FW: Japan's rules

[Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]]

I'm forwarding this message from Chris Holt, who is not on the time zone mailing list.

Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately.

				--ado

From: Chris Holt [mailto:cholt at skywardinnovations.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:44
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Japan's rules

It seems that Japan is missing its latest rule.  The last rule it has is

<Rule>
      <Name>Japan</Name>
      <From>1950</From>
      <To>1951</To>
      <Type>-</Type>
      <In>May</In>
      <On>Sun&gt;=1</On>
      <At>2:00</At>
      <Save>1:00</Save>
      <Letter>D</Letter>
    </Rule>

And the timezone is defined as:

<Zone>
      <Name>Asia/Tokyo</Name>
      <GMTOffset>9:00</GMTOffset>
      <Rules>Japan</Rules>
      <Format>J%sT</Format>
      <Until />
      <Comment />
</Zone>

This forces the user to use JDT as the timezone abbreviation even though I believe they currently don't do daylight savings time.
It seems this should be updated to:

<Zone>
      <Name>Asia/Tokyo</Name>
      <GMTOffset>9:00</GMTOffset>
      <Rules>Japan</Rules>
      <Format>J%sT</Format>
      <Until>1951</Until>
      <Comment />
</Zone>
<Zone>
      <Name>Asia/Tokyo</Name>
      <GMTOffset>9:00</GMTOffset>
      <Rules>-</Rules>
      <Format>JST</Format>
      <Until />
      <Comment />
</Zone>

Does this make sense?
Thanks,

Christopher Holt
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