[tz] U.S. Pacific Time
Alan Mintz
Alan_Mintz+TZ_IANA at Earthlink.net
Tue Dec 24 18:58:47 UTC 2013
...and here's my report from 2012-05-21:
I see someone tried to address this last month but it kind of fell flat.
The solution seems clear to me, as described here:
>In ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/northamerica v8.54 dated 2009-05-17 (the
>current version), it says"
>
># US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles
>#
># California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater,
># Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties,
># and the northern three-quarters of Idaho county),
># most of Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington
>
>The first instance of Idaho in the county list (between Clearwater and
>Kootenai) should be removed since the list ends with "and the northern
>three-quarters of Idaho county". That is, only the northern 3/4 of the
>county, not the whole county, is included (assuming that is true).
The dividing line is actually the Salmon River, so I would change the
paragraph to:
# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles
#
# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater,
# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties,
# and the part of Idaho county lying north of the Salmon River),
# most of Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington
If we wanted to give the same detail treatment to NV and OR:
# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles
#
# - California
# - Washington
# - Northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater,
# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties,
# and the part of Idaho county lying north of the Salmon River)
# - Oregon (except for the northern 3/4 of Malheur County)
# - Nevada (except for West Wendover)
...and again on 2012-06-08:
I'd like to try this once more without it getting buried or expanded into
other issues, please.
As it's written, the America/Los_Angeles comment in northamerica v8.54 in
tzdata release 2012c does not make sense. The simple solution is to remove
7 characters from line 395:
< northamerica
> northamerica.new
395c395
< # Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties,
---
> # Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties,
Alternatively, more accuracy could be provided by the following changes:
< northamerica
> northamerica.new
395,397c395,398
< # Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties,
< # and the northern three-quarters of Idaho county),
< # most of Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington
---
> # Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties,
> # the towns of Burgdorf and Warren, and the part of Idaho county
> # lying north of the Salmon River), Nevada (except for West Wendover)
> # Oregon (except for part of Malheur County), and Washington
AFAIK, this description is completely accurate (though it doesn't reflect
unofficial observances in Nevada, which I assume wouldn't be appropriate here).
(see http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-June/018083.html for ensuing
discussion, which went off on a fine point about Oregon and died).
--
Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+TZ_IANA at Earthlink.net>
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