diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/africa b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/africa index e8223f78f56db59da2f14dede4cd7e5333614c75..141365cce3a37a50ce7322dc20d063c85bcf7ec6 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/africa +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/africa @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@ -# @(#)africa 7.36 +# @(#)africa 8.7 +# <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is -# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). +# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). # # Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport @@ -16,8 +17,8 @@ # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries # of the IATA's data after 1990. # -# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, -# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. +# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for +# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. # # Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which @@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ # # Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT # for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively, -# but Mark R V Murray <markm@grondar.za> reports that +# but Mark R V Murray reports that # `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa, # `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and # `WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for @@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ # Algeria # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S -Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun<=7 23:00s 0 - +Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 - Rule Algeria 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Algeria 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Algeria 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S @@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ Rule Algeria 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Algeria 1921 only - Jun 21 23:00s 0 - Rule Algeria 1939 only - Sep 11 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Algeria 1939 only - Nov 19 1:00 0 - -Rule Algeria 1944 1945 - Apr Mon<=7 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Algeria 1944 only - Oct 8 2:00 0 - Rule Algeria 1945 only - Sep 16 1:00 0 - Rule Algeria 1971 only - Apr 25 23:00s 1:00 S @@ -85,7 +86,8 @@ Rule Algeria 1978 only - Mar 24 1:00 1:00 S Rule Algeria 1978 only - Sep 22 3:00 0 - Rule Algeria 1980 only - Apr 25 0:00 1:00 S Rule Algeria 1980 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 - -# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21. +# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's +# more precise 0:09:21. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Algiers 0:12:12 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time @@ -105,7 +107,8 @@ Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892 1:00 - WAT # Benin -# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; go with Shanks. +# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Porto-Novo 0:10:28 - LMT 1912 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 @@ -129,7 +132,7 @@ Zone Africa/Bujumbura 1:57:28 - LMT 1890 2:00 - CAT # Cameroon -# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks. +# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks & Pottenger. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Douala 0:38:48 - LMT 1912 1:00 - WAT @@ -208,7 +211,14 @@ Rule Egypt 1990 1994 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S # IATA (after 1990) says transitions are at 0:00. # Go with IATA starting in 1995, except correct 1995 entry from 09-30 to 09-29. Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S -Rule Egypt 1995 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - +Rule Egypt 1995 2005 - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-19): +# The Egyptian Gazette, issue 41,090 (2006-09-18), page 1, reports: +# Egypt will turn back clocks by one hour at the midnight of Thursday +# after observing the daylight saving time since May. +# http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf +Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 21 23:00s 0 - +Rule Egypt 2007 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct @@ -222,15 +232,15 @@ Zone Africa/Malabo 0:35:08 - LMT 1912 # Eritrea # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Africa/Asmera 2:35:32 - LMT 1870 - 2:35:32 - AMT 1890 # Asmera Mean Time +Zone Africa/Asmara 2:35:32 - LMT 1870 + 2:35:32 - AMT 1890 # Asmara Mean Time 2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT 3:00 - EAT # Ethiopia -# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-05): -# Shanks writes that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time zones between -# 1870 and 1890, and that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in 1890. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger write that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time zones +# between 1870 and 1890, and that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in 1890. # We'll guess that 38E50 is for Adis Dera. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa 2:34:48 - LMT 1870 @@ -251,7 +261,8 @@ Zone Africa/Banjul -1:06:36 - LMT 1912 # Ghana # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to ``the present''; go with Shanks. +# Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to ``the present''; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -287,13 +298,14 @@ Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar 2:00 - SAST # Liberia -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (2001-07-17): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch # from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. # Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday. -# Shanks reports the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; go with Shanks. -# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, whereas Howse and Whitman -# each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure. +# Shank & Pottenger report the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. +# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks & Pottenger report -0:44, whereas Howse and +# Whitman each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time @@ -317,13 +329,13 @@ Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959 2:00 - EET 1982 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1990 May 4 -# The following entries are all from Shanks; +# The following entries are from Shanks & Pottenger; # the IATA SSIM data contain some obvious errors. 2:00 - EET 1996 Sep 30 1:00 - CET 1997 Apr 4 @@ -348,9 +360,6 @@ Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 -1:00 - WAT 1960 Jun 20 0:00 - GMT -# no longer different from Bamako, but too famous to omit -Zone Africa/Timbuktu -0:12:04 - LMT 1912 - 0:00 - GMT # Mauritania # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -405,8 +414,8 @@ Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar 2:00 - CAT # Namibia -# The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks. -# Shanks reports no DST after 1998-04; go with IATA. +# The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks & Pottenger. +# Shanks & Pottenger report no DST after 1998-04; go with IATA. # RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Namibia 1994 max - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Namibia 1995 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - @@ -490,7 +499,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria # Sierra Leone # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# Whitman gives Mar 31 - Aug 31 for 1931 on; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives Mar 31 - Aug 31 for 1931 on; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule SL 1935 1942 - Jun 1 0:00 0:40 SLST Rule SL 1935 1942 - Oct 1 0:00 0 WAT Rule SL 1957 1962 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 SLST @@ -557,6 +566,28 @@ Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893 0:00 - GMT # Tunisia + +# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-30): +# My correspondent, Risto Nykanen, has alerted me to another adoption of DST, +# this time in Tunisia. According to Yahoo France News +# <http://fr.news.yahoo.com/050426/5/4dumk.html>, in a story attributed to AP +# and dated 2005-04-26, "Tunisia has decided to advance its official time by +# one hour, starting on Sunday, May 1. Henceforth, Tunisian time will be +# UTC+2 instead of UTC+1. The change will take place at 23:00 UTC next +# Saturday." (My translation) +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-02): +# LaPresse, the first national daily newspaper ... +# <http://www.lapresse.tn/archives/archives280405/actualites/lheure.html> +# ... DST for 2005: on: Sun May 1 0h standard time, off: Fri Sept. 30, +# 1h standard time. +# +# From Atef Loukil (2006-03-28): +# The daylight saving time will be the same each year: +# Beginning : the last Sunday of March at 02:00 +# Ending : the last Sunday of October at 03:00 ... +# http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1188&Itemid=50 + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - @@ -579,8 +610,13 @@ Rule Tunisia 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Tunisia 1988 1990 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S -# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21. -# Shanks says the 1911 switch occurred on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11. +Rule Tunisia 2005 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 2005 only - Sep 30 1:00s 0 - +Rule Tunisia 2006 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 2006 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - +# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's +# more precise 0:09:21. +# Shanks & Pottenger say the 1911 switch was on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/antarctica b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/antarctica index b5c12cbaee6d7851e5af545c8796f940987ecd25..2584ae4f1db10f322655cfd862de5377a4b7886e 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/antarctica +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/antarctica @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -# @(#)antarctica 7.23 +# @(#)antarctica 8.3 +# <pre> # From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): # To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see @@ -32,19 +33,27 @@ Rule RussAQ 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S -Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - -Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun<=7 0:00 1:00 S -Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun<=7 0:00 0 - +Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 - +Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - -Rule ArgAQ 1974 1976 - Oct Sun<=7 0:00 1:00 S -Rule ArgAQ 1975 1977 - Apr Sun<=7 0:00 0 - -Rule ChileAQ 1966 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S -Rule ChileAQ 1967 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 - -Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 0:00 1:00 S -Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 0:00 0 - -Rule ChileAQ 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S -Rule ChileAQ 2000 max - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 2000 max - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - # Argentina - year-round bases @@ -59,7 +68,7 @@ Rule ChileAQ 2000 max - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 - # Australia - territories # Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) # previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered -# <a href="http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html"> +# <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html"> # Margaret Turner reports # </a> (1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST; # presumably this is when they have visitors. @@ -90,23 +99,23 @@ Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13 # </a> # Brazil - year-round base -# Ferraz, King George Island, since 1983/4 +# Comandante Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 # Chile - year-round bases and towns # Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 -# Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 -# O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 -# Prat, -6230-05941 -# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), King George Island, since 1984-04-09 +# Presidente Eduadro Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 +# General Bernardo O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 +# Capitan Arturo Prat, -6230-05941 +# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 # These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. # China - year-round bases -# Great Wall, King George Island, since 1985-02-20 -# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, since 1989-02-26 +# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 +# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 # France - year-round bases # -# From Antoine Leca <Antoine.Leca@Renault.FR> (1997-01-20): +# From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): # Time data are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP # (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). # She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adelie bases @@ -139,25 +148,22 @@ Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - zzz 1947 0 - zzz 1956 Nov 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time # Reference: -# <a href="http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/science/reports/fr/IFRTP.html"> -# Support and Development of Polar Research and Technology (1997-02-03) +# <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station"> +# Dumont d'Urville Station (2005-12-05) # </a> - # Germany - year-round base -# Georg von Neumayer +# Georg von Neumayer, -7039-00815 # India - year-round base -# Dakshin Gangotri +# Dakshin Gangotri, -7005+01200 # Japan - year-round bases -# Dome Fuji -# Syowa +# Dome Fuji, -7719+03942 +# Syowa, -690022+0393524 # # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): -# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. [See] -# <a href="http://www.crl.go.jp/uk/uk201/basyo.htm">[reference in Japanese]</a> -# and information from KAMO Hiroyasu <wd@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp>. +# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. # # Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, # was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main @@ -171,7 +177,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 29 # </a> # S Korea - year-round base -# King Sejong, King George Island, since 1988 +# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 # New Zealand - claims # Balleny Islands (never inhabited) @@ -202,7 +208,8 @@ Rule NZAQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S # Russia - year-round bases # Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 # Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 -# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 +# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, +# year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 # Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, # year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 @@ -234,8 +241,8 @@ Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time # S Africa - year-round bases -# Marion Island -# Sanae +# Marion Island, -4653+03752 +# Sanae, -7141-00250 # UK # @@ -270,7 +277,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1 # # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) # -# From Ethan Dicks <erd@mcmsun5.mcmurdo.gov> (1996-10-06): +# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06): # It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us # and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line.... # I verified with someone who was there that since 1980, @@ -295,7 +302,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - zzz 1956 # Normally it wouldn't have a separate entry, since it's like the # larger Antarctica/McMurdo since 1970, but it's too famous to omit. # -# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-27): +# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): # Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, # stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, # but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/asia b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/asia index 92a9aa17ec195c2bf8c5213fc086712069a3ba4d..04ddc863e75a02c4d35558a6666ccc60f0d03e6e 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/asia +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/asia @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.71 +# @(#)asia 8.8 +# <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is -# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). +# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). # # Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport @@ -16,8 +17,8 @@ # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries # of the IATA's data after 1990. # -# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, -# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. +# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for +# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. # # Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which @@ -43,8 +44,8 @@ # 8:00 CST China # 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* # 9:00 EIT east Indonesia -# 9:00 JST Japan -# 9:00 KST Korea +# 9:00 JST JDT Japan +# 9:00 KST KDT Korea # 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time # # See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. @@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ # These rules are stolen from the `europe' file. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S +Rule EUAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - @@ -81,11 +83,12 @@ Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890 4:30 - AFT # Armenia -# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): -# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991, -# then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997. -# Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz -# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger have Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) +# in spring 1991, then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then +# readopting Russian DST in 1997. Go with Shanks & Pottenger, even +# when they disagree with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz +# reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST # in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that # Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991, # but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. @@ -99,15 +102,18 @@ Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT # Azerbaijan +# From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23): +# According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997 +# Resolution available at: http://aif.az/docs/daylight_res.pdf # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S -Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 - +Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S +Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence - 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s + 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 4:00 Azer AZ%sT @@ -137,8 +143,12 @@ Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu # British Indian Ocean Territory # Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the # 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996. +# We have no information as to when standard time was introduced; +# assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which +# then contained the Chagos Archipelago). # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time +Zone Indian/Chagos 4:49:40 - LMT 1907 + 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time 6:00 - IOT # Brunei @@ -186,29 +196,43 @@ Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN # CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): -# Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, -# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger write that China (except for Hong Kong and Macau) +# has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, observing summer DST +# from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's # note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. -# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones. +# Go with Shanks & Pottenger for now. I made up names for the other +# pre-1980 time zones. -# From Shanks: +# From Shanks & Pottenger: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D -Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D -# -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -# + # From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20): # BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five # historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official -# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949): +# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949). +# +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-07-14): +# I have investigated the timezones around 1970 on the +# http://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county +# boundaries summarized below].... A few other exceptions were two +# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border, +# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are +# therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege +# county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6 +# (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two +# counties are mistakes in the astro.com data. + + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area) +# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time 8:00 - CST 1940 @@ -216,18 +240,35 @@ Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May 8:00 PRC C%sT # Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time") +# most of China Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 8:00 PRC C%sT # Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area) +# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan; +# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong +# counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing, +# Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu. Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time 8:00 PRC C%sT # Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time") +# The Gansu counties Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei; west Qinghai; +# the Guangdong counties Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang, +# Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, and Xinyi; +# east Tibet, including Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar, Shawan and Hutubi; +# east Xinjiang, including Urumqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe, +# Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin, +# Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami, +# Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan. Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time 8:00 PRC C%sT # Kunlun Time +# West Tibet, including Pulan, Aheqi, Shufu, Shule; +# West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke, +# Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding, +# and Yarkand. Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time 5:00 - KAST 1980 May @@ -259,7 +300,7 @@ Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 # Taiwan -# Shanks writes that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it +# Shanks & Pottenger write that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it # was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't # have any other information. @@ -325,16 +366,37 @@ Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia # Georgia -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19): +# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19): # Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward # an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, # an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! # We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. # -# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): +# From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): # Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia # will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, # President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. +# +# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): +# +# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet +# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it +# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours +# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, +# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process +# of integration into Europe. + +# From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07): +# Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on +# [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years. +# Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT +# +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document +# about it. As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document, +# because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time.... +# I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our +# DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month. + + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time @@ -345,7 +407,9 @@ Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun - 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT + 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27 + 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 2005 Mar lastSun 2:00 + 4:00 - GET # East Timor @@ -372,15 +436,15 @@ Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 - 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time + 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3 + 9:00 - TLT 1976 May 3 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 - 9:00 - TPT + 9:00 - TLT # India # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 +Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep @@ -393,7 +457,7 @@ Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Indonesia # -# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks: +# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks & Pottenger: # <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime> # says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some # time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat @@ -401,7 +465,7 @@ Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10 -# Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13, +# Shanks & Pottenger say the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13, # but this must be a typo. 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time @@ -461,12 +525,41 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov # Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates.... # I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct # here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time. - -# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-15) -# Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pournader thereafter. -# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates. -# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050 -# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. +# +# From Roozbeh Pournader (2005-04-05): +# The text of the Iranian law, in effect since 1925, clearly mentions +# that the true solar year is the measure, and there is no arithmetic +# leap year calculation involved. There has never been any serious +# plan to change that law.... +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Go with Shanks & Pottenger before Sept. 1991, and with Pournader thereafter. +# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates, +# stopping after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. +# That cal-persia used Birashk's approximation, which disagrees with the solar +# calendar predictions for the year 2025, so I corrected those dates by hand. +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-03-30), writing about future +# discrepancies between cal-persia and the Iranian calendar: +# For 2091 solar-longitude-after yields 2091-03-20 08:40:07.7 UT for +# the vernal equinox and that gets so close to 12:00 some local +# Iranian time that the definition of the correct location needs to be +# known exactly, amongst other factors. 2157 is even closer: +# 2157-03-20 08:37:15.5 UT. But the Gregorian year 2025 should give +# no interpretation problem whatsoever. By the way, another instant +# in the near future where there will be a discrepancy between +# arithmetical and astronomical Iranian calendars will be in 2058: +# vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT. The Java version of +# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date +# 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical). +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# The above comments about post-2006 transitions may become relevant again, +# if Iran ever resuscitates DST, so we'll leave the comments in. +# +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-03-22): +# Several of my users have reported that Iran will not observe DST anymore: +# http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0603193812164948.htm # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D @@ -486,38 +579,8 @@ Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S +Rule Iran 2005 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Iran 2005 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time @@ -528,7 +591,7 @@ Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 # Iraq # -# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12): +# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12): # An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in # the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph: # "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and @@ -550,7 +613,8 @@ Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D # IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo. -# Shanks says Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997 or 1999 on; ignore this. +# Shanks & Pottenger say Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997; ignore this. +# Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D Rule Iraq 1991 max - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -584,7 +648,7 @@ Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 # high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's # family is from India). -# From Shanks: +# From Shanks & Pottenger: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S @@ -627,8 +691,9 @@ Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S -# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> -# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25): +# From Ephraim Silverberg +# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22, +# and 2005-02-17): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. @@ -679,13 +744,13 @@ Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998 # (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz # # The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. # # The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz # # where YYYY is the relevant year. @@ -705,12 +770,12 @@ Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S # # The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz # # The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates # for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D @@ -724,57 +789,80 @@ Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S -# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25): -# Here are guesses for rules after 2004. -# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S +# The proposed law agreed upon by the Knesset Interior Committee on +# 2005-02-14 is that, for 2005 and beyond, DST starts at 02:00 the +# last Friday before April 2nd (i.e. the last Friday in March or April +# 1st itself if it falls on a Friday) and ends at 02:00 on the Saturday +# night _before_ the fast of Yom Kippur. +# +# Those who can read Hebrew can view the announcement at: +# +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-02-22): +# I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program +# <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el> (2005-02-20) +# along with Ed Reingold's cal-hebrew in GNU Emacs 21.4, +# to generate the transitions in this list. +# (I replaced "lastFri" with "Fri>=26" by hand.) +# The spring transitions below all correspond to the following Rule: +# +# Rule Zion 2005 max - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +# +# but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support +# "Fri>=26" to mean April 1 in years like 2005, so for now we list the +# springtime transitions explicitly. