proposed tz patch for Argentina, Aaland Islands, etc.
Paul Eggert
eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Mon Jun 14 08:02:44 UTC 2004
Here's a proposed patch to the tz database. It changes the Argentina
data to reflect the June 1 time zone changes reported by Mariano
Absatz. This patch also adds support for the new country code AX. To
support these things, this patch adds the following Zone or Link
lines:
America/Rio_Gallegos
America/Tucuman
Europe/Mariehamn
This patch also removes a few broken links from tz-link.htm, and adds
a link to the new CLDR localization effort.
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/europe,v
retrieving revision 2004.1
retrieving revision 2004.1.0.1
diff -pu -r2004.1 -r2004.1.0.1
--- europe 2004/05/27 16:00:30 2004.1
+++ europe 2004/06/14 07:46:16 2004.1.0.1
@@ -921,6 +921,10 @@ Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:52 - LMT 1878
2:00 Finland EE%sT 1981 Mar 29 2:00
2:00 EU EE%sT
+# Aaland Is
+Link Europe/Helsinki Europe/Mariehamn
+
+
# France
# From Ciro Discepolo (2000-12-20):
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v
retrieving revision 2004.1
retrieving revision 2004.1.0.1
diff -pu -r2004.1 -r2004.1.0.1
--- southamerica 2004/05/27 16:00:30 2004.1
+++ southamerica 2004/06/14 07:46:16 2004.1.0.1
@@ -155,6 +155,19 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
# </a> says that standard time in Argentina from 1894-10-31
# to 1920-05-01 was -4:16:48.25. Go with this more-precise value
# over Shanks.
+#
+# From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-05):
+# These media articles from a major newspaper mostly cover the current state:
+# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/27/de_604825.asp
+# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/28/de_605203.asp
+#
+# The following eight (8) provinces pulled clocks back to UTC-04:00 at
+# midnight Monday May 31st. (that is, the night between 05/31 and 06/01).
+# Apparently, all nine provinces would go back to UTC-03:00 at the same
+# time in October 17th.
+#
+# Catamarca, Chubut, La Rioja, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz,
+# Tierra del Fuego, Tucum
# Unless otherwise specified, data are from Shanks through 1992, from
# the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks says that
@@ -163,8 +176,7 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
#
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
#
-# Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF), Santa Cruz (SC),
-# Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur (TF)
+# Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF),
Zone America/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
-4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time
-4:00 - ART 1930 Dec
@@ -174,24 +186,37 @@ Zone America/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT
-3:00 - ART
#
# Santa Fe (SF), Entre Rios (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN), Chaco (CC),
-# Formosa (FM), Salta (SA), Tucuman (TM), Santiago del Estero (SE),
-# Cordoba (CB), La Rioja (LR), San Juan (SJ), San Luis (SL), La Pampa (LP),
-# Neuquen (NQ), Rio Negro (RN), Chubut (CH)
+# Formosa (FM), Salta (SA), Santiago del Estero (SE), Cordoba (CB),
+# La Pampa (LP), Neuquen (NQ), Rio Negro (RN)
#
# Shanks also makes the following claims, which we haven't verified:
# - Formosa switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-07.
-# - La Rioja and San Juan switched to -4:00 on 1991-03-01
-# and then to -3:00 on 1991-05-07.
# - Misiones switched to -3:00 on 1990-12-29.
# - Chaco switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-04.
-# - San Luis switched to -4:00 on 1990-03-14, then to -3:00 on 1990-10-15,
-# then to -4:00 on 1991-03-01, then to -3:00 on 1991-06-01.
# - Santiago del Estero switched to -4:00 on 1991-04-01,
# then to -3:00 on 1991-04-26.
+#
+Zone America/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
+ -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
+ -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec
+ -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
+ -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Mar 3
+ -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 20
+ -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3
+ -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3
+ -3:00 - ART
+#
+# Tucuman (TM), La Rioja (LR), San Juan (SJ), San Luis (SL), Chubut (CH)
+#
+# Shanks also makes the following claims, which we haven't verified:
+# - La Rioja and San Juan switched to -4:00 on 1991-03-01
+# and then to -3:00 on 1991-05-07.
