From cf207d0a168890363070b8abdfa87f65de893488 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sascha Wildner Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:40:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Sync zoneinfo database with tz{code,data}2009t from elsie. Theory: 8.3 -> 8.4 asia: 8.44 -> 8.48 europe: 8.24 -> 8.25 zone.tab: 8.29 -> 8.31 Theory "Calendrical Calculations" updated (thanks to Steve Ward). asia Hong Kong comments corrected; Xinjiang comments added. europe Russian region comments updated (thanks to Oscar van Vlijmen) zone.tab version change only --- share/zoneinfo/Theory | 10 +++--- share/zoneinfo/asia | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- share/zoneinfo/europe | 26 +++++++++++----- share/zoneinfo/zone.tab | 2 +- 4 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/Theory b/share/zoneinfo/Theory index 36b087eb4c..abdad24849 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/Theory +++ b/share/zoneinfo/Theory @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -@(#)Theory 8.3 +@(#)Theory 8.4 This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. @@ -360,10 +360,10 @@ abbreviations like `EST'; this avoids the ambiguity. Calendrical issues are a bit out of scope for a time zone database, but they indicate the sort of problems that we would run into if we extended the time zone database further into the past. An excellent -resource in this area is Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, - -Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition -, Cambridge University Press (2001). Other information and +resource in this area is Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, + +Calendrical Calculations: Third Edition +, Cambridge University Press (2008). Other information and sources are given below. They sometimes disagree. diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/asia b/share/zoneinfo/asia index 1b1a2af4e0..de4e05b674 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/asia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 8.44 +# @(#)asia 8.48 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. @@ -363,6 +363,69 @@ Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi # West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke, # Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding, # and Yarkand. + +# From Luther Ma (2009-10-17): +# Almost all (>99.9%) ethnic Chinese (properly ethnic Han) living in +# Xinjiang use Chinese Standard Time. Some are aware of Xinjiang time, +# but have no need of it. All planes, trains, and schools function on +# what is called "Beijing time." When Han make an appointment in Chinese +# they implicitly use Beijing time. +# +# On the other hand, ethnic Uyghurs, who make up about half the +# population of Xinjiang, typically use "Xinjiang time" which is two +# hours behind Beijing time, or UTC +0600. The government of the Xinjiang +# Uyghur Autonomous Region, (XAUR, or just Xinjiang for short) as well as +# local governments such as the Urumqi city government use both times in +# publications, referring to what is popularly called Xinjiang time as +# "Urumqi time." When Uyghurs make an appointment in the Uyghur language +# they almost invariably use Xinjiang time. +# +# (Their ethnic Han compatriots would typically have no clue of its +# widespread use, however, because so extremely few of them are fluent in +# Uyghur, comparable to the number of Anglo-Americans fluent in Navajo.) +# +# (...As with the rest of China there was a brief interval ending in 1990 +# or 1991 when summer time was in use. The confusion was severe, with +# the province not having dual times but four times in use at the same +# time. Some areas remained on standard Xinjiang time or Beijing time and +# others moving their clocks ahead.) +# +# ...an example of an official website using of Urumqi time. +# +# The first few lines of the Google translation of +# +# http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39 +# +# (retrieved 2009-10-13) +# > Urumqi fire seven people are missing the alleged losses of at least +# > 500 million yuan +# > +# > (Reporter Dong Liu) the day before 20:20 or so (Urumqi Time 18:20), +# > Urumqi City Department of International Plaza Luther Qiantang River +# > burst fire. As of yesterday, 18:30, Urumqi City Fire officers and men +# > have worked continuously for 22 hours... + +# From Luther Ma (2009-11-19): +# With the risk of being redundant to previous answers these are the most common +# English "transliterations" (w/o using non-English symbols): +# +# 1. Wulumuqi... +# 