Nunavut (2007)

Re: Nunavut (2007)

"Chris Walton" <Chris.Walton <at> telus.com> writes:

> Looks like Nunavut (Territory in northern Canada) has finally
> decided to follow the rest of Canada and the United States.

Thanks for the heads-up; I'll add a comment in the next proposed change.

> the community of Resolute (located on Conrnwallis Island in Nunavut)
> moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November.  Basically
> the community did not change its clocks at the end of daylight
> saving.  It is not clear whether or not the clocks will change again
> on March 11 of if they will stay fixed on Eastern Standard Time.

From the article it seems that they will use daylight saving,
since it says they want to stay in sync with Iqualuit.

> Technically this requires a new zone. Ouch.  Is it worth it for a
> population of of 215 people?

I think so, yes; they're a real community and not just a military
post.  America/Resolute sounds like the logical name, since
"Resolute Bay" and "Qausuittuq" are less-often used in English.
I'll add something like that in my next proposed patch.

<http://www.mb.ec.gc.ca/info/news/cc00s20.en.html> says Resolute was
founded on 1947-08-31, so I'll use that as the start date, and it will
have the usual "zzz" marking before that.

Come to think of it, I should do the same for Pangnirtung (founded
1921), Iqaluit (founded August 1942), Rankin Inlet (founded 1957),
Cambridge Bay (founded 1920), Yellowknife (founded 1935?), and Inuvik
(founded 1953).  If anyone has more-exact dates for founding please
let me know.

One bit of trivia I just discovered: the White House Oval Office desk
that George W. Bush uses is made of timbers from the H.M.S. Resolute,
the same Resolute that the town is named after.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk>

Re: Nunavut (2007)

Paul Eggert said:
> One bit of trivia I just discovered: the White House Oval Office desk
> that George W. Bush uses is made of timbers from the H.M.S. Resolute,
> the same Resolute that the town is named after.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk>

Resolute was part of a Royal Navy expedition searching for Franklin.

Another RN expedition looking for Franklin was the H.M.S.Investigator,
which started its search from Baring Island on the west coast of North
America. The crew of the Investigator eventually reached a point on
Melville Island which had already been reached from the east, thus proving
the existence of the North West Passage.

I mention this because one of my relatives - Sergeant John Woon - was on
the H.M.S.Investigator. He was later awarded the Polar Medal.  See
<http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/DEVON/2001-05/0990296000>.

[The W. in my initials stands for Woon; I was partially named after him.]

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Microsoft exec says Namibia and Iran have recently changed DST rules

In an interview Microsoft published yesterday
<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-01DaylightSaving.mspx>
Rich Kaplan, Vice President of Microsoft Customer Service, Partners
and Automation said "Namibia and Iran ratified changes even more
recently" than December 2006.  Has anyone else heard about this, or
was Mr. Kaplan merely misinformed?

Kaplan is also quoted as saying that Brazil and Israel are not on the
Gregorian calendar, so I'm inclined to think the information got
garbled a bit in translation....

RE: Microsoft exec says Namibia and Iran have recently changed DST rules

It was somehow garbled.

Namibia: We had an inversion of DST vs Standard time in the original
KB938388 due to some confusing interpretations. The clock change dates
were correct, but this fixed the DST period.

Iran: We didn't get official confirmation in time for Vista or the Nov
KB938388 on their elimination of DST.

The only two recent changes that affected Windows were Newfoundland and
W. Australia, that were changed after our KB938388.  We aren't granular
enough to track things like Nunavit yet. :)

From the official KB at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931836

Updates from the previous cumulative Windows time zone update
The following changes have been made since the previous cumulative
Windows time zone update. This was cumulative update 928388, and it was
for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003:* Central Brazilian Standard Time
and E. South America Standard Time 
Legal confirmation of 2007 DST laws was not received in time to include
in prior cumulative time zone update. This update also sets the correct
time to 00:00:00 for both time zones.  
* Iran Standard Time 
Legal confirmation that DST is no longer used was not received in time
to include in prior cumulative time zone update.  
* Namibia 
Correct DST start and end dates from prior cumulative time zone update.

* Newfoundland Standard Time 
Adoption of the U.S. and Canada 2007 DST rules were signed into law
after the prior cumulative time zone update was created.  
* W. Australia Standard Time 
DST trial period was signed into law after the prior cumulative time
zone update was created.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert <at> CS.UCLA.EDU] 
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:28 AM
To: tz <at> lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Microsoft exec says Namibia and Iran have recently changed DST
rules

In an interview Microsoft published yesterday
<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-01DaylightSav
ing.mspx>
Rich Kaplan, Vice President of Microsoft Customer Service, Partners
and Automation said "Namibia and Iran ratified changes even more
recently" than December 2006.  Has anyone else heard about this, or
was Mr. Kaplan merely misinformed?

Kaplan is also quoted as saying that Brazil and Israel are not on the
Gregorian calendar, so I'm inclined to think the information got
garbled a bit in translation....

Cuba changing DST spring switch date this year to equal the US

On Wednesday, Granma, the official organ of the central committee of
the Communist Party of Cuba, wrote that this year Cuba will advance
its clocks on midnight, March 10.  See
<http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>.
The official announcement was published (in Spanish) yesterday
<http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/03/01/nacional/artic01.html>.

The announcement doesn't say when the clocks switch back, but for lack
of better info I guess we should assume that Cuba will use the US
dates for spring and autumn, but switch at midnight standard time,
which is their recent tradition.

I'll send out a proposed patch soon.