+# - San Luis switched to -4:00 on 1990-03-14, then to -3:00 on 1990-10-15,
+# then to -4:00 on 1991-03-01, then to -3:00 on 1991-06-01.
# If we need to add Zones for these areas, we may need to have a subdirectory
# for Argentina, as e.g. "America/San_Luis" is too ambiguious.
#
-Zone America/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
+Zone America/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
-4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
-4:00 - ART 1930 Dec
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
@@ -199,6 +224,8 @@ Zone America/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT 1894
-4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 20
-3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3
+ -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1
+ -4:00 - WART 2004 Oct 17
-3:00 - ART
#
# Jujuy (JY)
@@ -224,6 +251,8 @@ Zone America/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 18
-4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 20
-3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3
+ -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1
+ -4:00 - WART 2004 Oct 17
-3:00 - ART
#
# Mendoza (MZ)
@@ -242,6 +271,17 @@ Zone America/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894
-3:00 - ART 2004 May 23
-4:00 - WART 2004 Oct 17
-3:00 - ART
+#
+# Santa Cruz (SC), Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur (TF)
+Zone America/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
+ -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time
+ -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec
+ -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
+ -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3
+ -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3
+ -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1
+ -4:00 - WART 2004 Oct 17
+ -3:00 - ART
# Aruba
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/iso3166.tab,v
retrieving revision 2003.5
retrieving revision 2003.5.0.1
diff -pu -r2003.5 -r2003.5.0.1
--- iso3166.tab 2003/12/15 14:36:37 2003.5
+++ iso3166.tab 2004/06/14 07:46:16 2003.5.0.1
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
#
# @(#)iso3166.tab 1.14
#
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun.com> (2003-02-04):
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun.com> (2004-06-14):
#
# This file contains a table with the following columns:
# 1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, current as of
-# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-8 (2003-07-23). See:
+# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-10 (2004-04-26). See:
# <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html">
# ISO 3166 Maintenance agency (ISO 3166/MA)
# </a>.
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ AS Samoa (American)
AT Austria
AU Australia
AW Aruba
+AX Aaland Islands
AZ Azerbaijan
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina
BB Barbados
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/zone.tab,v
retrieving revision 2003.4
retrieving revision 2003.4.0.1
diff -pu -r2003.4 -r2003.4.0.1
--- zone.tab 2003/10/06 13:32:21 2003.4
+++ zone.tab 2004/06/14 07:46:16 2003.4.0.1
@@ -41,11 +41,13 @@ AQ -6617+11031 Antarctica/Casey Casey St
AQ -7824+10654 Antarctica/Vostok Vostok Station, S Magnetic Pole
AQ -6640+14001 Antarctica/DumontDUrville Dumont-d'Urville Base, Terre Adelie
AQ -690022+0393524 Antarctica/Syowa Syowa Station, E Ongul I
-AR -3436-05827 America/Buenos_Aires E Argentina (BA, DF, SC, TF)
-AR -3124-06411 America/Cordoba most locations (CB,CC,CH,CN,ER,FM,LP,LR,MN,NQ,RN,SA,SE,SF,SJ,SL,TM)
+AR -3436-05827 America/Buenos_Aires Buenos Aires (BA, CF)
+AR -3124-06411 America/Cordoba most locations (CB, CC, CN, ER, FM, LP, MN, NQ, RN, SA, SE, SF)
+AR -3124-06411 America/Tucuman Tucuman, La Rioja, San Juan, San Luis, Chubut (CH, LR, SJ, SL, TM)
AR -2411-06518 America/Jujuy Jujuy (JY)
AR -2828-06547 America/Catamarca Catamarca (CT)
AR -3253-06849 America/Mendoza Mendoza (MZ)
+AR -5138-06913 America/Rio_Gallegos Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego (SC, TF)
AS -1416-17042 Pacific/Pago_Pago
AT +4813+01620 Europe/Vienna
AU -3133+15905 Australia/Lord_Howe Lord Howe Island
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ AU -3455+13835 Australia/Adelaide South
AU -1228+13050 Australia/Darwin Northern Territory
AU -3157+11551 Australia/Perth Western Australia
AW +1230-06858 America/Aruba
+AX +6006+01957 Europe/Mariehamn
AZ +4023+04951 Asia/Baku
BA +4352+01825 Europe/Sarajevo
BB +1306-05937 America/Barbados
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/tz-link.htm,v
retrieving revision 2004.1