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Zion 2005 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2006 2010 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2006 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2007 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2008 only - Oct 5 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2009 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2010 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2011 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2011 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2012 2015 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2012 only - Sep 23 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2013 only - Sep 8 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2014 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2015 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2016 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2016 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2017 2021 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2017 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2018 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2019 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2020 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2021 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2022 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2022 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2023 2032 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2023 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2024 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2025 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2026 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2027 only - Oct 10 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2028 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2029 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2030 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2031 only - Sep 21 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2032 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2033 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2033 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2034 2037 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2034 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2035 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2036 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2037 only - Sep 13 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 2:00 Zion I%sT -# From Ephraim Silverberg (2002-07-07): -# -# The Israeli government today adopted a proposal by Minister of Interior -# Eli Yishai to shorten the period of Daylight Savings Time for the year -# 2002 (only -- the dates for 2003 and 2004 are, so far, unaffected). -# -# The proposed date to Daylight Savings Time is September 13, 2002 instead -# of the current date: October 7, 2002. The hour of changeover has not -# yet been decided. -# -# (2002-07-10): -# While today the Knesset passed the initial proposal to reduce DST by -# some three weeks, a new compromise is being worked out between -# Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit and Minister of Interior Eli -# Yishai to revert to standard time for a period of 48-96 _hours_ -# (sic) around the Yom Kippur fast day (September 15-16) and then go -# *back* to DST until the end of October. The details of the proposal -# have yet to be worked out, but the second and final readings of the -# bill have until July 24 to pass. -# -# (2002-07-25): -# Thanks go to Yitschak Goldberg from E&M for bringing this (Hebrew) article -# to my attention: -# -# http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2019315,00.html -# -# Hence, the proposal to shorten DST was withdrawn yesterday and the timezone -# files that have been in effect since July 2000 are still valid for all of -# 2002. -# -# Please note that the article mentions that the Shas MK's intend to -# bring up their amendment for future years (2003 and beyond). What this -# means exactly is anyone's guess since there are no set dates yet beyond -# 2004 and the end day set for 2003 and 2004 is already the 7th of Tishrei -# (i.e. before the fast of Yom Kippur). The only thing they may want to -# change is the start date of DST in 2003 from Mar.28.03 (24th of Adar II) -# to Apr.18.03 (16th of Nisan) so that the Passover Seder will take place -# during Standard Time. The start date for 2004 is already Nisan 16th. - ############################################################################### @@ -783,18 +871,33 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 # `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06): +# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06): # Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had # daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued # because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.'' -# Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows: + +# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times +# <http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm>: +# Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on +# [1948-05-01].... But lack of prior debate and the execution of +# daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated +# deep hatred of the concept.... The Diet unceremoniously passed a bill to +# dump the unpopular system in October 1951, less than a month after the San +# Francisco Peace Treaty was signed. (A government poll in 1951 showed 53% +# of the Japanese wanted to scrap daylight-saving time, as opposed to 30% who +# wanted to keep it.) + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger write that DST in Japan during those years was as follows: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S -#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -# but the only locations using it were US military bases. -# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo. +Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S +Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +# but the only locations using it (for birth certificates, presumably, since +# their audience is astrologers) were US military bases. For now, assume +# that for most purposes daylight-saving time was observed; otherwise, what +# would have been the point of the 1951 poll? # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): # 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical @@ -817,14 +920,15 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 # I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate. # In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor. -# Shanks claims JST in use since 1896, and that a few places (e.g. Ishigaki) -# use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all ordinances took effect on Jan 1. +# Shanks & Pottenger claim JST in use since 1896, and that a few +# places (e.g. Ishigaki) use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all +# ordinances took effect on Jan 1. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u 9:00 - JST 1896 9:00 - CJT 1938 - 9:00 - JST + 9:00 Japan J%sT # Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. # Jordan @@ -842,6 +946,17 @@ Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u # The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in # government's departments from six to seven hours. # +# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): +# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. +# +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): +# For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year +# about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year. +# +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-10-01), after a heads-up from Hilal Malawi: +# http://www.petranews.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Sep/05/4000.htm +# "Jordan will switch to winter time on Friday, October 27". +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - @@ -864,30 +979,53 @@ Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 - Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S -Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - +Rule Jordan 1999 2002 - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Jordan 2003 only - Oct 24 0:00s 0 - +Rule Jordan 2004 only - Oct 15 0:00s 0 - +Rule Jordan 2005 only - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 - +Rule Jordan 2006 max - Oct lastFri 0:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 2:00 Jordan EE%sT + # Kazakhstan + # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): -# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan +# Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan # stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk) # and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones. # Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time # IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. -# -# From Paul Eggert (2001-10-18): + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses # RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. -# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules. -# Also go with the following claims of Shanks: +# Go with Shanks & Pottenger, who have them always using RussiaAsia rules. +# Also go with the following claims of Shanks & Pottenger: # # - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. # - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. # - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. + +# <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm"> +# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21): +# </a> +# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing +# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health +# complications coupled with a decrease in productivity. # +# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28): +# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone +# was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has +# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone +# closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the +# same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtobe, Atyrau, +# Mangghystau, and West Kazakhstan. The other zone encompasses +# everything else.... I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones +# de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively. + # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # @@ -896,7 +1034,8 @@ Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 6:00 - ALMT 1992 - 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT + 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 2005 Mar 15 + 6:00 - ALMT # Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.) Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time @@ -906,7 +1045,8 @@ Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 - 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT + 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT 2005 Mar 15 + 6:00 - QYZT # Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk) Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time @@ -915,7 +1055,8 @@ Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence - 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT # Aqtobe Time + 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Aqtobe Time + 5:00 - AQTT # Mangghystau # Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region, # so include time stamps before 1963. @@ -926,8 +1067,9 @@ Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 6:00 - SHET 1982 Apr 1 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence - 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Sep lastSun # Aqtau Time - 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT + 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time + 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 + 5:00 - AQTT # West Kazakhstan Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time @@ -937,37 +1079,51 @@ Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence - 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT # Oral Time + 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time + 5:00 - ORAT # Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) -# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. +# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks & Pottenger. + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15): +# According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway +# <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml> +# Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. I take the article +# to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC. +# From Malik Abdugaliev (2005-09-21): +# Our government cancels daylight saving time 6th of August 2005. +# From 2005-08-12 our GMT-offset is +6, w/o any daylight saving. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S -Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - -Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S -Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - +Rule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Kyrgyz 1997 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S +Rule Kyrgyz 1997 2004 - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence - 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time + 5:00 Kyrgyz KG%sT 2005 Aug 12 # Kyrgyzstan Time + 6:00 - KGT ############################################################################### # Korea (North and South) -# From Guy Harris: -# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco, -# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know -# at what time of day DST starts or ends. +# From Annie I. Bang (2006-07-10) in +# <http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/07/10/200607100012.asp>: +# The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy has already +# commissioned a research project [to reintroduce DST] and has said +# the system may begin as early as 2008.... Korea ran a daylight +# saving program from 1949-61 but stopped it during the 1950-53 Korean War. -# From Shanks: +# From Shanks & Pottenger: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S -Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun<=14 0:00 1:00 D -Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun<=14 0:00 0 S +Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D +Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890 @@ -1036,22 +1192,29 @@ Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880 Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 - # -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # peninsular Malaysia -Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880 - 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time - 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time - 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15 - 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2 - 7:20 - MALT 1950 - 7:30 - MALT 1982 May +# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) +# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 + 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. + 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time + 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1 + 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1 + 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16 + 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 + 7:30 - MALT 1982 Jan 1 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time # Sabah & Sarawak +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# The data here are mostly from Shanks & Pottenger, but the 1942, 1945 and 1982 +# transition dates are from Mok Ly Yng. +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time - 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 - 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2 - 8:00 - BORT 1982 May + 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 Feb 16 + 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 + 8:00 - BORT 1982 Jan 1 8:00 - MYT # Maldives @@ -1062,8 +1225,8 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male # Mongolia -# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map -# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01) +# Shanks & Pottenger say that Mongolia has three time zones, but +# usno1995 and the CIA map Standard Time Zones of the World (2005-03) # both say that it has just one. # From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11): @@ -1103,17 +1266,53 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male # # [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] +# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17): +# Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March. +# It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of +# September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17): +# For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs +# Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them. + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): +# We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones. +# Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says +# there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft +# Windows XP as the source. Risto Nykanen (2005-05-16) reports that +# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST. +# Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in +# Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed. +# He also found +# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&> +# which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius" +# (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones. +# The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT +# and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but Sukhbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT. +# The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the +# parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session." +# For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - -# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists -# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00. -# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998. -Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S -Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +# Shanks & Pottenger and IATA SSIM say 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, +# but McDow says the 2001 switches occurred at 02:00. Also, IATA SSIM +# (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks & Pottenger through 1998. +# +# Shanks & Pottenger say that the Sept. 1984 through Sept. 1990 switches +# in Choibalsan (more precisely, in Dornod and Sukhbaatar) took place +# at 02:00 standard time, not at 00:00 local time as in the rest of +# the country. That would be odd, and possibly is a result of their +# correction of 02:00 (in the previous edition) not being done correctly +# in the latest edition; so ignore it for now. + +Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - # IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST. -Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr 27 2:00s 1:00 S -Rule Mongol 2001 only - Sep 28 2:00s 0 - +Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr lastSat 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Mongol 2001 max - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 - +Rule Mongol 2002 max - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta @@ -1193,7 +1392,7 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # Palestine -# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15): +# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15): # # From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now # known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. @@ -1235,8 +1434,8 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they # have one). -# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25): -# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger write that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but go # with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947, # and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996. # We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since @@ -1265,6 +1464,32 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, # and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. +# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): +# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): +# A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of +# the Ramadan. Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think +# there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks +# earlier--the same goes for Jordan. + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): +# I was informed by a user in Bethlehem that in Bethlehem it started the +# same day as Israel, and after checking with other users in the area, I +# was informed that they started DST one day after Israel. I was not +# able to find any authoritative sources at the time, nor details if +# Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as +# the West Bank. + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-26): +# according to the Palestine News Network (2006-09-19): +# http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=596&Itemid=5 +# > The Council of Ministers announced that this year its winter schedule +# > will begin early, as of midnight Thursday. It is also time to turn +# > back the clocks for winter. Friday will begin an hour late this week. +# I guess it is likely that next year's date will be moved as well, +# because of the Ramadan. + # The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S @@ -1274,8 +1499,13 @@ Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - -Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 1999 2005 - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2005 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2006 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Palestine 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2007 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct @@ -1293,7 +1523,21 @@ Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct # Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to # be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a # transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>. -# The rest of this data is from Shanks. +# The rest of the data are from Shanks & Pottenger. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): +# Tomorrow's Manila Standard reports that the Philippines Department of +# Trade and Industry is considering adopting DST this June when the +# rainy season begins. See +# <http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics02_april26_2006>. +# For now, we'll ignore this, since it's not definite and we lack details. +# +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-26): +# ... claims that Philippines had DST last time in 1990: +# http://story.philippinetimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/145be20cc6b121c0/cid/3e5bbccc730d258c/ +# [a story dated 2006-04-25 by Cris Larano of Dow Jones Newswires, +# but no details] + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 - @@ -1320,15 +1564,18 @@ Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950 3:00 - AST # Singapore +# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) +# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880 - 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time - 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time - 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15 - 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2 - 7:20 - MALT 1950 +Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 + 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. + 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time + 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1 + 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1 + 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16 + 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence - 7:30 - SGT 1982 May # Singapore Time + 7:30 - SGT 1982 Jan 1 # Singapore Time 8:00 - SGT # Spratly Is @@ -1350,6 +1597,49 @@ Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880 # With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 # Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-14), quoting Sri Lanka News Online +# <http://news.sinhalaya.com/wmview.php?ArtID=11002> (2006-04-13): +# 0030 hrs on April 15, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006 +30 minutes) +# at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006). + +# From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in: +# <http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML> +# [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply +# kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean +# Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18): +# People who live in regions under Tamil control can use TZ='Asia/Calcutta', +# as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. + +# From K Sethu (2006-04-25): +# I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at +# the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government +# twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization +# agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard. +# +# I recollect before the recent change the government annoucemments +# mentioning it as simply changing Sri Lanka Standard Time or Sri Lanka +# Time and no mention was made about the abbreviation. +# +# If we look at Sri Lanka Department of Government's "Official News +# Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they +# use SLT as abbreviation in time stamp at the beginning of each news +# item.... +# +# Within Sri Lanka I think LKT is well known among computer users and +# adminsitrators. In my opinion SLT may not be a good choice because the +# nation's largest telcom / internet operator Sri Lanka Telcom is well +# known by that abbreviation - simply as SLT (there IP domains are +# slt.lk and sltnet.lk). +# +# But if indeed our government has adopted SLT as standard abbreviation +# (that we have not known so far) then it is better that it be used for +# all computers. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): +# One possibility is that we wait for a bit for the dust to settle down +# and then see what people actually say in practice. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time @@ -1358,7 +1648,8 @@ Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30 - 6:00 - LKT + 6:00 - LKT 2006 Apr 15 0:30 + 5:30 - IST # Syria # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -1393,17 +1684,24 @@ Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - # IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02; # (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02, # 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31; -# ignore all these claims and go with Shanks. +# (2006) says 2006-03-31 and 2006-09-22; +# for now ignore all these claims and go with Shanks & Pottenger, +# except for the 2006-09-22 claim (which seems right for Ramadan). Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Syria 1994 2005 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +# From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18): +# According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September [21:00 UTC] +# this year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt. +Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - +Rule Syria 2007 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq 2:00 Syria EE%sT # Tajikistan -# From Shanks. +# From Shanks & Pottenger. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time @@ -1418,13 +1716,13 @@ Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880 7:00 - ICT # Turkmenistan -# From Shanks. +# From Shanks & Pottenger. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence - 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 + 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 5:00 - TMT # United Arab Emirates @@ -1438,24 +1736,24 @@ Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1 - 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 # Tashkent Time - 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence + 6:00 - TAST 1982 Apr 1 # Tashkent Time + 5:00 RussiaAsia SAM%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 - 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 5:00 - UZT Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time - 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 - 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 5:00 - UZT # Vietnam -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): + +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long. # We'll stick with the traditional name for now. -# From Shanks: + +# From Shanks & Pottenger: # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/australasia b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/australasia index 5fc7b1b58bf175257fc54828850e911052fce5b3..6377935f42b4dc6a1102b3e5844d4e7617a083bb 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/australasia +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.68 +# @(#)australasia 8.5 +# <pre> + # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -27,18 +29,27 @@ Zone Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 9:00 - CST 1899 May 9:30 Aus CST # Western Australia +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 1991 only - Nov 17 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 1992 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul - 8:00 - WST 1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s - 8:00 1:00 WST 1975 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s - 8:00 - WST 1983 Oct lastSun 2:00s - 8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s - 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s - 8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s - 8:00 - WST + 8:00 AW WST +Zone Australia/Eucla 8:35:28 - LMT 1895 Dec + 8:45 Aus CWST 1943 Jul + 8:45 AW CWST + # Queensland # -# From Alex Livingston <alex@agsm.unsw.edu.au> (1996-11-01): +# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): # I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast # of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after # Queensland ceased to. @@ -77,7 +88,9 @@ Rule AS 1991 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1992 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1993 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1994 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 9:00 - CST 1899 May @@ -85,6 +98,11 @@ Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 9:30 AS CST # Tasmania +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): +# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml> +# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - @@ -99,15 +117,22 @@ Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AT 1991 1999 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AT 1991 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AT 1991 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule AT 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AT 2001 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AT 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AT 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb 10:00 Aus EST 1967 10:00 AT EST +Zone Australia/Currie 9:35:28 - LMT 1895 Sep + 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 + 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb + 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Jul + 10:00 AT EST # Victoria # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -118,9 +143,11 @@ Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AV 1988 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AV 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule AV 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AV 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AV 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AV 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 Aus EST 1971 @@ -137,9 +164,11 @@ Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AN 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AN 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AN 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AN 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AN 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 Aus EST 1971 @@ -160,9 +189,11 @@ Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 - Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 0:30 - Rule LH 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 - -Rule LH 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - +Rule LH 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00 0:30 - Rule LH 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - +Rule LH 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - +Rule LH 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 - EST 1981 Mar 10:30 LH LHST @@ -171,16 +202,16 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb # # Ashmore Is, Cartier # no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers -# like Australia/Perth, says Turner +# no times are set # # Coral Sea Is # no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists -# no information +# no times are set # # Macquarie # permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948; # sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917 -# like Australia/Hobart, says Turner +# like Australia/Hobart # Christmas # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -188,7 +219,7 @@ Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 7:00 - CXT # Christmas Island Time # Cook Is -# From Shanks: +# From Shanks & Pottenger: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - @@ -199,9 +230,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua -10:00 Cook CK%sT # Cocos -# From USNO (1989): +# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978. +# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time +Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 + 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time # Fiji # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -262,9 +295,6 @@ Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901 # Micronesia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Yap 9:12:32 - LMT 1901 # Colonia - 9:00 - YAPT 1969 Oct # Yap Time - 10:00 - YAPT Zone Pacific/Truk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 10:00 - TRUT # Truk Time Zone Pacific/Ponape 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia @@ -287,7 +317,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S Rule NC 1978 1979 - Feb 27 0:00 0 - Rule NC 1996 only - Dec 1 2:00s 1:00 S -# Shanks says the following was at 2:00; go with IATA. +# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA. Rule NC 1997 only - Mar 2 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 @@ -297,45 +327,37 @@ Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 ############################################################################### # New Zealand -# -# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-23): -# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history; -# see tz-link.htm for the full reference. -# -# Shanks gives 1868 for the introduction of standard time; go with the -# DIA's more-precise 1868-11-02. The DIA says that clocks were -# advanced by half an hour in 1941; go with Shanks's more-precise -# 1940-09-29 02:00. The DIA says that starting in 1933 DST began the -# first Sunday in September; go with Shanks's last Sunday starting in -# 1934. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# Shanks gives 1927 Nov 6 - 1928 Mar 4, 1928 Oct 14 - 1929 Mar 17, -# 1929 Oct 13 - 1930 Mar 16; go with Whitman. -Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 26 2:00 0:30 HD -Rule NZ 1928 1929 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 S -Rule NZ 1928 only - Nov 4 2:00 0:30 HD -Rule NZ 1929 only - Oct 30 2:00 0:30 HD -Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 S -Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 HD -# Whitman says DST went on and off during war years, and the base UT offset -# didn't change until 1945 Apr 30; go with Shanks. -Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule NZ 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 HD +Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 6 2:00 1:00 S +Rule NZ 1928 only - Mar 4 2:00 0 M +Rule NZ 1928 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 S +Rule NZ 1929 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 M +Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 M +Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 S +Rule NZ 1946 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S +# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no +# convenient notation for this so we must duplicate the Rule lines. Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule Chatham 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S +Rule Chatham 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:45s 0 S Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule Chatham 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S +Rule Chatham 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule Chatham 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:45s 1:00 D Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D -Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D -Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S +Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S +Rule Chatham 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 - 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1940 Sep 29 2:00 + 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1946 Jan 1 12:00 NZ NZ%sT -Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT +Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1957 Jan 1 + 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT # Auckland Is @@ -389,11 +411,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa -# W Samoa +# Samoa Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time - -11:00 - WST # W Samoa Time + -11:00 - WST # Samoa Time # Solomon Is # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea @@ -442,7 +464,20 @@ Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST # uninhabited # Midway +# +# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): +# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies, +# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3] +# reproduced a Pan American Airways timeables from 1936, for their weekly +# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting +# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone +# designations that I've never seen before:.... +# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun. +# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A " +# Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 + -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3 + -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa @@ -481,10 +516,10 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is -# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). +# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). # # Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport @@ -492,8 +527,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries # of the IATA's data after 1990. # -# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, -# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. +# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for +# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. # # Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which @@ -508,12 +543,14 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # std dst # LMT Local Mean Time # 8:00 WST WST Western Australia +# 8:45 CWST CWST Central Western Australia* # 9:00 JST Japan # 9:30 CST CST Central Australia # 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia # 10:00 ChST Chamorro # 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe* -# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand +# 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945 +# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present # 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham* # -11:00 SST Samoa # -10:00 HST Hawaii @@ -526,9 +563,15 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Australia -# <a href="http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html"> -# Australia's Daylight Saving Times -# </a>, by Margaret Turner, summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia. +# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08): +# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml"> +# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia +# </a> summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia. + +# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12): +# <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving"> +# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales +# </a> covers New South Wales in particular. # From John Mackin (1991-03-06): # We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time. @@ -554,6 +597,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00 # EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00 +# From Chuck Soper (2006-06-01): +# I recently found this Australian government web page on time zones: +# <http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-13time> +# And this government web page lists time zone names and abbreviations: +# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml> + # From Paul Eggert (2001-04-05), summarizing a long discussion about "EST" # versus "AEST" etc.: # @@ -636,14 +685,14 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # understood in Australia. # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): -# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. -# Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au> writes that his newspaper +# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ. +# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper # reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, # but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 # and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time. # For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. -# From Eric Ulevik <eau@zip.com.au> (1998-01-05): +# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05): # # Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable, # and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more @@ -662,6 +711,24 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Standard Time Act, 1898 # </a> +# From David Grosz (2005-06-13): +# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by +# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. +# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday +# in April instead of the last Sunday in March. +# +# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14): +# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan +# to extend DST together in 2006. +# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt +# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html +# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html +# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772 +# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles +# allude to it. +# But not Queensland +# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html. + # Northern Territory # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): @@ -749,37 +816,51 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): # The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. +# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning +# from Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-11-01): +# WA are trialing DST for three years. +# <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf> + # From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): # The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the -# southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along with -# 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into the -# continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being -# Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the -# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they are -# located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and Western -# Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western +# southern coast.... South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western # Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The # residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so # much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the # international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South -# Australia and Western Australia. As it only affects about 10 people and -# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an -# impact as Broken Hill. However, as tourist visiting there or anyone -# calling the local sheriff will attest, they do keep time in this way. +# Australia and Western Australia.... # # From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): # This is confirmed by the section entitled # "What's the deal with time zones???" in -# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>, -# which says a few other things: +# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>. +# +# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07): +# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway, +# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern +# coast of the continent. # -# * Border Village, SA also is 45 minutes ahead of Perth. -# * The locals call this time zone "central W.A. Time" (presumably "CWAT"). -# * The locals also call Western Australia time "Perth time". +# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no +# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border +# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west +# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is +# the largest population centre in this zone.... # -# It's not clear from context whether everyone in Western Australia -# knows of this naming convention, or whether it's just the people in -# this subregion. +# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the +# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I +# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have, +# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45. +# +# (2006-12-09): +# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving +# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis +# of this time zone. My hunch is that it's been around since well +# before 1975. I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15): +# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the +# introduction of standard time in 1895. + # South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria @@ -791,14 +872,14 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # current DST ending dates, no worries. # # Rule Oz 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - -# Rule Oz 1986 max - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 - +# Rule Oz 1986 max - Oct Sun>=18 2:00 1:00 - # Rule Oz 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 - # Rule Oz 1973 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - -# Rule Oz 1987 max - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - +# Rule Oz 1987 max - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 - # Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 Oz EST # Zone Australia/South 9:30 Oz CST # Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 Oz EST 1985 Oct lastSun 2:00 -# 10:00 1:00 EST 1986 Mar Sun<=21 3:00 +# 10:00 1:00 EST 1986 Mar Sun>=15 3:00 # 10:00 Oz EST # From Robert Elz (1991-03-06): @@ -824,7 +905,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # ... # Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D # Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C -# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 C +# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 C # Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C # From Bradley White (1992-03-11): @@ -848,7 +929,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can # only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated.... -# From John Warburton <jwarb@SACBH.com.au> (1994-10-07): +# From John Warburton (1994-10-07): # The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ... # was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994.... # start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March. @@ -908,7 +989,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Arthur David Olson: # New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. -# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz), +# Based on law library research by John Mackin, # who notes: # In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the # individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' @@ -917,18 +998,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # legislation. This is very important to understand. # I have researched New South Wales time only... -# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27): -# The Information Service of the Australian National Standards Commission -# <a href="http://www.nsc.gov.au/InfoServ/Ileaflet/il27.htm"> -# Daylight Saving -# </a> page (1995-04) has an excellent overall history of Australian DST. -# The Community Relations Division of the NSW Attorney General's Department -# publishes a history of daylight saving in NSW. See: -# <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2"> -# Lawlink NSW: Daylight Saving in New South Wales -# </a> - -# From Eric Ulevik <eau@ozemail.com.au> (1999-05-26): +# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26): # DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual # October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore, # <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html"> @@ -1005,7 +1075,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Lord Howe Island # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): -# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen.. pauline@Aus ] +# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ] # [ Dec 1990 ] # Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an # hour ahead of NSW time. @@ -1028,9 +1098,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start # of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW. -# From Paul Eggert (2001-02-09): -# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks through 1989, and Lonergan thereafter. -# For times we use Lonergan. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and +# Lonergan thereafter. For times we use Lonergan. ############################################################################### @@ -1045,7 +1115,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): # # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that! # # or is Australia the west island of N.Z. -# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Geofft@Aus.. Auckland N.Z. ] +# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ] # # [ Nov 1990 ] # ... # Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D @@ -1061,17 +1131,20 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # rather than the October 1 value. # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); -# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. -# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight +# Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ. +# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight # Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard # time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. # As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. # -# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): -# Shanks gives no time data for Chatham; usno1989 says it's +12:45, -# usno1995 says it's +12:45/+13:45, and IATA SSIM (1991/1999) -# gives the NZ rules but with transitions at 2:45 local standard time. -# Guess that they have been in lock-step with NZ since 1990. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history, +# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references. +# Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger. +# +# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with +# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham +# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland. ############################################################################### @@ -1138,12 +1211,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Micronesia -# Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16), +# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16), # ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk" # (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.'' # -# Shanks writes that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11 on 1978-10-01; -# ignore this for now. +# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11 +# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now. # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in @@ -1154,6 +1227,23 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now. +# Midway + +# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956), +# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection +# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31): +# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight +# Saving Time. This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning, +# your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956 +# we'll again go back to Standard Time. This'll mean that we'll go to +# air at 6am your time. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): +# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they +# started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years +# in Midway, but we have no record of it. + + # Pitcairn # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): @@ -1219,8 +1309,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth # to say your prayers in the morning." -# From Paul Eggert (1999-08-12): -# Shanks says the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell. # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03): # Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millenium @@ -1229,10 +1319,10 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan # Government. -# From Steffen Thorsen [straen@thorsen.priv.no] (1999-09-09): +# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): # * Tonga will introduce DST in November # -# I was given this link by John Letts <johnletts@earthlink.net>: +# I was given this link by John Letts: # <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> # http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm # </a> @@ -1242,7 +1332,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead # (12 + 1 hour DST). -# From Arthur David Olson [arthur_david_olson@nih.gov] (1999-09-20): +# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20): # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html> # http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html # </a>: @@ -1277,6 +1367,24 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05): # The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. + +# Wake + +# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, +# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02): +# +# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] -- ... The time was all the +# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the +# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we +# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time +# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost +# impossible. +# +# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm + +# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): +# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now. + ############################################################################### # The International Date Line @@ -1294,12 +1402,30 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati. Even that line # has a rather arbitrary nature. The straight-line boundaries between Pacific # island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international -# convention, but are not legally binding national borders. -# -# An Anglo-French Conference on Time-Keeping at Sea (June, 1917) agreed that -# legal time on the high seas would be zone time, i.e., the standard time at -# the nearest meridian that is a multiple of fifteen degrees. The date is +# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is # governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some # places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not # an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the # correct date is ambiguous. + +# From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31): +# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting +# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's +# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's +# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon). During 1917, at the +# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all +# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones +# on the high seas. Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any +# nation it would use that nation's standard time. The captain was permitted +# to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's +# entry into another zone time--he often chose midnight. These zones were +# adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many +# independent merchant ships until World War II. + +# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen +# (2005-03-20): +# +# The American Practical Navigator (2002) +# <http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187> +# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in +# international waters; it ignores the international date line. diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/backward b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/backward index eace5ab33b98e1e83074f66a2ab8453fb1b256fa..7c922604e28215fb622489db0a50144a1fc10528 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/backward +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/backward @@ -1,23 +1,35 @@ -# @(#)backward 7.23 +# @(#)backward 8.3 # This file provides links between current names for time zones # and their old names. Many names changed in late 1993. +Link Africa/Asmara Africa/Asmera +Link Africa/Bamako Africa/Timbuktu +Link America/Argentina/Catamarca America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia Link America/Adak America/Atka +Link America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires America/Buenos_Aires +Link America/Argentina/Catamarca America/Catamarca +Link America/Atikokan America/Coral_Harbour +Link America/Argentina/Cordoba America/Cordoba Link America/Tijuana America/Ensenada -Link America/Indianapolis America/Fort_Wayne +Link America/Indiana/Indianapolis America/Fort_Wayne +Link America/Indiana/Indianapolis America/Indianapolis +Link America/Argentina/Jujuy America/Jujuy Link America/Indiana/Knox America/Knox_IN +Link America/Kentucky/Louisville America/Louisville +Link America/Argentina/Mendoza America/Mendoza Link America/Rio_Branco America/Porto_Acre -Link America/Cordoba America/Rosario +Link America/Argentina/Cordoba America/Rosario Link America/St_Thomas America/Virgin Link Asia/Ashgabat Asia/Ashkhabad Link Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking Link Asia/Dhaka Asia/Dacca Link Asia/Macau Asia/Macao -Link Asia/Makassar Asia/Ujung_Pandang Link Asia/Jerusalem Asia/Tel_Aviv Link Asia/Thimphu Asia/Thimbu +Link Asia/Makassar Asia/Ujung_Pandang Link Asia/Ulaanbaatar Asia/Ulan_Bator +Link Atlantic/Faroe Atlantic/Faeroe Link Australia/Sydney Australia/ACT Link Australia/Sydney Australia/Canberra Link Australia/Lord_Howe Australia/LHI @@ -29,14 +41,14 @@ Link Australia/Hobart Australia/Tasmania Link Australia/Melbourne Australia/Victoria Link Australia/Perth Australia/West Link Australia/Broken_Hill Australia/Yancowinna -Link America/Porto_Acre Brazil/Acre +Link America/Rio_Branco Brazil/Acre Link America/Noronha Brazil/DeNoronha Link America/Sao_Paulo Brazil/East Link America/Manaus Brazil/West Link America/Halifax Canada/Atlantic Link America/Winnipeg Canada/Central Link America/Regina Canada/East-Saskatchewan -Link America/Montreal Canada/Eastern +Link America/Toronto Canada/Eastern Link America/Edmonton Canada/Mountain Link America/St_Johns Canada/Newfoundland Link America/Vancouver Canada/Pacific @@ -47,13 +59,14 @@ Link Pacific/Easter Chile/EasterIsland Link America/Havana Cuba Link Africa/Cairo Egypt Link Europe/Dublin Eire +Link Europe/London Europe/Belfast Link Europe/Chisinau Europe/Tiraspol Link Europe/London GB Link Europe/London GB-Eire -Link Etc/GMT+0 GMT+0 -Link Etc/GMT-0 GMT-0 -Link Etc/GMT0 GMT0 -Link Etc/Greenwich Greenwich +Link Etc/GMT GMT+0 +Link Etc/GMT GMT-0 +Link Etc/GMT GMT0 +Link Etc/GMT Greenwich Link Asia/Hong_Kong Hongkong Link Atlantic/Reykjavik Iceland Link Asia/Tehran Iran @@ -65,13 +78,14 @@ Link Africa/Tripoli Libya Link America/Tijuana Mexico/BajaNorte Link America/Mazatlan Mexico/BajaSur Link America/Mexico_City Mexico/General -Link America/Denver Navajo Link Pacific/Auckland NZ Link Pacific/Chatham NZ-CHAT +Link America/Denver Navajo +Link Asia/Shanghai PRC Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Samoa +Link Pacific/Truk Pacific/Yap Link Europe/Warsaw Poland Link Europe/Lisbon Portugal -Link Asia/Shanghai PRC Link Asia/Taipei ROC Link Asia/Seoul ROK Link Asia/Singapore Singapore @@ -81,7 +95,7 @@ Link America/Anchorage US/Alaska Link America/Adak US/Aleutian Link America/Phoenix US/Arizona Link America/Chicago US/Central -Link America/Indianapolis US/East-Indiana +Link America/Indiana/Indianapolis US/East-Indiana Link America/New_York US/Eastern Link Pacific/Honolulu US/Hawaii Link America/Indiana/Knox US/Indiana-Starke @@ -90,6 +104,6 @@ Link America/Denver US/Mountain Link America/Los_Angeles US/Pacific Link Pacific/Pago_Pago US/Samoa Link Etc/UTC UTC -Link Etc/Universal Universal +Link Etc/UTC Universal Link Europe/Moscow W-SU -Link Etc/Zulu Zulu +Link Etc/UTC Zulu diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/etcetera b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/etcetera index f87a76ea48a7000b533ea80c27fd45e8c533094c..cddbe8a294e6e7a36aaf0ccebf4503eb8a5b1a4a 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/etcetera +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/etcetera @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ -# @(#)etcetera 7.11 +# @(#)etcetera 8.1 # These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that # people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l" # to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the -# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, so there's little -# need now for the entries that are not on UTC. +# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, and the only practical +# need now for the entries that are not on UTC are for ships at sea +# that cannot use POSIX TZ settings. Zone Etc/GMT 0 - GMT Zone Etc/UTC 0 - UTC diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/europe b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/europe index 50fe876934fcf2dd261ecaa41c33791df91b7857..afab6158c7cd097922e3b4880c94552f8c834a83 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/europe +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/europe @@ -1,13 +1,14 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.83 +# @(#)europe 8.7 +# <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is -# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). +# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). # # Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport @@ -15,8 +16,8 @@ # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries # of the IATA's data after 1990. # -# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1991, -# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. +# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for +# entries through 1991, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. # # Other sources occasionally used include: # @@ -24,6 +25,10 @@ # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), # which I found in the UCLA library. # +# <a href="http://www.pettswoodvillage.co.uk/Daylight_Savings_William_Willett.pdf"> +# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition +# </a> (1914-03) +# # Brazil's Departamento Servico da Hora (DSH), # <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HISTHV.htm"> # History of Summer Time @@ -51,7 +56,7 @@ # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain, # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-12-04), +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04), # The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy, # Luxembourg, the Netherlands. # Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom. @@ -77,7 +82,7 @@ # Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire) -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-07-06): +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-07-06): # # On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about # historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo @@ -98,7 +103,7 @@ # # [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.] -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # # Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time. # The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time, @@ -125,7 +130,7 @@ # transition date for London, namely 1847-12-01. We don't know as much # about Dublin, so we use 1880-08-02, the legal transition time. -# From Paul Eggert (1999-01-30): +# From Paul Eggert (2003-09-27): # Summer Time was first seriously proposed by William Willett (1857-1915), # a London builder and member of the Royal Astronomical Society # who circulated a pamphlet ``The Waste of Daylight'' (1907) @@ -133,14 +138,24 @@ # and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September. # A bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times, # but it met with ridicule and opposition, especially from farming interests. -# One-hour Summer Time was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916. -# See: -# <a href="http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/05/18/x-timcrtcrt01011.html"> -# Summer Time Arrives Early, The Times (2000-05-18) -# </a> -# A monument was erected in 1927 to Willett, in an open space in a 45-acre wood -# near Chiselhurst, Kent that was purchased by popular subscription and open -# to the public. +# Later editions of the pamphlet proposed one-hour summer time, and +# it was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916. +# See: Summer Time Arrives Early, The Times (2000-05-18). +# A monument to Willett was unveiled on 1927-05-21, in an open space in +# a 45-acre wood near Chislehurst, Kent that was purchased by popular +# subscription and open to the public. On the south face of the monolith, +# designed by G. W. Miller, is the the William Willett Memorial Sundial, +# which is permanently set to Summer Time. + +# From Winston Churchill (1934-04-28): +# It is one of the paradoxes of history that we should owe the boon of +# summer time, which gives every year to the people of this country +# between 160 and 170 hours more daylight leisure, to a war which +# plunged Europe into darkness for four years, and shook the +# foundations of civilization throughout the world. +# -- <a href="http://www.winstonchurchill.org/fh114willett.htm"> +# "A Silent Toast to William Willett", Pictorial Weekly +# </a> # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): # The OED Supplement says that the English originally said ``Daylight Saving'' @@ -154,12 +169,12 @@ # known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom. # Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed) -# From: Jonathan Leffler <nih-csl!uunet!mcvax!sphinx.co.uk!john> +# From: Jonathan Leffler # [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament. # If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in # politics making a fortune, not computing. -# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-14): +# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-14): # I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the # acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time. Look for the published # time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and @@ -190,15 +205,15 @@ # and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first, # so we use `BDST'. -# Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19) described at length +# Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length # the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom. -# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> has been updating +# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating # and extending this list, which can be found in # <a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/"> # History of legal time in Britain # </a> -# From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06): +# From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06): # # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; # see Lord Tanlaw's speech @@ -206,11 +221,12 @@ # (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976) # </a>. -# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-18): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # -# For lack of other data, we'll follow Shanks for Eire in 1940-1948. +# For lack of other data, follow Shanks & Pottenger for Eire in 1940-1948. # -# Given Ilieve and Myers's data, the following claims by Shanks are incorrect: +# Given Ilieve and Myers's data, the following claims by Shanks & Pottenger +# are incorrect: # * Wales did not switch from GMT to daylight saving time until # 1921 Apr 3, when they began to conform with the rest of Great Britain. # Actually, Wales was identical after 1880. @@ -222,18 +238,19 @@ # Actually, that date saw the usual switch to summer time. # Standard time was not changed until 1968-10-27 (the clocks didn't change). # -# Here is another incorrect claim by Shanks: +# Here is another incorrect claim by Shanks & Pottenger: # * Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man did not switch from GMT # to daylight saving time until 1921 Apr 3, when they began to # conform with Great Britain. # S.R.&O. 1916, No. 382 and HO 45/10811/312364 (quoted above) say otherwise. # -# The following claim by Shanks is possible though doubtful; +# The following claim by Shanks & Pottenger is possible though doubtful; # we'll ignore it for now. # * Dublin's 1971-10-31 switch was at 02:00, even though London's was 03:00. # # -# Whitman says Dublin Mean Time was -0:25:21, which is more precise than Shanks. +# Whitman says Dublin Mean Time was -0:25:21, which is more precise than +# Shanks & Pottenger. # Perhaps this was Dunsink Observatory Time, as Dunsink Observatory # (8 km NW of Dublin's center) seemingly was to Dublin as Greenwich was # to London. For example: @@ -241,6 +258,35 @@ # "Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time." # -- James Joyce, Ulysses +# From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26): +# Irish laws are available online at www.irishstatutebook.ie. These include +# various relating to legal time, for example: +# +# ZZA13Y1923.html ZZA12Y1924.html ZZA8Y1925.html ZZSIV20PG1267.html +# +# ZZSI71Y1947.html ZZSI128Y1948.html ZZSI23Y1949.html ZZSI41Y1950.html +# ZZSI27Y1951.html ZZSI73Y1952.html +# +# ZZSI11Y1961.html ZZSI232Y1961.html ZZSI182Y1962.html +# ZZSI167Y1963.html ZZSI257Y1964.html ZZSI198Y1967.html +# ZZA23Y1968.html ZZA17Y1971.html +# +# ZZSI67Y1981.html ZZSI212Y1982.html ZZSI45Y1986.html +# ZZSI264Y1988.html ZZSI52Y1990.html ZZSI371Y1992.html +# ZZSI395Y1994.html ZZSI484Y1997.html ZZSI506Y2001.html +# +# [These are all relative to the root, e.g., the first is +# <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA13Y1923.html>.] +# +# (These are those I found, but there could be more. In any case these +# should allow various updates to the comments in the europe file to cover +# the laws applicable in Ireland.) +# +# (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined +# in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it +# is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time +# being GMT+1.) + # From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28): # Clive Feather (<news:859845706.26043.0@office.demon.net>, 1997-03-31) # reports that Folkestone (Cheriton) Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time @@ -374,18 +420,14 @@ Rule GB-Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u 0 GMT # See EU for rules starting in 1996. