.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:45 AM To: tz <at> lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Web page updates tz-art.html: The link http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml should be changed to: http://www.videoflicks.com/titles/1035/1035893.htm tz-links.htm: The link http://www.astrologyhouse.co.nz/timechanges.htm does not exist anymore, and I can not find a relocated page at the web site. The link http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2 does not exist anymore, and I can not find a relocated page at the web site. The link http://www.nationalatlas.gov/timeznm.html does not exist anymore. http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/timeznp.html seems to be a suitable replacement.
[ I had originally sent a version of this on Tuesday morning, but it failed to go through because apparently lecserver.nci.nih.gov is still firewalled, and elsie works only because of an MX record. ] Arthur David Olson <olsona <at> lecserver.nci.nih.gov> wrote on Tue, 9 Aug 2005 at 09:32:21 -0400 in <200508091332.j79DWLBH001619 <at> lecserver.nci.nih.gov>: > Below find my proposed change to the "northamerica" file to reflect new U. S. > law. Thanks. > --ado > --- 201,227 ---- > # Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation > # "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. > # See the file "australasia". > + > + # From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 > + # The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. > + # > + # H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. HR numbers are per-year (e.g. HR.6 of the 109th Congress), and are really only useful before bills become laws. I expect it will be assigned a Public Law number sometime this coming week, and that will appear at "http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00006: <at> <at> <at> S". Can we wait until then and include that number?(Continue reading)
According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml> Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. The text of the article is somewhat ambiguous: According to the adopted resolution, the practice of daylight saving time is cancelled. Time calculation on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic will be carried out in compliance with the international time zone system, with 1-hour advance, what corresponds to the time calculation order, which is active from March 27, 2005. but I take this to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC, and will not fall back this autumn. PS. I just got back from vacation (with one of the first things to do to propose a new tz patch for all the accumulated data) and discovered that I am not receiving email from the tz mailing list. I haven't gotten anything for several weeks. I'll try to retrieve old mail from tzarchive (currently dated August 9 19:20), but has something happened to the mailing list recently?
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