PS.  I still haven't been able to find any official confirmation for
the theory that Haiti will not observe DST this year.  The IATA and
timeanddate.com are consistent with this theory, but worldtimezone.com
disagrees.

RE: Microsoft exec says Namibia and Iran have recently changed DSTrules

It is great to see Microsoft finally putting some muscle behind timezone
updates. In the spirit of getting it right, here are some comments on the
presumably latest update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931836/en-us (note
the english version, because you will receive a different version according
to your IP, I received a spanish version here in Mexico).

(1) Central Brazilian time: There are two states on GMT-4 with DST which
would correspond to the timezone created; Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do
Sul. Manaus is a city in the state of East Amazonas, which is on GMT-4
without DST and therefore does not apply as title. This also concerns the
timezone in the update, which should have a different title than Manaus. See
for instance decree 5,920 on
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2006/Decreto/D5920.htm .

(2) Namibia: it seems to me that a wrong inversion of DST vs Standard time
is exactly what has been done *now*. Namibia is well below equator and
therefore will not benefit from having DST between April and September
(their winter time, just like Brazil or Australia or Chile). The start/end
times have been inversed both in the web page and in the update timezones.
It should start in September and end in April.

(3) Egypt: The DST given is from Last Thursday in April at 23:59:59.999 to
Last Thursday in September at 23:59:59.999. Actually the timezones for XP
only expresses 23:59:59 without the extra precision; I don't know if this is
a Windows Vista refinement. However, the tz database starts Last Friday in
April at 0:00. This might seem equivalent, but there is a week of difference
(instead of a 0.001 fraction of a second) in 2009, where the last Thursday
of April is 2009-04-30 while Last Friday is 2009-04-24. The End date is
correct - WTE has Last Thursday of September at 24:00, while tz database has
last Thursday of September at 23:00 (standard time), both which are not
compatible with Windows timezone definition, so the given approximation is
the closest possible.

(4) Beirut: I'm guessing that Lebanon is just using EU-like DST, while
applying it at midnight instead of at 3:00 and 4:00 as for instance nearby
Cyprus. Tz database has Lebanon DST to end Last Sunday in October at 0:00
similar to EU. Microsoft has DST ending in Last Saturday of October at
23:59:59.999, which is again 1 week wrong in 2009, where Last Saturday of
October is 2009-10-31 while Last Sunday of October is 2009-10-25.

(5) Jordan: Any of tz database and WTE and
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=11 have DST to end
Last Friday of October just like 2006 (even in 2008 and 2009). In 2005
Jordan DST ended Last Friday of September. Do you have any authoritative
information to support this claim of Last Friday of September for 2007? If
not, you should change it to Last Friday of October instead of September.

(6) Santiago: The Microsoft timezone for Chile starts DST Second Saturday of
October at 23:59:59.999 and ends DST Second Saturday of March at
23:59:59.999. Note that this corresponds to First Sunday on or after 9.th at
0:00. Although there were several implementations of 23:59:59.999 with wrong
sideeffects above, this one is the only way to get it right. I thought I'd
just mention that because you are likely to begin wondering about *all*
implementations of 23:59:59.999.

Regards,
- Jesper Nørgaard Welen

>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Gray [mailto:johngray <at> winse.microsoft.com] 
>Sent: Viernes, 02 de Marzo de 2007 14:43
>To: tz <at> lecserver.nci.nih.gov; tz <at> lecserver.nci.nih.gov
>Subject: RE: Microsoft exec says Namibia and Iran have recently changed
DSTrules
>
>It was somehow garbled.
>
>Namibia: We had an inversion of DST vs Standard time in the original
KB938388 due to some confusing interpretations. The clock change dates were
correct, but this fixed the DST period.
>
>Iran: We didn't get official confirmation in time for Vista or the Nov
KB938388 on their elimination of DST.
>
>The only two recent changes that affected Windows were Newfoundland and W.
Australia, that were changed after our KB938388.  We aren't granular enough
to track things like Nunavut (not Nunavit) yet. :)
>
>From the official KB at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931836  ...

Mongolia not on DST in 2007

Ganbold was kind enough to send me this link in Mongolian about Mongolia not
applying DST this year. I guess it's the only web reference we have about
this at the moment:

>Good question. It wasn't Parliament resolution, it was 
>Mongolian government resolution and government members 
>made decision not to have daylight-saving. I couldn't access 
>Mongolian Government web site, I could only find some 
>mongolian references which I guess is not helpful to anybody 
>other than Mongolian.
>
>http://www.mongolnews.mn/index.php?module=unuudur&sec=view&id=15742

Regards,
Jesper Nørgaard Welen

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FW: Brazil DST Rules for 2007

FW: Atlantic/Faroe DST

I'm forwarding this message from Michael, who is not on the time zone
mailing list.

Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies
appropriately.

				--ado 

-----Original Message-----
From: michael [mailto:crozierm <at> consumption.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:40 AM
To: tz <at> lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Atlantic/Faroe DST

Hello,

According to wikipedia authors, DST is observed in Faroe Islands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_islands

According to TZ, it is not:

Atlantic/Faroe  Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:45:52
1901 Atlantic/Faroe isdst=0 gmtoff=0
Atlantic/Faroe  Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07
2038 Atlantic/Faroe isdst=0 gmtoff=0
Atlantic/Faroe  Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07
2038 Atlantic/Faroe isdst=0 gmtoff=0

I don't have any additional evidence to say which is correct, but I
thought it worth noting.

Thanks,

 Michael