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 - 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 - 0:00 EU GMT/BST -Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 - -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin/Dunsink MT - -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s # Irish Summer Time +Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 0:00s 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 0:00 EU GMT/BST +Link Europe/London Europe/Jersey +Link Europe/London Europe/Guernsey +Link Europe/London Europe/Isle_of_Man Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:00 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s @@ -439,7 +481,7 @@ Rule C-Eur 1942 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 - Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00s 1:00 S Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 - Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S Rule C-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - @@ -493,7 +535,7 @@ Zone EET 2:00 EU EE%sT # Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST # for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage. -# From Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> (1996-07-12): +# From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12): # The official German names ... are # # Mitteleuropaeische Zeit (MEZ) = UTC+01:00 @@ -559,12 +601,12 @@ Zone Europe/Andorra 0:06:04 - LMT 1901 # Austria -# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-28): Shanks gives 1918-06-16 and +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): Shanks & Pottenger give 1918-06-16 and # 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and # Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged" # date of 1945-04-12 with no time. For the 1980-04-06 transition -# Shanks gives 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV, and guess 02:00 -# for 1945-04-12. +# Shanks & Pottenger give 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV, +# and guess 02:00 for 1945-04-12. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Austria 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00s 1:00 S @@ -609,7 +651,7 @@ Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 # pp 8-9. # LMT before 1892 was 0:17:30, according to the official journal of Belgium: # Moniteur Belge, Samedi 30 Avril 1892, N.121. -# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie <pascal@belnet.be> for these references. +# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie for these references. # The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium. # Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect. # @@ -664,11 +706,11 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 1:00 EU CE%sT # Bosnia and Herzegovina -# see Serbia and Montenegro +# see Serbia # Bulgaria # -# From Plamen Simenov <P.Simeonov@cnsys.bg> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): +# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): # A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says: # EET --> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ... # EETDST --> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October @@ -676,7 +718,7 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Bulg 1979 only - Mar 31 23:00 1:00 S Rule Bulg 1979 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - -Rule Bulg 1980 1982 - Apr Sat<=7 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Bulg 1980 1982 - Apr Sat>=1 23:00 1:00 S Rule Bulg 1980 only - Sep 29 1:00 0 - Rule Bulg 1981 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -691,7 +733,10 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 2:00 EU EE%sT # Croatia -# see Serbia and Montenegro +# see Serbia + +# Cyprus +# Please see the `asia' file for Asia/Nicosia. # Czech Republic # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -709,7 +754,41 @@ Zone Europe/Prague 0:57:44 - LMT 1850 1:00 Czech CE%sT 1979 1:00 EU CE%sT -# Denmark, Faeroe Islands, and Greenland +# Denmark, Faroe Islands, and Greenland + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-04-26): +# http://www.hum.aau.dk/~poe/tid/tine/DanskTid.htm says that the law +# [introducing standard time] was in effect from 1894-01-01.... +# The page http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A18930008330-REGL +# confirms this, and states that the law was put forth 1893-03-29. +# +# The EU treaty with effect from 1973: +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19722110030-REGL +# +# This provoked a new law from 1974 to make possible summer time changes +# in subsequenet decrees with the law +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19740022330-REGL +# +# It seems however that no decree was set forward until 1980. I have +# not found any decree, but in another related law, the effecting DST +# changes are stated explicitly to be from 1980-04-06 at 02:00 to +# 1980-09-28 at 02:00. If this is true, this differs slightly from +# the EU rule in that DST runs to 02:00, not 03:00. We don't know +# when Denmark began using the EU rule correctly, but we have only +# confirmation of the 1980-time, so I presume it was correct in 1981: +# The law is about the management of the extra hour, concerning +# working hours reported and effect on obligatory-rest rules (which +# was suspended on that night): +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/C19801120554-REGL + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-06-11): +# The Herning Folkeblad (1980-09-26) reported that the night between +# Saturday and Sunday the clock is set back from three to two. + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-06-11): +# Hence the "02:00" of the 1980 law refers to standard time, not +# wall-clock time, and so the EU rules were in effect in 1980. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S Rule Denmark 1916 only - Sep 30 23:00 0 - @@ -722,25 +801,27 @@ Rule Denmark 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 - Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 - -# Whitman also gives 1949 Apr 9 to 1949 Oct 1, and disagrees in minor ways -# about many of the above dates; go with Shanks. # -# For 1894, Shanks says Jan, Whitman Apr; go with Whitman. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890 - 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Apr # Copenhagen Mean Time + 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Jan 1 # Copenhagen MT 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT -Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn +Zone Atlantic/Faroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn 0:00 - WET 1981 0:00 EU WE%sT # -# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): +# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-31): +# During World War II, Germany maintained secret manned weather stations in +# East Greenland and Franz Josef Land, but we don't know their time zones. +# My source for this is Wilhelm Dege's book mentioned under Svalbard. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # Greenland joined the EU as part of Denmark, obtained home rule on 1979-05-01, # and left the EU on 1985-02-01. It therefore should have been using EU -# rules at least through 1984. Shanks says Scoresbysund and Godthab +# rules at least through 1984. Shanks & Pottenger say Scoresbysund and Godthab # used C-Eur rules after 1980, but IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says they use EU # rules since at least 1991. Assume EU rules since 1980. @@ -795,24 +876,28 @@ Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn # I heard back from someone stationed at Thule; the time change took place # there at 2:00 AM. -# From Paul Eggert (2001-11-19): -# The 1997 CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT; the 1995 map as like Godthab. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# From 1997 on the CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT; +# the 1995 map as like Godthab. # For lack of better info, assume they were like Godthab before 1996. # startkart.no says Thule does not observe DST, but this is clearly an error, -# so go with Shanks for all Thule transitions. +# so go with Shanks & Pottenger for Thule transitions until this year. +# For 2007 on assume Thule will stay in sync with US DST rules. # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Thule 1993 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Thule 1993 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Thule 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Thule 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Thule 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Thule 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 -3:00 EU WG%sT 1996 0:00 - GMT -Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:29:00 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit +Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:27:52 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit -2:00 - CGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 -2:00 C-Eur CG%sT 1981 Mar 29 -1:00 EU EG%sT @@ -823,12 +908,12 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base -4:00 Thule A%sT # Estonia -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-10-15): +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15): # A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards # [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it, # a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989.... # -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1996-10-28): +# From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28): # [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s, # but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:] # ``I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different @@ -838,7 +923,7 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base # human physiology. It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to # summer time next spring.'' -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-11-04), heavily edited: +# From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited: # <a href="http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390"> # The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law # </a> @@ -887,13 +972,13 @@ Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 # Finland # -# From Hannu Strang <chs@apu.fi> (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC): +# From Hannu Strang (1994-09-25 06:03:37 UTC): # Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one, # and it's supposed to change at 4am... # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (25 Sep 1994): -# Shanks says Finland has switched at 02:00 standard time since 1981. -# Go with Strang instead. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger say Finland has switched at 02:00 standard time +# since 1981. Go with Strang instead. # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Finland 1942 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S @@ -904,6 +989,10 @@ Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:52 - LMT 1878 May 31 2:00 Finland EE%sT 1981 Mar 29 2:00 2:00 EU EE%sT +# Aaland Is +Link Europe/Helsinki Europe/Mariehamn + + # France # From Ciro Discepolo (2000-12-20): @@ -919,7 +1008,7 @@ Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:52 - LMT 1878 May 31 # -# Shanks seems to use `24:00' ambiguously; we resolve it with Whitman. +# Shank & Pottenger seem to use `24:00' ambiguously; resolve it with Whitman. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule France 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S Rule France 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 - @@ -933,7 +1022,7 @@ Rule France 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 - Rule France 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S # DSH writes that a law of 1923-05-24 specified 3rd Sat in Apr at 23:00 to 1st # Sat in Oct at 24:00; and that in 1930, because of Easter, the transitions -# were Apr 12 and Oct 5. Go with Shanks. +# were Apr 12 and Oct 5. Go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule France 1922 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - Rule France 1923 only - May 26 23:00s 1:00 S Rule France 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S @@ -954,8 +1043,8 @@ Rule France 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S Rule France 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S Rule France 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S -# The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris, but Shanks writes -# that they were used in Monaco and in many French locations. +# The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris, but Shanks & Pottenger +# write that they were used in Monaco and in many French locations. # Le Corre writes that the upper limit of the free zone was Arneguy, Orthez, # Mont-de-Marsan, Bazas, Langon, Lamotte-Montravel, Marouil, La # Rochefoucault, Champagne-Mouton, La Roche-Posay, La Haye-Decartes, @@ -963,8 +1052,8 @@ Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S # Paray-le-Monial, Montceau-les-Mines, Chalons-sur-Saone, Arbois, # Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collognes (Haute-Savioe). Rule France 1941 only - May 5 0:00 2:00 M # Midsummer -# Shanks says this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00, -# but go with Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr (1997-12-12), +# Shanks & Pottenger say this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00, +# but go with Denis Excoffier (1997-12-12), # who quotes the Ephemerides Astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes # as saying 5/10/41 22hUT. Rule France 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S @@ -976,21 +1065,21 @@ Rule France 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00 2:00 M Rule France 1944 only - Oct 8 1:00 1:00 S Rule France 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00 2:00 M Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - -# Shanks gives Mar 28 2:00 and Sep 26 3:00; +# Shanks & Pottenger give Mar 28 2:00 and Sep 26 3:00; # go with Excoffier's 28/3/76 0hUT and 25/9/76 23hUT. Rule France 1976 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 S Rule France 1976 only - Sep 26 1:00 0 - -# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time, and Whitman gives 0:09:05, +# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time, and Whitman 0:09:05, # but Howse quotes the actual French legislation as saying 0:09:21. # Go with Howse. Howse writes that the time in France was officially based # on PMT-0:09:21 until 1978-08-09, when the time base finally switched to UTC. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Paris MT -# Shanks gives 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre. +# Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre. 0:00 France WE%sT 1940 Jun 14 23:00 # Le Corre says Paris stuck with occupied-France time after the liberation; -# go with Shanks. +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 25 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 @@ -998,7 +1087,7 @@ Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 # Germany -# From Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> (1998-09-29): +# From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29): # The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische # Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916. # [See tz-link.htm for the URL.] @@ -1034,25 +1123,30 @@ Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT +# Georgia +# Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi. +# Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni) +# is in Europe. Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part. + # Gibraltar # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 +Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 0:00s 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1957 Apr 14 2:00 1:00 - CET 1982 1:00 EU CE%sT # Greece # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# Whitman gives 1932 Jul 5 - Nov 1; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1932 Jul 5 - Nov 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Greece 1932 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 S Rule Greece 1932 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - -# Whitman gives 1941 Apr 25 - ?; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1941 Apr 25 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Greece 1941 only - Apr 7 0:00 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1942 Feb 2 - ?; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1942 Feb 2 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Greece 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 - Rule Greece 1943 only - Mar 30 0:00 1:00 S Rule Greece 1943 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - -# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 3 - Oct 31; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 3 - Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Greece 1952 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Greece 1952 only - Nov 2 0:00 0 - Rule Greece 1975 only - Apr 12 0:00s 1:00 S @@ -1072,7 +1166,7 @@ Zone Europe/Athens 1:34:52 - LMT 1895 Sep 14 2:00 Greece EE%sT 1941 Apr 30 1:00 Greece CE%sT 1944 Apr 4 2:00 Greece EE%sT 1981 - # Shanks says they switched to C-Eur in 1981; + # Shanks & Pottenger say it switched to C-Eur in 1981; # go with EU instead, since Greece joined it on Jan 1. 2:00 EU EE%sT @@ -1108,7 +1202,7 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct # Iceland # -# From Adam David <adam@veda.is> (1993-11-06): +# From Adam David (1993-11-06): # The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT. # # (1993-12-05): @@ -1135,10 +1229,10 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct # might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it # might mean something else (???). # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29): -# The Iceland Almanak, Shanks and Whitman disagree on many points. -# We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks, namely that -# Reykavik was 21W57 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# The Iceland Almanak, Shanks & Pottenger, and Whitman disagree on many points. +# We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks & Pottenger, namely +# that Reykavik was 21W57 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that. # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Iceland 1917 1918 - Feb 19 23:00 1:00 S @@ -1176,15 +1270,16 @@ Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:27:24 - LMT 1837 # But these events all occurred before the 1970 cutoff, # so record only the time in Rome. # -# From Paul Eggert (1996-05-06): -# For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks, Whitman, and F. Pollastri +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks & Pottenger, Whitman, and +# F. Pollastri # <a href="http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/uk/ienitlt.html"> -# Day-light Saving Time in Italy (1996-03-14) +# Day-light Saving Time in Italy (2006-02-03) # </a> # (`FP' below), taken from an Italian National Electrotechnical Institute # publication. When the three sources disagree, guess who's right, as follows: # -# year FP Shanks (S) Whitman (W) Go with: +# year FP Shanks&P. (S) Whitman (W) Go with: # 1916 06-03 06-03 24:00 06-03 00:00 FP & W # 09-30 09-30 24:00 09-30 01:00 FP; guess 24:00s # 1917 04-01 03-31 24:00 03-31 00:00 FP & S @@ -1240,7 +1335,7 @@ Rule Italy 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - Rule Italy 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Sep 22 - 0:49:56 - RMT 1893 Nov # Rome Mean Time + 0:49:56 - RMT 1893 Nov 1 0:00s # Rome Mean 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1980 @@ -1251,7 +1346,7 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino # Latvia -# From Liene Kanepe <Liene_Kanepe@lm.gov.lv> (1998-09-17): +# From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17): # I asked about this matter Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy # of The University of Latvia Dr. paed Mr. Ilgonis Vilks. I also searched the @@ -1323,7 +1418,7 @@ Zone Europe/Riga 1:36:24 - LMT 1880 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep lastSun 2:00s 2:00 Latvia EE%sT 1997 Jan 21 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 Feb 29 - 2:00 - EET 2001 + 2:00 - EET 2001 Jan 2 2:00 EU EE%sT # Liechtenstein @@ -1338,7 +1433,7 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too. -# From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07): +# From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07): # I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone # (Europe/Vilnius) was changed. @@ -1382,7 +1477,8 @@ Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 2:00 EU EE%sT # Luxembourg -# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks. +# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Lux 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S Rule Lux 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - @@ -1417,7 +1513,7 @@ Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 1904 Jun 1:00 EU CE%sT # Macedonia -# see Serbia and Montenegro +# see Serbia # Malta # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -1429,7 +1525,7 @@ Rule Malta 1975 1979 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S Rule Malta 1975 1980 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 - Rule Malta 1980 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 # Valletta +Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 0:00s # Valletta 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1973 Mar 31 @@ -1438,14 +1534,14 @@ Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 # Valletta # Moldova -# From Paul Eggert (2001-02-11): -# A previous version of this database followed Shanks, who writes that -# Tiraspol switched to Moscow time on 1992-01-19 at 02:00. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# A previous version of this database followed Shanks & Pottenger, who write +# that Tiraspol switched to Moscow time on 1992-01-19 at 02:00. # However, this is most likely an error, as Moldova declared independence # on 1991-08-27 (the 1992-01-19 date is that of a Russian decree). # In early 1992 there was large-scale interethnic violence in the area # and it's possible that some Russophones continued to observe Moscow time. -# But moldavizolit@tirastel.md and mk@tirastel.md separately reported via +# But [two people] separately reported via # Jesper Norgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau. # The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now. @@ -1465,7 +1561,8 @@ Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880 2:00 EU EE%sT # Monaco -# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21. +# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's +# more precise 0:09:21. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time @@ -1473,6 +1570,9 @@ Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 1:00 EU CE%sT +# Montenegro +# see Serbia + # Netherlands # Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940, @@ -1548,12 +1648,11 @@ Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 1:00 EU CE%sT # Norway +# http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html (2004-01) agrees with Shanks & +# Pottenger. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# Whitman gives 1916 May 21 - 1916 Oct 21; go with Shanks. Rule Norway 1916 only - May 22 1:00 1:00 S Rule Norway 1916 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - -# Whitman says DST observed 1935-08-11/1942-11-01, then 1943-03-29/10-04, -# 1944-04-03/10-02, and 1945-04-01/10-01; go with Shanks. Rule Norway 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Norway 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S @@ -1590,7 +1689,7 @@ Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-01): # # Actually, Jan Mayen was never occupied by Germany during World War II, -# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Olso was +# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Oslo was # keeping Berlin time. # # <http://home.no.net/janmayen/history.htm> says that the meteorologists @@ -1607,7 +1706,7 @@ Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 # <http://www.svalbard.com/SvalbardFAQ.html> says that the Germans were # expelled on 1942-05-14. However, small parties of Germans did return, # and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954) -# <http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/publishing/rights/dege_warnorthof80.htm> +# <http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/UP/1-55238/1-55238-110-2.html> # the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named # Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945. # @@ -1621,24 +1720,32 @@ Link Europe/Oslo Atlantic/Jan_Mayen # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Poland 1918 1919 - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - Rule Poland 1919 only - Apr 15 2:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1944 Nov 30; go with Shanks. +Rule Poland 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1944 Nov 30; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Poland 1944 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - -# For 1944-1948 Whitman gives the previous day; go with Shanks. +# For 1944-1948 Whitman gives the previous day; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Poland 1945 only - Apr 29 0:00 1:00 S Rule Poland 1945 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Poland 1946 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Poland 1946 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 - -Rule Poland 1947 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Poland 1947 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 - -Rule Poland 1948 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 S -# Whitman also gives 1949 Apr 9 - 1949 Oct 1; go with Shanks. +# For 1946 on the source is Kazimierz Borkowski, +# Torun Center for Astronomy, Dept. of Radio Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus U., +# <http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/~kb/Artykuly/U-PA/Czas2.htm#tth_tAb1> +# Thanks to Przemyslaw Augustyniak (2005-05-28) for this reference. +# He also gives these further references: +# Mon Pol nr 13, poz 162 (1995) <http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/mp/1995/0162.htm> +# Druk nr 2180 (2003) <http://www.senat.gov.pl/k5/dok/sejm/053/2180.pdf> +Rule Poland 1946 only - Apr 14 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1957 only - Jun 2 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - Rule Poland 1958 only - Mar 30 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1959 only - May 31 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1959 1961 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00s 0 - Rule Poland 1960 only - Apr 3 1:00s 1:00 S -Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May Sun>=25 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1962 1964 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 @@ -1647,33 +1754,17 @@ Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1922 Jun 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1940 Jun 23 2:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct - 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1977 Apr 3 1:00 - 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1999 -# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) gives EU rules, but the _The Warsaw Voice_ -# <a href="http://www.warsawvoice.com.pl/v361/NewsInBrief.shtml"> -# http://www.warsawvoice.com/pl/v361/NewsInBrief.shtml (1995-09-24) -# </a> -# says the autumn 1995 switch was at 02:00. -# Stick with W-Eur for now. -# -# From Marcin.Kasperski@softax.com.pl (1999-06-10): -# According to my colleagues someone recently decided, that Poland would -# follow European Union regulations, so - I think - the matter is not -# worth further discussion. -# -# From Paul Eggert (1999-06-10): -# Kasperski also writes that the government futzed with the rules in 1997 -# or 1998 but he doesn't remember the details. Assume they switched to -# EU rules in 1999. + 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1988 1:00 EU CE%sT # Portugal # -# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro <rps@inescca.inescc.pt> (1992-11-12): +# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12): # Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone # (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC. # -# Martin Bruckmann <martin@ua.pt> (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve +# Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve # that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring. # The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter. # @@ -1688,9 +1779,9 @@ Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # DSH writes that despite Decree 1,469 (1915), the change to the clocks was not # done every year, depending on what Spain did, because of railroad schedules. -# Go with Shanks. +# Go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Port 1916 only - Jun 17 23:00 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1916 Oct 31; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1916 Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Port 1916 only - Nov 1 1:00 0 - Rule Port 1917 only - Feb 28 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1917 1921 - Oct 14 23:00s 0 - @@ -1706,24 +1797,23 @@ Rule Port 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1931 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1931 Oct 8; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1931 Oct 8; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Port 1931 1932 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - Rule Port 1932 only - Apr 2 23:00s 1:00 S -# Shanks gives 1934 Apr 4; go with Whitman. Rule Port 1934 only - Apr 7 23:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1934 Oct 5; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1934 Oct 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Port 1934 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - -# Shanks gives 1935 Apr 30; go with Whitman. +# Shanks & Pottenger give 1935 Apr 30; go with Whitman. Rule Port 1935 only - Mar 30 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1936 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1937 Apr 2; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1937 Apr 2; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Port 1937 only - Apr 3 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1939 Oct 7; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1939 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Port 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - Rule Port 1940 only - Feb 24 23:00s 1:00 S -# Shanks gives 1940 Oct 7; go with Whitman. +# Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Oct 7; go with Whitman. Rule Port 1940 1941 - Oct 5 23:00s 0 - Rule Port 1941 only - Apr 5 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1942 1945 - Mar Sat>=8 23:00s 1:00 S @@ -1737,8 +1827,8 @@ Rule Port 1946 only - Apr Sat>=1 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1946 only - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - Rule Port 1947 1949 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -# Shanks says DST was observed in 1950; go with Whitman. -# Whitman gives Oct lastSun for 1952 on; go with Shanks. +# Shanks & Pottenger say DST was observed in 1950; go with Whitman. +# Whitman gives Oct lastSun for 1952 on; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Port 1951 1965 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1951 1965 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule Port 1977 only - Mar 27 0:00s 1:00 S @@ -1750,8 +1840,10 @@ Rule Port 1980 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1983 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition from LMT to WET occurred 1911-05-24; +# Willett says 1912-01-01. Go with Willett. Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:32 - LMT 1884 - -0:36:32 - LMT 1911 May 24 # Lisbon Mean Time + -0:36:32 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 # Lisbon Mean Time 0:00 Port WE%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 1:00 - CET 1976 Sep 26 1:00 0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s @@ -1801,25 +1893,26 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # Russia -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-11-12): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations. # Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991, -# are from Andrey A. Chernov. The rest is from Shanks, except we follow -# Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat 23:00, not Sun 02:00s. +# are from Andrey A. Chernov. The rest is from Shanks & Pottenger, +# except we follow Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat +# 23:00, not Sun 02:00s. # -# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski <S.A.Kuz@iae.nsk.su> (1994-06-29): +# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): # But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow! # I do not know why they have decided to make this change; # as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching # so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch. # -# From Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.ru> (1996-10-04): +# From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04): # `MSK' and `MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with -# Unix-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group).... +# UNIX-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group).... # The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor # (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there. # -# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-10-30): +# From Chris Carrier (1996-10-30): # According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from # Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ... # still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located. @@ -1850,20 +1943,20 @@ Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr 2:00 Russia EE%sT # # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] -# Respublika Adygeya, Arkhangel'skaya oblast', Astrakhanskaya oblast', +# Respublika Adygeya, Arkhangel'skaya oblast', # Belgorodskaya oblast', Bryanskaya oblast', Vladimirskaya oblast', -# Volgogradskaya oblast', Vologodskaya oblast', Voronezhskaya oblast', +# Vologodskaya oblast', Voronezhskaya oblast', # Respublika Dagestan, Ivanovskaya oblast', Respublika Ingushetiya, # Kabarbino-Balkarskaya Respublika, Respublika Kalmykiya, # Kalyzhskaya oblast', Respublika Karachaevo-Cherkessiya, -# Respublika Kareliya, Kirovskaya oblast', Respublika Komi, +# Respublika Kareliya, Respublika Komi, # Kostromskaya oblast', Krasnodarskij kraj, Kurskaya oblast', # Leningradskaya oblast', Lipetskaya oblast', Respublika Marij El, # Respublika Mordoviya, Moskva, Moskovskaya oblast', # Murmanskaya oblast', Nenetskij avtonomnyj okrug, # Nizhegorodskaya oblast', Novgorodskaya oblast', Orlovskaya oblast', # Penzenskaya oblast', Pskovskaya oblast', Rostovskaya oblast', -# Ryazanskaya oblast', Sankt-Peterburg, Saratovskaya oblast', +# Ryazanskaya oblast', Sankt-Peterburg, # Respublika Severnaya Osetiya, Smolenskaya oblast', # Stavropol'skij kraj, Tambovskaya oblast', Respublika Tatarstan, # Tverskaya oblast', Tyl'skaya oblast', Ul'yanovskaya oblast', @@ -1878,11 +1971,25 @@ Zone Europe/Moscow 2:30:20 - LMT 1880 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD # +# Astrakhanskaya oblast', Kirovskaya oblast', Saratovskaya oblast', +# Volgogradskaya oblast'. Shanks & Pottenger say Kirov is still at +0400 +# but Wikipedia (2006-05-09) says +0300. Perhaps it switched after the +# others? But we have no data. +Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 + 3:00 - TSAT 1925 Apr 6 # Tsaritsyn Time + 3:00 - STAT 1930 Jun 21 # Stalingrad Time + 4:00 - STAT 1961 Nov 11 + 4:00 Russia VOL%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Volgograd T + 3:00 Russia VOL%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 4:00 - VOLT 1992 Mar 29 2:00s + 3:00 Russia VOL%sT +# # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] # Samarskaya oblast', Udmyrtskaya respublika Zone Europe/Samara 3:20:36 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 - 3:00 - KUYT 1930 Jun 21 # Kuybyshev - 4:00 Russia KUY%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00s + 3:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 + 4:00 - SAMT 1935 Jan 27 + 4:00 Russia KUY%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Kuybyshev 3:00 Russia KUY%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 2:00 Russia KUY%sT 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 3:00 - KUYT 1991 Oct 20 3:00 @@ -1908,17 +2015,19 @@ Zone Asia/Omsk 4:53:36 - LMT 1919 Nov 14 5:00 Russia OMS%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 6:00 Russia OMS%sT # -# Novosibirskaya oblast'. