As others suggested, perhaps it is early for a pattern to be asserted. <br><br>What happens, next year, if nothing is announced, at what point should we pull out the pattern rule. At the moment we get about a months notice for change from Fiji, but next year would we wait until the week before before pulling the pattern. Are we making this potentially worse for end users of the DB.<br>
<br>I work in the airline industry, we issue tickets up to 350 days in advance of travel. When a country makes late DST changes it causes some inconvenience for business and customers alike. I now also wonder if the presumption of a pattern might cause conflicts with other sources. IATA / Microsoft etc.<br>
<br>With regard to the comment about the release will be before October 21, of course as we are selling tickets so far in advance, for us, anytime after October last year is too late. Also, only when the Olson DB update is released, do vendors get to start work on their own patches... For Java (no flames please) for instance, the JVM vendor often does not release their own patch until 4 to 6 weeks after the Olson change (both Oracle and IBM).<br>
<br>Fortunately, being Java (still no flames please), we are able to patch the JVM without waiting for the vendor by adding a single jar file to the bootclasspath we can effect the required timezone changes for the JVM and JodaTime and can do this within hours of an announced change if need be. <br>
<br>David<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 September 2012 01:31, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 08/28/2012 01:48 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:<br>
> Are there any plans to release a tz update for this?<br>
<br>
</div>No exact plans yet, but we should put out a new release<br>
well before October 21. Here's a proposed patch to implement this<br>
for Fiji, which I've put into the unofficial repository at<br>
<<a href="https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/7550cb98da5f42e9e551f10caa725ce0b6b571b8" target="_blank">https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/7550cb98da5f42e9e551f10caa725ce0b6b571b8</a>>:<br>
<br>
Subject: [PATCH] Fiji change for 2012/13, plus guess the future is similar.<br>
<br>
---<br>
australasia | 14 +++++++++++---<br>
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)<br>
<br>
diff --git a/australasia b/australasia<br>
index c7d5611..eb24117 100644<br>
--- a/australasia<br>
+++ b/australasia<br>
@@ -321,15 +321,23 @@ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900<br>
# The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start<br>
# on the 23rd of October, 2011.<br>
<br>
+# From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:<br>
+# The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate<br>
+# today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st<br>
+# October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.<br>
+# <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155" target="_blank">http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155</a><br>
+#<br>
+# From Paul Eggert (2012-08-31):<br>
+# For now, guess a pattern of the penultimate Sundays in October and January.<br>
+<br>
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S<br>
Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S<br>
Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 -<br>
Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S<br>
Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -<br>
-Rule Fiji 2010 only - Oct 24 2:00 1:00 S<br>
+Rule Fiji 2010 max - Oct Sun>=18 2:00 1:00 S<br>
Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -<br>
-Rule Fiji 2011 only - Oct 23 2:00 1:00 S<br>
-Rule Fiji 2012 only - Jan 22 3:00 0 -<br>
+Rule Fiji 2012 max - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -<br>
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]<br>
Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva<br>
12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
1.7.9.5<br>
<br>
<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br>