<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please further distribute as needed.<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>- Lisa</div><div>------</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span></div></span></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Bruce W Presgrave <<a href="mailto:presgrave@usgs.gov">presgrave@usgs.gov</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">August 28, 2008 5:17:24 PM MDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Lisa A Wald <<a href="mailto:lisa@usgs.gov">lisa@usgs.gov</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>FEPlus change for new Venezuela time zone</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></div><div>Hi Lisa,<br><br>I would appreciate it if you would send the following to your web<br>development list. Thanks.<br><br> Bruce<br><br>----------------<br>Folks,<br><br>As you may have heard, at the beginning of this year Venezuela introduced a<br>38th "standard" time zone in the world, UTC-4:30 or in keeping with the<br>system in the FEPlus code, zone "r", because it is +0.5 hours from zone "R"<br>which is UTC-5. I have changed the include file timezonedef.inc, and<br>recompiled the subroutines which use it, gettimzon.for and summertim.for.<br>The revised programs are available from our ftp site,<br><a href="ftp://hazards.cr.usgs.gov/feregion/feplus/source/">ftp://hazards.cr.usgs.gov/feregion/feplus/source/</a>.<br><br>The following diff's show what changes were made in the include file:<br><br> File USERS$NSN:[USNSN.NSN.INC]TIMEZONEDEF.INC;27<br> 12 c Venezuela created a new half-hour zone (r, or UTC-4.5) in<br>January 2008<br> 13<br> 14 integer*4 STDTIMMAX ! maximum number of<br>standard zones<br> 15 parameter (STDTIMMAX = 38)<br> 16<br> ******<br> File USERS$NSN:[USNSN.NSN.INC]TIMEZONEDEF.INC;26<br> 12<br> 13 integer*4 STDTIMMAX ! maximum number of<br>standard zones<br> 14 parameter (STDTIMMAX = 37)<br> 15<br> ************<br> ************<br> File USERS$NSN:[USNSN.NSN.INC]TIMEZONEDEF.INC;27<br> 41 1 'r', ! Venezuela<br> 42 1 'q', ! Island of Newfoundland<br> ******<br> File USERS$NSN:[USNSN.NSN.INC]TIMEZONEDEF.INC;26<br> 40 1 'q', ! Island of Newfoundland<br> ************<br> ************<br> File USERS$NSN:[USNSN.NSN.INC]TIMEZONEDEF.INC;27<br> 55 1 6.0, 7.0, 8.0,<br>9.0,10.0,11.0,12.0,-9.5,-4.5,<br> 56 1 -3.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5,5.75, 6.5,<br>9.5,10.5,11.5,<br> 57 1 12.75, 13.0/<br> 58<br> ******<br> File USERS$NSN:[USNSN.NSN.INC]TIMEZONEDEF.INC;26<br> 53 1 6.0, 7.0, 8.0,<br>9.0,10.0,11.0,12.0,-9.5,-3.5,<br> 54 1 3.5, 4.5, 5.5, 5.75, 6.5,<br>9.5,10.5,11.5,12.75,<br> 55 1 13.0/<br> 56<br> ************<br><br>I have not yet changed the time zone code in any of the polygons, to allow<br>some time for others to implement a similar change in their programs. I<br>plan to wait about a week before making the polygon changes. Unless you<br>"automatically" download updated polygons, or if you ignore the time zone<br>code in them, you should not have a problem. But be advised that the next<br>time there is a message about new FEPlus polygons, the Venezuela ones will<br>use the new "r" time zone.<br><br>If anyone has questions or concerns about this change or implementation<br>timing, please let me know.<br><br>Thanks,<br> Bruce<br><br></div></div><br></body></html>