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-19): I'm guessing about Tomsk here; it's +# not clear when it switched from +7 to +6. +# Novosibirskaya oblast', Tomskaya oblast'. Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 6:00 - NOVT 1930 Jun 21 # Novosibirsk Time 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 6:00 Russia NOV%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s - 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1993 May 23 # says Shanks + 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1993 May 23 # say Shanks & P. 6:00 Russia NOV%sT # # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] # Kemerovskaya oblast', Krasnoyarskij kraj, -# Tajmyrskij (Dolgano-Nenetskij) avtonomnyj okrug, Tomskaya oblast', +# Tajmyrskij (Dolgano-Nenetskij) avtonomnyj okrug, # Respublika Tuva, Respublika Khakasiya, Evenkijskij avtonomnyj okrug. Zone Asia/Krasnoyarsk 6:11:20 - LMT 1920 Jan 6 6:00 - KRAT 1930 Jun 21 # Krasnoyarsk Time @@ -1936,28 +2045,26 @@ Zone Asia/Irkutsk 6:57:20 - LMT 1880 7:00 Russia IRK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 8:00 Russia IRK%sT # -# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# 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 Alan Pritchard (2001-08-24): [The Sakha districts are:] -# Aldansky, Amginsky, Anabarsky, Bulunsky, Churapchinsky, -# Eveno-Bytantaisky, Gorny, Khangalassky, Kobyaisky, Lensky, -# Megino-Kangalassky, Mirninsky, Namsky, Nyurbinsky, Olenyoksky, -# Olyokminsky, Srednekolymsky, Suntarsky, Tattinsky, Ust-Aldansky, -# Verkhnekolymsky, Verkhnevilyuisky, Vilyuisky, Zhigansky. +# The Sakha districts are: Aldanskij, Amginskij, Anabarskij, +# Bulunskij, Verkhnekolymskij, Verkhnevilyujskij, Vilyujskij, Gornyj, +# Zhiganskij, Kobyajskij, Lenskij, Megino-Kangalasskij, Mirninskij, +# Namskij, Nyurbinskij, Olenekskij, Olekminskij, Srednekolymskij, +# Suntarskij, Tattinskij, Ust'-Aldanskij, Khangalasskij, +# Churapchinskij, Eveno-Bytantajskij. 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 8:00 Russia YAK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 9:00 Russia YAK%sT # -# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of] # Evrejskaya avtonomnaya oblast', Khabarovskij kraj, Primorskij kraj, # [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya). -# -# From Alan Pritchard (2001-08-24): [The Sakha districts are:] -# Tomponsky, Ust-Maisky, Ust-Yansky, Verkhoyansky. +# The Sakha districts are: Verkhoyanskij, Tomponskij, Ust'-Majskij, +# Ust'-Yanskij. Zone Asia/Vladivostok 8:47:44 - LMT 1922 Nov 15 9:00 - VLAT 1930 Jun 21 # Vladivostok Time 10:00 Russia VLA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s @@ -1974,11 +2081,11 @@ Zone Asia/Sakhalin 9:30:48 - LMT 1905 Aug 23 11:00 Russia SAK%sT 1997 Mar lastSun 2:00s 10:00 Russia SAK%sT # -# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of] # Magadanskaya oblast', Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya). -# -# From Alan Pritchard (2001-08-24): [The Sakha districts are:] -# Abyisky, Allaikhovsky, Momsky, Nizhnekolymsky, Oimyakonsky. +# Probably also: Kuril Islands. +# The Sakha districts are: Abyjskij, Allaikhovskij, Momskij, +# Nizhnekolymskij, Ojmyakonskij. 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 @@ -2003,18 +2110,19 @@ Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 2 11:00 Russia ANA%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 12:00 Russia ANA%sT -# Serbia and Montenegro +# Serbia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s -# Metod Kozelj <metod.kozelj@rzs-hm.si> reports that the legal date of +# Metod Kozelj reports that the legal date of # transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time. -# Shanks doesn't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj. +# Shanks & Pottenger don't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj. 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 1:00 EU CE%sT Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana # Slovenia +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Podgorica # Montenegro Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo # Bosnia and Herzegovina Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje # Macedonia Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia @@ -2023,32 +2131,34 @@ Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava # Slovenia -# see Serbia and Montenegro +# see Serbia # Spain # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# For 1917-1919 Whitman gives Apr Sat>=1 - Oct Sat>=1; go with Shanks. +# For 1917-1919 Whitman gives Apr Sat>=1 - Oct Sat>=1; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Spain 1917 only - May 5 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Spain 1917 1919 - Oct 6 23:00s 0 - Rule Spain 1918 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Spain 1919 only - Apr 5 23:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1921 Feb 28 - Oct 14; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1921 Feb 28 - Oct 14; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Spain 1924 only - Apr 16 23:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1924 Oct 14; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1924 Oct 14; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Spain 1924 only - Oct 4 23:00s 0 - Rule Spain 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman says no DST in 1929; go with Shanks. +# Whitman says no DST in 1929; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Spain 1926 1929 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - Rule Spain 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Spain 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Spain 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman gives 1937 Jun 16, 1938 Apr 16, 1940 Apr 13; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1937 Jun 16, 1938 Apr 16, 1940 Apr 13; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Spain 1937 only - May 22 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Spain 1937 1939 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - Rule Spain 1938 only - Mar 22 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Spain 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Spain 1940 only - Mar 16 23:00s 1:00 S -# Whitman says no DST 1942-1945; go with Shanks. +# Whitman says no DST 1942-1945; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Spain 1942 only - May 2 22:00s 2:00 M # Midsummer Rule Spain 1942 only - Sep 1 22:00s 1:00 S Rule Spain 1943 1946 - Apr Sat>=13 22:00s 2:00 M @@ -2075,7 +2185,7 @@ Rule SpainAfrica 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Madrid -0:14:44 - LMT 1901 +Zone Europe/Madrid -0:14:44 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 0:00s 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1946 Sep 30 1:00 Spain CE%sT 1979 1:00 EU CE%sT @@ -2097,7 +2207,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C. # Sweden -# From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks: +# From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks & Pottenger: # # The law "Svensk forfattningssamling 1878, no 14" about standard time in 1879: # From the beginning of 1879 (that is 01-01 00:00) the time for all @@ -2158,7 +2268,7 @@ Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1879 Jan 1 # From Whitman (who writes ``Midnight?''): Rule Swiss 1940 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S Rule Swiss 1940 only - Dec 31 0:00 0 - -# From Shanks: +# From Shanks & Pottenger: Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -2177,7 +2287,8 @@ Rule Turkey 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - Rule Turkey 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - -# Whitman gives 1923 Apr 28 - Sep 16 and no DST in 1924-1925; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1923 Apr 28 - Sep 16 and no DST in 1924-1925; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Turkey 1924 only - May 13 0:00 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1924 1925 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - Rule Turkey 1925 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S @@ -2186,7 +2297,8 @@ Rule Turkey 1940 only - Oct 5 0:00 0 - Rule Turkey 1940 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1941 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 - Rule Turkey 1942 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S -# Whitman omits the next two transition and gives 1945 Oct 1; go with Shanks. +# Whitman omits the next two transition and gives 1945 Oct 1; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Turkey 1942 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - Rule Turkey 1945 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1945 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - @@ -2283,11 +2395,13 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 2:00 - EET 1992 -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-11-12): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched # from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections. -# Shanks says ``date of change uncertain'', but implies that it happened -# sometime between the 1994 DST switches. For now, guess it changed in May. +# Shanks (1999) says ``date of change uncertain'', but implies that it happened +# sometime between the 1994 DST switches. Shanks & Pottenger simply say +# 1994-09-25 03:00, but that can't be right. For now, guess it +# changed in May. 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1994 May # From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev. 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 3:00s @@ -2313,8 +2427,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # ... # Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100 -# From: seismo!mcvax!cgcha!wtho (Tom Hofmann) -# Message-Id: <8701281556.AA22174@cgcha.uucp> +# From: Tom Hofmann # ... # # ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when @@ -2333,11 +2446,11 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # # Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG, # 4002 Basle, Switzerland -# UUCP: ...!mcvax!cernvax!cgcha!wtho +# ... # ... # Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100 -# From: seismo!mcvax!cwi.nl!dik (Dik T. Winter) +# From: Dik T. Winter # ... # # The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct. @@ -2363,8 +2476,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # # ... # dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland -# INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl -# BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax +# ... # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ... diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/factory b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/factory index ba27c63269400d29e2f339e21784ec8d47bd88f8..946063c0dd3a3b258720ad4d5342d48453446b9e 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/factory +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/factory @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)factory 7.3 +# @(#)factory 8.1 # For companies who don't want to put time zone specification in # their installation procedures. When users run date, they'll get the message. diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/iso3166.tab b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/iso3166.tab index 744cd938059d69b85610afb5ac3f74ff993f6a85..0e985e95b4280e46b5b19099cfc2fc7978d224a7 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/iso3166.tab +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/iso3166.tab @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ # ISO 3166 alpha-2 country codes # -# @(#)iso3166.tab 1.9 +# @(#)iso3166.tab 8.4 # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (2003-02-04): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-09-27): # # This file contains a table with the following columns: # 1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, current as of -# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-7 (2003-01-14). See: +# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-12 (2006-09-26). See: # <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html"> # ISO 3166 Maintenance agency (ISO 3166/MA) # </a>. @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ AS Samoa (American) AT Austria AU Australia AW Aruba +AX Aaland Islands AZ Azerbaijan BA Bosnia & Herzegovina BB Barbados @@ -91,13 +92,14 @@ FI Finland FJ Fiji FK Falkland Islands FM Micronesia -FO Faeroe Islands +FO Faroe Islands FR France GA Gabon GB Britain (UK) GD Grenada GE Georgia GF French Guiana +GG Guernsey GH Ghana GI Gibraltar GL Greenland @@ -120,12 +122,14 @@ HU Hungary ID Indonesia IE Ireland IL Israel +IM Isle of Man IN India IO British Indian Ocean Territory IQ Iraq IR Iran IS Iceland IT Italy +JE Jersey JM Jamaica JO Jordan JP Japan @@ -154,6 +158,7 @@ LY Libya MA Morocco MC Monaco MD Moldova +ME Montenegro MG Madagascar MH Marshall Islands MK Macedonia @@ -202,6 +207,7 @@ PY Paraguay QA Qatar RE Reunion RO Romania +RS Serbia RU Russia RW Rwanda SA Saudi Arabia @@ -253,10 +259,9 @@ VI Virgin Islands (US) VN Vietnam VU Vanuatu WF Wallis & Futuna -WS Samoa (Western) +WS Samoa (western) YE Yemen YT Mayotte -YU Serbia and Montenegro ZA South Africa ZM Zambia ZW Zimbabwe diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/leapseconds b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/leapseconds index c5306a68ae6635cbdab9224e187dd443b11260f1..d2b506bab59d787b89a1ef84370ffba8f458a281 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/leapseconds +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/leapseconds @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)leapseconds 7.15 +# @(#)leapseconds 8.1 # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file. @@ -43,38 +43,50 @@ Leap 1994 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 1995 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S Leap 1997 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S +Leap 2005 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -# INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE (IERS) -# SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE -# +# INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) +# +# SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE +# # SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE # OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS # 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) # Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 # FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 -# Internet : iers@obspm.fr -# -# Paris, 14 January 2002 -# -# Bulletin C 23 -# -# To authorities responsible -# for the measurement and -# distribution of time -# -# INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI -# -# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2002. -# The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is : -# -# from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -32 s -# -# Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December -# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every -# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there +# ... +# http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc +# +# Paris, 4 July 2005 +# +# Bulletin C 30 +# +# To authorities responsible +# for the measurement and +# distribution of time +# +# +# UTC TIME STEP +# on the 1st of January 2006 +# +# A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2005. +# The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: +# +# 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 59s +# 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 60s +# 2006 January 1, 0h 0m 0s +# +# The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: +# +# from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2006 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 32s +# from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 33s +# +# Leap seconds can be introduced in UtC at the end of the months of December +# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every +# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there # will be no time step at the next possible date. -# -# Daniel GAMBIS -# Director -# Earth Orientation Center of IERS -# Observatoire de Paris, France +# +# Daniel GAMBIS +# Head +# Earth Orientation Center of IERS +# Observatoire de Paris, France diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/northamerica b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/northamerica index ff36fe433ea06e1502fdc1af7450079f3b5c20a0..7229adc28b03731b695639ec0670c6dcfa5a97ee 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/northamerica +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/northamerica @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ -# @(#)northamerica 7.62 +# @(#)northamerica 8.11 +# <pre> + # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). @@ -24,12 +26,16 @@ # His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00, # and the most of the country soon followed suit. -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): +# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): +# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. +# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # A good source for time zone historical data in the US is # Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). # Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. -# It is the source for the US and Puerto Rico entries below. +# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below. # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): # Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin @@ -48,7 +54,8 @@ # to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make # them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. # -# -- Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947), XIX, Sunday +# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, +# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday # # For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see # Robert Garland's <a href="http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html"> @@ -78,7 +85,7 @@ # Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." # </a> (August 1945) by way of confirmation. -# From Joseph Gallant <notquite@hotmail.com>, citing +# From Joseph Gallant citing # George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): # At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set # to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people @@ -105,21 +112,46 @@ # # He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. +# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22): +# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations +# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of +# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed +# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S -Rule US 1967 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -# <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.00177:"> -# H.R.177 -# </a> (introduced 1999-01-06) would change April to March in the above rule. +Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S + +# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19 +# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with +# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory. +# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of +# this time zone package. +# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if +# a particular place changes whether it observes DST. +# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to +# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to +# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file. + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone EST -5:00 - EST +Zone MST -7:00 - MST +Zone HST -10:00 - HST +Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT +Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT +Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT +Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. @@ -193,25 +225,57 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # Samoa standard time # The law doesn't give abbreviations. # -# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): -# Shanks uses 1983-10-30, not 1983-11-30, for the 1983 transitions. -# Go with Shanks. -# # From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow: # Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation # "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. # See the file "australasia". +# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 +# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. +# +# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. +# (a) Amendment- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 +# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- +# (1) by striking `first Sunday of April' and inserting `second +# Sunday of March'; and +# (2) by striking `last Sunday of October' and inserting `first +# Sunday of November'. +# (b) Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the +# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. +# (c) Report to Congress- Not later than 9 months after the effective +# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress +# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United +# States. +# (d) Right to Revert- Congress retains the right to revert the +# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the +# Department study is complete. # US eastern time, represented by New York # Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, -# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, and -# Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, +# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky +# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, # New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, # Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, # Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia +# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): +# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington +# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... +# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time +# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their +# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26): +# According to today's Huntsville Times +# <http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1> +# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City +# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County, +# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba" +# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central +# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work +# in Columbus." + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S @@ -219,7 +283,7 @@ Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 @@ -228,13 +292,22 @@ Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # US central time, represented by Chicago -# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle, Illinois, western Indiana +# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, +# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and +# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana # (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, # Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western # Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern # Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, # western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin +# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: +# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/statutes/Stat0175.pdf ... +# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local +# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations +# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited +# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year.... + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S @@ -243,7 +316,7 @@ Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 @@ -252,13 +325,23 @@ Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 -6:00 US C%sT # Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. -Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 02:00 -6:00 US C%sT +# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on +# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time. +# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>. +# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and +# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota; +# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time. +# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>. +Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21 + -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 02:00 + -6:00 US C%sT # US mountain time, represented by Denver # -# Colorado, southern Idaho, far western Kansas, Montana, western +# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western # Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), # New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, far eastern Oregon, # western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, @@ -271,7 +354,7 @@ Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 @@ -280,7 +363,9 @@ Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles # -# California, northern Idaho, most of Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington +# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, +# Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties), +# most of Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D @@ -289,7 +374,7 @@ Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 -8:00 US P%sT @@ -319,21 +404,24 @@ Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 -8:00 - PST 1969 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 + -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 -9:00 US AK%sT Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 -9:00 - YST 1942 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946 -9:00 - YST 1969 - -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 + -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 -9:00 US AK%sT Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 -10:00 - CAT 1942 - -10:00 US CAT/CAWT 1946 + -10:00 US CAT/CAWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u + -10:00 US CAT/CAPT 1946 # Peace -10:00 - CAT 1967 Apr -10:00 - AHST 1969 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 + -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 -9:00 US AK%sT Zone America/Nome 12:58:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 @@ -342,6 +430,7 @@ Zone America/Nome 12:58:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr -11:00 - BST 1969 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 + -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 -9:00 US AK%sT Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 @@ -350,11 +439,28 @@ Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr -11:00 - BST 1969 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 + -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 -10:00 US HA%sT +# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. +# # Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) # switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, # and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. -# These switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. +# +# From David Flater (2004-11-09): +# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska +# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which +# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 +# possibly until 1983: +# +# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: +# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important +# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was +# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it +# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard +# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, +# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with +# three votes for and one against." # Hawaii # @@ -396,7 +502,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1900 Jan 1 12:00 # Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. # Go with the Arizona State Library instead. -Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 00:01 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 00:01 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 00:01 @@ -405,16 +511,22 @@ Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -7:00 - MST # From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): # A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., -# notes in private correspondence dated 12/28/87 that "Presently, only the +# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the # Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its # large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other # tribal nations don't use DST.) Link America/Denver America/Shiprock -# Southern Idaho and eastern Oregon switched four weeks late in 1974. +# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, +# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, +# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, +# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, +# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties) and eastern Oregon +# switched four weeks late in 1974. +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 @@ -425,40 +537,58 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: # <a href="http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html"> # What time is it in Indiana? -# </a> (1999-04-06) +# </a> (2006-03-01) # -# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): -# Indiana generally observes either EST all year, or CST/CDT, -# but areas near Cincinnati and Louisville use those cities' timekeeping -# and in 1969 and 1970 the whole state observed daylight time; -# and there are other exceptions as noted below. -# Shanks partitions Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, -# and writes ``Even newspaper reports present contradictory information.'' -# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, +# with the following exceptions: +# +# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, +# Vandenburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. +# +# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. +# +# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like +# America/Kentucky/Louisville. # -# Since 1970, EST-only Indiana has been like America/Indianapolis, -# with exceptions noted below for Crawford, Starke, and Switzerland counties. -# The parts of Indiana not listed below have been like America/Chicago, -# America/Louisville, or America/New_York. +# - Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, and Pulaski counties +# have been like America/Indiana/Vincennes. +# +# - Crawford, Pike, Starke, and Switzerland counties have their own time zone +# histories as noted below. +# +# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, +# and wrote ``Even newspaper reports present contradictory information.'' +# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people! +# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. # # Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript # that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the `America' level. # So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory `America/Indiana'. -# -# Most of EST-only Indiana last observed DST in 1970. -# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06), following a tip by Markus Kuhn: -# Pam Belluck reported in the New York Times (2001-01-31) that the -# Indiana Legislature is considering a bill to adopt DST statewide. -# Her article mentioned Vevay, whose post office observes a different -# time zone from Danner's Hardware across the street. +# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): +# http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006. + +# From Nathan Stratton Treadway (2006-03-30): +# http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot0406.htm [3705 B] +# From Deborah Goldsmith (2006-01-18): +# http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf95/382329_web.pdf [2.9 MB] +# From Paul Eggert (2006-01-20): +# It says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, +# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the +# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of +# this rule is 2:OO a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the +# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time." +# Strictly speaking, this means the affected counties will change their +# clocks twice that night, but this obviously is in error. The intent +# is that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 @@ -467,27 +597,66 @@ Zone America/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 - -5:00 - EST -Link America/Indianapolis America/Indiana/Indianapolis + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT # -# Part of Crawford County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1975, -# and left its clocks alone in 1974. +# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974, +# as well as from 1976 through 2005. