Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:21:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r200835 - head/share/zoneinfo Message-ID: <200912221121.nBMBL3C6062485@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: edwin Date: Tue Dec 22 11:21:03 2009 New Revision: 200835 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/200835 Log: MFV of tzcode2009t, r200833 Comment only, no data changes. MFC after: 1 week Modified: head/share/zoneinfo/asia head/share/zoneinfo/europe head/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab Directory Properties: head/share/zoneinfo/ (props changed) Modified: head/share/zoneinfo/asia ============================================================================== --- head/share/zoneinfo/asia Tue Dec 22 11:19:00 2009 (r200834) +++ head/share/zoneinfo/asia Tue Dec 22 11:21:03 2009 (r200835) @@ -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 # 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 +# <a href="http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39">; +# http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39 +# </a> +# (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 # o # 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 Modified: head/share/zoneinfo/europe ============================================================================== --- head/share/zoneinfo/europe Tue Dec 22 11:19:00 2009 (r200834) +++ head/share/zoneinfo/europe Tue Dec 22 11:21:03 2009 (r200835) @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # <pre> -# @(#)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 De # 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 A # 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 Modified: head/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab ============================================================================== --- head/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab Tue Dec 22 11:19:00 2009 (r200834) +++ head/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab Tue Dec 22 11:21:03 2009 (r200835) @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # <pre> -# @(#)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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