ANNA time zone database

Introduction

The ANNA time zone database provides fixes to the IANA time zone database.

File sources

Files can be found at: http://anna.info/annatzdb/

There is a full file <filename>.<YYYYMMDDx> and a diff file <filename>.<YYYYMMDDx>.patch

diff -u ../ianatzdb/<filename> <filename>.<YYYYMMDDx> > <filename>.<YYYYMMDDx>.patch

Australia

• 2013-04-08 - a file australasia based on IANA tzdata2013b/australasia and having the ambiguous DST acronyms for Australia fixed is published
• 2013-04-08 patch file is published
• 2013-04-09 - new pair labeled 20130409a has been created. Hopefully fixing

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$ zic -d zoneinfo australasia
"australasia", line 30: %s in ruleless zone
"australasia", line 98: %s in ruleless zone
"australasia", line 130: %s in ruleless zone
"australasia", line 131: %s in ruleless zone
"australasia", line 135: %s in ruleless zone
"australasia", line 136: %s in ruleless zone
"australasia", line 184: %s in ruleless zone
"australasia", line 185: %s in ruleless zone
"australasia", line 207: %s in ruleless zone
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• 2013-04-11 new pair labeled 20130411.withLHHDT has been created. Using the letters used by IANA in other places for 0:30 DST.

TLA

15 UN/LOCODE end in "T" and could be mistaken for a time if only the location part is seen.

country	location	tzid
NZ	CHT	Pacific/Chatham
US	DET	America/Detroit
TC	GDT	America/Grand_Turk
RU	IKT	Asia/Irkutsk
TR	IST	Europe/Istanbul
ID	JKT	Asia/Jakarta
SD	KRT	Africa/Khartoum
OM	MCT	Asia/Muscat
MX	MZT	America/Mazatlan
CA	PNT	America/Pangnirtung
PF	PPT	Pacific/Tahiti
AQ	ROT	Antarctica/Rothera
US	SIT	America/Sitka
VI	STT	America/St_Thomas
VA	VAT	Europe/Vatican