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<P><FONT size=2>John Gray, thanks for the quick feedback.<BR><BR>Concerning
problems in 2009 I think that many people loading the timezone updates in 2007
will not do so in 2009 if there were no actual rule changes since - so I
recommend getting it right now.<BR><BR>Namibia: I must admit I had not seen the
-1.00 in Daylight Bias:<BR><BR><IMG
src="cid:191272320@05032007-31FA"><BR></FONT></P>
<DIV><FONT size=2>My first comment is: this will work technically, as you claim!
But is it the best way to do it? Actually "hora de verano de Namibia" means
"summertime of Namibia", which will apply between April and September. Note that
this use of summertime/wintertime is opposite to all other countries (I think)
and also to the web links you sent. However, when you look it up in the list,
all other countries are also listed for their wintertime, the GMT offset when
not applying DST. Putting Windhoek as (GMT+02:00) is therefore a bit like
reporting the revenue of 250 companies before tax, and 1 company after tax - it
is just impractical for most purposes. Therefore if you want to call the period
something different, for instance calling it summertime between April and
September, better do the change only in the Abbreviations, so that Time Zone
Name is (GMT+01:00) Windhoek, Abbreviation(1) is "Namibia summertime", Offset
from GMT is +1:00, Start Day and Last Day are inversed, Daylight Bias is +1:00
and Abbreviation(2) is "Namibia wintertime". This will confuse less people, I
think.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>- Jesper Nørgaard Welen</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT><BR>>-----Original Message-----<BR>>From: John Gray
[<A
href="mailto:johngray@winse.microsoft.com">mailto:johngray@winse.microsoft.com</A>]<BR>>Sent:
Domingo, 04 de Marzo de 2007 20:23<BR>>To: Jesper Norgaard
Welen<BR>>Subject: RE: Microsoft exec says Namibia and Iran have recently
changed DSTrules<BR><BR><BR>>Jesper, thanks for the info. Yes, we have
been working very hard to get this all in place and still have a long way to go
for some issues.<BR><BR>>It looks like we may have a minor issue for 2009 but
we should be able to address it with a custom set for that year. I've
forwarded your observations to the people that own the >detailed specifics of
our DST data for Windows.<BR><BR>>For Namibia, oddly enough we have an
internal email on file confirming this is the official preference of the
government - note that we have a "-1 hour" offset for the DST period so the
clocks and offsets will be correct, it is just the name that is in dispute (e.g.
which period of the year to call "daylight saving"). From some of their
websites, it looks like they simply use "summer time" and "winter time" without
referring to either one as a "saving" time per-se. It is also entirely
possible different organizations within their government may have different
preferences here.<BR><BR><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>></FONT><A
href="http://www.grnnet.gov.na/News/Archive/2001/March2001/Week4/release_winter_time.htm">http://www.grnnet.gov.na/News/Archive/2001/March2001/Week4/release_winter_time.htm</A><BR><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>></FONT><A
href="http://www.grnnet.gov.na/News/Archive/2001/August/Week4/summer.htm">http://www.grnnet.gov.na/News/Archive/2001/August/Week4/summer.htm</A><BR><BR>>For
Chile, yes I am aware we worked hard to get it right. Apparently their
official documents defined the change to happen at "24:00" hours, which never
actually occurs (I'm not sure if they ever fixed this). A classic case of
we know what they meant, but causes us to do strange things in the digital
world.<BR><BR>>For the rest I'll have to wait for the experts to
investigate.<BR><BR>>Thanks again,<BR><BR>>John Gray<BR>>Director,
Windows Sustainability Engineering Services<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>