to the following locations:
Antarctica
Australia (additional historical comments)
Bangladesh (new spelling of Dhaka)
Brazil (multiple changes; America/Porto_Acre renamed America/Rio_Branco)
CNMI
Canada
Chile
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Falkland Islands
Fiji
France (additional history)
Guam
Israel (additional historical comments)
Latvia
Mexico
Moldova (Europe/Tiraspol removed)
Netherlands (additional history)
Paraguay
Philippines (additional history)
Tonga
United States (additional historical comments)
Obtained from: Arthur Olson; <ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2001b.tar.gz>
Correct the date on which DST begins in Victoria and New South Wales
in the year 2000: as the result of some local function in Sydney, DST
will begin on Sunday, 27 August instead of Sunday, 29 Cotober.
This change had already been made, but the date was incorrectly
specified as (Saturday) 26 August.
Submitted by: Howard Lowndes <lannet@lannet.com.au>
Russian zones/rules in rev.1.12. ache objected mainly to the changes
in the Moscow zone names in rev.1.11 and those changes have been backed
out in the vendor branch.
Reviewed by: ache
of important changes to European and South and Central American countries
which should be back-ported to 3.x.
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1999a.tar.gz
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Paris, 17 July 1998
Bulletin C 16
To authorities responsible for
the measurement and distribution
of time
UTC TIME STEP
on the 1st of January 1999
A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 1998.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:
1998 December 31, 23h 59m 59s
1998 December 31, 23h 59m 60s
1999 January 1, 0h 0m 0s
The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:
from 1997 July 1, 0h UTC, to 1999 January 1, 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 31s
from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 32s
Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of
December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C mailed
every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that
there will be no time step at the next possible date.
Daniel GAMBIS
Director
Central Bureau of IERS
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
