Talk:List of tz database time zones/Archive 2021

Europe/Chisinau

Why do we use "Europe/Chisinau" instead of "Europe/Chișinău"? Does the tz database use the misspelled version? Super Ψ Dro 11:02, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

This is not unique Europe/Chisinau. All of the time zone identifiers are intentionally formed with ASCII characters only. The formatting rules for the identifiers is covered in the documentation. [1]. MapGrid (talk) 17:59, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for the clarification. Super Ψ Dro 20:53, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Europe/Berlin

Update becesseary ! Area(covered) must be changed from "most areas" to " all areas" or comment even deleted Sandkuhle (talk) 11:55, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

1. Column 3 shows unmodified strings exactly as they appear in the database. This talk page is not the correct place to initiate changes in the database.
2. The reason that the text shows "most areas" can be found here: Büsingen time zone.
   Areas in which the clocks differed at any point since 1970 do not share time zones. MapGrid (talk) 14:15, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Europe/Dublin

Is it me or are the times for Europe/Dublin mixed up? The page says that its UTC offset is +01:00 and the DST offset is +00:00. Shouldn't those be the other way around? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.34.80.250 (talk) 16:38, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

While most countries use the term "Standard Time" to mean the time that used in winter, the Irish legislation is written such that "Standard Time" applies in summer.

• Standard Time Act, 1968
• Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971

For better or for worse, the database attempts to honor the legislation by:

• setting Irish Standard Time to UTC+01
• applying a negative daylight saving of 1 hour in the winter.

Thus for Europe/Dublin, the 5th column represents summer time and the 6th column represents winter time.

Somebody wrote a nice blog about it here: here. MapGrid (talk) 20:16, 4 November 2021 (UTC)