diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/africa b/share/zoneinfo/africa index f9e0b0b7b5fb..223b7805159f 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/africa +++ b/share/zoneinfo/africa @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)africa 8.13 +# @(#)africa 8.15 #
# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -394,23 +394,53 @@ Zone Africa/Nouakchott -1:03:48 - LMT 1912 # It seems that Mauritius observed daylight saving time from 1982-10-10 to # 1983-03-20 as well, but that was not successful.... # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-daylight-saving-time.html -# + # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-25): # http://economicdevelopment.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.a42b24128104d9845dabddd154508a0c/?content_id=0a7cee8b5d69a110VgnVCM1000000a04a8c0RCRD -# + # From Arthur David Olson (2008-06-30): # The www.timeanddate.com article cited by Steffen Thorsen notes that "A # final decision has yet to be made on the times that daylight saving # would begin and end on these dates." As a place holder, use midnight. -# + # From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30): # Follow Thorsen on DST in 1982/1983, instead of Shanks & Pottenger. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-07-10): +# According to +# +# http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article.php?news_id=111216 +# +# (in French), Mauritius will start and end their DST a few days earlier +# than previously announced (2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31). The new start +# date is 2008-10-26 at 02:00 and the new end date is 2009-03-27 (no time +# given, but it is probably at either 2 or 3 wall clock time). +# +# A little strange though, since the article says that they moved the date +# to align itself with Europe and USA which also change time on that date, +# but that means they have not paid attention to what happened in +# USA/Canada last year (DST ends first Sunday in November). I also wonder +# why that they end on a Friday, instead of aligning with Europe which +# changes two days later. + +# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-07-11): +# Seems that English language article "The revival of daylight saving +# time: Energy conservation?"-# No. 16578 (07/11/2008) was originally +# published on Monday, June 30, 2008... +# +# I guess that article in French "Le gouvernement avance l'introduction +# de l'heure d'ete" stating that DST in Mauritius starting on October 26 +# and ending on March 27, 2009 is the most recent one. +# ... +# +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mauritius02.html +# + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - -Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct 26 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar 27 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time @@ -475,7 +505,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou # published on the web. # # It's also confirmed here: -# +# # http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm # # on a government portal as being between june 1st and sept 27th (not yet diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/asia b/share/zoneinfo/asia index 656a5b68e0ba..4f954b14f32c 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/asia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 8.21 +# @(#)asia 8.22 ## This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-31): # eznis airways, which operates several domestic flights, has a flight # schedule here: -# # http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112 # # (click the English flag for English) diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/europe b/share/zoneinfo/europe index 85ac147a39a5..861f95e4a80f 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/europe +++ b/share/zoneinfo/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 8.14 +# @(#)europe 8.17 ## This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -483,7 +483,45 @@ Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 - Rule C-Eur 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 S # Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - -Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 - +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2008-07-13): +# +# I found what is probably a typo of 2:00 which should perhaps be 2:00s +# in the C-Eur rule from tz database version 2008d (this part was +# corrected in version 2008d). The circumstancial evidence is simply the +# tz database itself, as seen below: +# +# Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 +# 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 +# +# Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 +# 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 +# +# Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 +# 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s +# +# Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - +# Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +# Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +# +# The rule line to be changed is: +# +# Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 - +# +# It seems that Paris, Monaco, Rule France, Rule Belgium all agree on +# 2:00 standard time, e.g. 3:00 local time. However there are no +# countries that use C-Eur rules in September 1945, so the only items +# affected are apparently these ficticious zones that translates acronyms +# CET and MET: +# +# Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT +# Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT +# +# It this is right then the corrected version would look like: +# +# Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +# +# A small step for mankind though 8-) +Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S Rule C-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule C-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - @@ -726,7 +764,8 @@ Rule Bulg 1981 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 - Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 1:56:56 - IMT 1894 Nov 30 # Istanbul MT? 2:00 - EET 1942 Nov 2 3:00 - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 3:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 + 1:00 - CET 1945 Apr 2 3:00 2:00 - EET 1979 Mar 31 23:00 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 2:00 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991 @@ -1094,8 +1133,8 @@ Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 # [See tz-link.htm for the URL.] # From Joerg Schilling (2002-10-23): -# In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by +# In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by +# # General [Nikolai] Bersarin. # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08): @@ -1204,7 +1243,7 @@ Rule Hungary 1980 only - Apr 6 1:00 1:00 S Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1941 Apr 6 2:00 - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 1 23:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1980 Sep 28 2:00s 1:00 EU CE%sT @@ -2121,7 +2160,8 @@ Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 2 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 + 1:00 - CET 1945 May 8 2:00s 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s # Metod Kozelj reports that the legal date of # transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time. diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds b/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds index 35df858d799b..a2f4f0be3758 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds +++ b/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)leapseconds 8.5 +# @(#)leapseconds 8.6 # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file. @@ -44,40 +44,49 @@ Leap 1995 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S Leap 1997 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S Leap 2005 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S +Leap 2008 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S # 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 +# 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 -# Internet : services.iers@obspm.fr +# e-mail : services.iers@obspm.fr +# http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc # -# Paris, 18 January 2008 +# Paris, 4 July 2008 # -# Bulletin C 35 +# Bulletin C 36 # -# To authorities responsible +# To authorities responsible # for the measurement and -# distribution of time +# distribution of time # -# INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI +# UTC TIME STEP +# on the 1st of January 2009 # -# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2008. -# The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the -# International Atomic Time TAI is : +# A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008. +# The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: # -# from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -33 s +# 2008 December 31, 23h 59m 59s +# 2008 December 31, 23h 59m 60s +# 2009 January 1, 0h 0m 0s +# +# The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: +# +# from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2009 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 33s +# from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 34s # # Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December -# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every -# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there +# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every +# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there # will be no time step at the next possible date. # # Daniel GAMBIS -# Head -# Earth Orientation Center of the IERS +# Head +# Earth Orientation Center of IERS # Observatoire de Paris, France