2. Kashi... +# 3. Urumqi... +# 4. Kashgar... +# ... +# 5. It seems that Uyghurs in Urumqi has been using Xinjiang since at least the +# 1960's. I know of one Han, now over 50, who grew up in the surrounding +# countryside and used Xinjiang time as a child. +# +# 6. Likewise for Kashgar and the rest of south Xinjiang I don't know of any +# start date for Xinjiang time. +# +# Without having access to local historical records, nor the ability to legally +# publish them, I would go with October 1, 1949, when Xinjiang became the Uyghur +# Autonomous Region under the PRC. (Before that Uyghurs, of course, would also +# not be using Beijing time, but some local time.) + Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time 5:00 - KAST 1980 May @@ -370,8 +433,8 @@ Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar # From Lee Yiu Chung (2009-10-24): -# I found there are some mistakes for the historial DST rule for Hong -# Kong. Accoring to the DST record from Hong Kong Observatory (actually, +# I found there are some mistakes for the...DST rule for Hong +# Kong. [According] to the DST record from Hong Kong Observatory (actually, # it is not [an] observatory, but the official meteorological agency of HK, # and also serves as the official timing agency), there are some missing # and incorrect rules. Although the exact switch over time is missing, I diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/europe b/share/zoneinfo/europe index 66ab880e8e..05e3caec3a 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/europe +++ b/share/zoneinfo/europe @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # 
-# @(#)europe	8.24
+# @(#)europe	8.25
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
@@ -2130,12 +2130,20 @@ Zone Asia/Irkutsk	 6:57:20 -	LMT	1880
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
 # Aginskij Buryatskij avtonomnyj okrug, Amurskaya oblast',
 # [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya), Chitinskaya oblast'.
+
+# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29):
+# ...some regions of RUssia were merged with others since 2005...
+# Some names were changed, no big deal, except for one instance: a new name.
+# YAK/YAKST: UTC+9 Zabajkal'skij kraj.
+
+# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29):
 # The Sakha districts are: Aldanskij, Amginskij, Anabarskij,
-# Bulunskij, Verkhnekolymskij, Verkhnevilyujskij, Vilyujskij, Gornyj,
+# Verkhnevilyujskij, Vilyujskij, Gornyj,
 # Zhiganskij, Kobyajskij, Lenskij, Megino-Kangalasskij, Mirninskij,
-# Namskij, Nyurbinskij, Olenekskij, Olekminskij, Srednekolymskij,
+# Namskij, Nyurbinskij, Olenyokskij, Olyokminskij,
 # Suntarskij, Tattinskij, Ust'-Aldanskij, Khangalasskij,
-# Churapchinskij, Eveno-Bytantajskij.
+# Churapchinskij, Eveno-Bytantajskij Natsional'nij.
+
 Zone Asia/Yakutsk	 8:38:40 -	LMT	1919 Dec 15
 			 8:00	-	YAKT	1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time
 			 9:00	Russia	YAK%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
@@ -2145,7 +2153,9 @@ Zone Asia/Yakutsk	 8:38:40 -	LMT	1919 Dec 15
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
 # Evrejskaya avtonomnaya oblast', Khabarovskij kraj, Primorskij kraj,
 # [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya).
-# The Sakha districts are: Verkhoyanskij, Tomponskij, Ust'-Majskij,
+
+# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29):
+# The Sakha districts are: Bulunskij, Verkhoyanskij, Tomponskij, Ust'-Majskij,
 # Ust'-Yanskij.
 Zone Asia/Vladivostok	 8:47:44 -	LMT	1922 Nov 15
 			 9:00	-	VLAT	1930 Jun 21 # Vladivostok Time
@@ -2166,8 +2176,10 @@ Zone Asia/Sakhalin	 9:30:48 -	LMT	1905 Aug 23
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
 # Magadanskaya oblast', Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya).
 # Probably also: Kuril Islands.
-# The Sakha districts are: Abyjskij, Allaikhovskij, Momskij,
-# Nizhnekolymskij, Ojmyakonskij.
+
+# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29):
+# The Sakha districts are: Abyjskij, Allaikhovskij, Verkhhhnekolymskij, Momskij,
+# Nizhnekolymskij, Ojmyakonskij, Srednekolymskij.
 Zone Asia/Magadan	10:03:12 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			10:00	-	MAGT	1930 Jun 21 # Magadan Time
 			11:00	Russia	MAG%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab b/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab
index 0f919414d4..8193c450cc 100644
--- a/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # 
-# @(#)zone.tab	8.29
+# @(#)zone.tab	8.31
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 #
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