[tz] [PATCH] A few more fixes related to AEST/AEDT etc. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.)

[Tim Parenti]

I was just about to ping you about getting this moving again ahead of
October…

I see you got a lot of this commit from my timparenti:australia-AxDT
<https://github.com/timparenti/tz-experimental/tree/australia-AxDT> branch
(which I was preparing to ping you about).  Almost all remaining
differences are immaterial, but attached is a proposed patch for some minor
straggling issues I see in commentary.

Paul, thanks for your patience as this issue has been hashed rehashed over
the last couple decades.  Thanks for not simply caving to popular pressure,
but for doing due diligence to build a stronger case for this much-needed
and much-welcomed change.  Indeed, I think tz itself was a cause of a lot
of the confusion.

--
Tim Parenti


On 30 June 2014 04:19, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> * Theory: Use CST instead of EST in the example, so that it matches
> the current database.
> * antarctica (Antarctica/Casey): AWST, not WST.
> * asia (Asia/Jayapura): ACST, not CST.
> * australasia: Prepend "[A]" to "EST" in quote about EST.
> ---
>  Theory      | 6 +++---
>  antarctica  | 8 ++++----
>  asia        | 4 ++--
>  australasia | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Theory b/Theory
> index a956d85..05a9f65 100644
> --- a/Theory
> +++ b/Theory
> @@ -542,10 +542,10 @@ in decreasing order of importance:
>                 in some sense, asleep.
>
>  Application writers should note that these abbreviations are ambiguous
> -in practice: e.g. 'EST' has a different meaning in Australia than
> +in practice: e.g. 'CST' has a different meaning in China than
>  it does in the United States.  In new applications, it's often better
> -to use numeric UT offsets like '-0500' instead of time zone
> -abbreviations like 'EST'; this avoids the ambiguity.
> +to use numeric UT offsets like '-0600' instead of time zone
> +abbreviations like 'CST'; this avoids the ambiguity.
>
>
>  ----- Calendrical issues -----
> diff --git a/antarctica b/antarctica
> index 26a6219..101e9c7 100644
> --- a/antarctica
> +++ b/antarctica
> @@ -103,13 +103,13 @@ Rule      ChileAQ 2012    max     -       Sep
> Sun>=2  4:00u   1:00    S
>
>  # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
>  Zone Antarctica/Casey  0       -       zzz     1969
> -                       8:00    -       WST     2009 Oct 18 2:00
> -                                               # Western (Aus) Standard
> Time
> +                       8:00    -       AWST    2009 Oct 18 2:00
> +                                               # western Australia time
>                         11:00   -       CAST    2010 Mar 5 2:00
>                                                 # Casey Time
> -                       8:00    -       WST     2011 Oct 28 2:00
> +                       8:00    -       AWST    2011 Oct 28 2:00
>                         11:00   -       CAST    2012 Feb 21 17:00u
> -                       8:00    -       WST
> +                       8:00    -       AWST
>  Zone Antarctica/Davis  0       -       zzz     1957 Jan 13
>                         7:00    -       DAVT    1964 Nov # Davis Time
>                         0       -       zzz     1969 Feb
> diff --git a/asia b/asia
> index 54a8dc7..3f7d019 100644
> --- a/asia
> +++ b/asia
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
>  #      9:00 WIT        east Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Timur)
>  #      9:00 JST  JDT   Japan
>  #      9:00 KST  KDT   Korea
> -#      9:30 CST        (Australian) Central Standard Time
> +#      9:30 ACST       Australian Central Standard Time
>  #
>  # See the 'europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
>
> @@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ Zone Asia/Makassar  7:57:36 -       LMT     1920
>  # Maluku Islands, West Papua, Papua
>  Zone Asia/Jayapura     9:22:48 -       LMT     1932 Nov
>                         9:00    -       WIT     1944 Sep  1
> -                       9:30    -       CST     1964
> +                       9:30    -       ACST    1964
>                         9:00    -       WIT
>
>  # Iran
> diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
> index 69f61f1..1fd7cb1 100644
> --- a/australasia
> +++ b/australasia
> @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT     1895 Feb
>  #
>  # From Arthur David Olson (2013-05-23):
>  # The 1919 transition is overspecified below so pre-2013 zics
> -# will produce a binary file with an EST-type as the first 32-bit type;
> +# will produce a binary file with an [A]EST-type as the first 32-bit type;
>  # this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by
>  # pre-2013 versions of localtime.
>  Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0    -       zzz     1899 Nov
> --
> 1.9.1
>
>
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