IANA time zone database - bugs
IANA time zone database
time zone acronyms |
zone changes |
cutoff date |
pre-1970 |
uninhabited territory |
file - backward
release management |
bugs |
proposals |
censorship
Some fixes can be found at ANNA time zone database.
| Country | Description | Open since at least | Why not fixed? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | EST and CST are used as acronyms for AEST/AEDT and CEST/CEDT, i.e. during DST one cannot tell from the acronym what zone is meant. | 2006-06-02 04:08:36 [1] | under consideration |
| Indonesia | WIT means Western Indonesian Time, but in local Indonesian language, WIT stands for Waktu Indonesia Timur (Eastern Indonesian Time), change requests - without mentioning the ambiguity - go back to 2003 [2] | 2013-02-13 14:17:58 [3] | |
| Norway | No IANA zone defined for Bouvet Island while Norwegian law sets a standard time http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/5218/ | 2012-05-29 18:32:23 [4] | TZ coordinator (Paul Eggert) does not want to fix |
| Russia |
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2011-09-17 16:12:16 [6] | 2013-04-18 under consideration |
| Australia | tzid Antarctica/Macquarie is listed for Antarctica, but it is not near the landmass, and not even in the oceanic region included in the Antarctic Treaty. Suggested fix: Pacific/Macquarie. Bug introduced ca 2010 [7] | 2013-04 | |
| French Southern and Antarctic Land | Zone missing: | 2012-05-12 [8] |