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 - -5:00 - EST + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT +# +# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, and Pulaski Counties, Indiana, +# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006. +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER +Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:53 + -6:00 US C%sT 1946 + -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 + -5:00 - EST 1969 + -5:00 US E%sT 1971 + -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 + -6:00 US C%sT +# +# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977, +# then switched back in 2006. +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER +Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:10:53 + -6:00 US C%sT 1955 + -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00 + -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00 + -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00 + -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 + -6:00 US C%sT # -# Starke County, Indiana +# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991, +# then switched back in 2006. # From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): # An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post # notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of @@ -499,23 +668,25 @@ Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 - -5:00 - EST + -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 + -6:00 US C%sT # -# Switzerland County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1972. +# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 - -5:00 - EST + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT # Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. -# This also includes a part of Indiana immediately adjacent to Louisville. +# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S @@ -525,7 +696,7 @@ Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 @@ -534,9 +705,8 @@ Zone America/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 -5:00 US E%sT -Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Louisville # -# Wayne, Clinton, and Russell Counties, Kentucky +# Wayne County, Kentucky # # From # <a href="http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml"> @@ -562,7 +732,7 @@ Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Louisville # Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), page 50154-50158. # </a> # -Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 -6:00 - CST 1968 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 @@ -633,7 +803,8 @@ Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00 -5:00 US E%sT # -# The Michigan border with Wisconsin switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. +# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan, +# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S @@ -657,24 +828,13 @@ Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 # _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites # Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). -# Old names, for S5 users - -# Link LINK-FROM LINK-TO -Link America/New_York EST5EDT -Link America/Chicago CST6CDT -Link America/Denver MST7MDT -Link America/Los_Angeles PST8PDT -Link America/Indianapolis EST -Link America/Phoenix MST -Link Pacific/Honolulu HST - ################################################################################ -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29): -# A good source for time zone historical data outside the US is -# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is +# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). # # Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport @@ -682,18 +842,24 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries # of the IATA's data after 1990. # -# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, -# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. +# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for +# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. +# +# Other sources occasionally used include: +# +# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, +# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), +# which I found in the UCLA library. # -# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, -# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which -# I found in the UCLA library. +# <a href="http://www.pettswoodvillage.co.uk/Daylight_Savings_William_Willett.pdf"> +# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition +# </a> (1914-03) # # See the `europe' file for Greenland. # Canada -# From Alain LaBont<e'> <ALB@immedia.ca> (1994-11-14): +# From Alain LaBont<e'> (1994-11-14): # I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada # for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... # @@ -722,35 +888,84 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST # T: de Terre-Neuve # Y: du Yukon Yukon # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): # Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. -# Unless otherwise specified, the data for Canada are all from Shanks. - -# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): +# Unless otherwise specified, the data for Canada are all from Shanks +# & Pottenger. + +# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01): +# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will +# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the +# U.S. and the rest of Canada.... +# http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm + +# From Chris Walton (2006-04-25): +# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.... +# Here is a news release which was issued today by the Nova Scotia government: +# http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20060425004 + +# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): +# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to +# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01. +# http://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf +# ... +# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00. +# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00. +# http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php +# ... +# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules. +# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/Acts/2006CH03_UNPR.cfm?frm_isbn=0779744934 +# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm +# http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/37legislature2/Projets-loi/Publics/06-a002.htm +# ... +# P.E.I. will follow US rules. The new legislation is not law yet. +# It passed first reading on April 20.... +# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_first/62/3/bill-101.pdf +# ... +# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.... The change is being considered. +# http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2006/mpa/0331n01.htm +# ... +# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site +# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the +# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the +# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using +# JavaScript. +# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive + + + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): # H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map -# <a href="http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/SO98/geomap.htm"> +# <a href="http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp"> # "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) # </a> contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard # time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. # -# INMS, the Institute for National Measurement Standards in Ottawa, has -# <a href="http://www.nrc.ca/inms/time/tze.html"> +# INMS, the Institute for National Measurement Standards in Ottawa, has <a +# href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/time_services/daylight_saving_e.php"> # information about standard and daylight saving time zones in Canada. # </a> (updated periodically). # Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): +# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the +# new US DST rules, + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S -Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W +Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War +Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Canada 1974 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Canada 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S -# Newfoundland (and far southeast Labrador) +# Newfoundland and Labrador # From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): # Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Labrador should use NST/NDT, @@ -759,29 +974,23 @@ Rule Canada 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # but excluding, say, Black Tickle. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule StJohns 1917 1918 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S -Rule StJohns 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S -# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S -# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks. +# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S -# For 1936-1941 Shanks gives May Mon>=9 and Oct Mon>=2; go with Whitman. -Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D -Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S -# Shanks gives 1942 May 11 - 1945 Sep 30; go with Whitman. -Rule StJohns 1942 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 W -Rule StJohns 1942 only - Dec 31 0:00 0 S -Rule StJohns 1943 only - May 30 0:00 1:00 W -Rule StJohns 1943 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S -Rule StJohns 1944 only - Jul 10 0:00 1:00 W -Rule StJohns 1944 only - Sep 2 0:00 0 S -Rule StJohns 1945 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 W -Rule StJohns 1945 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 S +# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks & +# Pottenger. +Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D +Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S +# Whitman gives the following transitions: +# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07 +# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules. # For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives -# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks. +# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D @@ -791,104 +1000,228 @@ Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches # at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D -Rule StJohns 1987 max - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S +Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD -Rule StJohns 1989 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D +Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D +Rule StJohns 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D +Rule StJohns 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S +# # St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884 + -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918 + -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30 + -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 + -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 -3:30 StJohns N%sT - # most of east Labrador # The name `Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use `Goose Bay'. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay - -3:30:52 StJohns NST 1919 + -3:30:52 - NST 1918 + -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30 -3:30 - NST 1936 + -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 + -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00 -4:00 StJohns A%sT -# west Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I +# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I -# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): -# Shanks writes that since 1970 most of this region has been like Halifax. -# Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like +# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; # Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of. -# Shanks also writes that Liverpool, NS was the only town in Canada to observe -# DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume this is a typo. - -# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): -# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, New Brunswick switches -# at 00:01 local time. FIXME: verify and create a new Zone for this. - +# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town +# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume +# this is a typo. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W -Rule Halifax 1945 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1946 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1962 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Halifax 1962 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Halifax 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 - -4:00 Halifax A%sT + -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918 + -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919 + -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s + -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 + -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 + -4:00 Canada A%sT Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954 -4:00 - AST 1972 - -4:00 Halifax A%sT + -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 + -4:00 Canada A%sT +# New Brunswick -# Ontario, Quebec +# From Paul Eggert (2006-01-20): +# New Brunswick's Time Definition Act +# <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf> says they change at 00:01, and +# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it +# clear that this has been the case since at least 1993. +# For now, assume it started in 1993. -# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): -# Shanks writes that since 1970 most of this region has been like Montreal. +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D +Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S +Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D +Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S +Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D +Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S +Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D +Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D +Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D +Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9 + -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15 + -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933 + -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942 + -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 + -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973 + -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993 + -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007 + -4:00 Canada A%sT + +# Quebec + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): +# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Quebec has been +# like Montreal. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): +# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63 +# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as +# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST. +# In "Official time in Quebec" the Quebec department of justice writes in +# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-regl-1-a.htm +# that "The residents of the Municipality of the +# Cote-Nord-du-Golfe-Saint-Laurent and the municipalities of Saint-Augustin, +# Bonne-Esperance and Blanc-Sablon apply the Official Time Act as it is +# written and use Atlantic standard time all year round. The same applies to +# the residents of the Native facilities along the lower North Shore." +# <http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/37legislature2/Projets-loi/Publics/06-a002.htm> +# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007. +# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to +# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S +Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1919 only - Oct 25 2:30 0 S +Rule Mont 1920 only - May 2 2:30 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1920 1922 - Oct Sun>=1 2:30 0 S +Rule Mont 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1922 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1924 only - May 17 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1924 1926 - Sep lastSun 2:30 0 S +Rule Mont 1925 1926 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +# The 1927-to-1937 rules can be expressed more simply as +# Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Apr lastSat 24:00 1:00 D +# Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Sep lastSat 24:00 0 S +# The rules below avoid use of 24:00 +# (which pre-1998 versions of zic cannot handle). +Rule Mont 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S +Rule Mont 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1933 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S +Rule Mont 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S +Rule Mont 1946 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Mont 1945 1948 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Mont 1949 1950 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Mont 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Mont 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 + -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 + -4:00 - AST +Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884 + -5:00 Mont E%sT 1918 + -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 + -5:00 Mont E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s + -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 + -5:00 Mont E%sT 1974 + -5:00 Canada E%sT + + +# Ontario + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): +# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like +# Toronto. # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. # Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax. +# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): +# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST +# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that +# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw +# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday, +# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable +# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after +# only two weeks -- I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but +# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters +# earlier in June). +# +# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21). + # From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): -# msb@sq.com writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star +# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star # says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, # but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. # He also writes that the @@ -898,65 +1231,152 @@ Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 # says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. # Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report # concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. -# For what it's worth, Shanks says that Atikokan has agreed with -# Rainy River ever since standard time was introduced. - +# # From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): # Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and # New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes # CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in # violation of the official Ontario rules. -# They also write that Quebec east of the -63 meridian is supposed to -# observe AST, but residents as far east as Natashquan use EST/EDT, -# and residents east of Natashquan use AST. -# We probably need Zones for far east Quebec and for Atikokan, -# but we don't know when their practices started. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): +# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the +# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: +# +# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. +# This means they spend about half the time on central time and +# the other half on eastern time. +# +# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. +# +# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern +# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he +# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." +# +# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang +# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." + +# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: +# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory +# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he +# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current +# time keeping since 1952, at least. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): +# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River +# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from +# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan +# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time +# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour +# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move +# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S -Rule Mont 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S -Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1919 only - Oct 25 2:30 0 S -Rule Mont 1920 only - May 2 2:30 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1920 only - Oct 3 2:30 0 S -Rule Mont 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1921 only - Oct 2 2:30 0 S -Rule Mont 1922 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1922 only - Oct 1 2:30 0 S -Rule Mont 1924 only - May 17 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1924 1926 - Sep lastSun 2:30 0 S -Rule Mont 1925 1926 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1927 1932 - Sep Sun>=25 0:00 0 S -Rule Mont 1928 1931 - Apr Sun>=25 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1933 1940 - Apr Sun>=24 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1933 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S -Rule Mont 1934 1939 - Sep Sun>=24 0:00 0 S -Rule Mont 1945 1948 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Mont 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Mont 1949 1950 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Mont 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Mont 1957 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Mont 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D +Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" +# was meant. +Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as +# Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S +# Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D +# Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +# Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25 +# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle). +Rule Toronto 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Toronto 1932 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Toronto 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Toronto 1933 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, +# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this +# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30 +# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual. +Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S + +# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): +# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and +# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in +# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, +# Saskatchewan, for one year." + +# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, +# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): +# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight +# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur +# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central +# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to +# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight +# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so +# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World +# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer +# months for the remainder of the war years. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884 - -5:00 Mont E%sT +Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895 + -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 + -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s + -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 + -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 + -5:00 Canada E%sT Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 + -6:00 - CST 1910 + -5:00 - EST 1942 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1973 -5:00 - EST 1974 -5:00 Canada E%sT Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 + -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 + -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s -5:00 Canada E%sT -Zone America/Rainy_River -6:17:56 - LMT 1895 +Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 + -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 + -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s -6:00 Canada C%sT +Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 + -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 + -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s + -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 + -5:00 - EST # Manitoba +# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06): +# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to +# March 27, 1987 ... said ... +# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of +# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central +# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next +# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."... +# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had = +# been assented to (March 22, 1967).... +# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying +# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of +# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central +# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time). + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10): +# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s) +# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume +# it was also 02:00s in 1966. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S @@ -964,7 +1384,8 @@ Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S -Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W +Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War +Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S @@ -978,28 +1399,39 @@ Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S -Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Winn 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): -# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Manitoba switches from -# DST at 03:00 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. -Rule Winn 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S +Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S +Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 - -6:00 Winn C%sT + -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006 + -6:00 Canada C%sT # Saskatchewan -# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): -# Shanks writes that since 1970 most of this region has been like Regina. +# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): +# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal +# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people +# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight, +# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook." +# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned: +# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of +# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad +# time was noted. + +# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): +# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the +# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina. # Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972. # Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. # Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton # are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. -# From W. Jones <jones@skdad.usask.ca> (1992-11-06): +# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): # The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the # provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. # A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and @@ -1025,6 +1457,11 @@ Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 # rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round # since sometime in the 1960s. +# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): +# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages +# long and rather painful to read. +# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S @@ -1034,12 +1471,14 @@ Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S -Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W +Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War +Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S -Rule Regina 1947 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Regina 1947 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D @@ -1067,7 +1506,8 @@ Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W +Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War +Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S @@ -1076,33 +1516,35 @@ Rule Edm 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Edm 1969 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Edm 1969 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Edm 1972 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Edm 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep - -7:00 Edm M%sT + -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987 + -7:00 Canada M%sT # British Columbia -# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): -# Shanks writes that since 1970 most of this region has been like Vancouver. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has +# been like Vancouver. # Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton. # Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S -Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W +Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War +Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Vanc 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Vanc 1962 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule Vanc 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884 - -8:00 Vanc P%sT + -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 + -8:00 Canada P%sT Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00 @@ -1111,16 +1553,21 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon -# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. -# Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org> (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: +# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: # * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, # c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9. This is still valid; # see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). # * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00. # * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST. # * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00. -# Shanks says Yukon's 1973-10-28 switch was at 2:00; go with Englander. +# Shanks & Pottenger say Yukon's 1973-10-28 switch was at 2:00; go +# with Englander. +# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): +# Here is a link to the old daylight saving portion of the interpretation +# act which was last updated in 1987: +# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic1987_056.pdf # From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): # Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. @@ -1138,8 +1585,6 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # </a> (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, # and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when # Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. -# We'll ignore the claim about Coral Harbour for now, -# since we have no further info. # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): # On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, @@ -1214,18 +1659,40 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # more. # [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] +# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): +# According to maps at +# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SWE.jpg +# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SSE.jpg +# (both dated 2003), and +# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp +# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time +# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year +# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. +# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it +# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... +# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): +# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed +# daylight saving only during wartime. + +# From Chris Walton (2006-07-19): +# The government of Yukon Territory ... recently announced it will extend +# daylight saving in 2007.... http://www.gov.yk.ca/news/2006/06-164.html + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S -Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W +Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War +Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule NT_YK 1980 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule NT_YK 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Pangnirtung -4:22:56 - LMT 1884 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 @@ -1236,7 +1703,11 @@ Zone America/Iqaluit -4:33:52 - LMT 1884 # Frobisher Bay before 1987 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 Canada E%sT -Zone America/Rankin_Inlet -6:08:40 - LMT 1884 +# Now subsumed by America/Atikokan. +#Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 - LMT 1884 +# -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1946 +# -5:00 - EST +Zone America/Rankin_Inlet -6:08:20 - LMT 1884 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 -6:00 Canada C%sT @@ -1247,16 +1718,20 @@ Zone America/Cambridge_Bay -7:00:20 - LMT 1884 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 -7:00 Canada M%sT Zone America/Yellowknife -7:37:24 - LMT 1884 - -7:00 NT_YK M%sT -Zone America/Inuvik -8:54:00 - LMT 1884 + -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 + -7:00 Canada M%sT +Zone America/Inuvik -8:54:52 - LMT 1884 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 - -7:00 NT_YK M%sT + -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 + -7:00 Canada M%sT Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1966 Jul 1 2:00 - -8:00 NT_YK P%sT + -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 + -8:00 Canada P%sT Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 - -8:00 NT_YK P%sT + -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 + -8:00 Canada P%sT ############################################################################### @@ -1270,16 +1745,12 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) # </a>. # -# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks and the MLoC. +# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. # (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) -# Shanks reports that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. -# Shanks says the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. -# Shanks reports no DST during summer 1931. -# Shanks reports a transition at 1032-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. -# Shanks does not report transitions for Baja in 1945 or 1948. -# Shanks reports southern Mexico transitions on 1981-12-01, not 12-23. -# Shanks says Quintana Roo switched to -6:00 on 1982-12-02, and to -5:00 -# on 1997-10-26 at 02:00. +# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. +# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. +# S&P report no DST during summer 1931. +# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. # From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): # There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the @@ -1287,11 +1758,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of # the