retrieving revision 2004.1.0.1
diff -pu -r2004.1 -r2004.1.0.1
--- tz-link.htm 2004/05/27 16:00:30 2004.1
+++ tz-link.htm 2004/06/14 07:46:16 2004.1.0.1
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-ASCII"' />
<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul" />
<meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David" />
-<meta name="DC.Date" content="2004-05-24" />
+<meta name="DC.Date" content="2004-06-14" />
<meta name="DC.Description"
content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time" />
<meta name="DC.Identifier" content="http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm" />
@@ -109,9 +109,6 @@ World</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/World_Time/Current_Time.ASP">Current Time in 1000 Places</a></li>
<li><a href="http://timezoneconverter.com/">Time Zone Converter</a></li>
</ul></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.holidayfestival.com/">The Worldwide Holiday
-& Festival Site</a> lists DST-related clock changes along with
-holidays.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock -
Time Zones</a>
is a web interface to a time zone database derived from
@@ -152,9 +149,8 @@ contains a script <code>parse_olson</cod
<code>tz</code> source into <a href="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</a>
modules. It is part of the Perl <a
href="http://datetime.perl.org/">DateTime Project</a>, which is freely
-available under both the GPL and the Perl <a
-href="http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html">Artistic
-License</a>. DateTime::TimeZone also contains a script
+available under both the GPL and the Perl Artistic
+License. DateTime::TimeZone also contains a script
<code>tests_from_zdump</code> that generates test cases for each clock
transition in the <code>tz</code> database.</li>
<li><a href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International Components for
@@ -184,7 +180,7 @@ is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader
href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>. It is freely available
under a BSD-style license.</li>
</ul>
-<h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone conversion software</h2>
+<h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone conversion software and standards</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://java.sun.com/">Sun Java</a> releases since 1.4
contain a copy of a recent <samp>tz</samp> database in a Java-specific
@@ -195,10 +191,16 @@ time zones calculator</a> is a HyperCard
<li><a
href="http://www.cimmyt.org/timezone/">World Time Explorer</a> is a
Microsoft Windows program.</li>
+<li><a
+href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/icuhtml/design/formatting/time_zone_localization.html">Time
+Zone Localization</a> is a proposed mechanism for localizing time zone
+labels and abbreviations; for example, one might use it to specify
+Russian translations for "Eastern European Summer Time", "EEST", and
+<code>Europe/Bucharest</code>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other time zone databases</h2>
<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e">Atlas Query
+<li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi/aq.cgi?lang=e">Atlas Query
- Astrodienst</a> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's
excellent time zone history atlases published in both <a
href="http://astrocom.com/software/pcatlas.php">computer</a> and <a
@@ -217,7 +219,7 @@ for the <code>usno*</code> files in the
<li><a href="http://www.airportcitycodes.com/aaa/">Airlines, Airplanes
and Airports</a> lists current standard times for thousands of
airports around the world. This seems to be derived from
-the <a href="http://www.iata.org/sked/publications/">Standard
+the <a href="http://www.iata.org/ps/publications/9179.htm">Standard
Schedules Information Manual (SSIM)</a> of the
the <a href="http://www.iata.org/">International Air Transport
Association</a>,
@@ -252,9 +254,7 @@ boundaries between time zones within cou
<li>Manifold.net's <a
href="http://www.manifold.net/download/freemaps.html">Free Maps and
GIS Data</a> includes a Manifold-format map of world time zone
-boundaries distributed under the GPL. The GeoCommunity's <a
-href="http://software.geocomm.com/data/intl_timezones.html">International
-Time Zones</a> publishes the same data in other formats.</li>
+boundaries distributed under the GPL.</li>
<li>The US Geological Survey's National Atlas of the United States
publishes the <a href="http://www.nationalatlas.gov/timeznm.html">Time
Zones of the United States</a> in the public domain.</li>
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