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From: Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: fileutils package info file contradicts timezone package (fwd)
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Package: fileutils
Version: 3.13-4
The fileutils and tar packages provide info pages which include
the following:
Timezone item
=============
A "timezone item" specifies an international timezone, indicated by
a small set of letters. Any included period is ignored. Military
timezone designations use a single letter. Currently, only integral
zone hours may be represented in a timezone item. See the previous
section for a finer control over the timezone correction.
Here are many non-daylight-savings-time timezones, indexed by the
zone hour value.
+000
`GMT' for Greenwich Mean, `UT' or `UTC' for Universal
(Coordinated), `WET' for Western European and `Z' for militaries.
[...]
-800
`CCT' for China Coast, USSR Zone 7 and `U' for militaries.
-800 (8 hours later than GMT) is the Philippines timezone. It's
probably also central china. However, the timezone package says
the following about timezones in China:
However:
mitchell:mitchell$ date
Tue Jul 15 14:09:38 PHT 1997
The problem here is the PHT timezone. It comes from the following:
mitchell:mitchell$ cat /etc/timezone
Asia/Manila
and in the "asia" file in the sources for timezone-7.55:
# Philippines
# Howse writes (p 162) that until 1844 the Philippines kept American date.
# The rest of this data is from Shanks.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE
LETTER/S
Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 -
Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 -
Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844
8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11
8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May
9:00 - JST 1944 Nov
8:00 Phil PH%sT
Those "PH%sT" fields produce the "PHT" timezone in the date(1) output.
Also, the timezone package containsq the following regarding China
timezones, aqndq a timezone named "CCT":
# People's Republic of China
# From Guy Harris:
# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone.
# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though
# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China
# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
# the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it.
#
# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for
# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP):
#
# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14
# 1987 mid-April - ??
# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10
# From Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1995-12-19):
# Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1,
# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's
# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986.
# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones.
# From Shanks (1991):
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE
LETTER/S
Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D
Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S
Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D
Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S
Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928
8:30 - HART 1932 Mar # Harbin Time
8:00 - CST 1940
9:00 - HART 1966 May
8:30 - HART 1980 May
8:00 PRC C%sT
Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928
8:00 Shang C%sT 1949
8:00 PRC C%sT
Zone Asia/Chungking 7:06:20 - LMT 1928
7:00 - CHUT 1980 May # Chungking Time
8:00 PRC C%sT
Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928
6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time
8:00 PRC C%sT
Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928
5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time
5:00 - KAST 1980 May
8:00 PRC C%sT
So, it looks like the -800 timezone in China is either CST or CDT,
depending on whether Daylight Savings time is in effect; but not CCT
as the info pages in the tar and fileutils packages say.
Also, the "austrailasia" file in the timezone package contains the
following entry, which does mention CCT:
Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time
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I can't find the text referred to in the current coreutils info.
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