relevant documents. -# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-26): -# Shanks gives 1942-04-01 instead of 1942-04-24, and omits the 1981 -# and 1988 DST experiments. Go with spin.com.mx. - -# From Alan Perry <alan.perry@eng.sun.com> (1996-02-15): +# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): # A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree # outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. # @@ -1412,7 +1879,7 @@ Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S -Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W +Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S @@ -1490,7 +1957,8 @@ Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 - -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Nov 12 + -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u + -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 -8:00 - PST 1954 @@ -1500,12 +1968,13 @@ Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 -8:00 Mexico P%sT -# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from # America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 -# through 1995. This was as per Shanks. However, Guy Harris reports +# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say +# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports # that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicale, San Felipe and -# Tijuana observe DST," which contradicts Shanks but does imply that +# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that # DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns # data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone # other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its @@ -1528,13 +1997,19 @@ Zone America/Antigua -4:07:12 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 -4:00 - AST # Bahamas +# +# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): +# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST +# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... +# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Bahamas 1964 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Bahamas 1964 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Bahamas 1964 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Bahamas 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Nassau -5:09:24 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 - -5:00 Bahamas E%sT + -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 + -5:00 US E%sT # Barbados # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -1549,7 +2024,7 @@ Zone America/Barbados -3:58:28 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown -4:00 Barb A%sT # Belize -# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks. +# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 HD Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 S @@ -1562,10 +2037,20 @@ Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr -6:00 Belize C%sT # Bermuda + +# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26): + +# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday +# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone +# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on +# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda. +# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135 + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:04 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 - -4:00 Bahamas A%sT + -4:00 Bahamas A%sT 1976 + -4:00 US A%sT # Cayman Is # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -1578,7 +2063,8 @@ Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D -# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; go with Shanks. +# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S # There are too many San Joses elsewhere, so we'll use `Costa Rica'. @@ -1602,6 +2088,28 @@ Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:20 - LMT 1890 # San Jose # to DST--and one more hour on 1999-04-04--when the announcers will have # returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) +# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): +# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html +# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras +# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return +# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". +# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure. + +# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12): +# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone +# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: +# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-10-21): +# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end +# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see +# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html +# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00, +# watches should be set back one hour -- going back to 00:00 hours -- returning +# to the normal schedule.... + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S @@ -1630,8 +2138,9 @@ Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D -Rule Cuba 1998 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S +Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 2000 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D +Rule Cuba 2006 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 @@ -1679,10 +2188,12 @@ Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890 -4:00 - AST # El Salvador + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S -# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so we'll use `El Salvador'. +# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador +# instead of America/San_Salvador. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador -6:00 Salv C%sT @@ -1698,6 +2209,19 @@ Zone America/Guadeloupe -4:06:08 - LMT 1911 Jun 8 # Pointe a Pitre -4:00 - AST # Guatemala +# +# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen: +# Diario Co Latino, at +# http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079, +# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had +# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the +# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from +# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified). +# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): +# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 +# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See +# <http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf>. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S @@ -1705,28 +2229,93 @@ Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S +Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 -6:00 Guat C%sT # Haiti +# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): +# Risto O. Nykanen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. +# I searched for confirmation, and I found a +# <a href="http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc"> press release +# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), +# </a>. Translated from French, it says: +# +# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general +# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior +# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the +# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next +# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. +# +# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform +# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour +# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in +# October 2005. +# +# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" +# +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04): +# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like +# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a +# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST +# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). +# +# I have found this article about it (in French): +# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 +# +# The reason seems to be an energy crisis. + + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S -# Shanks says AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. Go with IATA. +# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. +# Go with IATA. Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S +Rule Haiti 2005 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Haiti 2005 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT -5:00 Haiti E%sT # Honduras -# Shanks says 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. +# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05): +# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article +# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4 +# months until September. La Tribuna reported today +# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president +# of Honduras, refused to back down on this. + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-08-08): +# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at +# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration). +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): +# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08) +# <http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12>. +# It mentions executive decree 18-2006. + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): +# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not +# published, I have located this authoritative source: +# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S +Rule Hond 2006 2009 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Hond 2006 2009 - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr - -6:00 Salv C%sT + -6:00 Hond C%sT # # Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 @@ -1738,7 +2327,7 @@ Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr # From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): # JAMAICA 5 H BEHIND UTC -# From Shanks: +# From Shanks & Pottenger: # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:12 - LMT 1890 # Kingston -5:07:12 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time @@ -1755,32 +2344,77 @@ Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France -4:00 - AST # Montserrat -# From Paul Eggert (1997-08-31): -# Recent volcanic eruptions have forced evacuation of Plymouth, the capital. -# Luckily, Olveston, the current de facto capital, has the same longitude. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# In 1995 volcanic eruptions forced evacuation of Plymouth, the capital. +# world.gazetteer.com says Cork Hill is the most populous location now. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Olveston +Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Cork Hill -4:00 - AST # Nicaragua # -# From Steffen Thorsen (1998-12-29): -# Nicaragua seems to be back at -6:00 but I have not been able to find when -# they changed from -5:00. +# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005. +# +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): +# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started +# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of +# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet +# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". +# Some background information is available on the President's official site: +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm +# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2005/Decreto%2023-2005%20Se%20adelanta%20en%20una%20hora%20en%20todo%20el%20territorio%20nacional%20apartir%20de%20las%2024horas%20del%2009%20de%20Abril.pdf +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): +# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's +# assume that it is daylight saving.... +# +# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): +# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at +# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html +# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last +# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 +# during the Arnoldo Aleman administration."... +# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously +# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time +# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to +# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. +# +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-11-02): +# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm +# (2005-09-26) +# +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-05-05): +# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410 +# (my informal translation) +# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolanos, Nicaragua +# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the +# morning, and will stay that way until 30.th. of september. +# +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-09-30): +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf +# My informal translation runs: +# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the +# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S -Rule Nic 1992 only - Jan 1 4:00 1:00 D -Rule Nic 1992 only - Sep 24 0:00 0 S +Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S +Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? -6:00 - CST 1973 May -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 - -6:00 Nic C%sT 1993 Jan 1 4:00 - -5:00 - EST 1998 Dec - -6:00 - CST + -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00 + -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24 + -6:00 - CST 1993 + -5:00 - EST 1997 + -6:00 Nic C%sT # Panama # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -1793,7 +2427,7 @@ Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3 - -4:00 1:00 AWT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 + -4:00 US A%sT 1946 -4:00 - AST # St Kitts-Nevis @@ -1812,7 +2446,8 @@ Zone America/St_Lucia -4:04:00 - LMT 1890 # Castries # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre -4:00 - AST 1980 May - -3:00 Mont PM%sT # Pierre & Miquelon Time + -3:00 - PMST 1987 # Pierre & Miquelon Time + -3:00 Canada PM%sT # St Vincent and the Grenadines # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -1821,8 +2456,8 @@ Zone America/St_Vincent -4:04:56 - LMT 1890 # Kingstown -4:00 - AST # Turks and Caicos -# From Paul Eggert (1998-08-06): -# Shanks says they use US DST rules, but IATA SSIM (1991/1998) +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger say they use US DST rules, but IATA SSIM (1991/1998) # says they switch at midnight. Go with IATA SSIM. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule TC 1979 1986 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/pacificnew b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/pacificnew index 86dd68834113434ba9e4e6d3dbabf233f881cbaf..667940bf539d6aa67b71f680635d26402bf14eca 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/pacificnew +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/pacificnew @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)pacificnew 7.10 +# @(#)pacificnew 8.1 # From Arthur David Olson (1989-04-05): # On 1989-04-05, the U. S. House of Representatives passed (238-154) a bill diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar87 b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar87 index 3f32347973b82960f7e845cee614197b70e74a26..71839320ad51679edd2abba4e6b1ace4b7a95f74 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar87 +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar87 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)solar87 7.3 +# @(#)solar87 8.1 # So much for footnotes about Saudi Arabia. # Apparent noon times below are for Riyadh; your mileage will vary. @@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ Rule sol87 1987 only - Dec 31 12:02:45s -0:02:45 - # Before and after 1987, we'll operate on local mean solar time. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Riyadh87 3:07:04 - ?? 1987 - 3:07:04 sol87 ?? 1988 - 3:07:04 - ?? +Zone Asia/Riyadh87 3:07:04 - zzz 1987 + 3:07:04 sol87 zzz 1988 + 3:07:04 - zzz # For backward compatibility... Link Asia/Riyadh87 Mideast/Riyadh87 diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar88 b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar88 index 41a64e5023c9a118deb5920dfeb916fcc72f9014..b4cfe8e37a8cdbcaa4f129eb19b95badc733040a 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar88 +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar88 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)solar88 7.3 +# @(#)solar88 8.1 # Apparent noon times below are for Riyadh; they're a bit off for other places. # Times were computed using formulas in the U.S. Naval Observatory's @@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ Rule sol88 1988 only - Dec 31 12:03:05s -0:03:05 - # Before and after 1988, we'll operate on local mean solar time. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Riyadh88 3:07:04 - ?? 1988 - 3:07:04 sol88 ?? 1989 - 3:07:04 - ?? +Zone Asia/Riyadh88 3:07:04 - zzz 1988 + 3:07:04 sol88 zzz 1989 + 3:07:04 - zzz # For backward compatibility... Link Asia/Riyadh88 Mideast/Riyadh88 diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar89 b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar89 index a6d3d718d3135b69c6360fb86cd853f1e1404ff3..8c4853146177bdf561798020567b750ca5f54cf5 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar89 +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/solar89 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)solar89 7.4 +# @(#)solar89 8.1 # Apparent noon times below are for Riyadh; they're a bit off for other places. # Times were computed using a formula provided by the U. S. Naval Observatory: @@ -386,8 +386,8 @@ Rule sol89 1989 only - Dec 31 12:03:00s -0:03:00 - # Before and after 1989, we'll operate on local mean solar time. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Riyadh89 3:07:04 - ?? 1989 - 3:07:04 sol89 ?? 1990 - 3:07:04 - ?? +Zone Asia/Riyadh89 3:07:04 - zzz 1989 + 3:07:04 sol89 zzz 1990 + 3:07:04 - zzz # For backward compatibility... Link Asia/Riyadh89 Mideast/Riyadh89 diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/southamerica b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/southamerica index 32105560697d66ffa731b5214cb4d00c775dfbab..d2281ffdae0005132eab9f1bfe03cf12994cd0bc 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/southamerica +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/southamerica @@ -1,13 +1,14 @@ -# @(#)southamerica 7.46 +# @(#)southamerica 8.8 +# <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-07-07): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is -# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). +# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). # # Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport @@ -15,8 +16,8 @@ # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries # of the IATA's data after 1990. # -# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, -# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. +# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for +# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. # # Earlier editions of these tables used the North American style (e.g. ARST and # ARDT for Argentine Standard and Daylight Time), but the following quote @@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ # From U. S. Naval Observatory (1988-01-199): # ARGENTINA 3 H BEHIND UTC -# From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (1995-06-26): +# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # I am sending modifications to the Argentine time zone table... # AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina. @@ -86,17 +87,15 @@ Rule Arg 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1988 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S # -# From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (1995-06-26): +# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A., # obtaining the data from the: # Talleres de Hidrografia Naval Argentina # (Argentine Naval Hydrography Institute) -# -# Shanks stops after 1992-03-01; go with Otero. Rule Arg 1989 1993 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1989 1992 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # -# From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (1995-06-26): +# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving # time corrections was derogated and no more modifications # to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made. @@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # Argentina decided not to become one of the countries that go on or off DST. # So Buenos Aires should be -3 hours from GMT at all times. # -# From Fabian L. Arce Jofre <farcejofre@bigfoot.com> (2000-04-04): +# From Fabian L. Arce Jofre (2000-04-04): # The law that claimed DST for Argentina was derogated by President Fernando # de la Rua on March 2, 2000, because it would make people spend more energy # in the winter time, rather than less. The change took effect on March 3. @@ -141,24 +140,75 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # This kind of things had always been done this way in Argentina. # We are still -03:00 all year round in all of the country. # +# From Mariano Absatz (2004-05-21): +# Today it was officially published that the Province of Mendoza is changing +# its timezone this winter... starting tomorrow night.... +# http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040521-27158-normas.pdf +# From Paul Eggert (2004-05-24): +# It's Law No. 7,210. This change is due to a public power emergency, so for +# now we'll assume it's for this year only. # -# From Paul Eggert (2002-01-22): +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # <a href="http://www.spicasc.net/horvera.html"> -# Hora de verano para la Republica Argentina (2000-10-01) +# Hora de verano para la Republica Argentina (2003-06-08) # </a> says that standard time in Argentina from 1894-10-31 # to 1920-05-01 was -4:16:48.25. Go with this more-precise value -# over Shanks. +# over Shanks & Pottenger. +# +# From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-05): +# These media articles from a major newspaper mostly cover the current state: +# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/27/de_604825.asp +# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/28/de_605203.asp +# +# The following eight (8) provinces pulled clocks back to UTC-04:00 at +# midnight Monday May 31st. (that is, the night between 05/31 and 06/01). +# Apparently, all nine provinces would go back to UTC-03:00 at the same +# time in October 17th. +# +# Catamarca, Chubut, La Rioja, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz, +# Tierra del Fuego, Tucuman. +# +# From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-14): +# ... this weekend, the Province of Tucuman decided it'd go back to UTC-03:00 +# yesterday midnight (that is, at 24:00 Saturday 12th), since the people's +# annoyance with the change is much higher than the power savings obtained.... +# +# From Gwillim Law (2004-06-14): +# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/06/10/de_609078.asp ... +# "The time change in Tierra del Fuego was a conflicted decision from +# the start. The government had decreed that the measure would take +# effect on June 1, but a normative error forced the new time to begin +# three days earlier, from a Saturday to a Sunday.... +# Our understanding was that the change was originally scheduled to take place +# on June 1 at 00:00 in Chubut, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego (and some other +# provinces). Sunday was May 30, only two days earlier. So the article +# contains a contradiction. I would give more credence to the Saturday/Sunday +# date than the "three days earlier" phrase, and conclude that Tierra del +# Fuego set its clocks back at 2004-05-30 00:00. +# +# From Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-05): +# The previous law 7210 which changed the province of Mendoza's time zone +# back in May have been modified slightly in a new law 7277, which set the +# new end date to 2004-09-26 (original date was 2004-10-17). +# http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040924-27244-normas.pdf +# +# From Mariano Absatz (2004-10-05): +# San Juan changed from UTC-03:00 to UTC-04:00 at midnight between +# Sunday, May 30th and Monday, May 31st. It changed back to UTC-03:00 +# at midnight between Saturday, July 24th and Sunday, July 25th.... +# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000329.html +# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000426.html +# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000441.html -# Unless otherwise specified, data are from Shanks through 1992, from -# the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks says that -# America/Cordoba split into 7 subregions during 1991/1992, but we +# Unless otherwise specified, data are from Shanks & Pottenger through 1992, +# from the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks & Pottenger say that +# America/Cordoba split into 6 subregions during 1991/1992, but we # haven't verified this yet so for now we'll keep it a single region. # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # -# Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF), Santa Cruz (SC), -# Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur (TF) -Zone America/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 +# Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF), +Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 @@ -167,24 +217,30 @@ Zone America/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -3:00 - ART # # Santa Fe (SF), Entre Rios (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN), Chaco (CC), -# Formosa (FM), Salta (SA), Tucuman (TM), Santiago del Estero (SE), -# Cordoba (CB), La Rioja (LR), San Juan (SJ), San Luis (SL), La Pampa (LP), -# Neuquen (NQ), Rio Negro (RN), Chubut (CH) +# Formosa (FM), Salta (SA), Santiago del Estero (SE), Cordoba (CB), +# San Luis (SL), La Pampa (LP), Neuquen (NQ), Rio Negro (RN) # -# Shanks also makes the following claims, which we haven't verified: +# Shanks & Pottenger also make the following claims, which we haven't verified: # - Formosa switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-07. -# - La Rioja and San Juan switched to -4:00 on 1991-03-01 -# and then to -3:00 on 1991-05-07. # - Misiones switched to -3:00 on 1990-12-29. # - Chaco switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-04. # - San Luis switched to -4:00 on 1990-03-14, then to -3:00 on 1990-10-15, # then to -4:00 on 1991-03-01, then to -3:00 on 1991-06-01. # - Santiago del Estero switched to -4:00 on 1991-04-01, # then to -3:00 on 1991-04-26. -# If we need to add Zones for these areas, we may need to have a subdirectory -# for Argentina, as e.g. "America/San_Luis" is too ambiguious. # -Zone America/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 +Zone America/Argentina/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 + -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May + -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Mar 3 + -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 20 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 + -3:00 - ART +# +# Tucuman (TM) +Zone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 @@ -192,10 +248,38 @@ Zone America/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 20 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 + -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 13 + -3:00 - ART +# +# La Rioja (LR) +Zone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 + -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May + -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Mar 1 + -4:00 - WART 1991 May 7 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 + -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 + -3:00 - ART +# +# San Juan (SJ) +Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 + -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May + -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Mar 1 + -4:00 - WART 1991 May 7 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 + -3:00 - ART 2004 May 31 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Jul 25 -3:00 - ART # # Jujuy (JY) -Zone America/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 +Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 @@ -208,8 +292,8 @@ Zone America/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART # -# Catamarca (CT) -Zone America/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 +# Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH) +Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 @@ -217,10 +301,12 @@ Zone America/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 20 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 + -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 -3:00 - ART # # Mendoza (MZ) -Zone America/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 +Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 @@ -232,6 +318,30 @@ Zone America/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 - WART 1992 Oct 18 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 + -3:00 - ART 2004 May 23 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Sep 26 + -3:00 - ART +# +# Santa Cruz (SC) +Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 + -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time + -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 + -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 + -3:00 - ART +# +# Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur (TF) +Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 + -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time + -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 + -3:00 - ART 2004 May 30 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 -3:00 - ART # Aruba @@ -249,7 +359,7 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # Brazil -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules # just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade. # The rule change lasted only part of the day; @@ -309,15 +419,16 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the Constitution # (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change the clock)... +# From Rodrigo Severo (2004-10-04): +# It's just the biannual change made necessary by the much hyped, supposedly +# modern Brazilian eletronic voting machines which, apparently, can't deal +# with a time change between the first and the second rounds of the elections. + # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10): # The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from # <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html"> # Decretos sobre o Horario de Verao no Brasil -# </a> (2001-09-20, in Portuguese). -# The official site for all decrees, including those not related to time, is -# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/principal_ano.htm"> -# Presidencia da Republica, Subchefia para Assuntos Juridicos, Decretos -# </a> (in Portuguese). +# </a>. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm">20,466</a> (1931-10-01) @@ -389,10 +500,10 @@ Rule Brazil 1992 only - Oct 25 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 1993 only - Jan 31 0:00 0 - # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV942.htm">942</a> (1993-09-28) # adopted by same states, plus AM. -# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1252.htm">1,252</a> (1994-09-22) -# adopted by same states, minus AM. +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1252.htm">1,252</a> (1994-09-22; +# web page corrected 2004-01-07) adopted by same states, minus AM. # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1636.htm">1,636</a> (1995-09-14) -# adopted by same states, plus TO. +# adopted by same states, plus MT and TO. # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1674.htm">1,674</a> (1995-10-13) # adds AL, SE. Rule Brazil 1993 1995 - Oct Sun>=11 0:00 1:00 S @@ -402,19 +513,13 @@ Rule Brazil 1996 only - Feb 11 0:00 0 - # adopted by same states, minus AL, SE. Rule Brazil 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 1997 only - Feb 16 0:00 0 - -# From Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@gns.com.br> (1998-02-12): +# From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12): # In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was that # because international television networks ignored Brazil's policy on DS, # they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage of Pope's visit. # This year, the ending date of DS was postponed to March 1 # to help dealing with the shortages of electric power. # -# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25): -# <a href="http://churchnet.ucsm.ac.uk/news/files2/news165.htm"> -# Brazil Prepares for Papal Visit -# </a>, -# Church Net UK (1997-10-02). -# # Decree 2,317 (1997-09-04), adopted by same states. Rule Brazil 1997 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV2495.JPG">2,495</a> @@ -439,29 +544,50 @@ Rule Brazil 2000 only - Feb 27 0:00 0 - # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3916.gif">3,916</a> # (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. Rule Brazil 2000 2001 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Brazil 2001 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - +Rule Brazil 2001 2006 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - # Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm"></a> Rule Brazil 2002 only - Nov 3 0:00 1:00 S -# -Rule Brazil 2003 max - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S -# The latest decree listed above says that the following states observe DST: -# BA, DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP, TO. -# -# For dates after mid-2003, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses +# Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO. +# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm"></a> +Rule Brazil 2003 only - Oct 19 0:00 1:00 S +# Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT. +# <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm"></a> +Rule Brazil 2004 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5539.gif">5,539</a> (2005-09-19), +# adopted by the same states as before. +Rule Brazil 2005 only - Oct 16 0:00 1:00 S +# Decree <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2006/Decreto/D5920.htm">5,920</a> +# (2006-10-03), adopted by the same states as before. +Rule Brazil 2006 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Brazil 2007 max - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 - +# The latest ruleset listed above says that the following states observe DST: +# DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP. +# For dates after mid-2007, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # -# Atlantic islands: Fernando de Noronha, Trindade, Martin Vaz, -# Atol das Rocas, and Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo +# Fernando de Noronha (administratively part of PE) Zone America/Noronha -2:09:40 - LMT 1914 -2:00 Brazil FN%sT 1990 Sep 17 + -2:00 - FNT 1999 Sep 30 + -2:00 Brazil FN%sT 2000 Oct 15 + -2:00 - FNT 2001 Sep 13 + -2:00 Brazil FN%sT 2002 Oct 1 -2:00 - FNT +# Other Atlantic islands have no permanent settlement. +# These include Trindade and Martin Vaz (administratively part of ES), +# Atol das Rocas (RN), and Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo (PE). +# Fernando de Noronha was a separate territory from 1942-09-02 to 1989-01-01; +# it also included the Penedos. # # Amapa (AP), east Para (PA) # East Para includes Belem, Maraba, Serra Norte, and Sao Felix do Xingu. +# The division between east and west Para is the river Xingu. +# In the north a very small part from the river Javary (now Jari I guess, +# the border with Amapa) to the Amazon, then to the Xingu. Zone America/Belem -3:13:56 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 1988 Sep 12 -3:00 - BRT @@ -489,7 +615,8 @@ Zone America/Recife -2:19:36 - LMT 1914 Zone America/Araguaina -3:12:48 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 1990 Sep 17 -3:00 - BRT 1995 Sep 14 - -3:00 Brazil BR%sT + -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2003 Sep 24 + -3:00 - BRT # # Alagoas (AL), Sergipe (SE) Zone America/Maceio -2:22:52 - LMT 1914 @@ -502,7 +629,14 @@ Zone America/Maceio -2:22:52 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2002 Oct 1 -3:00 - BRT # -# Bahia (BA), Goias (GO), Distrito Federal (DF), Minas Gerais (MG), +# Bahia (BA) +# There are too many Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/Bahia instead +# of America/Salvador. +Zone America/Bahia -2:34:04 - LMT 1914 + -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2003 Sep 24 + -3:00 - BRT +# +# Goias (GO), Distrito Federal (DF), Minas Gerais (MG), # Espirito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Sao Paulo (SP), Parana (PR), # Santa Catarina (SC), Rio Grande do Sul (RS) Zone America/Sao_Paulo -3:06:28 - LMT 1914 @@ -510,8 +644,14 @@ Zone America/Sao_Paulo -3:06:28 - LMT 1914 -3:00 1:00 BRST 1964 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT # -# Mato Grosso (MT), Mato Grosso do Sul (MS) +# Mato Grosso do Sul (MS) +Zone America/Campo_Grande -3:38:28 - LMT 1914 + -4:00 Brazil AM%sT +# +# Mato Grosso (MT) Zone America/Cuiaba -3:44:20 - LMT 1914 + -4:00 Brazil AM%sT 2003 Sep 24 + -4:00 - AMT 2004 Oct 1 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT # # west Para (PA), Rondonia (RO) @@ -528,6 +668,8 @@ Zone America/Boa_Vista -4:02:40 - LMT 1914 -4:00 - AMT # # east Amazonas (AM): Boca do Acre, Jutai, Manaus, Floriano Peixoto +# The great circle line from Tabatinga to Porto Acre divides +# east from west Amazonas. Zone America/Manaus -4:00:04 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT 1988 Sep 12 -4:00 - AMT 1993 Sep 28 @@ -562,53 +704,69 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 # Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later, # on April 3, (one-time change). -# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-04): -# I came across another article in "La Tercera" about Chilean DST. -# <http://www.tercera.cl/diario/2000/10/13/t-extras.html> -# It clearly confirms my earlier suggestion, that DST begins at 22:00 -# on Easter Island.... But it also seems to be saying that the -# observance of DST in Chile began in 1966, rather than 1969 as -# ... [Shanks] has it.... -# -# My translation: -# -# "The Chilean Army has announced that summer time will begin tomorrow, -# Saturday, October 14 in continental Chile, insular Chile, and -# Antarctica, as provided by Supreme Decree 25 of January 11, 1966. -# By the preceding, official time in continental Chile and Chilean -# Antarctic, and official time in Western Insular Chile, which applies -# to Easter Island and Sala y Gomez Island, will be set forward at -# midnight and at 22:00, respectively, by 20 minutes." +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08): +# http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm -# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): -# Go with this article in preference to Shanks's 1969 date for modern DST. -# Assume this rule has been used since DST was introduced in the islands. +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-10-08): +# I think that there are some obvious mistakes in the suggested link +# from Oscar van Vlijmen,... for instance entry 66 says that GMT-4 +# ended 1990-09-12 while entry 67 only begins GMT-3 at 1990-09-15 +# (they should have been 1990-09-15 and 1990-09-16 respectively), but +# anyhow it clears up some doubts too. -# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-24): -# <http://www.shoa.cl/shoa/faqhoraoficial.htm> gives many details that -# disagree with the following table, but we haven't had time to compare them. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-27): +# The following data for Chile and America/Santiago are from +# <http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm> (2006-09-20), transcribed by +# Jesper Norgaard Welen. The data for Pacific/Easter are from Shanks +# & Pottenger, except with DST transitions after 1932 cloned from +# America/Santiago. The pre-1980 Pacific/Easter data are dubious, +# but we have no other source. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Chile 1918 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1919 only - Jul 2 0:00 0 - -Rule Chile 1927 1931 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1927 1932 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1928 1932 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Chile 1966 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1967 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1942 only - Jun 1 4:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1942 only - Aug 1 5:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1946 only - Jul 15 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1946 only - Sep 1 3:00u 0:00 - +Rule Chile 1947 only - Apr 1 4:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1968 only - Nov 3 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1969 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1969 only - Nov 23 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1970 only - Mar 29 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1971 only - Mar 14 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1970 1972 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1973 only - Sep 30 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 2000 max - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - -# IATA SSIM anomalies: (1990-09) says 1990-09-16; (1992-02) says 1992-03-14; +# IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14; # (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Santiago -4:42:40 - LMT 1890 - -4:42:40 - SMT 1910 # Santiago Mean Time - -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1932 Sep # Chile Time +Zone America/Santiago -4:42:46 - LMT 1890 + -4:42:46 - SMT 1910 # Santiago Mean Time + -5:00 - CLT 1916 Jul 1 # Chile Time + -4:42:46 - SMT 1918 Sep 1 # Santiago Mean Time + -4:00 - CLT 1919 Jul 1 # Chile Time + -4:42:46 - SMT 1927 Sep 1 # Santiago Mean Time + -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1947 May 22 # Chile Time -4:00 Chile CL%sT -Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890 # Mataveri - -7:17:28 - MMT 1932 Sep # Mataveri Mean Time - -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 14 # Easter I Time +Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:44 - LMT 1890 + -7:17:44 - EMT 1932 Sep # Easter Mean Time + -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 13 21:00 # Easter I Time -6:00 Chile EAS%sT # # Sala y Gomez Island is like Pacific/Easter. @@ -616,11 +774,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890 # Mataveri # San Felix, and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago. # Colombia -# Shanks specifies 24:00 for 1992 transition times; go with IATA, -# as it seems implausible to change clocks at midnight New Year's Eve. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule CO 1992 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S -Rule CO 1992 only - Dec 31 0:00 0 - +Rule CO 1992 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 S +Rule CO 1993 only - Apr 4 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Bogota -4:56:20 - LMT 1884 Mar 13 -4:56:20 - BMT 1914 Nov 23 # Bogota Mean Time @@ -629,10 +785,21 @@ Zone America/Bogota -4:56:20 - LMT 1884 Mar 13 # no information; probably like America/Bogota # Curacao -# Shanks says that Bottom and Oranjestad have been at -4:00 since -# standard time was introduced on 1912-03-02; and that Kralendijk and Rincon -# used Kralendijk Mean Time (-4:33:08) from 1912-02-02 to 1965-01-01. -# This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger say that The Bottom and Philipsburg have been at +# -4:00 since standard time was introduced on 1912-03-02; and that +# Kralendijk and Rincon used Kralendijk Mean Time (-4:33:08) from +# 1912-02-02 to 1965-01-01. The former is dubious, since S&P also say +# Saba Island has been like Curacao. +# This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though. +# +# By July 2007 Curacao and St Maarten are planned to become +# associated states within the Netherlands, much like Aruba; +# Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius would become directly part of the +# Netherlands as Kingdom Islands. This won't affect their time zones +# though, as far as we know. +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Curacao -4:35:44 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad -4:30 - ANT 1965 # Netherlands Antilles Time @@ -649,9 +816,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Galapagos -5:58:24 - LMT 1931 # Puerto Baquerizo Moreno # Falklands -# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05): -# Between 1990 and 2000 inclusive, Shanks and the IATA agree except -# the IATA gives 1996-09-08. Go with Shanks. +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Between 1990 and 2000 inclusive, Shanks & Pottenger and the IATA agree except +# the IATA gives 1996-09-08. Go with Shanks & Pottenger. # From Falkland Islands Government Office, London (2001-01-22) # via Jesper Norgaard: @@ -734,9 +901,9 @@ Zone America/Guyana -3:52:40 - LMT 1915 Mar # Georgetown -4:00 - GYT # Paraguay -# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): -# Shanks (1999) says that spring transitions are from 01:00 -> 02:00, -# and autumn transitions are from 00:00 -> 23:00. Go with earlier +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger say that spring transitions are from 01:00 -> 02:00, +# and autumn transitions are from 00:00 -> 23:00. Go with pre-1999 # editions of Shanks, and with the IATA, who say transitions occur at 00:00. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Para 1975 1988 - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 S @@ -767,22 +934,28 @@ Rule Para 1996 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 - # year, the time will change on the first Sunday of October; likewise, the # clock will be set back on the first Sunday of March. # -# From Jesper Norgaard (2001-03-06) [an official URL saying similar things]: -# http://gateway.abc.com.py:8000/pub/pag04.mbr/artic?FHA=2001-03-03-02.24.52.900592 -# Rule Para 1996 2001 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S -# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Mar 1; go with Shanks. +# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Mar 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Para 1997 only - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 - -# Shanks says 1999-02-28; IATA SSIM (1999-02) says 1999-02-27, but +# Shanks & Pottenger say 1999-02-28; IATA SSIM (1999-02) says 1999-02-27, but # (1999-09) reports no date; go with above sources and Gerd Knops (2001-02-27). Rule Para 1998 2001 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # From Rives McDow (2002-02-28): # A decree was issued in Paraguay (no. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the # dst method to be from the first Sunday in September to the first Sunday in # April. -Rule Para 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - -Rule Para 2002 max - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S - +Rule Para 2002 2004 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - +Rule Para 2002 2003 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +# +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-01-02): +# There are several sources that claim that Paraguay made +# a timezone rule change in autumn 2004. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05): +# Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05) +# From Carlos Raul Perasso via Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-10-13) +# <http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf> +Rule Para 2004 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Para 2005 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890 @@ -792,16 +965,25 @@ Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890 -4:00 Para PY%sT # Peru +# +# <a href="news:xrGmb.39935$gA1.13896113@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net"> +# From Evelyn C. Leeper via Mark Brader (2003-10-26):</a> +# When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over +# sometime between December 29 and January 3 while we were on the Amazon. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger don't have this transition. Assume 1986 was like 1987. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Peru 1938 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1938 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Peru 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1939 1940 - Mar Sun>=24 0:00 0 - -Rule Peru 1987 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Peru 1987 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Peru 1986 1987 - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Peru 1986 1987 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Peru 1990 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1990 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - -# IATA is ambiguous for 1993/1995; go with Shanks. +# IATA is ambiguous for 1993/1995; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Peru 1994 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -832,25 +1014,25 @@ Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 -4:00 - AST # Uruguay -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules. -# From Shanks: +# From Shanks & Pottenger: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# Whitman gives 1923 Oct 1; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1923 Oct 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Uruguay 1923 only - Oct 2 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1924 1926 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1924 1925 - Oct 1 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1933 1935 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS -# Shanks gives 1935 Apr 1 0:00 and 1936 Mar 30 0:00; go with Whitman. +# Shanks & Pottenger give 1935 Apr 1 0:00 & 1936 Mar 30 0:00; go with Whitman. Rule Uruguay 1934 1936 - Mar Sat>=25 23:30s 0 - Rule Uruguay 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1937 1941 - Mar lastSun 0:00 0 - -# Whitman gives 1937 Oct 3; go with Shanks. +# Whitman gives 1937 Oct 3; go with Shanks & Pottenger. Rule Uruguay 1937 1940 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS # Whitman gives 1941 Oct 24 - 1942 Mar 27, 1942 Dec 14 - 1943 Apr 13, -# and 1943 Apr 13 ``to present time''; go with Shanks. -Rule Uruguay 1941 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Uruguay 1942 only - Jan 1 0:00 0:30 HS +# and 1943 Apr 13 ``to present time''; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Uruguay 1941 only - Aug 1 0:00 0:30 HS +Rule Uruguay 1942 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1942 only - Dec 14 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1943 only - Mar 14 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1959 only - May 24 0:00 1:00 S @@ -876,12 +1058,31 @@ Rule Uruguay 1988 only - Mar 14 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1988 only - Dec 11 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1989 only - Mar 12 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1989 only - Oct 29 0:00 1:00 S -# Shanks says no DST was observed in 1990/1 and 1991/2, +# Shanks & Pottenger say no DST was observed in 1990/1 and 1991/2, # and that 1992/3's DST was from 10-25 to 03-01. Go with IATA. Rule Uruguay 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1990 1991 - Oct Sun>=21 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1992 only - Oct 18 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1993 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 - +# From Eduardo Cota (2004-09-20): +# The uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time.... +# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/decretos/2004091502.htm +Rule Uruguay 2004 only - Sep 19 0:00 1:00 S +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-03-11): +# Uruguay's DST was scheduled to end on Sunday, 2005-03-13, but in order to +# save energy ... it was postponed two weeks.... +# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/noticias/2005/03/2005031005.htm +Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Mar 27 2:00 0 - +# From Eduardo Cota (2005-09-27): +# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/decretos/2005/09/CM%20119_09%2009%202005_00001.PDF +# This means that from 2005-10-09 at 02:00 local time, until 2006-03-12 at +# 02:00 local time, official time in Uruguay will be at GMT -2. +Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Uruguay 2006 only - Mar 12 2:00 0 - +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-09-06): +# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2006/09/CM%20210_08%2006%202006_00001.PDF +Rule Uruguay 2006 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Uruguay 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28 -3:44:44 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/systemv b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/systemv index c6a6b6404bdaee7a7cece449ad29a268460d9bec..6cf9645de0265093ea9d32c5bdd91eed31e2a906 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/systemv +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/systemv @@ -1,24 +1,24 @@ -# @(#)systemv 7.3 +# @(#)systemv 8.1 # Old rules, should the need arise. # No attempt is made to handle Newfoundland, since it cannot be expressed # using the System V "TZ" scheme (half-hour offset), or anything outside # North America (no support for non-standard DST start/end dates), nor -# the change in the DST rules in the US in 1987 (which occurred before +# the changes in the DST rules in the US after 1976 (which occurred after # the old rules were written). # -# If you need the old rules, uncomment ## lines and comment-out Link lines. +# If you need the old rules, uncomment ## lines. # Compile this *without* leap second correction for true conformance. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -## Rule SystemV min 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -## Rule SystemV min 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -## Rule SystemV 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D -## Rule SystemV 1974 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S -## Rule SystemV 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D -## Rule SystemV 1975 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -## Rule SystemV 1976 max - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -## Rule SystemV 1976 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule SystemV min 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule SystemV min 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule SystemV 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D +Rule SystemV 1974 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule SystemV 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D +Rule SystemV 1975 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule SystemV 1976 max - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule SystemV 1976 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] ## Zone SystemV/AST4ADT -4:00 SystemV A%sT @@ -34,17 +34,3 @@ ## Zone SystemV/PST8 -8:00 - PST ## Zone SystemV/YST9 -9:00 - YST ## Zone SystemV/HST10 -10:00 - HST -# For now... -Link America/Halifax SystemV/AST4ADT -Link America/New_York SystemV/EST5EDT -Link America/Chicago SystemV/CST6CDT -Link America/Denver SystemV/MST7MDT -Link America/Los_Angeles SystemV/PST8PDT -Link America/Anchorage SystemV/YST9YDT -Link America/Puerto_Rico SystemV/AST4 -Link America/Indianapolis SystemV/EST5 -Link America/Regina SystemV/CST6 -Link America/Phoenix SystemV/MST7 -Link Pacific/Pitcairn SystemV/PST8 -Link Pacific/Gambier SystemV/YST9 -Link Pacific/Honolulu SystemV/HST10 diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/yearistype.sh b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/yearistype.sh index 8d796f1f218e9ab36bdde678409550698813181c..66dbf89a2bdc0ea21d91fe2cede9999f8b9377d9 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/yearistype.sh +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/yearistype.sh @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ #! /bin/sh -: '@(#)yearistype.sh 7.7' +: 'This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of' +: '2006-07-17 by Arthur David Olson.' + +: '@(#)yearistype.sh 8.2' case $#-$1 in 2-|2-0*|2-*[!0-9]*) @@ -9,7 +12,7 @@ case $#-$1 in esac case $#-$2 in - 2-even) + 2-even) case $1 in *[24680]) exit 0 ;; *) exit 1 ;; @@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ case $#-$2 in *[02468][048]|*[13579][26]) exit 1 ;; *) exit 0 ;; esac ;; - 2-odd) + 2-odd) case $1 in *[13579]) exit 0 ;; *) exit 1 ;; @@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ case $#-$2 in *[02468][048]|*[13579][26]) exit 0 ;; *) exit 1 ;; esac ;; - 2-*) + 2-*) echo "$0: wild type - $2" >&2 ;; esac diff --git a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/zone.tab b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/zone.tab index 7ac399f10596cdb15903ba817b265b5cbc9ac646..daf7e50efe70ac50e4c068ac91a08e0bba30a4c4 100644 --- a/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/zone.tab +++ b/lib/modules/Calendar.pmod/tzdata/zone.tab @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -# @(#)zone.tab 1.28 +# @(#)zone.tab 8.8 # # TZ zone descriptions # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-08-05): +# From Paul Eggert (1996-08-05): # # This file contains a table with the following columns: # 1. ISO 3166 2-character country code. See the file `iso3166.tab'. @@ -41,15 +41,21 @@ AQ -6617+11031 Antarctica/Casey Casey Station, Bailey Peninsula AQ -7824+10654 Antarctica/Vostok Vostok Station, S Magnetic Pole AQ -6640+14001 Antarctica/DumontDUrville Dumont-d'Urville Base, Terre Adelie AQ -690022+0393524 Antarctica/Syowa Syowa Station, E Ongul I -AR -3436-05827 America/Buenos_Aires E Argentina (BA, DF, SC, TF) -AR -3124-06411 America/Cordoba most locations (CB,CC,CH,CN,ER,FM,LP,LR,MN,NQ,RN,SA,SE,SF,SJ,SL,TM) -AR -2411-06518 America/Jujuy Jujuy (JY) -AR -2828-06547 America/Catamarca Catamarca (CT) -AR -3253-06849 America/Mendoza Mendoza (MZ) +AR -3436-05827 America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires Buenos Aires (BA, CF) +AR -3124-06411 America/Argentina/Cordoba most locations (CB, CC, CN, ER, FM, LP, MN, NQ, RN, SA, SE, SF, SL) +AR -2411-06518 America/Argentina/Jujuy Jujuy (JY) +AR -2649-06513 America/Argentina/Tucuman Tucuman (TM) +AR -2828-06547 America/Argentina/Catamarca Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH) +AR -2926-06651 America/Argentina/La_Rioja La Rioja (LR) +AR -3132-06831 America/Argentina/San_Juan San Juan (SJ) +AR -3253-06849 America/Argentina/Mendoza Mendoza (MZ) +AR -5138-06913 America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos Santa Cruz (SC) +AR -5448-06818 America/Argentina/Ushuaia Tierra del Fuego (TF) AS -1416-17042 Pacific/Pago_Pago AT +4813+01620 Europe/Vienna AU -3133+15905 Australia/Lord_Howe Lord Howe Island -AU -4253+14719 Australia/Hobart Tasmania +AU -4253+14719 Australia/Hobart Tasmania - most locations +AU -3956+14352 Australia/Currie Tasmania - King Island AU -3749+14458 Australia/Melbourne Victoria AU -3352+15113 Australia/Sydney New South Wales - most locations AU -3157+14127 Australia/Broken_Hill New South Wales - Yancowinna @@ -57,8 +63,10 @@ AU -2728+15302 Australia/Brisbane Queensland - most locations AU -2016+14900 Australia/Lindeman Queensland - Holiday Islands AU -3455+13835 Australia/Adelaide South Australia AU -1228+13050 Australia/Darwin Northern Territory -AU -3157+11551 Australia/Perth Western Australia +AU -3157+11551 Australia/Perth Western Australia - most locations +AU -3143+12852 Australia/Eucla Western Australia - Eucla area AW +1230-06858 America/Aruba +AX +6006+01957 Europe/Mariehamn AZ +4023+04951 Asia/Baku BA +4352+01825 Europe/Sarajevo BB +1306-05937 America/Barbados @@ -74,12 +82,14 @@ BN +0456+11455 Asia/Brunei BO -1630-06809 America/La_Paz BR -0351-03225 America/Noronha Atlantic islands BR -0127-04829 America/Belem Amapa, E Para -BR -0343-03830 America/Fortaleza NE Brazil (MA, PI, CE, RN, PR) +BR -0343-03830 America/Fortaleza NE Brazil (MA, PI, CE, RN, PB) BR -0803-03454 America/Recife Pernambuco BR -0712-04812 America/Araguaina Tocantins BR -0940-03543 America/Maceio Alagoas, Sergipe -BR -2332-04637 America/Sao_Paulo S & SE Brazil (BA, GO, DF, MG, ES, RJ, SP, PR, SC, RS) -BR -1535-05605 America/Cuiaba Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul +BR -1259-03831 America/Bahia Bahia +BR -2332-04637 America/Sao_Paulo S & SE Brazil (GO, DF, MG, ES, RJ, SP, PR, SC, RS) +BR -2027-05437 America/Campo_Grande Mato Grosso do Sul +BR -1535-05605 America/Cuiaba Mato Grosso BR -0846-06354 America/Porto_Velho W Para, Rondonia BR +0249-06040 America/Boa_Vista Roraima BR -0308-06001 America/Manaus E Amazonas @@ -90,24 +100,28 @@ BT +2728+08939 Asia/Thimphu BW -2545+02555 Africa/Gaborone BY +5354+02734 Europe/Minsk BZ +1730-08812 America/Belize -CA +4734-05243 America/St_Johns Newfoundland Island -CA +4439-06336 America/Halifax Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (most places), NB, W Labrador, E Quebec & PEI +CA +4734-05243 America/St_Johns Newfoundland Time, including SE Labrador +CA +4439-06336 America/Halifax Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (most places), PEI CA +4612-05957 America/Glace_Bay Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia - places that did not observe DST 1966-1971 -CA +5320-06025 America/Goose_Bay Atlantic Time - E Labrador -CA +4531-07334 America/Montreal Eastern Time - Ontario & Quebec - most locations +CA +4606-06447 America/Moncton Atlantic Time - New Brunswick +CA +5320-06025 America/Goose_Bay Atlantic Time - Labrador - most locations +CA +5125-05707 America/Blanc-Sablon Atlantic Standard Time - Quebec - Lower North Shore +CA +4531-07334 America/Montreal Eastern Time - Quebec - most locations +CA +4339-07923 America/Toronto Eastern Time - Ontario - most locations CA +4901-08816 America/Nipigon Eastern Time - Ontario & Quebec - places that did not observe DST 1967-1973 CA +4823-08915 America/Thunder_Bay Eastern Time - Thunder Bay, Ontario -CA +6608-06544 America/Pangnirtung Eastern Standard Time - Pangnirtung, Nunavut -CA +6344-06828 America/Iqaluit Eastern Standard Time - east Nunavut -CA +6245-09210 America/Rankin_Inlet Eastern Standard Time - central Nunavut +CA +6608-06544 America/Pangnirtung Eastern Time - Pangnirtung, Nunavut +CA +6344-06828 America/Iqaluit Eastern Time - east Nunavut +CA +484531-0913718 America/Atikokan Eastern Standard Time - Atikokan, Ontario and Southampton I, Nunavut +CA +624900-0920459 America/Rankin_Inlet Central Time - central Nunavut CA +4953-09709 America/Winnipeg Central Time - Manitoba & west Ontario -CA +4843-09429 America/Rainy_River Central Time - Rainy River & Fort Frances, Ontario +CA +4843-09434 America/Rainy_River Central Time - Rainy River & Fort Frances, Ontario CA +6903-10505 America/Cambridge_Bay Central Time - west Nunavut CA +5024-10439 America/Regina Central Standard Time - Saskatchewan - most locations CA +5017-10750 America/Swift_Current Central Standard Time - Saskatchewan - midwest CA +5333-11328 America/Edmonton Mountain Time - Alberta, east British Columbia & west Saskatchewan CA +6227-11421 America/Yellowknife Mountain Time - central Northwest Territories -CA +6825-11330 America/Inuvik Mountain Time - west Northwest Territories +CA +682059-1334300 America/Inuvik Mountain Time - west Northwest Territories CA +5946-12014 America/Dawson_Creek Mountain Standard Time - Dawson Creek & Fort Saint John, British Columbia CA +4916-12307 America/Vancouver Pacific Time - west British Columbia CA +6043-13503 America/Whitehorse Pacific Time - south Yukon @@ -121,13 +135,13 @@ CH +4723+00832 Europe/Zurich CI +0519-00402 Africa/Abidjan CK -2114-15946 Pacific/Rarotonga CL -3327-07040 America/Santiago most locations -CL -2710-10927 Pacific/Easter Easter Island & Sala y Gomez +CL -2709-10926 Pacific/Easter Easter Island & Sala y Gomez CM +0403+00942 Africa/Douala CN +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai east China - Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, etc. -CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin Heilongjiang -CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chongqing central China - Gansu, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc. -CN +4348+08735 Asia/Urumqi Tibet & most of Xinjiang Uyghur -CN +3929+07559 Asia/Kashgar southwest Xinjiang Uyghur +CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin Heilongjiang (except Mohe), Jilin +CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chongqing central China - Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou, etc. +CN +4348+08735 Asia/Urumqi most of Tibet & Xinjiang +CN +3929+07559 Asia/Kashgar west Tibet & Xinjiang CO +0436-07405 America/Bogota CR +0956-08405 America/Costa_Rica CU +2308-08222 America/Havana @@ -146,7 +160,7 @@ EC -0054-08936 Pacific/Galapagos Galapagos Islands EE +5925+02445 Europe/Tallinn EG +3003+03115 Africa/Cairo EH +2709-01312 Africa/El_Aaiun -ER +1520+03853 Africa/Asmera +ER +1520+03853 Africa/Asmara ES +4024-00341 Europe/Madrid mainland ES +3553-00519 Africa/Ceuta Ceuta & Melilla ES +2806-01524 Atlantic/Canary Canary Islands @@ -154,23 +168,22 @@ ET +0902+03842 Africa/Addis_Ababa FI +6010+02458 Europe/Helsinki FJ -1808+17825 Pacific/Fiji FK -5142-05751 Atlantic/Stanley -FM +0931+13808 Pacific/Yap Yap -FM +0725+15147 Pacific/Truk Truk (Chuuk) +FM +0725+15147 Pacific/Truk Truk (Chuuk) and Yap FM +0658+15813 Pacific/Ponape Ponape (Pohnpei) FM +0519+16259 Pacific/Kosrae Kosrae -FO +6201-00646 Atlantic/Faeroe +FO +6201-00646 Atlantic/Faroe FR +4852+00220 Europe/Paris GA +0023+00927 Africa/Libreville -GB +512830-0001845 Europe/London Great Britain -GB +5435-00555 Europe/Belfast Northern Ireland +GB +512830-0001845 Europe/London GD +1203-06145 America/Grenada GE +4143+04449 Asia/Tbilisi GF +0456-05220 America/Cayenne +GG +4927-00232 Europe/Guernsey GH +0533-00013 Africa/Accra GI +3608-00521 Europe/Gibraltar GL +6411-05144 America/Godthab most locations GL +7646-01840 America/Danmarkshavn east coast, north of Scoresbysund -GL +7030-02215 America/Scoresbysund Scoresbysund / Ittoqqortoormiit +GL +7029-02158 America/Scoresbysund Scoresbysund / Ittoqqortoormiit GL +7634-06847 America/Thule Thule / Pituffik GM +1328-01639 Africa/Banjul GN +0931-01343 Africa/Conakry @@ -193,12 +206,14 @@ ID -0507+11924 Asia/Makassar east & south Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Nusa Tengarra, ID -0232+14042 Asia/Jayapura Irian Jaya & the Moluccas IE +5320-00615 Europe/Dublin IL +3146+03514 Asia/Jerusalem +IM +5409-00428 Europe/Isle_of_Man IN +2232+08822 Asia/Calcutta IO -0720+07225 Indian/Chagos IQ +3321+04425 Asia/Baghdad IR +3540+05126 Asia/Tehran IS +6409-02151 Atlantic/Reykjavik IT +4154+01229 Europe/Rome +JE +4912-00207 Europe/Jersey JM +1800-07648 America/Jamaica JO +3157+03556 Asia/Amman JP +353916+1394441 Asia/Tokyo @@ -233,12 +248,12 @@ LY +3254+01311 Africa/Tripoli MA +3339-00735 Africa/Casablanca MC +4342+00723 Europe/Monaco MD +4700+02850 Europe/Chisinau +ME +4226+01916 Europe/Podgorica MG -1855+04731 Indian/Antananarivo MH +0709+17112 Pacific/Majuro most locations MH +0905+16720 Pacific/Kwajalein Kwajalein MK +4159+02126 Europe/Skopje -ML +1239-00800 Africa/Bamako southwest Mali -ML +1446-00301 Africa/Timbuktu northeast Mali +ML +1239-00800 Africa/Bamako MM +1647+09610 Asia/Rangoon MN +4755+10653 Asia/Ulaanbaatar most locations MN +4801+09139 Asia/Hovd Bayan-Olgiy, Govi-Altai, Hovd, Uvs, Zavkhan @@ -247,7 +262,7 @@ MO +2214+11335 Asia/Macau MP +1512+14545 Pacific/Saipan MQ +1436-06105 America/Martinique MR +1806-01557 Africa/Nouakchott -MS +1644-06213 America/Montserrat +MS +1643-06213 America/Montserrat MT +3554+01431 Europe/Malta MU -2010+05730 Indian/Mauritius MV +0410+07330 Indian/Maldives @@ -275,7 +290,7 @@ NP +2743+08519 Asia/Katmandu NR -0031+16655 Pacific/Nauru NU -1901+16955 Pacific/Niue NZ -3652+17446 Pacific/Auckland most locations -NZ -4355-17630 Pacific/Chatham Chatham Islands +NZ -4357-17633 Pacific/Chatham Chatham Islands OM +2336+05835 Asia/Muscat PA +0858-07932 America/Panama PE -1203-07703 America/Lima @@ -298,9 +313,11 @@ PY -2516-05740 America/Asuncion QA +2517+05132 Asia/Qatar RE -2052+05528 Indian/Reunion RO +4426+02606 Europe/Bucharest +RS +4450+02030 Europe/Belgrade RU +5443+02030 Europe/Kaliningrad Moscow-01 - Kaliningrad RU +5545+03735 Europe/Moscow Moscow+00 - west Russia -RU +5312+05009 Europe/Samara Moscow+01 - Caspian Sea +RU +4844+04425 Europe/Volgograd Moscow+00 - Caspian Sea +RU +5312+05009 Europe/Samara Moscow+01 - Samara, Udmurtia RU +5651+06036 Asia/Yekaterinburg Moscow+02 - Urals RU +5500+07324 Asia/Omsk Moscow+03 - west Siberia RU +5502+08255 Asia/Novosibirsk Moscow+03 - Novosibirsk @@ -359,15 +376,18 @@ UM +2813-17722 Pacific/Midway Midway Islands UM +1917+16637 Pacific/Wake Wake Island US +404251-0740023 America/New_York Eastern Time US +421953-0830245 America/Detroit Eastern Time - Michigan - most locations -US +381515-0854534 America/Louisville Eastern Time - Kentucky - Louisville area +US +381515-0854534 America/Kentucky/Louisville Eastern Time - Kentucky - Louisville area US +364947-0845057 America/Kentucky/Monticello Eastern Time - Kentucky - Wayne County -US +394606-0860929 America/Indianapolis Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - most locations -US +382232-0862041 America/Indiana/Marengo Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Crawford County -US +411745-0863730 America/Indiana/Knox Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Starke County -US +384452-0850402 America/Indiana/Vevay Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Switzerland County +US +394606-0860929 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Eastern Time - Indiana - most locations +US +382232-0862041 America/Indiana/Marengo Eastern Time - Indiana - Crawford County +US +411745-0863730 America/Indiana/Knox Eastern Time - Indiana - Starke County +US +384452-0850402 America/Indiana/Vevay Eastern Time - Indiana - Switzerland County US +415100-0873900 America/Chicago Central Time -US +450628-0873651 America/Menominee Central Time - Michigan - Wisconsin border +US +384038-0873143 America/Indiana/Vincennes Central Time - Indiana - Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry & Pulaski Counties +US +382931-0871643 America/Indiana/Petersburg Central Time - Indiana - Pike County +US +450628-0873651 America/Menominee Central Time - Michigan - Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron & Menominee Counties US +470659-1011757 America/North_Dakota/Center Central Time - North Dakota - Oliver County +US +465042-1012439 America/North_Dakota/New_Salem Central Time - North Dakota - Morton County (except Mandan area) US +394421-1045903 America/Denver Mountain Time US +433649-1161209 America/Boise Mountain Time - south Idaho & east Oregon US +364708-1084111 America/Shiprock Mountain Time - Navajo @@ -393,7 +413,6 @@ WF -1318-17610 Pacific/Wallis WS -1350-17144 Pacific/Apia YE +1245+04512 Asia/Aden YT -1247+04514 Indian/Mayotte -YU +4450+02030 Europe/Belgrade ZA -2615+02800 Africa/Johannesburg ZM -1525+02817 Africa/Lusaka ZW -1750+03103 Africa/Harare